Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Today I've scoffed for England....

I can remember:
toast/beans/scrambled eggs
2 hot sausage rolls
1 ready meal korma chicken curry & pilau rice
6 choc/cherry jaffas
several choccies

I believe that's it ... just call me biffer

moneyistooshorttomention

Caron - always fine with group hugs. But never mind - latest hug from A.N. Other was getting introduced to new social venue by new friend a couple of days back and promptly getting enveloped in a bear hug by person in charge.:rotfl: Seemed like a friendly place:rotfl:

But I'm pretty used to going to the sort of social thing where anyone and everyone hugs anyone and everyone else:rotfl:

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Today I've scoffed for England....

I can remember:
toast/beans/scrambled eggs
2 hot sausage rolls
1 ready meal korma chicken curry & pilau rice
6 choc/cherry jaffas
several choccies

I believe that's it ... just call me biffer

I don't think calorie wise excessive and at least 1 of your 5 a day;), I suspect my tally will probably be much the same though I've eaten quite differently. Calories in/calories used etc.:):cool:

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Caron - always fine with group hugs. But never mind - latest hug from A.N. Other was getting introduced to new social venue by new friend a couple of days back and promptly getting enveloped in a bear hug by person in charge.:rotfl: Seemed like a friendly place:rotfl:

But I'm pretty used to going to the sort of social thing where anyone and everyone hugs anyone and everyone else:rotfl:

I'm not a big "social" hugger especially when it's someone I've just met. Don't get me wrong I love a hug with my kids & folk close to me but always feel a bit awkward when I don't know the person. :)It seems to be more and more common so I just put up with it, wouldn't put me off joining or gettting to know someone IFYSWIM.:D

PasturesNew

Anybody who knows me knows ... do NOT come closer than 3' when we meet.... NEVER hug me. Not for any reason... ever.

Brambling

I think because both my grandfathers survived WW1 but were affected for the rest of their lives it wasn't really talked about, the first I knew my dads dad nearly starved as a POW in the salt mines was when my dad told a teacher when I was 16, I knew he was a POW but that's all. When my sister started on the family tree 15 years ago she asked me to look up my uncle on the war graves website, when I asked her if she wanted me to look up our great uncle from WW1 I got a blank look, i only knew about him from a childhood conversation with mum about how she named us and she said my dad wanted to name my brother after my uncle but she said it was an unlucky name as my great uncle had the same name and both had died in wars.

Recently I was with 3 of my sisters and the two oldest ones were talking about their childhood and mentioned how my mums dad would hide under the stairs when it thundered, because of his time in France, and he was behind the line as a blacksmith. My sister recently shared family history information with her local museum as they were collecting stories about the men who made it home from WW1. Hope you have a good day tomorrow Flubberzing

Money the way the cold seems to be spreading around the CFOs I think there may have been too many group hugs already :rotfl:

Lunch today was quiche and salad, the quiche qtr was found whilst rummaging in the freezer Dinner needed to be quick so was jacket potato with tuna. So not much cooking today :rotfl:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

I'm not a big "social" hugger especially when it's someone I've just met. Don't get me wrong I love a hug with my kids & folk close to me but always feel a bit awkward when I don't know the person. :)It seems to be more and more common so I just put up with it, wouldn't put me off joining or gettting to know someone IFYSWIM.:D

I'm the same, two things that annoy me people I don't really know hugging me without asking and people I've just met using the shorten version of my name when I've introduced myself by the long version, that's for family and close friends only :mad:

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

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About 12 years ago, I don't remember how it happened, I was in touch with my mother's cousin. I'd been a bridesmaid at her wedding and she'd married a GI and gone to the US. I set up a one-off dodgy quality video chat between her and mum. She comes to the UK every year, so she then dropped in to see mum and quiz her about what she knew; mum managed to fill a gap she had.

She gave me a copy of her gedcom file and I used that to double check against... her focus was mostly on her father (who died when she was about 7) and he's nothing to do with me. She'd done a bit on her mother's side. Her grandmother was my gt-grandmother, so that's the line I followed up ... then across .... then down.... and I discovered a WW1 survivor who had written a diary. When he'd died it was just bundled up/kept in a cupboard, then when his widow died the book was finally within their reach and so "re-discovered" and published. They'd know it existed, but couldn't touch it sooner, although the widow died in 1987, so they still sat on it for 30 years. He was one of those soldiers who hid a secret camera, so there are lots of photos of him/his mates in the book. Soldiers were banned from having cameras as photos were getting into the magazines/newspapers about stories the War Dept were hushing up.

I emailed my relative in the States to say "Hey - this book - this man's in our tree" - and she had no idea as she'd gone straight up the line and never bothered to follow anybody's downline!

Brambling wrote: »

Lunch today was quiche and salad, the quiche qtr was found whilst rummaging in the freezer Dinner needed to be quick so was jacket potato with tuna. So not much cooking today :rotfl:

It is always a pity that quiche you buy (cheapish) ... is never as lovely as those tall, fat, gooey slices you get in pub meals - although some of those can be disappointing. A bit of deep gooey quiche and chips used to be quite a staple "Pub Grub Meal" for about £4. Now it's all about wholemeal pastry and organic locally sourced ingredients ... and you're charged £15 (or not .... I just go without and put the menu down).

Brambling

My sister found sitting the older members of the family together and steering them in the right direction jogged their memories, one would have half a memory about someone and another would remember another bit . Although there were a couple of aunts / great aunts in their mid 90s who refused to talk about family history, probably due to secrets which today mean nothing but you couldn't say that to them :cool: unfortunately family stories then died with them.

Funny enough the best stories came when she got my mum and a cousin of my dad sat down together with afternoon tea she was nearly 90 and he was 94 but they were a mine of local and family information

Our Local farm shop does a lovely thick tasty quiche, I just begrudge paying £4 a slice for it, couple times I picked some up half price. Our course if I cba I would make my own

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

.... the older members of the family

That's me in my tree

Brambling wrote: »

Our Local farm shop does a lovely thick tasty quiche, I just begrudge paying £4 a slice for it, couple times I picked some up half price. Our course if I cba I would make my own

Yes, begrudge it .....

Those deli ones in supermarkets never look much cop do they. Better than the boxed £1-1.50 8" quiches... but still not a lot of cop.

It's not so much that I CBA ... well, it is .... but it also, in part, comes down to quantities and variety of ingredients. If you buy all the stuff in, then try to make it "for 1-2" you've got all this stuff leftover to use up in some way or other. And, those gooey ones do tend to have a bit of cream in them, but I don't like/use cream, so never keen on going down the "buy cream" route just to get a nice/deep/gooey one just like how they used to be made.

Brambling

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, begrudge it .....

Those deli ones in supermarkets never look much cop do they. Better than the boxed £1-1.50 8" quiches... but still not a lot of cop.

It's not so much that I CBA ... well, it is .... but it also, in part, comes down to quantities and variety of ingredients. If you buy all the stuff in, then try to make it "for 1-2" you've got all this stuff leftover to use up in some way or other. And, those gooey ones do tend to have a bit of cream in them, but I don't like/use cream, so never keen on going down the "buy cream" route just to get a nice/deep/gooey one just like how they used to be made.

The last one I made was 18 months ago, the first one in about 25 years, I offered to help a friend with the funeral tea when her mum died and she asked me to make a large vegetarian quiche, I don't expect to make another anytime soon :rotfl: