Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

.... leftover onions and peppers in passata in the fridge to use up ....

That was pretty much what I felt my meatballs were missing as a starting point .... onions/peppers, tomato sauce.... which is why I used ketchup, as the sauce.... same stuff, different name

Farway

First real hard frost this morning, but bright & sunny to sart withm downhill since

Into L's for mooching and bits, needed mushrooms for my chicken soup, the rest was "stuff" no super duper YS today except some plastic ham slices which are not for me

Lunch was mini pizza previously YS & frozen ready for just a day like today

Chicken soup is now bubbling away, smells nice anyway
The intention is the HM soup with bread dunked in, very CFO & CBA today

I've got a few slices of chicken left & LO stuffing for a sarnie maybe tomorrow. Checked up, seems cooked stuffing works OK for freezing, may do that with any excess post sarnie

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do... LOADS of it ... but it'd slipped my mind as I've never, before, had mash in the freezer

You need a spread sheet PN:D

PasturesNew

Well, that's now down the hatch - and it was lovely.

Start to serving 3 hours
Couldn't wait longer....
2 more portions left in the SC, I've left it on and will get those out a bit later.

Did "piggy portions" of four meatballs to my portion.... served on spaghetti.

It was dead nice. Glad I did that, it got rid of an almost empty ketchup bottle (you know that last bit that's jammed inside the bottle.... well I swooshed it out with a splash of hot water)....

moneyistooshorttomention

Second time around - and it was that aubergine and tomato bake and rice. Still nice as a second one. I'd use the goats cheese specified (ie instead of the quark I actually did use - courtesy of being on a diet) ideally - but still tasty.

Decided I'd better make a start on using up packets of silk tofu I have. Had to order a box of them from Amazon - as silk tofu wasn't on sale anywhere here. I did see some the other day - but it's not organic (so I wouldnt buy it anyway - because of avoiding g.m. food). So - I decided to try an idea I'd read for some of it. The idea being blitz up mango, strawberries and silken tofu. Had to substitute blackberries for the strawberries - as I didnt have any. It does really need to be strawberries (or I should/could have blitzed the blackberries longer). But it was nom nom. Would be fine for either breakfast or a pudding for non-diet purposes with other "bits and bobs" (such as home-made granola and/or chia seeds or other seeds). Could also use my healthy choc chips I sometimes buy. Will remember that for future reference.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I've had a very quiet day as really not feeling like moving very much. I've got done what I need to get done for them coming tomorrow so that's something. Did make a rather nice overpayment on my mortgage as I've started a "new" overpayment allowance wise - still a way to go but it's getting there and hopefully done by the time I'm 60 (sooner if I can manage it):D

Earlier talk of mash (how did you get on with the frozen mash Farway?) has given me a notion for some. Luckily I've a couple of portions in the freezer. One of those with some broccoli and probably peas with the remaining chicken and a spot of instant gravy will do me just fine for dinner. I cba sorting out pot veg to make stock so the carcass will get popped in the freezer. for just now.

Brambling

PasturesNew wrote: »

....Those things will haunt me!

Those potatoes have been the gift that keeps on giving :rotfl: I did wonder when you said you had brought 4kg

Real frost this morning, although due to the rain last night it was ice on the car and not frost brrr I was halfway to work before I got feeling back in my fingers, I must look out my gloves

Another day and another call with IT this one 30 minutes, his name was Sven and he was as much use as a chocolate teapot :mad: so tomorrow the Dell engineer is coming back. I told Sven my hours are 9-5 so the engineer is coming between 8 - 1 :cool: I do get to work by 8.30am to miss the traffic but that's not the point, so tomorrow I'm doing 8-4 and she will probably arrive at 1pm :cool: it's a new laptop so still under warranty, I was told if I had damage it, even if a screw was missing it wouldn't be covered, :huh: goodness knows what he thinks I've been doing with it, although it was nearly dropped out of a fifth floor window :eek::rotfl: my colleagues ignored my written requests for gin it seems 9am was too early :rotfl:

I was good lunchtime and ignored the good reductions at the meat counter in W*itrose, I don't need to cram anything else in the freezer, I did wander back and fore a couple of times but finally found my willpower and stuck to my little list of fruit and veg. Lunch was LO Nasi Goreng and dinner was going to be pizza but I couldn't find the small one I brought last week, it wasn't in a box so only thin, I intended to add toppings to the tomato and cheese. I searched the fridge and freezer, after I discovered something else for dinner I looked again and found it down the back of a freezer drawer :cool: I must redo the freezer audit and follow Caroncs method of sticking it on the door. Dinner was a fishcake I found with green beans and purple sprouting

Wednesday2000

I used my trampoline yesterday for the first time in ages and I was stuffing my face afterwards. I had forgotten how hungry proper exercise can make me. I had the soup, 2 sandwiches, some pickled onions and then about 8 squares of dark chocolate in the evening.:o

You are meant to be dieting dear!!!:rotfl:

PasturesNew wrote: »

That was pretty much what I felt my meatballs were missing as a starting point .... onions/peppers, tomato sauce.... which is why I used ketchup, as the sauce.... same stuff, different name

Ketchup is always a tasty addition, lots of flavour in there.:cool:

Novice_investor101

Back up to normal eating now
& Logging all my calories again. Weight has dropped from 57.3kg to 56.7kg in about 3 days. Most probably due to food poisoning....

Made myself ham salad sandwich for lunch/tea & a mini twirl choc. Breakfast was coffee.

It is tipping it down here. Grey & miserable. Has been for what feels like weeks. Walk to work will be dull....

PasturesNew

Today I'll have a portion of the meatballs I cooked yesterday .... with spaghetti again as that's the easiest/quickest.

In an ideal world I'd go out to the shops and bring back food ... like oven chips. In the real world, I don't need more food and it's a nit nippy/damp so I don't fancy it.

wort

Just had an early lunch of beans on toast. As I'm in work shortly, I will take an apple rice pud, for my break.
I've got a salmon fillet my lovely sister brought round for me, I'm having that for tea with wedges and carrots maybe a a slightly bendy cauli piece!!