Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

klew356 wrote: »

Hello everyone,
Motivation is low, long walk tonight some sort of dinner will be cooked and i have some lights to put in the garden. If i dip my hand in the freezer at lunchtime i will have something defrosting tonight for tea. Scrambled egg for lunch methinks, i am not feeling very inspired today. i might buy a chicken to roast which would sort evening meals for the majority of the week if i plan it right x

Hi Klew :hello: That sounds typical for most of us.

I occasionally like to roast a whole chicken as I like to make stock / soup with the bones but I do find by the end of the week that I start to cluck :rotfl: I'm not a great fan of just putting cooked roast chicken in the freezer without doing something to it I'm not sure what I do wrong it just seems to come out spongy. I halved the last whole chicken I brought and frozen one.


Caronc it looks like you could be getting our sunshine, trying to rain here and muggy enough to thunder I think.

Farway

Brambling wrote: »

Caronc it looks like you could be getting our sunshine, trying to rain here and muggy enough to thunder I think.

Yep, thunder & rain here, had to dash to shut door & windows.

Luckily i'd finished my gardening bit, finally pruned the grapefruit now it has decided to live post Beast, green shoots sprouting now after all it's leaves died & fell off, swept them up at long last, I was waiting to see if the tree would survive before I did anything

Job for another more bendy day, I spotted my outside drain needs a clean out, not a nice job but needs doing:(

Last of the tinned salmon used for lunch, the rain has clinched the last jumbo fish fingers, frozen chips & I think beans for dinner

Just checked prices for restock of tinned salmon, L's & Asda, I'm into L's tomorrow so will top up then, and hope I spot something while in there or it's freezer diving. The mini pork pie of Caronc sounds tempting

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I am in rest mode, very warm out and I have had my hour out this morning, allotment planting yet more things. Might as well do it early as no rain in sight for quite a long time, so I will have to go and water often anyway, so I bought a new wheelbarrow as carrying a heavy 10 litre can for 100 feet is tiring after the third can. I can take two in a wheelbarrow. There is a new person on the allotment, a diy- er so he can have my old barrow, I find it tricky to pump the wheel up and he will be a dab hand. The new one has a wheel that will never need pumping and I like to be helpful anyway


I don`t much like cooked meat either, it doesn`t keep so well in the freezer, even vac packed it will only keep a month or so, whereas fresh keeps 12 months. I have some meat coming tomorrow, an impulse buy from costco, special nice-sounding burgers


dolphin fitness were good, my order came today in very good packaging, lentil/quinoa pasta and capers in olive oil. That will suit me nicely with a bit of salad for future cba meals



Oh heck, another day of food to think about tomorrow and I like to prep my kings meal because I jolly well won`t want to prep at 6am. It is going to have to be stir fry with fermented tofu, after my oats starter. I love the other end of the eating slot, ie easy peasy spelt toast at 4.30, certainly my tummy likes this, not a gurgle at night even laying flat

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Yep, thunder & rain here, had to dash to shut door & windows

Which probably means it's on it's way to us ..........

PasturesNew

It's peeing down here - and I've got the thunder too.

I'm just cooking rice and I opened a tin of chicken curry. That's another item gone from the cupboards ... I'm trying to "run out of food" in the next 4-6 months. At some point this means I'll have to eat that lurking FB pie (Balti flavour).

wort

Hi all, just back from work its hot still but a bit of breeze, which is nice after freezing in work.
I had gfree cornflakes and a banana for break fast then aloo sag and a yogurt, plus satsumas, at lunch.
I'm thinking tinned salmon, salad egg and jacket spud for tea.
I was off the weekend and Saturday had lunch of fruit and yogurt as I was going to my niece s for an Indian takeaway for tea, we had blackcurrant and elderflower pimps, sat in the garden 8 of the family ladies, it was lovely.
I had garlic and chilli chicken, which was hotter than usual !!
Back home just after 8 for a cuppa and watch the royal wedding, to see what all the fuss was!! Just to look at the fashions really.
Sunday I was at a baby shower with my sister and sil, we shared a couple of bottles of prosecco, and I ate a few crisp, nothing else gfree on the buffet. I had eaten salad with bits of spicy chicken in, before I went.
I had a hm pizza when I got back and really enjoyed it, green pesto base with mushrooms peppers, onion, spicy chicken and cheese, with lots of chilli flakes and black pepper.
Finished with a couple of squares of chocolate and a cuppa.

moneyistooshorttomention

Been having a bit of a sit-out in the sun - and must admit it's quite reassuring to me (naughty moi:o) whenever I spot other people have much worse weather than I'm used to. Does (somewhat) help to make up for noticeably worse weather than I'm used to - ie to think "Well - it's still better than much of the country".

Am positively turning into a sun/calm weather/etc fan - now that I can't take it for granted so much:(

Things to use up - and I think dinner tonight will probably be a Sorta Stew again (whoops:o) - as I've got spinach, half a can of chickpeas and some mushrooms to use up. Sounds like time to chuck in onions, garlic and some canned tomatoes to make into said "stew" and eat it with a packet of "ready" cooked grains:o

Been having a good look at my garden and I think I'm in for LOADS of assorted berries this year and quite a few strawberries again. Must think up more ideas for how to use them....

No sign of the New Zealand Spinach showing its head yet - but buckler leaf sorrel is still coming on pretty well and I can see those Japanese Beefsteak seeds starting to show their thing. Marigold seeds starting to show their thing - though they are more for "herbal medicine etc" type purposes.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
The sun didn't quite manage through but it was pleasant enough outside. It's turned quite chilly now though so I'm glad to be back in the house. I got a reasonable amount done and small batches of watercress, spring onions and some more onions have also been sown. I'm finding my garden trolley really useful for moving pots about.:)

The turkey steak has been cut into strips and is marinating in some 5 spice, soy, chilli, lime juice & cornflour so just need to chop veggies and then dinner will only take few minutes to cook. Then it's a bit of TV watching for me before an earlish bed with a cuppa & my book.:)

Brambling

The storm arrived here about 7pm so my planned walk is called off, the thunder has now stopped but the garden is getting a good watering

Lunch was LO teriyaki salmon, roasted chicory and fennel salad with some lovely sweet melon for snacking during my conference call.

Dinner was Nasi Goreng - 'Indonesian rice' I found a recipe to make it using pork mince and it used up my LO rice from yesterday, nice and quick to make tasty as well and all ingredients in my cupboard and freezer Part of my plan to try something different.

Have the start of a loose menu plan for the week with ingredients in the house, I need to use up aubergine and courgette so thinking of making a tomato and veg bake topped with Halloumi. I also have mushrooms and gnocchi so some kind of mushroom sauce for the gnocchi using some of my frozen cream. I'm sure both will make more than one portion :rotfl: so it should also cover a couple of lunches.

caronc

Oh I love Nasi Goreng:), it was a regular "Monday night" meal when I was growing up if we had gammon or pork on a Sunday (or a tin of Spam if there were no LOs ). My Mum got the recipe from my Great Aunt who lived in what was then Ceylon for a long number of years. My Great Uncle worked for a tea growing company and their cook was from Indonesia. It's a great use up dish.
This is a great courgette, tomato & halloumi recipe and easily tweaked to use what you have in https://thecookreport.co.uk/tomato-halloumi-bake/
I've a pack of halloumi in the fridge and got some large flat mushrooms today so I'm thinking a halloumi & mushroom burger may well be on the cards one night:)