Cooking for one (Mark Three)

moneyistooshorttomention

I'd say a "Cornish pasty" is a Cornish pasty wherever one is having it - as long as the ingredients are correct.

The ones my mother used to make were just meat and potatoes in as I recall (memory is having to reel back decades here mind you....). Cant recall about onions. But I do know carrots werent part of it.

Me I call things by the name of the area they come from - wherever in the country/wherever in the world one is having them - if they're correct.

Agh! wincing at being given a West Country cream tea since moving here and it was called a "Welsh cream tea" and the scones weren't plain:eek: Never did find out what a Welsh cake would be called if it was eaten outside Wales....

Well - I've been out socialising this evening and stuck pretty much to my culinary decisions there. Had a standard glass of wine and one tiny savoury nibble and that was it - though others were tucking in. So I've been pretty good.

Thoughts for tomorrow - think lunch will be based on soup - am thinking carrot and lentil soup. Think that imam biyaldi I've got in mind will probably land up being dinner.

Giving myself an incentive by looking at various pairs of trousers/jeans in my wardrobe that say they are size 14 - but I bought them back at a time when I know the label they'd be putting on them these days would say they are "size 10". Gotta remember that to keep up the willpower. Also a very smart black jacket I've got that also says it's size 14 and I know would be labelled size 10 these days.

Nelski

Hi oneskies haven't posted for ages but you pulled me back with talk of Greggs.

The nearest Greggs to me is a few miles away in fact near my dentist so I only tend to visit every 6 months at checkup time .

My favourite was a corned beef pasty but never seem to see it anymore so now its a steak bake and a sausage roll ...so bad I know but every 6 months its not too bad

I did a contract at a company last year and they had one right outside the door :eek:had to resort to their soup or sandwiches before I had a heart attack.

Anyway classic cooking for one dilemma... yesterday i made some lush lamb koftas with flat breads they really are gorgeous but do I want them again for 2 nights or freeze them? my freezer is absolutely stacked and a few koftas may actually not fit. Hey ho koftas for dinner again then.

flubberyzing

Good morning all.

Woke up here to very low water pressure... A quick trip to the Anglian Water website shows a broken water main in the estate next to mine. Estimated to be fixed by mid-day. We shall see!
There's just enough going to still make drinks, so as long as I can fill a kettle shortly for my morning coffee, I'm not too concerned!

caronc

Good morning everyone
:hello:Nelski - my freezers are still laden too;)


flubberyzing - how annoying re the strawberries I'd expect more than a day from them as well


MTSTM - Welsh Cakes are called "Welsh cakes" here :rotfl:


It's absolutely lashing with rain here this morning:(, I'm glad I don't need to go anywhere. My Dad is coming for lunch we're having HM tomato soup and a cheese & onion toastie. Should hit the spot given the weather:)


I've not thought as far as dinner tonight, I have a whole chicken in the fridge waiting to get jointed so I might nab the wings and have them.

moneyistooshorttomention

flubberyzing wrote: »

Good morning all.

Woke up here to very low water pressure... A quick trip to the Anglian Water website shows a broken water main in the estate next to mine. Estimated to be fixed by mid-day. We shall see!
There's just enough going to still make drinks, so as long as I can fill a kettle shortly for my morning coffee, I'm not too concerned!

Check out re compensation for water disruption. Think it must have been a "national" website I checked when I had that several times since moving here. Ofwat?? at a guess.

The Welsh Water website was rather less "helpful" on that and they tried to argue I wasnt due for any. I used the "national" website and insisted I was to have what that said (which worked out at £25 x 3 = £75). But Welsh Water kept mis-telling me I was due for nothing.

I wasnt going to accept that - as Welsh Water are the 2nd dearest in the country and I'm not paying much less than South West Water (the dearest in the country).

Brambling

Nelski wrote: »

Anyway classic cooking for one dilemma... yesterday i made some lush lamb koftas with flat breads they really are gorgeous but do I want them again for 2 nights or freeze them? my freezer is absolutely stacked and a few koftas may actually not fit. Hey ho koftas for dinner again then.

Or you can take something else out of the freezer for dinner but it has to be the same shape and size as the koftas you want to put in :rotfl:

caronc

I've been stood up:rotfl::rotfl:


My Dad's knee is bothering him so I think between that and the rain he really doesn't fancy venturing out. We've rearranged until next week. Anybody fancy some tomato soup?

flubberyzing

The water seems to be back up to pressure, so that didn't last long luckily! To be fair to Anglia, that's the first time in 8 years living here that I've noticed water problems.

Caronc, we had rain earlier as well - about 6-8am. Now the weather can't decide if it wants to be cloudy or sunny!
Not quite sure what I'm doing for meals today. I have another fishcake to eat, but no fresh veg (lots of tinned stuff though). Strike that, I have one potato left, so I'll do that with the fish and some beans perhaps.

Can you freeze the soup?

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

my freezer is absolutely stacked and a few koftas may actually not fit. Hey ho koftas for dinner again then.

This is one of the hidden troubles.... the amount of stuff a CFO can get into a freezer before you run out of space.

Family: Bake 2 pies, eat one, freeze one. 2nd pie's eaten in one sitting to free up space.

CFO: Bake 2 pies, cut into four pieces each, freeze 7 pieces - that's seven meals you have to eat before the same space has been freed up in the freezer.

Also, families can buy/eat things more easily in one go. e.g.

Family: 1.5Kg of frozen chips. One meal, serve with that first pie. No frozen chips in the freezer now.

Single: 1.5Kg of frozen chips, pour out a portion, put the rest of the bag (still almost full) in the freezer alongside those 7 portions of pie.... it could be weeks/months before that pie/chips are eaten, while the family has nothing lurking at all and has spare space for new things, different things, etc.

caronc

Yes I'll freeze most of the soup so it won't be wasted.

Glad the water pressure is back up to pressure:)