Cooking for one (Mark Three)

bouicca21

I won't join the breakfast pizza club (yuk), but any openings in the grumpy old git one? Was at the Royal Festival Hall recently and the number of people standing up and brandishing their phones to take pics and recordings with flash was unbelievable. Plus someone sitting near me was checking his phone throughout the concert. Absolutely no consideration for anyone else.

Novice_investor101

Most Xmas days these last 20years I've bought all the "party" type food like pigs in blankets, big prawns in batter, spring rolls etc baked cheese dips, cheese & crackers, desserts etc & had those for food on Xmas day & boxing day - instead of a roast meal.
Means I'll have about 4-5 mini meals that I nibble on but get to try all the special Xmas stuff that I'll never eat any other time of the year - I can eat a roast dinner & veggies any day. I'll probably do that again this year. I always budget £20 to get some "fun" stuff to eat over Xmas.

Since I've refused to go out & get wet, I've done an inventory of the freezer. It's quite full. I want to batch cook curries, pasta bakes, chilli, beef stew, lasagne but 1st I'll need freezer space to put in (& some Tupperware).
So the next 3 weeks will be spent working my way down the "junk" in the freezer, like microwave pizza & oven chips.

Currently defrosting (on a metal tray ) some of that reduced to clear cooked chicken I got from T a few weeks ago to go into a curry, with chickpeas & spinach. Two portions - one today & one tomorrow.

candygirl

Just been out for bread, cheese, pizza n crisps .So much for the spiralizer salad :rotfl: I'm using the horrid weather as an excuse;)

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

My last two XCFOs:

2017 Dinner: https://i.postimg.cc/Mp7FQnr6/2017-Dinner.jpg
Dropped a lot of the previous veggies and made a nut roast from scratch too.

I remember that bit, I think I bought one, and from memory neither of us were over joyed with the finished product

Dinner decided, gone for full on roast, and found some frozen parsnips presumably LO from 2017 Xmas:o That's why I need a spreadsheet this time round:)

Not sure I'll have room in the roaster for parsnips, I'm roasting some of the free sprouts and space may be tight

Made a start on the Xmas & freezer shopping, on line
My Iceland order arrives AM tomorrow, bunged some mini yorkies in there, made up total for free delivery with things like tin foil * mince pies:D

My meat order is from local farmers outlet, click & collect.
Went mad and ordered some pork chops, pannage? from loose pigs in new Forest, been scoffing all the acorns, ultimate recycling, plus lamb chops from South Downs.

Sort of Christmas spend and at least I know the animals were walking around in the fresh air and grassland before they met their end

candygirl

Novice_investor101 wrote: »

Most Xmas days these last 20years I've bought all the "party" type food like pigs in blankets, big prawns in batter, spring rolls etc baked cheese dips, cheese & crackers, desserts etc & had those for food on Xmas day & boxing day - instead of a roast meal.
Means I'll have about 4-5 mini meals that I nibble on but get to try all the special Xmas stuff that I'll never eat any other time of the year - I can eat a roast dinner & veggies any day. I'll probably do that again this year. I always budget £20 to get some "fun" stuff to eat over Xmas.

Since I've refused to go out & get wet, I've done an inventory of the freezer. It's quite full. I want to batch cook curries, pasta bakes, chilli, beef stew, lasagne but 1st I'll need freezer space to put in (& some Tupperware).
So the next 3 weeks will be spent working my way down the "junk" in the freezer, like microwave pizza & oven chips.

Currently defrosting (on a metal tray ) some of that reduced to clear cooked chicken I got from T a few weeks ago to go into a curry, with chickpeas & spinach. Two portions - one today & one tomorrow.

I also like party food, albeit veggie stuff, n like the big boxes of Indian samosas n bhajis from Iceland, along with dips, salad etc

Farway

OK Novice & CC, I'm convinced, this year I'll get some party food nibbles in, but not too soon or I'll have to do it all again in a couple of weeks

I was right, no room for parsnips, but now I know they are there I can shuffle them in to a meal

Just tried a slice of the FR chicken, excellent, looking forward to dinner now, only need gravy granules sorting because the packet of stuffing I "knew" I had I haven't:(
Luckily some ordered from Iceland big shop, so OK for tomorrow with maybe a chicken & stuffing salad?

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Glad you're feeling better Wednesday:)

Savoury hot party nibbles I daren't have them in the house as I can eat far too many of them and then still manage to squeeze in a few more:o.

My son wont get here until 7ish and I think he's got a notion for a takeaway of some description. I'm happy to go with that as I've not one for a couple of months if not longer.:) With pizza last night it's turning into not the most healthy of weekends.

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew - I've been asked by someone to pass on a short private message to you.

So I typed it and pushed "send".

Can you clear some of your inbox please - as the MSE site told me you'd exceeded your quota of stored messages.

Novice_investor101

Curry is simmering away - I've made far too much.... More like 4 portions, big ones.... Everytime I cook from scratch I always batch cook to have some for later & can't seem to figure out how to make just one serving....!
Since I've used cooked chicken that was previously frozen & then defrosted I'm assuming I can't now refreeze portions of the curry?

I'm planning on decanting it into my round pyrex dish with a lid & having it for tomorrow's tea & Mondays work lunch/tea (back on 8pm finishes) with rice. Guessing it'll be ok to keep for a couple of days in the Fridge. Curry overload

candygirl

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

PasturesNew - I've been asked by someone to pass on a short private message to you.

So I typed it and pushed "send".

Can you clear some of your inbox please - as the MSE site told me you'd exceeded your quota of stored messages.

How mysterious :rotfl: