Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Plans to do more gardening this afternoon were well and truly rained off:(. A snooze was had instead.:) I really ought to be making a start on topping & tailing all the beans but need to find my oomph as it appears to have gone off somewhere without me:rotfl:


Interesting article re the salmon Farway, rightly or wrongly I think GM as part of the everyday foodchain will become harder and harder to avoid. I have mixed feelings about this, living in a developed country with (currently) secure food supplies I'm unlikely to starve if a crop fails due to disease or weather so I can and do make choices re what I do or do not eat, but for large parts of the world improved disease resistance, better yield in poor growing conditions etc. is a massive boost in food security.



I think some crispy bacon will be making it's way into my pasta tonight along with all the garden veg. I have 3 skinny rashers of streaky needing used up so in the interests of being MSE I better make sure they aren't wasted:rotfl::rotfl:


Is anyone watching anything "interesting" on TV at the moment? My "to watch" list is looking very bare and I'm up to date with what is on it. I have access to Netflix via my son's account if that helps. I don't watch much telly and don't like reality TV or soaps but do like to watch something in the evening.

caronc

Hideous rain & thunder/lightening here, I'm glad I don't need to go anywhere this evening.
Green beans remain unprepped but I have scoffed the peas I picked earlier, I'm not quite sure where today has gone!

Definitely "food in a bowl" weather, I'm looking forward to my pasta as it ticks all the boxes for me when it's wet & windy outdoors:)

Brambling

Sorry you're getting the rain Caronc we're back to hot weather with 30 forecast for Friday

TV is typical summer viewing at the moment, I don't have Netflix but I'm watching Unforgotten and if you don't mind subtitles Dicte - crime Reporter which is Danish. I've just finishing watching Hidden on Saturday night BBC4 and I'm going to see what their new 9pm program is, they're often subtitles. I recorded but haven't watch Bletchley Circle I watched the last series but this one has jumped to the USA so will have to see. I do keep out eye out for history programs especially ancient history

Ouch re the MOT Farway hopefully not too big a bill.

Lunch was the last of the stroganoff, followed by melon and papaya I'm just off out so dinner will be later and probably a jacket potato with something.

I've checked my freezer and cupboard lists and will need to plan next week's menu, nothing grabs me at the moment but not because lack of food :cool: will need to trawl through those recipe books :rotfl: looking for something different to ring the changes, however if the weekend turns out hot it could be back to salad

caronc

Thanks Brambling - I don't mind subtitles and like a bit of "Scandi" drama so will check your suggestions out.:)


ETA. I've pinned the Dicte programme - will start right from series 1, that will keep me going for a long while! Will check out Hidden first though as the episodes will start to disappear and I'm forever losing things that way:o. Both look as though they are just my thing:)

caronc

For the first time in months I have had to put some socks on as my feet were cold, next door have lit their woodburner:eek:. August can quite often be a chilly & wet month here, I hope it hasn't started the way it intends to go on.....

moneyistooshorttomention

TV programmes - I'm not a great tv watcher. Though I'm still watching The Handmaids Tale in fascinated horror (admits to having found some spoilers for the last couple of episodes of current series of that on YouTube). I won't say - but there is going to be a 3rd series...

Apart from that - "Keeping Faith" - not entirely convinced by this.

If around at the time for one of the two on-most-days showings of "Medium" on Channel 71 I often see that. It's about just what the title says - ie a woman who is a medium in modern day America (based on a real life woman who is a medium in modern day America). Maybe summat of the general idea has snuck in - as I woke up from an ordinary dream (I don't usually remember my dreams) today, it took precisely 2 minutes to interpret it - as it was SO obvious what the dream was telling me I felt like/should do and have spent some time today organising exactly that.

Weather - passable - been out picking more fruit from my garden and it's now all surplus to what I want (apart from the apples I'm still waiting on) and being divided out to give away.

Dinner - tried out a recipe for a sorta "sauce" made from steamed cauliflower, nutritional yeast, well-flavoured with garlic powder (a rather frequent ingredient in current tranche of recipes/ideas I'm trying when I can be bothered), plant mylk. Duly served with pasta, tomatoes and mushrooms. Hmmm...verdict = passable. I'll eat it up, but don't think I'll repeat it.

caronc

Thanks MTSTM, I'm annoyed at myself as I "parked" the Handmaids Tale as one to watch but not all the episodes are available so I'll need to wait until it's repeated which no doubt it will be if there is to be a third series!


Can't say the sauce appeals over much to me, is this a vegan sub for cheese sauce?

moneyistooshorttomention

I guess so Caron.

Put it this way - it ain't gonna convince no-one imo:cool:

PasturesNew

Warm/sunny all day here again.

I bought what used to be "my favourite choccies" when I went to £land for a wall mounted coat rail (seen them in there for months....) but, of course, now I want to buy one they don't sell them any more.... so I shuffled round to the sweeties aisle. They're "mis-shapes" and so you get what you're given, but what's coming through the machine is completely different to what used to go through their machine... but still better than the similar seconds I'd found at Home Bargains (although some are the same chocs).

Today I've scoffed: 100g of assorted chocs, 1 filled cheese/cucumber roll and 2 hot sausage rolls.

For telly - mine's been broken about 3-4 weeks, there was a time I could manage to get it going for a few hours, but it's given up the ghost. But, my new PC just manages to use iplayer for catchup (sometimes it works, sometimes it freezes and sometimes it says "not enough bandwidth, try again later")... so I randomly peck at that occasionally late evening. Not sure when Long Lost Family's on, I do like that... I'll check, might be tonight. (ITV if it is). Ah, that was on last night .... I'll watch that now

https://www.itv.com/hub/long-lost-family/1a8904a0064

caronc

Reckon some things are best left unsubbed so to speak.;)
Do you use Mushroom powder MTSTM? A veggie friend (no dairy) uses this a lot to make sauce and gravy. Have to say the "bechamel" she made for a lasagne tasted pretty good and was, I think, a mix of veg stock & soya milk with mustard powder, mushroom powder and paprika added to a basic roux. It had that "mouth hit" that cheese gives IFYSWIM:)