Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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gt568 wrote: »

Grass definitely doesn't have to be watered and will grow back.

yes it will grow back but will likely take a year, destruction all this summer and potential hard frosts make it difficult and is ok for people who have strength to scarify, poke holes etc. Anyone looking to sell a house needs to keep it watered and not let it get baked solid when it will form a tough crust on the top and then water cannot penetrate to the roots. Prevention is much better than cure in some cases

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

....though I did stuff & tie it myself using the breasts from a whole chicken I had bought.....

As expected

Ah, the rich life, eh Made all the better by being able to read my humble peasant's lifestyle and how we do things in the poor house.

Farway

gt568 wrote: »

Grass definitely doesn't have to be watered and will grow back.

I agree, there is a huge common on the sea front, never gets watered, goes brown & dust dry every year. Green a grass;) by October

Any way, good news PN, thunderstorms forecast Dorset & West way. Hope they do not arrive here because I'm off to Wisley, Surrey with the grandchildren in a bit

I binned half of last night's dinner, just got fed up eating it in the heat, saved one banger, it'll do for a cold sausage & brown sauce sandwich later

Breakfast, couldn't face hot porridge, so just banana, honey & HM yoghurt

Lunch, no idea, whatever is in the cafe & I fancy at the time

It's over 80F in the conservatory at the moment, with windows & door open, I may melt walking round Wisley, I've dressed for it though, sensibly white long sleeved shirt, plus obligatory Ingeeerland St George's cross baseball cap to keep sun of the bald bonce

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

As expected

Ah, the rich life, eh Made all the better by being able to read my humble peasant's lifestyle and how we do things in the poor house.

Hardly.....:cool:

PasturesNew

Against my better judgement, not having moved much/at all for 3 hours, I decided to do a L1dl run for fizzy pop .... bit of a stock up I thought. I'd grab some hash browns in there too ... and their weekend special kitchen rolls (4 for 94p).

Got there early doors, straight to the fizzy pop ... only FIVE bottles on the shelf! They've usually got 3-4 6-packs and some loose. So I prised three from the opened 6-pack, leaving two for some other lucky buyer .... got two packs of the kitchen roll and a bag of fruit pastilles

Re fizzy pop, it's cheap, local and I like it... so I don't want to run out due to this "scare" of shortages of bubbles... I've now got a dozen 2 litre bottles cluttering up the kitchen. If it's scorchio I'll get through a bottle a day, but if it turns nippier it's a bottle a fortnight, so it's a toss up between not running out - and the weather turning and tripping over it for the next 2 months

They were out of hash browns, the rotters - there was a bag yesterday, I saw them! A lot of their shelves were empty though.

I'm not so keen on the L1dl 36p loaves as the 4ldi ones, so decided to go to 4ldi perchance they had my favourite big bread rolls or a loaf of their bread. They did have the rolls... but then I was wracked with "get a loaf too... or not?" but, at 36p, went for it anyway. That was it in there.

CBA to go to the gaffer tape shop as their parking's notoriously tight and best walked to... and I wasn't going to faff about.

Feeling really grotty now... back home.... but CBA to make any food/eat.

EDIT: Finally managed to make myself a sausage/brown sauce sandwich

Farway

Back from Wisley, phew it was baking, too hot even for mad dogs & Englishmen

I just had a tuna / mayo sandwich from the cafe for lunch

Into Morries on way home, needed milk, and just fancied ice cream because we were getting some for the grandchildren, a real impulse buy. I bought 6 cheapo choc ices, and scoffed one the minute I got in, not had one of those since Saturday morning pictures. It was delish and really lived up to anticipation

PasturesNew wrote: »

. but CBA to make any food/eat.
EDIT: Finally managed to make myself a sausage/brown sauce sandwich

I think that is my dinner, I've got a couple of cold cooked ones in fridge, very easy & CBA, could even have another choc ice later:o

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Oh I am shattered, the 2 children are great company but I cook what I don`t eat and now there is a huge dish of rhubarb crumble left as they were all full. It will have to go in the fridge and I will deal with it tomorrow. Parents picked them up and there was another meal and all the clearing up. Tbh you really do get used to catering for one


Crisps and nuts, then got massive indigestion as soon as the parents arrived. I cannot for the life of me eat crisps. A spoon of bicarb and it has subsided somewhat but I am going to get the gaviscon soon. ahh that`s better, I just loosened a band around me


I was quite good with my own food until the crisp packet tempted me


It rained, good and solid for half an hour and I am very very happy

Farway

kittie wrote: »

It rained, good and solid for half an hour and I am very very happy

Green with envy, wish it would rain here. Too knackered to water my beans tonight, like you, 2 children + heat= shattered

Just strength to make a cold sausage & brown sauce sarnie before melting in front of tele

PasturesNew

I struggled with the lawn watering again. First attempt was a big leaky fail - so much was leaking up the house wall, nothing was reaching the end of the hose.

Had another go a bit later and "sussed it" - still lots of leaking, but job achieved. Feeling a bit smug and then .....

.... it's only started raining a bit!

grr... if I'd known that I'd have never bothered.

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

Tbh you really do get used to catering for one

I've actually "never cooked for anybody but me". I can think of a couple of minor exceptions. e.g. aged about 16 I cooked sausages/rice and then a chocolate/banana blancmange with a biscuit base for a bf in my mum's kitchen.

I've also cooked one Xmas dinner for parents/1 sibling, which I did in under 1 hour after I got back from the pub (I was determined to go to a pub on Xmas morning as so many people seemed to do that and our family weren't pub people) .... and so I engineered it that I'd be allowed to go if I cooked the Xmas dinner... I phoned them from the pub as I was leaving to say "turn the oven on I'm on my way".

That was using an M&S foil tray of turkey breast and then just all the other stuff, which I peeled etc before I went out. I was about 40ish.

I also was responsible for 1 item for Xmas dinner when it was just 2 siblings and 1 BIL about a decade ago... the Yorkshire.

Oh and I also knocked up some mince/veg in gravy for mum and made her mashed spuds, but that hardly counts....

Apart from the above .... I've only ever cooked just for me.