Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

wort wrote: »

Sounds like some tasty meals !
I had jacket potato and cheese with salad of lettuce tomato onion peppers and sun blush tomato.
Had a few nachos with dgson, and finished with a slice of gf 'lemon drizzle cake that I got Y'S today. I've sliced ti and kept 3 pieces out 3 pieces gone in freezer.

That all sounds pretty tasty to me, I love lemon drizzle cake....:D

karcher

I'm hungry and tired.

I so wish I had a. another to go make me some food *sighs*

Hollyharvey

karcher wrote: »

I'm hungry and tired.

I so wish I had a. another to go make me some food *sighs*

I so agree with this. Just lately I've increasingly felt that I would like to go out to eat, even on my own, just so that I don't have to cook!

I've had sausages, mash and baked beans this evening for dinner. The mash was from the freezer so just had to be nuked like the baked beans, and I cooked the sausaged on the George Foreman type grill, so not a lot of clearing up. It's real comfort food as well D).

Hollyharvey

caronc wrote: »

, I love lemon drizzle cake....:D

Same here . Mind you, I really like cake, full stop .

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karcher wrote: »

I'm hungry and tired.

I so wish I had a. another to go make me some food *sighs*

me too, even a mug of tea in bed would do

I had 1 adult and 2 children stay last night, here until pm today. Was so shattering and they ate all the sausage rolls I put out for yesterday, wolfed them in fact. I never ate one, stuck to my quickly defrosted veg soup with added seaweed and edamame pasta. I have had my porridge and prunes and am relishing this quiet time. The quiet is also an upside to being alone and I would rather have quiet than constant noise. Yes there are upsides

I am trying to stick to my normal food for me, its all very good for keeping my tum happy ie no heartburn. My lunch will be salad and beans mixed with quinoa from the fridge. They will have a cooked meal, children being fed first as dd will be back later, working locally. They loved the food last night, the slowly fried thick pre-steamed potato slices, the slowly baked apple crumble which developed a nice crispy top

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Hollyharvey wrote: »

I so agree with this. Just lately I've increasingly felt that I would like to go out to eat, even on my own, just so that I don't have to cook!
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The resonates with me too Holly

moneyistooshorttomention

Many (many!) years back I recall there was (rather temporarily in the event:() a cheap cafe with my sort of food that operated on a "pay as you feel" basis. That was nice to know of.

But I was used to a wide range of cheap cafes (with at least some of my sort of food) that I could go to. I have had very busy periods in my life - one in particular in fact - during which I pretty much gave up trying to cook a main meal for myself much of the time due to holding down 2 full-time jobs in effect (one for my employer and the other being voluntary work) and I had a couple of nearby cafes I often used to go in and just say "What are you feeding me today?" basically.

That was handy....

Much more limited choice here (ie now I've moved) and, for some reason (given this is a poorer area) they tend to be dearer:huh:. But there is one that has changed hands recently and I think the food should be more interesting and so will pay a visit and suss it out soon (had got bored with it after a few visits - as they never seemed to change the menu). Fingers crossed that new management does so....

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Yes someone to make me the odd meal and bring me a cuppa in the morning (and do some odd jobs) would be fab, but in between doing these can the go somewhere else! I'm definitely "the cat that walks by himself" these days.
Glad the family visit is going well Kittie.
I've never being a great one for routinely eating out. Yes lovely every so often but in the main I've always preferred spending the cash on making something fab at home. Too often if out I end up thinking "I could have made that better than they have".
It's cold and misty here this morning and there has been quite a lot of rain overnight. If it brightens up later I might see if I'm steady enough to walk to the end of the street, if not I think I'll be happy enough indoors.
Tesco arriving later so will be restocked with fresh stuff for another wee while. My veg drawer was getting decidedly uninspiring.....

caronc

MTSTM - found this column and thought of you https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/the-new-vegan

Farway

Dull, damp and grey day. Forecast is grotty all day

Pot of tea to start the day, with HM yoghurt & honey later

Just the day for grabbing my now defrosted on offer beef chunks and making a slow cooker beef stew thingy.
I've added the good bits from a mouldy onion, with some of the YS swede, and a YS Xmas spud, plus on offer carrots & offer mushrooms, plus real bay leaf from tree that I planted in my volunteering garden. All very MSE and I hope tasty

I hope to plop in some dumplings later, using my ready mixed dumpling stash, copy-write PN.

Lunch will be a couple of my YS micro pork pies, with Piccalilli

The only exercise today is likely to be potting up some newly bought hardy geraniums in the conservatory, I've always liked them but not grown them since I was about 10 I guess.