Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

I don't think I'd have been able to cope if my parents had replaced a deceased one with a new squeeze.

It's your mum and dad.... forever ... not "and a random stranger once one's gone". Doesn't sit right.

My great aunt was "a bit of a tartar". She had two illegitimate children by two different fathers. One child was brought up by her mother - the other one got his father's surname, so maybe she was living with him as she brought him up.

Then she shacked up with a 3rd man (widower with 8 children) and had another 6 kids with him... she did marry him, but then he died when she was still quite young (~43 and he was 65). Her children with him then aged 2 to 16.

Then she married another chap (single/childless/toyboy 5 years younger than her) and they had no children together - then he died when she was 68. Then she had a man she was living with until she died (she was 77).

So children with 3 different men.
Married twice.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

My Mum died 16 years ago when my Dad was just 60, I always hoped he would meet someone as he is lonely but it's never happened. Yes no one can replace my Mum and yes it would probably be awkward at first, however that would have been my problem not his.


Change of plan for lunch as I remembered I had a pack of scotch eggs in the fridge:). I made a slaw with some of the kholrabi, celery, carrot, spring onion and cucumber in a mustard & dill mayo. Very tasty and enough for tomorrow too:D.

moneyistooshorttomention

I can understand you feeling that way Caron re your father. He was still quite young when this happened - so it's a shame he never found anyone else for company (except the cat I remember you mentioning a while back - but that's no replacement it's true).

I have always doubted either of my parents would find a replacement if it came to it and, at that rather elderly age they now are, then it wouldnt happen anyway. Both of them want to "go" at the same sort of time and I think there's a good chance that's how it will be in the event. My father wouldn't last long at all if my mother went. My mother - I'm not sure...

Anyways - back onto food and it's going to be a semi-DOD (Day Off Diet) today. Reason being I was given a seitan "steak" that I know will have to be eaten quickly. I've never tried seitan - it was on the list to "try" and so mustn't waste the opportunity then. So guess dinner tonight will be that - with "Slimming World chips" and some sort of veggies (peas perhaps?).

Wednesday2000

I've been eating random stuff today. Toast with cucumber, mayo and dried dill. A packet of crisps, a jam tart, a banana and tea.

I'm going to have veggie sausages with cauliflower, peas and maybe some oven baked chips or just mash, whatever I fancy later on.:)

I feels a lot cooler, I love this time of year. Autumn and Spring are my favourite seasons!

Farway

Back from a lovely walk in the sunshine at Wisley, really enjoyed the day, plenty of colour but not much in the way of leaf colour, except as some may know there is an avenue of Canadian maples on the A3 at Bramshott, as a permanent memorial to WW2 Canadian forces, some were stationed in the area, the maples are smack in the eye red at the moment

Lunch finished up as a pasty and sachet of brown sauce, hardly exciting but it filled a hole

Dinner, very CBA, it'll be the LO cold sausages in a sarnie, may go exotic and add some chutney

wort wrote: »

I was thinking of a small fan heater for the bedroom as I don't have heating on in mornings, and thought about a fan heater to warm for 10 mins whilst showering? I've been offered an oil filled heater which would save money but think it would take longer to warm the room therefore be less efficient for what it's needed for. Does anyone have any thought?? Sorry a bit off topic x

There isn't any difference in efficiency, all electric heating is 100% efficient, one kilowatt in will give one kilowatt of heat out.
Kilowatt for kilowatt they will cost the same to run, the only difference is convenience, practicality, cost to buy and looks

The fan heater would be best, quick heat pointed where you want, just don't trip over it:)

PasturesNew

Fish fingers, chips and beans.

FIVE fish fingers, because "I had to" - there were five left in the box and I didn't want to eat four and put one back in the freezer, so I had the lot

End of the chips too...

They don't count as "eating things up" as they're staples, so will be replaced.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
The weather perked up for a short while so I got some more done in the garden before it suddenly started tipping it down. Cue 5 mins later my Dad arriving frozen and drenched, he had headed out on his scooter and although well wrapped hadn't popped on a waterproof. He was nearer mine than home when the rain started. Needless to say he didn't stay long but headed home for a hot shower and dry clothes. Though his trip was worthwhile (he says) as I gave him the brambles I had picked earlier.:cool:
Money hope your seitan steak was better than the (one and only) seitan sausage I've ever had all I could taste was salt and the cooking oil.....
PN - I've not had a fishfinger in ages, I think there are a few lurking in the frozen depths so I must remember they are there:)


My new slipper boots have arrived and I'm very pleased with them, they should be just the thing to keep my tootsies warm when it gets "properly" cold.:D Plenty of room for thick socks as well, so if my are freezing this year I think a flamethrower might be needed:eek:. I think for me the trick will be to not let my feet get cold in the first place, which in hindsight I maybe hadn't sussed last winter as I was new to the meds!


Just veg to prep/cook and some heating up to do for dinner tonight so a nice easy one. I've not had savoy cabbage since the spring so looking forward to[STRIKE] lots[/STRIKE] some of that on my plate with a knob of butter and lots of black pepper:).

moneyistooshorttomention

Caron - it wasn't....:(

All I could pick up taste-wise was pepper and more pepper. So glad I hadn't paid for that. Promptly chucked the other one away - on the theory "Life's too short to eat food like that".

Basically - I don't tend to rate these vegan food "look-alike" type foods - the "cheeses" (though one can make nice cheesy type things oneself) or many of the other "look-alikes".

As you know - I do like Oatly "cream" - but that's pretty much the only substitute food I like.

caronc

Och Money that's a shame:(. Sounds as though a cauliflower "steak" or similiar might have been much better. Not SW at all but cauliflower pakora (or cut as a slice and battered) is so good..... My friend whose partner is veggie makes a lovely "KFC" (Kentucky Fried Cauliflower), served in a bun with sides and sauce it is blinking lovely. Definitely one for a non-diet day though.:cool:

I like my food to taste of what it is rather than something it "wants to be";). (Though I will confess to "hiding" veg in tomato sauces etc. when I had fussy toddlers ....:cool:)

Brambling

Evening, you lot have been chatty today

Glad you had a good weekend Flubberyzing, my sister is the graveyard visitor usually for family tree research last year I got [STRIKE]conned[/STRIKE] convinced into taking her to Cerne Abbas not to look at the giant or to walk round the pretty village but to walk round the cemetery in the rain looking for family names, it's seems we still have distance family there :cool: She got very excited over it :rotfl: I was more excited about the excellent almond slice in the tea room

My mum at 90 announced she no longer wanted to be buried someone else could go in with my dad :eek: but she wasn't sure about cremation either :huh: I told her the only other option was burial at sea, but I thought she had to die on board for that and the Sandbank chain ferry didn't count :rotfl: She was widowed for nearly 30 years I think it's sad that she never had anyone else, my dad had been her first and only boyfriend so I can understand why but I think she would have been a happier person if she had and would probably had a better relationship with us as she could be difficult :cool: I once worked with someone whose FIL remarried 9 months after his MIL died, the second wife died suddenly 6 months later and wedding number 3 followed quickly after that I think there was approx 2 years between first wife funeral and third wedding :eek: it seems he had always been such a quiet man, my colleague started to call him Blue Beard :rotfl:

Lunch was coronation chicken & pasta with salad. I've just finished making chicken soup following 2 telephone interruptions and a charity collector on the door step. The second call was from my elderly neighbour concerned about the charity collector, I told him in the future just to say no thank you and close the door but he was worried about them calling at 7pm but it took me 30mins to reassure him. Decided it's now too late for soup I've kind of gone past hungry so maybe a cup of tea and those two crumpets I saw in the freezer