Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Today's scoffathon has included:

Choccies: the whole of the bag I bought less than 24 hours ago has gone (225g)

Pear/cake & custard: 1/3rd of that was lunch, two more portions boxed up in the fridge. Not overly keen on that Tesco/basics cake mix... it wasn't a moist experience.

Leftover beef curry: From yesterday, this was the 2nd/final portion, served with basmati. Fully out of basmati now too.

I have no need to eat more today - and I don't really have any nibbles floating about .... but if I do start hunting for food then another portion of that pear/cake might go missing

caronc

Good evening everyone
Some nice sounding meals Farway & PN.
MTSTM - it's funny how SMs vary between different branches. The Asda in a nearby town is dire and yet another in the opposite direction is excellent. Given the geography the must share some delivery routes/supply chains so it must be down to local management. Unfortunately if I was to order online it's filled by the dire one so I don't use. Aldi/Lidl seem to vary quite a bit between stores too round here.

Apart from a couple of short.sharp showers it turned into a nice sunny afternoon though chilly out of the sun. The temperature is dropping like a stone now though.
Much clearing was done in the greenhouse and the remaining plants all seem happy enough so should be fine for a few weeks yet. If the weather's ok tomorrow I'll start potting up spring bulbs.
My coveted slipper boots have been ordered. I've spent quite a bit more on clothes than I usually would this year but that in the main replacing my workwear with more appropriate casual stuff. Hopefully next year will be less spendy:).
My blt for lunch was lovely but the bacon was very salty. It was the end of a pack opened last weekend so hopefully the next one won't be as bad. I'll be very careful with my salt intake for a couple of days and hopefully it will mitigate the hit;).
After being outside in the fresh air most of the afternoon I've built up an appetite so I'm looking forward to my curry just need to make it now:). Then I'm for a glass of red and a TV catch up. I think the last time I watched daytime tv was after an op a few years ago, my sister commented at the time that I must be feeling rubbish (I was) as she couldn't remember me ever doing that before. :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

Caron - clothes spending comes in fits and starts according to what is going on in one's life imo.

Not surprising you're spending now - you're setting yourself up for new phase of life.

I know I've done very little clothes spending since moving here - well down in 3 figures. That's been for a variety of reasons - not receiving the State part of my pension for some time after retiring (so didnt dare), too busy on gutting the house, and..yep...a little bit more excess weight crept on.

So - new phase of life now - I'm on full pension/house finished/noticeable number of clothes badly needing replacing. I've only spent a few hundred after moving here. Well - in last month I've spent twice that and a fair bit more to come...

These things happen - it comes in fits and starts imo.

Brambling

Popped to town this morning for my flu jab luckily I had got back to my car just as the promised rain arrived and it's been persistent all day Gave me an excuse to spend a couple of hours catching up with my sister. I've got a slightly sore arm which is my normal reaction to the jab.

I'm another one who doesn't do daytime TV, after an op 6 years ago I had 5 weeks off sick I knew when it was time to go back to work it was when I started to get stir crazy enough to put the tv on. I will say I never dropped to the level of Jeremy Kyle :rotfl:

Lunch was a chicken salad, not really the weather for salad but it was after 1.30pm so it was quick. Dinner was a corn beef hash with so LO cabbage added to the mash and I'm sitting her thinking pears and cake, thanks to PN and Farway

Farway

Yesterday's sausage / mash was a nice change, forgot to cook my mushrooms to go with it, bummmer.
Did have more of the bread & butter pud, with some tinned custard dolloped on.

Woke to rain, rain, rain. As forecast so no surprise. About mid week the plan was hatched to visit RHS Wisley today for Autumn colours. Amended by Friday, now hope to go tomorrow once this lot has moved over

Not going out in this lot, breakfast was porridge, banana, honey & yoghurt

Found my shop bought toms going manky, left over because I've been eating my own, had peek on You tube, thinking of oven toms in oil. Usual CFO, not enough toms to make say ketchup, or big bowl of soup, too many to just lob in the bin

The baked oven toms with olive oil & balsamic splash looks easy enough, with some 'erbs and bayzil [it was US YT video]

Decided today is another rump steak day, I've trimmed one & it's marinading in the fridge
If all goes to plan dinner will be rump steak, frozen chips, mushroom omelette and the oven baked tomatoes, and some of the cooked beetroot

Lunch is ????? something in between bread

caronc

Good morning everyone
Snap Farway - rump steak with the trimmings planned for dinner.:)
I thoroughly enjoyed the egg curry last night, there is some of the veg curry base left so that will be lunch. I'll boil another egg to have with it.
Sunny but very chilly here today, I want to get on with potting the spring bulbs so I think many layers will be needed.

PasturesNew

No idea.

Could see the end of that Fray Bentos pie (Chicken Balti) and cook it, with some chips. It'd be gone then, instead of just sitting there month after month.

Trying to eat my way through "things that have been in the cupboard forever", so that might be the thing to do....

It might be minging, but at least it'd be gone!

I will NEVER buy one again.

EDIT: Cooked the pie, served with chips and beans... then I looked at the remaining half and decided I'd better just eat that too. So I did

Farway

PN, the FB Balti pie, was it as bad as it sounds?
I'm not a curry lover generally so I'll not buy one, just the Chicken & mushroom FB pie I had was tasty even though it was junk IYSWIM

Lunch was a cheese & onion sandwich

Later I had a scoop of LO cold bread & butter pud

Rump steak turned over in it's marinade, soon be time to sort the manky tomatoes for baking

Rain has stopped, heard a local forecast of frost? Must have been a joke right?

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Sunny but really chilly today, I don't think we'll get a frost but the temperatures won't be far above it!
Well wrapped up I had a fairly productive afternoon gardening and got more than half of the bulbs planted/potted:D.
Lunch was LO curry, boiled egg and pitta. The curry had definitely benefitted from maturing overnight:).
Steak dinner & a bit of TV catch up shortly, I've still this week's GBBO to watch.

PasturesNew

I finished off the pear/cake with custard.

Deliberately stayed in today as I knew that if I even thought about going out I'd end up buying another bag of my favourite choccies... and I've already had two this weekend

Farway wrote: »

PN, the FB Balti pie, was it as bad as it sounds?
I'm not a curry lover generally so I'll not buy one

It tasted all right... but, for the money, it's possible to buy much better pies these days. Pies you can slice/freeze before cooking... pies with a deeper filling.

So, on balance, other pies are better. And I'll never be tempted by a FB ever again. They need to stay in the 1970s....