Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Breakfast normal porridge, banana, honey & HM yoghurt

Early start, scorchio again, wanted to get the watering done in the cool, I was going to pop into SM but it was only 9.15 and CBA to go and hang around just on the off chance of a non existent bargain. Like PN, plenty of stuff needing "using up"

MTSTM, I forgot to say, your fig, I know you mainly want it for screening, leaves etc, but at least you know it will fruit. Apparently some of them are very shy fruiting, even same variety. My SIL has one like that

I think today's meals are ground hog day all over again:D. PN style use ups, and too hot to bother cooking

Lunch will be BF ham & salady sarnie

Dinner LO YS cheese & bacon quiche, with more salad, home grown toms now in full flow, I like them, I've some cherry ones which I scoff like sweets right off the vine, but enough to do that and have in a salad

And the B & A crumble lives on, plus if stuck I bought some milk choc ices in Asda yesterday, so I may have to sample one of them just to compare with Morries dark choc ones, a public service really;)

caronc

Yep "use ups" are a constant in CFO land;). I write a list each week of fresh bits that need "something" doing to them and then try and plan my meals/shopping round them. Doesn't always work though :oespecially at this time of year with the garden veg when it's hard to judge "how much" and "what" will be ready each week.



Picked a bowl of brambles about 150g I reckon. They are currently soaking in some salt water to get rid of any creepy crawlies and I'd be surprised if I hadn't eaten them by this evening.

I've decided that lunch will be jerk chicken & avocado salad.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

.......I bought some milk choc ices in Asda yesterday, so I may have to sample one of them just to compare with Morries dark choc ones, a public service really;)

Absolutely :rotfl:

Brambling

Thank you for your service Farway it's a difficult job but someone has to do it :rotfl:

I resisted the urge for ice cream when I went for petrol and I'm trying to ignore the call of the T*sco Exp. I've frozen fruit so may make a quick ice cream with yogurt :cool:

Lunch was LO potatoes with chorizo omelette with a spinach side salad. Dinner will probably be beef stir fry, I have some feather steak which works well if only stir fried for a couple of minutes over a hot heat

Farway

Choc ice test part completed.

The milk one was from Iceland, my error.

So far I think the dark choc from Morries has it, obviously I really need a wider sample to make sure


I think some chips will be consumed with the quiche & salad, had some with it last night, makes it a "proper meal", as does the pickled beetroot to go down memory lane

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Definitely dark choc ices for me through preference:)
I really like feather steak, lovely flavour but another cut that is hard to get locally.
I now have filo:) and a few other bits including importantly loo roll (thanks sis:D) I hadn't realised my stash had fallen below my "comfort" level until I was cleaning the bathroom earlier:eek::eek:.
I had a succession of visitors so no gardening done, I must trundle off and give my toms etc. their weekly feed and I'll pick some runners before they get too big. There's rain forecast for tomorrow so the deadheading will need to wait!

Brambling

Glad the toilet roll situation was resolved Caronc :rotfl: I too have a 'comfort' level which I twitch if it goes under not sure why as I would still have at least a couple of weeks worth maybe 3

The only place I've seen the feather steak is the W*itrose next to the office, the one near home doesn't have it. Im not sure if many people know it can be stir fried so it's often reduced to half price on the meat counter I have two more pieces in the freezer

Popped out to the garden centre for a smoothie with my sister this afternoon, I know how to live :rotfl: it was her turn to off load today so she got to buy the smoothies and I got to listen

Another hot day forecast for tomorrow so I've made some peri peri chicken for lunch, another hot day so another salad, tomato, cucumber and leaves from the garden

caronc

Sadly no Waitrose locally and I'm out their delivery range:(.
Our local Morrison's used to stock some of less used steak cuts but stopped as no demand to make it worth their while, mainly I think because folk didn't know how to cook them.
Picked some runners & more french beans but I forgot to feed the veggies as my sister popped back round. I'm sure they'll be fine for another day or so;).
I also forgot to eat my brambles (I forgot I had picked them:o) and had cherries instead. I'm full now so they are in the fridge for tomorrow.

PasturesNew

The trouble I have with buying choc ices is that they have to be from a shop close by - and I have to be going straight home.

4ldi aren't selling them this year - so I eyed up Sainsbobs the other day (£1.10) ... but they only had milk when I looked. Nearest Morries to me is on a route that I tend to do on Wednesdays (2x a year roughly)... Wednesday market, so go and park in a side road, do the market, do the Poundstretcher/whatever, do the charity shops, into Morries, walk back to where I parked, then do their Lidl, then home - with the possibility of stopping in another place if I randomly spot an unexpected free parking spot on the High Street. So I can't guarantee I'll be going straight home from when I buy them...

Today I started by finishing off the tuna/pasta salad. Then I made two cheese/tomato rolls, which I took out with me later when I walked to a "local thing that was on". I ate one while out, brought the second one home and ate it. Then I had the final bhaji.

All out of bread rolls now though....

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Sadly no Waitrose locally and I'm out their delivery range:(.
Our local Morrison's used to stock some of less used steak cuts but stopped as no demand to make it worth their while, mainly I think because folk didn't know how to cook them.

I wonder if W*itrose will stop selling the feather or the skirt for the same reason, it's often reduced. I once stood at a meat counter telling someone what to do with shin of beef :cool:

The problem is there are so few proper butcher shops now, where they would tell you how best to cook each cut if you ask