Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

flubberyzing wrote: »

....I heard upstairs' toilet flushing, while I was also in the bathroom, at 10pm. So someone's alive up there!

Only ONE though .... but if you hear it 20x that's "disposal of small parts" going on

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Brambling - locally here there are a couple of non-profit projects that will uplift unwanted furniture which is then used to help folk moving out of homeless hostels etc. Could be worth checking if there is similiar in your area. Your local foodbank might know.
flubberyzing- glad was peaceful last night.:)
PN- keema curry sounds good, it's one of my favourites. Mind you I'm partial to meatballs as well.:)


Friends with pooches are due arrive soon so I've been rattling about having a quick tidy before they come. Spicy root veg soup for lunch and they are bringing some nice bread, I'm just going off to make a quick tomato & mozzarella salad and that should be us covered. I'm not sure about dinner tonight I was thinking naan pizza but now using the cheese for lunch. I'll decide later.:)

PasturesNew

Umming and aahing now - just remembered I still have some of yesterday's cheesy bread to eat.... and that'd go better with chilli.

Keema is probably now OFF the menu .... and chilli is on.

candygirl

Am cheating by going out for tea today.Fancy the veggie fish n chips aka battered halloumi, chips n mushy peas.Lush

Novice_investor101

So far today I've finished the painting... Nothing else achieved that was on my list. I've decided used to abandon going to T - I can cope with black coffee & I've about 2/3rds of a jar of red pesto to use up so work lunch will be pasta.

I used £30 of Amazon gift cards I received from work to buy a new thermos coffee flask 0.5l, & a thermos 0.47l food flask. The flask I'll use for walks at weekends : to take my own coffee to work - the vending machine is awful. & The food flask to take things lie stews & soups. I only get 30mins for lunch so by the time I've queued for the microwave/heated stuff up I don't have enough time to eat it...
Looking forward to hot lunches. Hoping I can put things like rice & chilli/curry in it.

PasturesNew

Starving, but daunted by the idea of going into the cold kitchen, to stand and jiggle containers/food about just to knock up a bit of food.... really looking for a ready meal solution... but I have no ready meals

Not even got any oven chips.

I am food fail. LOADS of food.... just don't fancy any of what I've got.

Maybe if I just start by slicing the onions I've got ... and bagging them up .... it might get easier.... maybe, having done that bit, I might just keep going....

Maybe ... I should dig out a second pack of mince from the freezer and just chuck all the chilli stuff in the SC and run .... that sounds like a plan.

I think that's the one. Packet of crisps for lunch - and chuck a chilli on

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl: at the thought I might have such a thing as a saw - or the physical strength to use it if I did:rotfl:

It's only a small 2 seater sofa and there's no flights of steps to front door. So my worst case analysis would be that I think I could manage to pull it out of my sitting room outside the house and I'd have to pay the local Council to take it away.

Supermarket trip this morning - and guess who forgot her shopping list. Oh well - and I think I've got enough "bits and pieces" in to do a stirfry for dinner tonight....

Still fed-up to back teeth with being on a diet at the moment (guesstimate is that I have a stone left to lose now)...so was saving for the future a free copy of "Eat more plants" - being a plant-based e-book I found this morning on https://www.thestonesoup.com

The virtue of this e-book is everything in it looks very quick and easy and the recipes are for 2 people (which, at least, is a great improvement on the standard 4 or more people that recipe books are usually for).

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

:rotfl: at the thought I might have such a thing as a saw - or the physical strength to use it if I did

Sawing is all about technique, not strength. Although the mental image is of a muscle-bound tall man sawing strongly into wood... the reality is that you can "let the saw do the work" - and if you just see it as "tickling the wood" the blade does just cut through. You do actually see it happening.... honest. Those beefy men that do it can saw through a 2x1" bit of wood in about 20 seconds flat, but 2-3 minutes of "tickling" does the trick too.

I just picked up "a cheap saw/any saw" from the nearest place that sold such things.

I figured a £5 spend and "give it a go, at least I'll end up with a saw" was worth a punt

With tools.... sometimes, too, it's just handy to own them. Sometimes you have a little job that needs doing and you mention it and somebody says "have you got a ... I could do that!", which is why I own a drill and a saw

PasturesNew

I now have 500g of mince in the SC ... and once that's fully thawed (half went in raw, half frozen), I'll chuck in the other stuff I've just sliced up: 3 small onions, 2 chillies, 8 cherry tomatoes (last of those).... also chucking in chilli powder, 1/3rd of a tin of beans I had in the fridge and a tin of cheap carrots.

Farway

Another dull day, nice cuppa before porridge breakfast

Then set to assembling a bread pudding, during which I found out what the spice jar I dropped & broke a week ago was, it was mixed spice:(
I have plenty of other spices so just bunged an assortment in. Jar of MS added to my next shopping list, at least this time of year there should be plenty around

Update on the pud, excellent, I had a couple of lumps post lunch

Lunch, fed up with constant cheese, opened tin of tuna, that plus onion & mayo in a sarnie

Dinner, thinking of using the tuna mix in a baked spud with salad, I think I should have some "proper" veg, there's always bread pud to fill any gaps;)

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think if I had two freezers and planned a "vast assortment" for an empty/2nd freezer I'd do a big shop at Iceland and Asda to really spread the choice and range.

That is my cunning plan PN, Iceland is def on list, 'cos they'll deliver free with my proposed spend, and I may get a big RM frozen shop from Cooks', not cheap but supposedly good and one fairly local to deliver

And I note L's have XXL rump steak coming up, I bought them last time & very nice they were, couple packs of them maybe

Money, your lights could just be a filament bulb gone "pop" which could trip breaker with a current surge

Sofa disposal, like Caron, there are charities around here take unwanted furniture, either sell it or give to furnish needy houses. Worth checking out