Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Up at daft o'clock today, bit of a sore throat now developing:( i'll see how it goes but I've loads of bottles & packets of "stuff" LO from last winter so I'll survive. Still feeling OK so far

Usual breakfast, and it's only just getting light outside

I'll be going into town later, need spuds, odds & ends plus a mooch, and top the car up before budget day, just in case

I fancy a pork chop, maybe push the boat out in W/rose but things can change once YS hove into view

Brambling wrote: »

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:

Save me slice please:D

I'm not one for hugs, a married in rellie is French so I get uninvited cheek kisses:o, 3 is for family I'm told, I always get it wrong

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I hope the lurgy doesn't progress Farway, mine is showing no sign of going away yet:(

I do love a bit of "proper" quiche, a garden centre near where I used to have to go sometimes for work did fantastic ones, well worth the money:). I do make the odd one, quite often after Christmas when I have cream and bits hanging about.
It's back to wet & grey here and quite chilly though it's to get much colder from tomorrow for a few days (-1C on Sunday :eek:). I must get my fuschias and geraniums under cover before the freezing temperatures hit.
I've a few adminy things I need to do before heading to a meeting early evening. Dinner will depend on what time I get back. Lunch will be the remaining mushroom soup and a salad wrap.

Novice_investor101

Good afternoon, everyone!
I'm on a day off work, so having a lazy day.
I've a pork chop out of the freezer for tonight's tea, with maybe some roast spuds & veg & apple sauce.
Thinking of making a HM pizza for lunch. I use a white pitta as the base, works quite well, & they can be frozen easily.

The cold turned out to be more like sniffles. But it's definitely getting colder. Nice & sunny, but I think it'll be chilly when the sun goes down.

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I do love a bit of "proper" quiche, a garden centre near where I used to have to go sometimes for work did fantastic ones, well worth the money...

My past experiences of a variety of quiches would have always said that a garden centre one was best, although I probably only ever had one there as garden centres weren't cheap places to eat and I was never a garden centre person (still am not).

Some works' canteens churned out a "fair" one. Pub grub tended to be better than a works' canteen.

My mum used to buy a lot of simple £1 supermarket own brand quiches, usually ham/cheese ones, in her latter years. They were easy to buy and eat, so she did get through about one a week. But, when you compare what you get.... they never hit the spot do they.

I remember, about 10-15 years ago, you could get a really good range of quiche flavours in supermarket chiller cabinets - but I think they fell out of favour, so now there is a very very limited range in the cheap ones... and even the very very pricey ones aren't enticing... I want a good honest 1970s style one

I did make a couple last year ... and enjoyed them.... but it'd be nice to be able to get a hefty hot wedge placed on a plate, with a good side portion of chips ... such as in a pub would offer. When I was a "lady who lunched" earlier in the week the specials board said they had a quiche, under the vegetarian section, but they didn't say which flavour it was (CBA to ask) ... but I suspect it would have been mushroom as the menu was quite mushroom heavy in places - and I don't like/eat mushrooms.

PasturesNew

Slovenly CFO Alert!

2-3 days ago I made some mash, the last of the spuds.... and it made two portions, so I popped the 2nd portion into a mug in the fridge.

I nuked that, added a small knob of marg and some cheddar .... and ate it with a fork directly from the mug.

bouicca21

Money, I once had an email ping back to me - 3 years after it had been sent! It had presumably been wandering the universe ...

Farway

Back home, much colder out, today was woolly hat & gloves, plus big warm jacket. I'm now in winter plumage until Spring

The pork chop plan fell at the YS challenge in Iceland, 5% fat mince, YS half price, bought two packs

I was in Iceland on a spending mission, I've got one of their bonus cards and if I spend over a tenner three times in next few weeks they bung me a fiver on it, in time for Christmas

With a bit of planning I can spend a tenner in there without spending for spending sake, today was d/w tablets on offer @ 9.50,plus the mince. DW tablets I need, and they keep for ever anyway

I had thought of using some of the mince for a lunchtime burger, but in the end CBA and had another corned beef & beetroot sandwich

One pack of mince in the freezer.
The other pack I've used for a savoury mince thingy, in the oven in my fake L's Le Creuset [sp?] pot

I may add some dumplings to it later, today is def a something hot & glutinous with dumplings day

Farway

bouicca21 wrote: »

Money, I once had an email ping back to me - 3 years after it had been sent! It had presumably been wandering the universe ...

:rotfl: Probably stuck in GCHQ for a bit

moneyistooshorttomention

bouicca21 wrote: »

Money, I once had an email ping back to me - 3 years after it had been sent! It had presumably been wandering the universe ...

This is what I assumed - ie whenever I've sent emails out to what turned out to be an invalid "address" they've pinged back instantly afaik.

In the course of my googling - I discovered that my own provider (which may well be his as well) have the facility to type out an email and then put it on "delay" until one actually decides to send it. So his "I've sent emails to you" might just be truth-stretching - ie that he typed them, but has deliberately not sent them yet.

I managed to get written price for the job I want out of him by sending him a text from a mobile phone he didn't know I had to his mobile phone.

Which was followed by him saying "I'll text you later today (ie yesterday) or phone you (ditto yesterday) when I can check my diary". That was yesterday - its now nearly 3pm today:cool::cool:

So - "Truth" as a rather elastic concept again then:cool:. So I know roughly when he will be doing it - but I was told "you'll be told an exact date today (ie yesterday)".

It does seem to take some people ages to realise I take people exactly/precisely at their word and many never get the message that I do:cool:

Back to a pile of tissues (yep...our group cold is doing really well at the moment here...) and a book about another country (wondering if they're more truthful than the average Brit. is.....). Who wants the cold? - it must be about time to pass it on to another thread member by now.

Didnt make the dancing today - I feel too drained with fighting off this cold...

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway wrote: »

:rotfl: Probably stuck in GCHQ for a bit

Errrr....thanks...I think....:rotfl: