Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Glad the tum has settled Farway, it sounds very similiar to the problems my Dad is having. He's identified spicy is a no-no and chippy fish & chips but apart from that no obvious triggers.
MTSTM - hopefully you'll be able to "flavour up" the SW recipes. I think with any "diet" having more time to cook is a bonus.

I had a lovely time on my "jaunt to the country" - that said it could have been anywhere as it poured and we didn't venture out! Ate and drank too much but was surprisingly clear headed this morning despite the alcohol and late night:).
It dried up this afternnon so I took down all my hanging baskets and composted the contents. They really were looking very bedraggled. . I also ditched the New Zealand Spinach which had succumbed to the rain & the caterpillars and was no longer something I wanted to eat as the leaves were pretty manky. I picked the remaining white turnips, they've gone a bit woody but will be fine roasted and also picked my first ever homegrown kholrabi:D. I'll use it tomorrow to make a crunchy salad of some description. There are a few more that unless they stall should be ready over the next few weeks.
Easy option tonight of roast chickens thighs cooked with herbs, the baby turnips & courgette with a baked spud and green beans/runners with pesto.

PasturesNew

I really don't like chicken thighs. I know many people say "they have more taste", but I don't like that taste I also don't like the meat consistency ... nor the colour change... and then there's the fact that skin/bones gross me out and many are sold with those intact.

I'd rather have less weight of breast, than more quantity of thighs.... I simply get " bit grossed out" about them.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I really don't like chicken thighs. I know many people say "they have more taste", but I don't like that taste I also don't like the meat consistency ... nor the colour change... and then there's the fact that skin/bones gross me out and many are sold with those intact.

I'd rather have less weight of breast, than more quantity of thighs.... I simply get " bit grossed out" about them.

I'm the completely the opposite :rotfl:I seldom buy chicken breasts so only really have it when I buy a whole chicken and hive them off the raw bird where they they then get used up in stir fries of fajitas. I find the breast bland and a bit meh unless it's cooked quickly with lots of spice so it doesn't dry out or stuffed and rolled in bacon if they are skinned. I'm the same with turkey, much prefer the leg meat to the breast though do like a turkey breast steak cooked quickly or bashed out and breaded. I am partial to a chicken kiev though both the cheap & cheerful ones made with chicken mince and the "posh" ones made with the whole breasr . I know lots of folk like the breast for the exactly the same reasons I don't:).

I'll cook two thighs tonight and usually there will be one left for another time unless they are very small or I'm feeling particularly hungry or greedy. I tend to find one breast is far to much for me (again unless it is tiny) and I'm left with spare which I always find a bit dry reheated. As always each to their own:).

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Brambling, I know the very spot, a nightmare for years. If not got already I can recommend Waze app, free, on mobile. It warns of holdups ahead, with times of queue, at least forewarned would enable you to think of an alternative before all you can see is brake lights

Thanks Farway I love visiting Dorset but this time of years it's roads can be c*ap with so little dual carriageway. My mother could never understand why I was reluctant to go visit at weekends during the summer

I had a last minute invite for lunch with a friend today she's in a state of shock following a first visit to A*di that they sale fillet steak 'so much cheaper than M&S or W*itrose' so I benefited from steak, salad and new potatoes and A nice little raspberry tart from M&S. We don't have either A*di or Ls in town and she was still a bit of a snob about buying some items :rotfl: A little more wine consumed than I've drank in a while especially over lunch so I lost at cards :cool: when I was leaving she was opening a second bottle, it seems I'm too much of a light weight these days :rotfl:

Late dinner was a two minute pizza made with a flat bread with just some cheese, tomato and mushroom.

caronc

Anymore than one (small) drink at lunchtime and I'm useless for the rest of the day! (Unless it's a wedding etc. where you just keep "topping up" for the rest of day:o)

I think a quick HM pizza in the circumstances is good going in the circumstances.;)
Does sound like a lovely lunch - you'll be glad your friend found Aldi :rotfl:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Anymore than one (small) drink at lunchtime and I'm useless for the rest of the day! (Unless it's a wedding etc. where you just keep "topping up" for the rest of day:o)

I think a quick HM pizza in the circumstances is good going in the circumstances.;)
Does sound like a lovely lunch - you'll be glad your friend found Aldi :rotfl:

Wine came from there as well I was surprised how quick it went to my head and then I remembered haven't had breakfast . I did walk the mile home

caronc

Aldi/Lidl do some really good wines and really good value for what you are getting (even with minimum pricing up here:rotfl:). I so wish one (preferably Lidl for me) would come to my town but so far no sign.

PasturesNew

I'm not one for booze; I don't like wine. I don't mind a bit of fizzy wine, just a little.... but I'd never order one or buy any.

I am quite happy to stick with squash, fizzy pop .... and just have half a cider 2-3x a year when in a pub, where there's a lack of cheap/non alcoholic drinks. I mostly, too, "just have the one" when others are pushy about me having what they call "a proper drink".... can't see the fuss myself... I'm happy just being out/with people, listening to chat, I don't need "a proper drink".

I like the taste of some drinks - but not the effects and cost... so I just simply "do without".

Brambling

Lidl are currently trying to build a store in town, I think it's currently going to planning at the moment.

PasturesNew

Having had the Sunday dinner yesterday, I wasn't really hungry after that, until 2am, when I spread margarine on two slices of bread.

Just been out to "L", I've a "little man" expected this morning to do a spot of painting so needed milk for that. While in there I bought a bag of chips (as I was out of those), bottle of fizzy water, coleslaw and a bottle of squash. I've never been one for buying bottled water ever before - but since I can't get my favourite/cheap fizzy pop I thought I'd give fizzy water a try the other week and it works.... so I've been drinking fizzy squash for the last couple of weeks.

Today ... I don't know Will probably add some curry powder to the coleslaw and have a curried coleslaw sandwich... might even toss in some of the sliced peppers in the freezer, or I might forget or not bother.