Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

I will be having the others at lunch tomorrow, imagine me, the one with my arms clasped around the plate close to my bosom, mine mine mine.

It's the only way to eat food.

I "don't share" ... and despise those that reach/grab/take as if it's a given that's "the norm". Or those that arbitrarily decide and spread all food out telling people everybody's sharing, without asking ....

I order/bring what I like ... and I don't like what others have/want/choose, so I'll rarely gain any benefit from any level of sharing.

Anybody not understanding it, see the Smithy clip from Gavin & Stacey when he turns up and they're ordering an indian....

Hollyharvey

I have done a bit more batch cooking for the freezers today. I did a chicken and mushroom casserole in one slow cooker, and a lamb stew in the other one. I shall have a portion of the lamb stew with dumplings shortly for dinner and freeze the rest. I've got quite a few HM ready meals in the freezer now.

I had some part baked rolls that were a week out of their BBE date so baked two of those and had them for lunch with some cheese and pickle. I've frozen the rest of them because I don't think I will get through them over the next couple of days. I bought them just before Christmas as a 'just in case' type of thing.

Kittie - I'm pleased to hear that sausagemeat is good, I've got a pack portioned up in the freezer as well .

pineapple

There's been a stomach bug doing the rounds in our area apparently. It doesn't make you vomit but it does fill you full of gas till you feel you are going to explode. :eek: Plus in my case the GP thinks it has caused temporary lactose intolerance. Great. I'm about to become one of those 'faddy' people you see hanging round the 'free from' supermarket products

wort

I've just had the dauphin potatoes with a gf breaded chicken fillet and last of the cauli. The portion of potatoes left I've regretfully binned, they've been cooked twice now and unlike chips I don't think thrice would be nice!
Tonight is yoga and quiz, my sister is on hols so we're down to 3, should have had fish for the brain food. I've been lazy all day catching up on tv shows I'd recorded so need a bit of exercise.

PasturesNew

If you look out now, there's a huge moon rising.

I just had two hot sausage rolls. I had 5 digestives earlier and 4 squares of chocolate.

moneyistooshorttomention

Now I do like it when I see the words "bring food to share" on something - provided they also say it must be vegetarian (which it does tend to do) and I feel there's a good chance that it's the type of gathering where the food will be healthy. I regard it as quite a sociable thing to do - and I'm looking out for any foods I've not tried yet.

Dinner tonight was another try-out from one of my latest cookbooks - ie the Michael Gregor "How not to die" one.

So - vegetable unfried rice. Verdict - needs more "taste" - so I think I'd probably do it again - but with everything else I can think of flavourwise too (eg soya sauce and it feels like it needs something sweet - so maybe some raisins). Darn - I forgot the salt and pepper. Can't quite figure out why - but he doesnt put salt in recipes...so I add it.

mcculloch29

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's the only way to eat food.

I "don't share" ... and despise those that reach/grab/take as if it's a given that's "the norm". Or those that arbitrarily decide and spread all food out telling people everybody's sharing, without asking ....

I order/bring what I like ... and I don't like what others have/want/choose, so I'll rarely gain any benefit from any level of sharing.

Anybody not understanding it, see the Smithy clip from Gavin & Stacey when he turns up and they're ordering an indian....

One of my favourite clips, as you watch Nessa and Smithy bond over a shared love of not sharing,,,
Nessa is a wonderful comic creation, full of improbables, I loved it when John Prescott and Noel from Hear'Say turned up at her wedding-that-wasn't to Dave Coaches.

Back on topic.
I ordered some Asian foods mail order from Wing Yip, and did a really daft thing. I had a nibble from the seaweed 'slices' (actually ribbons) through the afternoon yesterday, I love seaweed, and have eaten carrageen moss as a nibble. Anyway, this isn't designed to be eaten as a nibble. It's meant to be thoroughly washed and used in soups.

The extra salt made me feel really yeuch _pale_ I missed my weekly night out at the live music club, and I still feel a bit sick, although I find it extremely hard to be sick.

This resistance is very useful on boats and ships, and was during pregnancies, but hasn't been over the last 24 hours.

So zilch cooking here.

I have some energy drink powder, and have been flushing the salt from my system with that, plus black Nespressos.

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Now I do like it when I see the words "bring food to share" on something - provided they also say it must be vegetarian (which it does tend to do) and I feel there's a good chance that it's the type of gathering where the food will be healthy. I regard it as quite a sociable thing to do - and I'm looking out for any foods I've not tried yet.

When you know up front that's fine. But it's often thrust upon you, without warning or consultation. Imagine if you were told to "bring something to eat", then when you got there it was grabbed off you and you were told "we're sharing" and it was plonked on a table amid a pile of meaty pies .... and before you knew it some fat fingered oik'd grabbed a big pile of your little bit of food .... not even noticing/caring it was veggie - and that was the only thing on the table you could eat ... except somebody took it out of your dish and plonked it on the same dish as the sausages on sticks!

It most often happens at, say, a chinese/indian restaurant.... where you only like ONE dish ... and have only come with enough money for your one dish - and then suddenly it's a "free for all" of sharing and split the bill ... with a raft of King Prawn and beef dishes laid out in front of you and you're asked for 3x the amount of money you've got in your pocket

Irenadler

Hey all

Been knocking around in RL so playing catch up tonight...:)

Wish I had something exciting to report, but, the dog throwing up on the carpet has been the highlight....!

Or is that lowlight.

Yesterday's menu:
Mr P with Mrs B
Hoisin duck with singapore noodles/veg (YS ready meal nuked)
Chicken salad sandwiches, yogurt and meringue mash up with plums (YS)

Today's menu:
P & B
Pulled pork with mustard sauce, mash, beans and carrots (YS ready meal, nuked)
Wholemeal toast, greek yogurt

Feeling a bit cream-crackered today. Lots of running about over the last couple of days feeling like I didn't get a lot done/achieved but needs must. Hoping that everyone is feeling better and looking forward to pancake Tuesday....

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I'm having a bit of a mope- vertigo walloped again this afternoon and I'm feeling pretty drained. I think it's time for a GP appointment as it hasn't been this unstable for a while so need to get my BP checked and an inner ear infection eliminated. I've avoided going to the Dr as I tend to end up in hospital for monitoring which is PITA so if I disappear for a bit that will be what's happened. Dinner tonight will be something I can either bung in the oven or nuke so veggie pasta is on hold for the time being.