Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I went to bed about midnight last night and then got up about 1 as I was cold. I had to go and get my dressing gown to wear in bed. It's not the fleecy one yet, just the light summer one at the moment.

I just had peanut butter on organic white toast and a cup of tea for a late breakfast.:)

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

Shame the curry didn't tickle your taste buds Money:(, these things are very much personal preferences. A poached egg on top of ratatouille is a favourite of mine.

Gloomy and wet still here but thankfully a good bit milder than yesterday:), I've shed some layers....;)
It's due to get colder as the week goes on but dry & sunny as well. It's the cold+wind+rain I seem to struggle to keep warm in.
Although milder it's still definitely soup weather so I've a big "use it up" pot of turkey and veg soup made for lunches. It smells fab and I think a bowl full with a wodge of stottie cake will banish any lingering chills.:D
I've decided to keep with the winter food theme for dinner tonight and stuff my huge tomato with a mix of sausage meat, mushrooms and onions.

Farway

Nope, not cutting the grass despite the sun, it's still damp & will clog my mower, that's what I'm telling myself anyway
it'll keep until Spring if necessary

Lunch was OK, but not as planned, dropped one of my grilled rashers on the floor as I was transferring it from grill to bread, so a bit of a sparse sarnie:( My floor is not the sort I would eat off:o

Had an orange Club biscuit afterwards as consolation

Still on track for salmon, new spuds salad and I've found the AWOL salad cream

Tea & read in my warm conservatory due next, ideal once sun warms it up

Stoke

Farway wrote: »

Welcome Stoke, nice to have another bloke aboard, it can get a tad lonely when it's dress size nattering time:D

Stoke, I use an Actifry fro my chips, very handy but not sure I'd replace it if it broke

Haha, well, I've really grown to enjoy this section of the forum. I consider myself an 'Old Style Moneysaver' making the best with ingredients that have been in the house for months and are seemingly useless these days

Actifry's are expensive really. There are significantly cheaper alternatives. Mine is the KitchenMaster from the Range. Currently £50. 2 years good use and still going strong.

Stoke

Anyway.... that wasn't the reason I popped in.... Prawns? :P Who likes prawns? I do, and I've just found about a kilogram of king prawns at the back of my freezer. Might do something involving prawns tonight

PasturesNew

I've never eaten a prawn... never would, they disgust me


Today I've had the 2nd corned beef pasty with mash and beans for lunch. They're dated today and just one more to go, so that'll be tomorrow's meal.

Opened the 2nd bag of choccies.... as you do.... plodding along with those

Sunny/dry here today.

moneyistooshorttomention

Prawns - saganaki.

I remember that Greek recipe from back when I ate fish (before I read the articles saying what fish are eating in the oceans these days instead of food:(:mad:).

From memory, a tomato sauce (onions/canned tomatoes) basically and serve with cubes of feta cheese.

I was on the Middle Eastern bit for lunch today - lunch out and so it was ratatouille/sourdough bread/salad.

Had my dancing class - whew is shattered! Was told to take it as a compliment that the teacher usually slows down/does basic stuff if a newcomer turns up. They didn't for me - straight into it - top speed (they'd apparently decided I could cope with it) - whew....sitting in tired little puddle at the moment.

I shall be going back again...:D

wort

I love prawns but have never cooked them from raw!
With garlic and chilli is how I'd eat them.
Just finished tea, I prepped the veg yesterday so as soon as I got in it was turn on the hob ,whilst I got changed . I cooked the fish in the foil in the same pan as the veg , love doing that thanks whoever suggested it! Put fajita spice on the salmon as decided sauce would ruin my lovely creamy mash. I usually have tartare sauce when I have chips with it. Rice pud for afters and sat in the warm conservatory, really surprised to find it warm when I got home. It's freezing at work! !
I've taken broccoli soup out of the freezer for lunch tomorrow, with toast spread with boursin. With Greek yogurt and whatever fruit is at work
Today my sandwich was with rhubarb yogurt, 2 tangerines. then a few grapes and a banana on 2nd break.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Yum prawns I adore them - hard to beat cooked in chilli & garlic or with wine(or vermouth)/butter/garlic. I do like a thai prawn green curry or a good old prawn cocktail as well.:D I'll have PN & Money's share if there are spare going;). That reminds me that I have a big bag of prawn carcasses in the freezer to make stock, must get round to doing that.
I spent a fair bit of time online shopping, that's hopefully my winter clothing needs covered and a few needs (and wants) for the house sorted out too. When my son is home next week we are going to swap my living & dining rooms round and I wanted some new throws and cushions. As I've mentioned before the front of my house is North facing and gets colder than the back consequently I seldom use the living room which is the colder part and lurk in the warmer dining room which is only used as a dining room when I have a crowd to feed as I have a table & chairs in the kitchen. Why I never thought to do this before escapes me:o:o.

Turkey & veg soup at lunchtime was a good rib-sticking bowlful just the thing in this weather though it has been much milder today. I've added another layer of clothes as it got dark but I'm only just about to pop the heating for an hour. What a difference to yesterday:D. I reckon I've 5 or 6 portions of soup which cost about £1.50 to make as the stock was home made and the turkey was carcass pickings from the Christmas bird. (I still have another small bag of those to use up :rotfl:) The most expensive item in it was a sweet potato so can't complain.

Tomato is stuffed and ready to go in the oven and I'm going to bake a small spud to have with it as I fancy mashin it in the tomayo juices.

Brambling

Another prawn lover here :j there are so many ways to make a quick and easy meal from them.

A lovely sunny day today so I got a nice walk in lunchtime and really didn't want to go back to work . Didn't sleep very well last night, I started coughing as soon as I laid down and carried on most of the night, my cold seems to have caused my asthma to flare again hopefully it won't be like last year when it took 6 months to sort. I've had a finger wag and lecture from my sister today about getting a stronger inhaler sooner rather than later, 'I'll give it another week' wasn't the correct answer it seems :cool: I didn't admit to having to excuse myself from a meeting this morning because of it.

Moving your rooms about seems like a good plan Caronc, Just remind visitors to put their thermals on before coming for dinner :rotfl:

Lunch today was chicken soup I've one more portion left for tomorrow, dinner was LO vegetable risotto not quite the same reheated but still tasty and nice and quick as I was going out.