Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've arrived home with a picture for the wall, 5 vases ... and a Pasty. So lunch today is pasty, mash and beans.

Now there's a cracking idea for the pasty I'll have LO from my 2 pack of YS ones

Plus added bonus of using some of the less than lush spuds I bought yesterday
Ticks all boxes, ta PN

flubberyzing

Afternoon all!

Today started with a cheeky Costas to have a mocha and cheese and tuna melt. Very naughty and un-thrifty, but I enjoy it. I take a book and linger over it, and it's a rather happy time! I also had soy milk in my drink, which I like to think makes it a little bit better for you. And I can't taste the difference!

Because I was still quite full from that, lunch was just two bananas, and I'm going to try and hold out until dinner time.
Today I've got a fish cake and I'm going to use up some odds and sods of veg on the side. I've got some broccoli and mushrooms, that really need eating today, as well as some leftover coleslaw. A bit of an odd assortment, but it's all going in the same place, and I hate waste!

Farway

Dinner was the pasty, heated up in the mini oven, HM chips in Actifry. Those Costcutter spuds do not make nice chips, hope they make better mash for tomorrow

More moans, the cuc was utterly tasteless, new one from L's. I know cucs aren't flavour bombs but this was just green watery pap. Have to eat it though now I've bought ti

YS C & O pasty was very nice, as were my tomatoes

Just waiting for tum space to fit in LO crumble & custard later on

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Just waiting for tum space to fit in LO crumble & custard later on

I have it on good authority that puddings go into a second stomach

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Good hauls PN and Farway on your respective trips:)
:rotfl:Re the second stomach for puddings, when my elder son was wee he used to say he had a special "pudding tum" that for reasons unknown if asked where it was he used to point to his armpit, just as well he didn't opt for medicine as a career:rotfl::rotfl:
After all the rain it did dry up and I managed to get my errand done and empty the wall baskets:). The garden looks so bare now as there is nothing on the fences or hanging though loads of pots are still vibrant you can't see them so well from my kitchen.:( Roll on the winter pansies being ready:)


Tomato soup for tomorrow is half made, I'll finish it off in the morning. If I had thought I should have got it on the go before heading outside but I was so pleased it had dried up it never crossed my mind.
Lunch was a tasty lettuce, cucumber and mayo sandwich followed by a peach. I'll be so sad when the cucumber plants stop producing as the homegrown ones do at least taste of something. The only SM ones I've found that actually taste (albeit slightly) of anything are the baby ones you sometimes see but I always think they are expensive for what they are.

I've defrosted a pork steak for tonight which I'm going to thinly slice and stir fry with various veg, 5 spice, ginger, chilli, garlic and little soy. I'll probably have that with noodles.

PasturesNew

The pasty I bought was "hand made" .... but, in all honesty ... I'd have not been able to tell the difference between that one and one of "L" own brand "3 in a pack for about £1.45" types. I paid £1 for it... so won't buy another of those.

Just because people can cook .... doesn't mean
A/ they are any good
B/ they should.

I won't tell her "I think your pasty was utter rubbish; I bet you bought a wholesale pack of 100 on the cheap because there was nothing special about it whatsoever....." I'd like to say that to her... but I'll simply never, ever, ever buy one from her again and will quietly tell others not to if I'm there with anybody in the future.

She said "it's just like a Cornish pasty, but as this isn't Cornwall I can't call it a Cornish pasty" - NO - it had CARROT in it. Carrots do NOT belong in a Cornish pasty ... and that meat wasn't skirt or even similar... it was minced goo.

caronc

Oh how disappointing PN:mad: - you have however given me the notion for a "Bridie"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridie , must see if the new bakery that has just opened sells them if not it might need to be a visit to Greggs....;)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

...visit to Greggs....

I've only eaten at Greggs once - about 10 years ago they had a "free festive bake" offer. You printed a coupon, handed it over and got a turkey/cranberry bake... wasn't impressed with their pastry, or the "dried stuff stuck on the outside of the pastry".

Haven't bothered with them since

flubberyzing

Well, I was going to finish off the broccoli, but on closer inspection, it had grown some of that fluffy mould... I'm finding that is a problem since switching to Aldi and Lidl fruit and veg. It doesn't last anywhere near as long as Tesco... Case in point, I got some strawberries from Aldi on Monday, and by Tuesday quite a few had gone soft/fluffy. I know strawbs are notoriously temperamental, but I thought that was particularly poor to barely make it to 24 hours home.
Although the flat peaches and the grapes still seem okay sooo…

All this talk of Greggs pasties is making me want one! It's been a long old time since I last had one! 8 years maybe. I used to enjoy their ham and cheese version. I quite often used to buy one for my lunch when I worked mornings only in the Sally Army shop. Better part of 15 years ago now!

caronc

Some things from Greggs I like others not so much, their "traditional" bakes seem to me to be better but the seasonal ones less so. That said I can't think of when I last had one - definitely while I was still at work! Bridies or steak bakes or a macaroni cheese pie were always the "go to" if we ended up in the office on weekends!



Dinner ended up taking a change of direction- decided I cba with standing needed for a stir fry so had a pork steak with mushrooms, red onion, runners, Ayrshire tatties and a some instant gravy.