Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I didn't expect to get up this morning to see snow on the ground:eek:, it's more or less away now and it seems as though we have storm due to arrive overnight!
I am tired today after gallivanting yesterday so happy to have a day indoors pottering.:)
I need to think about my meal plan between now and my son arriving on Saturday, I'll have a rake through the fridge to see if anything needs using up and take it from there.

wort

The cat was Mia, and I spent the morning looking for him. Blimey it's chilly out there.
Just about to ring the vet and cancel, when I spotted his face at the door. Used stealth to get him in his carrier. Where he proceeded to meow pitifully the whole time, we were out. He sounded like he was saying where are you!!

back home and it's now raining and windy. I brought the washing in and had a chicken salad roll for lunch. I'm off to home bargains with my sister in a while. Then back for a shower ready to go out tonight.
I think I've ordered soup then braised brisket of beef with garlic mash and red wine jus. Just what's needed when it's cold out! Will need to remember to take a gfree bun for my soup.

I'm back to work tomorrow, I've got Spanish omelette to take for lunch which I can warm in micro, then a rice pud pot.

Farway

Thanks Meg & Caron for meaty links, advertorials or not.
I've bookmarked the sites & all look promising but I'll have a proper look later, and check if they deliver dahn sarf

Turned into wet old day, tipping down

Into L's first thing, needed real stuff, like eggs & lettuce, rest was impulse items
I found L's own brand cheat Instant whip, 29p, thought I'd try that, and own brand dried yeast, got some of that, should I go mad over Christmas and bake a loaf in the BM

Mainly looking for YS idea for dinner, found super YS down to 20p clear out, sushi, plus tuna & sweetcorn + salad bowl

Now the sushi is not something I would normally buy, but at 20p I'm just a sucker, especially as it was 1.99, which I'd never pay . Bought 2 packs, plus the salad bowl. 60p for a day's meal items,very MSE today

Lunch was one of the sushi party packs, very nice, plus lump of bread pud

For dinner it'll be the tuna salad bowl I'll add a baked spud, and maybe more salad depending what it looks like

Which leaves one sushi on standby for later

Message from JL, freezer arriving between 8.30 & 10.30 tomorrow morning, space cleared & ready to receive

PasturesNew

OMG my cheese mac was utterly perfect. Better than a ready meal, but I do need to have milk in the house to make it -and- I need to remember "you could make a mac cheese with that", so I rarely get round to it.

I cooked the macaroni in a plastic pot, then poured the sauce into that ... and thought it'd be a waste of time tipping that into "a proper bowl", so just ate it from a plastic dish. Washing up's therefore just a plastic dish, 2 forks, 1 pyrex jug and the strainer... although as it only strained mac from water I rinsed that through immediately.... so very little washing up at all.

Out of cheese now, just left about 10g in the box to sprinkle on top of that chilli ... which might be served later, but I'm really over stuffed right now so can't even think about food....

Gutted I missed the L1dl cheap cheese weekend.... 4ldi never does cheap cheddar deals.

Frosty windscreens here first thing, it's rained since 8am though... it's "nearly dark" indoors with the cloud cover and rain.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Gutted I missed the L1dl cheap cheese weekend.... 4ldi never does cheap cheddar deals.

Ahh, I never knew it was cheap cheese weekend, I bought my L's super cheese deals on the Friday, must've gone on because it was the Black Friday weekend. If I'd known I would've bought 3 packs not two. BBE is late Jan so no problem keeping

Have you thought about getting a carton of UHT milk just for the time you fancy whatever but do not have milk in?
I uses UHT for my HM yogurt, as far as I can tell it makes difference in taste once "cooked" and I've tried them all from organic downwards
Asda is the cheapest surprisingly, crates of the stuff so must be popular

Large spud in baking, will warm the place up nicely

candygirl

Think I'm having potato n leek soup, with a cheese n onion toastie for tea:p Am starving today, no idea why

Farway

candygirl wrote: »

Think I'm having potato n leek soup, with a cheese n onion toastie for tea:p Am starving today, no idea why

That sounds lovely

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

... UHT milk ...

A throwback from the 1970s or so ... tried some once and it was utterly minging, never touched the stuff since.

I'd like some powdered milk... but never remember when I'm in the few shops that still sell it. When I've looked, I'm in a shop that doesn't sell it

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

A throwback from the 1970s or so ... tried some once and it was utterly minging, never touched the stuff since.

I'd like some powdered milk... but never remember when I'm in the few shops that still sell it. When I've looked, I'm in a shop that doesn't sell it

A throw back to the 1940s then?:):):)

Wednesday2000

I had a vegan cheese roll and some green tea this morning then got back into bed!

I got my husband to buy us both chips on his way home. I'm not even bothering to weigh myself until I'm better.:p

candygirl wrote: »

Just made potato, leek n onion soup.God it was good , even though I say so myself

That is just what I fancy!

Brambling wrote: »

Wednesday your cough is certainly lingering I agree with

I know, my husband had to go on a course for work and he said he kept coughing!:D He thought he was annoying everyone there.

caronc wrote: »

Thanks for asking. Much better thanks- my nose is still scabby and my cheek painful but the general yuk feeling has gone. Fingers crossed it won't flare back up - I'd rather not be a Rudolph impersonator at Christmas:rotfl:

That's good that you feel a bit better.x