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Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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  • Brambling
    Brambling Posts: 5,967 Forumite
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    caronc wrote: »
    Oh I so wish I was mortgage-free but I'm working on it.
    Glad the recipe was a success though IMHO more sauce is always a good thing :) (unless it is tom ketchup as I'm not a huge fan)
    Lamb mince does seem to have got less fatty in recent years, I used to always have to fry it first and drain in a colander before I used it but it's been fine for that the past couple of times I've had it, though I'm not sure if it's quite as tasty...;)

    I can thank my old employer for being mortgage free Caronc :rotfl: they made me redundant 5 years ago after 25 yrs but on good redundancy terms :D I was lucky I was only out of work 4 weeks and decided paying off the mortgage balanced out the big drop in salary and additional petrol costs. And the money was doing no good in the Bank :(

    I can remember when lamb mince use to coat your mouth in fat if you didn't cook and drain first :eek: the recipe needed to be lamb mince I don't think it would work very well favour wise with anything else :)
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  • caronc
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    edited 18 June 2018 at 9:41PM
    Lucky you - so good you good use your redundancy to give you a bit of freedom:)
    Yes sometimes only the lamb flavour will make the dish:cool:.


    Dinner tonight was a real "grabbit" - pollock, cheese sauce, breadcrumbs & spinach from the freezer and cherry toms & spring onions from fresh. Baked as a sort of fish pie it was tasty though mash would have been good:)


    ETA - oh and I forgot I had a roasted beetroot with it - also from the freezer!
  • [Deleted User]
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    I have decided to bottle the gooseberries in my pressure cooker, it takes only 6-11 minutes of me standing instead of 90 standing holding a thermometer. 3 x 500ml kilners at a time and I think 8oz of berries in each. I can do the blackcurrants the same way if I start to panic about the space needed in the freezer.
  • caronc
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    Sounds like a plan kittie and very MSE regarding your fuel use never mind the preserving/growing your own.:D
  • [Deleted User]
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    I need to keep this preservation stuff separate so have started a preserving thread :)

    Soaked oats with blackcurrants and added hamp, soaked in soya milk. Later I must have that green juice and lunch is still salad with some nuts and LO gooseberry crumble. Not sure about last meal, I will fridge dive, I am not very hungry at that time so that compote/yoghurt/granola mix will probably be good again, only a bit in a bowl and flax cracker with cheese slice and tomatoes for a snack sometime
  • bouicca21
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    Hay fever - not sure why it works but I've started having a session in the steam room or sauna every time I go for a swim and it has improved things no end.
  • caronc
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    edited 19 June 2018 at 10:41AM
    Good morning everyone,
    I've picked up a cold:(, nothing too major but enough feel a bit grotty and it explains the wonkiness!
    I'm for an easy day as I want it clear for my birthday on Sunday, so I'm going to rest up and hope it lifts.
    Lunch will be the last of the soused herring with salad and dinner something easy. I think something well flavoured might be on the cards to perk up my tastebuds.
    I used to have bouts of sinusitus and found the steam room fab at easing it so I can see why it might help with hayfever:).
  • bouicca21 wrote: »
    Hay fever - not sure why it works but I've started having a session in the steam room or sauna every time I go for a swim and it has improved things no end.

    Useful reminder there....I was totally convinced when I was in Scandinavia that "saunas etc are a Good Thing".

    I don't have hayfever, thankfully and maybe a bit surprisingly (as it's there in my family) - but yep....a session of sauna, etc, here sounds like a very good idea. Thanks for the thought....think I'll get onto a local friend that said she fancied the thought last time I mentioned it as a "possibly we could go there together"??

    It's been "one of those days" to date here. It was that bad I was in several of the local estate agents sussing out "the lay of the land". Objective observation - it doesn't look that good for selling my house for what I would need to get (ie I'd be Going Home). Very very definite decision now that 101% I will Go Back if ever I can afford to (I have had it up to here with being expected to "self-censor" before expressing a perfectly standard normal opinion that no-one blinks an eyelash about normally). Equally definite that the figures aren't adding up to do so on available evidence. Lottery ticket bought...:rotfl:

    Lunch - hasn't happened.

    Wine on the other hand - and a treat of a chocolate brownie - has been bought.

    Dinner (when it eventually happens) is going to be the rest of the "ready rice and quinoa" and that aubergine etc - basically a repeat of yesterday.
  • Farway
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    Odd thing hay fever, I never used to suffer, but for the last few years it now affects me, not badly, just sniffles now & then. I will not be using saunas, been there, done that & hated them

    Thanks for starting the preserving thread Kittie, I'm not a big preserver but hate to waste good fruit, very envious of your goosegogs this year but I'm hoping my red ones will at least give a meal or two now I've followed your lead and trained them a bit

    Bit of a muggy day here, decided salad would be a good choice today, but mooching in L's was YS bingo day. 3 chilled RM + 2 quiches. I'll freeze some but tonight will be either Chinese black bean or veggie chilli

    I've a vague memory ofPN buying L's Veg chilli and not liking it, I only thought of this when I got home. Too late now, and it may be a false memory anyway

    Lunch was back to cheese & salady sandwich

    Dinner, as above, either Chinese or veg chilli nuked RM. Very CBA CFO today
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  • caronc
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    Good evening everyone,

    I thought I was going to have to water the garden this evening but it started raining about an hour ago so that will do nicely. Shame I hadn't got the length of watering the greenhouse plants before it came on!
    My cold is feeling a bit better but I've now got a lovely hacking cough. I'm hoping it doesn't keep me awake tonight.
    Lunch was as planned the last of the soused herring and salad. With the weather now so miserable I fancy something a hot meal tonight though I'm not sure what. I've still not prepped the veg for roast veg and cba now. The lurking giant YP may well be de-lurked:D
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