Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

It is indeed- 1/2lb each of smoked haddock & potatoes, an onion, a pint of milk, a knob of butter and salt & pepper. A sprinkle of parsley at the end if you have any, 'tis wonderful:D

Thanks Caronc, one to try when it's not quite so hot

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Beautiful sunshine here this morning and hot already:).
I'm just finishing some toast and then I'm off to do some gardening before it gets too warm.
Lunch will be ham and pineapple salad. I'm not sure about dinner tonight possibly pasta or steamed salmon.

Farway

Morning all

On the way to another scorcher, washing completed & out drying. One bonus from[STRIKE] hacking[/STRIKE] pruning my goosegog bush, plenty of room for me to hang washing.
Now I have my eyes on doing similar to the currants once they've finished fruiting. I'm going to RHS Wisley on Sunday with the grandchildren, so will have a peek when there

Picked a mix of fruit to go with my porridge breakfast, raspberries & some goosegogs hidden away behind the currants. A lovely smell of strawberries from the wild ones, nothing worth having there though except the scent

Did the runner watering before the heat really starts, better luck on beans setting now, and the Cobra climbing French ones are following along nicely behind

Lunch, thinking of Cheddar & salady sandwich, easy and lazy

Brambling has given me idea for dinner, boiled eggs salad, maybe a few frozen chips along side, drizzled with salad cream to look chefy

klew356

Thai green curry from marks last night, devine, lunch is a chicken sandwich and tonight I fancy something really nice and home made but not sure what yet hmmm maybes a nice salad with homemade bits potato salad etc I need a quiet night tonight and all I really need to do is tidy the kitchen, sort dishes and put 2 loads of washing on,doable and still can relax after a dog walk,

moneyistooshorttomention

Brambling wrote: »

Money have you tried making ice cream with frozen fruit and yogurt (not sure if vegan yogurt will work) I use equal fruit to yoghurt by weight, blend, takes about 2 mins with my stick blender and eat straight away it doesn't freeze well as the yoghurt can form large ice crystals, but that could just be the fat free ones.

Racks brains - tries to think if I have....

It's a useful reminder to "have a go" at it anyway and will have to have a check to see what frozen fruit I have in currently. Thinks - need more yogurt.....:cool:

Today's food thoughts have gone as far as deciding I'd have a long cool drink when I reached my destination after the walk I'd had in mind for yesterday/got postponed till today. Had my walk - not quite as long a cool drink as I'd had in mind - as found a friend of mine had chosen the same destination (so drink wasn't replenished - courtesy of leaving with them for a lift home). Can't complain about that:rotfl:

Must turn my mind to lunch now....

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

I managed to get the planting done before it got too hot and also picked some veggies - radish, peas, broad beans and my first courgette of the season. I used up some of the veg in my salad for lunch but courgette and broad beans will be part of tonight's veggie pasta along with calvo nero and chard which I'll pick later. My radishes and salad leaves aren't doing well this year - too hot & sunny I think and I'm not if the runner beans will ever set pods but the rest seem to be loving the good weather:).
It does make me happy when I can begin to eat from garden:D

moneyistooshorttomention

Well that was that then - and fallen at the first hurdle.

I've been meaning to have a go at making my own tofu for some time. So got out the carton of soya milk (Alpro Organic if that makes a difference) and a lemon and duly started following instructions to put the juice of a fresh lemon in with the carton of soya milk and heat till it curdles.

The recipe goes on from there to say about draining it, squeezing it, etc.

But - I fell at the first hurdle and it just wouldnt curdle and wouldnt curdle and still wouldnt curdle.

So I'm not sure what went wrong - as I carried right on heating it on hotplate on medium and stirring.

Dont know if the milk was a bit too old (I'd had it a while), instructions were duff or what. I suspect it was duff instructions - one of those recipes where, when one starts trying it out, you realise that they don't seem to have written all the method down iyswim.

Looks like those ingredients down the drain then and I'm sure it must be possible to make one's own tofu - and without one of those recipes that has some "fancy" ingredient or other (can't remember what it was - but I'd never even heard of it). As I recall - the lemon was in place of the "fancy" ingredient??

Has anyone else made their own tofu and with just the type of ingredients one would have in anyway (ie not including that "fancy" ingredient-whatever-it-was)??

Looking for a recipe that works....

caronc

I've never tried making tofu but have made cheese from milk & vinegar. I wouldn't have thought the age of milk would have made much difference so it does sound as though so the recipe was duff. I do wonder if using bought soya milk rather than making your own from dried beans might make a difference in the enzymes need to curdle, though I'm just guessing on that one!

PasturesNew

Hot hot hot.

Really CBA with food at the moment, but I got it into my head that I really fancied sausage rolls .... so off I trotted, but they didn't have my favourite ones, just an empty shelf! A lot of the shop was empty, so not sure what that's all about. Instead of 6 regular ones I got a pack of 10 snack sized anyway AND choc covered peanuts AND fruit pastilles ...

Lunch was: 4 hot snack sausage rolls, some choc peanuts and pastilles
Tea is: 3 hot snack sausage rolls, some choc peanuts and pastilles.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Hot, hot, hot here too and only marginally cooler than earlier now the sun is setting. It's due to be even hotter tomorrow. After lurking indoors during the hottest part of the day, I eventually decanted myself, a chair, a cold drink and my book to a corner of the veg patch that was in the shade. Bags of compost make surprisingly good foot rests and tables:rotfl::rotfl:
I'll cook some spaghetti in a bit and have it with the pickings from the garden, asparagus, lemon & parmesan. Might add a smidge of chilli if I CBA chopping it. Of all the things I have in stores I've no stuffed pasta which I have a real notion for but certainly CBA making that and I think my son has my pasta roller anyway, so I've added some to my grocery order that is coming tomorrow.