Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

pineapple wrote: »

...it's going to be embarrassing
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Don't be embarrassed, he'll love you for being honest. AND - I bet he recognises a lot of his own eating habits in the list.

As we can see from the CFO thread, we do all eat some odd/bad things quite often. We're honest!! Many others are probably eating what we're eating, while announcing on social media how invigorated they feel due to the fresh kale smoothie they just consumed before their yoga class and 5k run .... typed while watching re-runs of JK still dressed in their jim jams and dipping into a bag of crisps.

bouicca21

The poorlies are clearly sending out cyber germs as I now have my second nasty cold in a month. CBA to get up let alone cook.

I took some bolognese sauce out of the freezer yesterday but it turned out to be left over turkey, so I need to pull myself together and make a curry. At least once made it will do at least two days and maybe the spices will chase the cold away.

PasturesNew

bouicca21 wrote: »

I need to pull myself together and make a curry. At least once made it will do at least two days and maybe the spices will chase the cold away.

This can be where a SC is great. You can just toss that in with some random other stuff and turn it on, all raw ....and you choose when you feel well enough to shuffle back to it and turn it off....and after 5 hours it doesn't matter if you CBA and leave it 8 hours as nothing bad happens.

wort

Caronc- fingers crossed for your dad, :lovethoug I hope you are feeling better now. Look after yourself.

Tea was chicken jalfrezi with rice and poppadoms eaten with dgson,followed by a magnum style mint lolly.

Just had toast with cheese spread, lunch will be ham, and tomato and onion on seeded gf bread with a raspberry whipped yogurt and a few blueberries. My niece passed on the ham and tomato as she was going on holiday also a 4 pint of milk :T:j

Wednesday2000

Cereal with almond milk for breakfast.

I have about two days left of the pasta bake. I made loads of it!:D

I think i might make veggie tacos tonight. I need to go and buy some lettuce.

mcculloch29

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't be embarrassed, he'll love you for being honest. AND - I bet he recognises a lot of his own eating habits in the list.

As we can see from the CFO thread, we do all eat some odd/bad things quite often. We're honest!! Many others are probably eating what we're eating, while announcing on social media how invigorated they feel due to the fresh kale smoothie they just consumed before their yoga class and 5k run .... typed while watching re-runs of JK still dressed in their jim jams and dipping into a bag of crisps.

I know you are right, and it made me really smile.
I had Jack Monroe's pearl barley risotto (last night) but not done in a slow cooker, done in my Betterware plastic microwave pot, worked perfectly.
This used up the LO spinach from the spinach and lentil dal. I didn't have feta cheese, but I did have some sundried tomatoes in oil that I snipped up and some capers that I chopped in. This added the requisite savoury tang.

Jack's simple, sharp flavours really resonate with me, and this was another one I really, really liked. A stove-top variation is in her second cookbook.
(Link is to my review. )

Pearl barley is really nice, risotto style, apparently the word is orzotto. The star point of this is that you can ignore it, unlike a standard arborio rice risotto.
Pearl barley has now joined the long list of things it's fine to cook in the microwave. I use a cooker identical to this one, mine was from B3tterware.
It's decent enough, and a sight cheaper than Prestige's.

flubberyzing

Hello all!

Long time, no post!
It's been a busy and difficult few months. My father died very unexpectedly in September (only 62), and so I've had to spend a lot of time helping my mum adapt to life as a singleton. She met dad whilst at university, and has never lived alone, so simple things like cooking for one are a new challenge for her.

As for myself, I'm learning lessons learnt from dad's death, with a resolution to take better care of myself in terms of what I put into my body. As a result, I'm eating more whole foods, cooking more from scratch, and where possible, eating organic and free-range/grass fed. And I have to say, I've never felt better!!

I've put on some weight (I lost a lot, very quickly last year, during the winter/spring/early summer due to workplace stress and a tongue infection that took 5-6 weeks to clear up, which left me struggling to eat), have more energy and have so far (touch wood!) managed to dodge the horrible germs rampaging around!

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more month than money, caronc you summed it up perfectly, as though january this year is not dreary enough as it is

I am waiting, doing stuff, waiting for dry to get the garage sorted so I can store shed things in there. Waiting for my spelt loaf to start mixing, so I can check that the dough is right. The next waiting is ok, I decided to use my rice cooker because I want to concentrate of other things. All in one to be ready for lunch, basmati, dried soya, umboshi plum, carrot, celery, ginger, garlic and I will add shredded cabbage 15 minutes before done, the cabbage will steam on top. At least I get to eat properly that way plus I get to use what I have in. Berries are thawing, ready for a bit of natural yoghurt

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so sorry for your loss flubbery, oh your poor mum. I can empathise, my husband died very suddenly and unexpectedly and I had never ever lived alone. The fine people on this thread and on the widows thread kept me going. You sound very stressed, look after yourself pet

Wednesday2000

flubberyzing wrote: »

Long time, no post!
It's been a busy and difficult few months. My father died very unexpectedly in September (only 62), and so I've had to spend a lot of time helping my mum adapt to life as a singleton. She met dad whilst at university, and has never lived alone, so simple things like cooking for one are a new challenge for her.

As for myself, I'm learning lessons learnt from dad's death, with a resolution to take better care of myself in terms of what I put into my body. As a result, I'm eating more whole foods, cooking more from scratch, and where possible, eating organic and free-range/grass fed. And I have to say, I've never felt better!!

I've put on some weight (I lost a lot, very quickly last year, during the winter/spring/early summer due to workplace stress and a tongue infection that took 5-6 weeks to clear up, which left me struggling to eat), have more energy and have so far (touch wood!) managed to dodge the horrible germs rampaging around!

Sorry to read about your loss.xxx

That is great that you are taking better care of your health now, though.