Cooking for one (Mark Three)

candygirl

Going to Home Bargains today, so will prob find some food goodies:p I get my lazy garlic n chilli there for only 59p each! Saves a lot of chopping n faffing. Also usually get noodles , naan breads n soft drinks.
Tea tonight will be cheese n onion pie, green beans n veggie gravy
PN I've not counted my doors yet :eek::rotfl:

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Caron, hope the FR pork chop is tasty, prompted me to check on the huge pannage ones I bought last week, they were over £6 each:eek:. They get priced up as they are prepped, £16.36 Kg, but my choice, I wanted FR and ethical so willing to pay for it

Cor that sounds like a real feast mine's tiddler in comparison at a "mere" 250g :rotfl:

flubberyzing wrote: »

I was meant to be working today... My agency phoned me yesterday evening, could I go to one of my favourite schools? Of course I said yes. Then woke up to a text, sorry, they've cancelled. Oh well. I'm expecting work to be trailing off now, in the lead-up to Christmas.
And with the toe... Perhaps it's for the best.

Probably not a bad thing, will give the toe a chance to heal:)

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's surprising just how doors can accumulate sometimes.

I know I think they breed at night!:rotfl:
I've six in my small hall then there's a storm door on the front porch, upstairs 3, a cupboard in the living room and the kitchen/ conservatory has 1 + patio doors not including cupboards & units....:eek:


I've had a fairly productive morning, hall has been damp dusted and I gave the living room another quick wipe down. Groceries arrived and have been put away, just the stove to set up and then I'm for a sit down while some eggs are boiling. Might leave making stew until later in the week as have run out of oomph and it has a decent "use by".

Wednesday2000

I think I have about 9 doors if I counted correctly.:rotfl: Quite a lot for a small house.

I'm waiting for my husband to get in before I go out for a walk. He has a day off today. I have to buy a card, some washing up liquid and get some cash out as I need to give someone money as they bought me a ticket for something next year.

I think I might make oven chips from the potatoes in the fridge and have them with Quorn fish fingers and peas when I get home. That is what I feel like at the minute anyway.

PasturesNew

1.20pm .... finally mustered enough enthusiasm and energy to put two pieces of sliced bread into the toaster

Breakfast became lunch ....

It was hunger that finally drove me to do it .....

flubberyzing

Christmas cards are done! Just need to ask the address for a cousin that "I think" moved over the summer (our contact is limited to Christmas cards now), and if I hear back before I head out to tutoring at 7ish, I'll post them all then. That's a good job done.

Had a sandwich, banana and crisps for a slightly later than normal lunch. Not sure what time I'll have dinner. I'll assess how hungry I am, when it gets to around 5:30. Tutoring is at 7:30 tonight... Never normally do it that late, but will as a one-off, and the traffic will be lots lighter by that time, so should certainly be a quicker run over there than normal.

Farway

The fried egg yet again become a one egg omelette, must be old eggs or weakling chickens, never had so many yolks breaking before

Not a huge problem, same calories and nutrients, just a big kid I like spreading a runny yolk over the bread:o

LO stew out and ready to nuke for dinner

Could be cheese & fresh apple nibbles later in the evening

PasturesNew

Had an early tea Toasted cheese sandwich .... it would've been a toasted cheese and caramelised onion chutney one (been delving through jars in the fridge and that one's still in there from last Xmas) ... but it'd have involved twisting the lid off and getting a teaspoon of chutney out, which was more effort than I was prepared to put into it

Bread's got just two days remaining, so I decanted four slices into a square lidded plastic box ... and put the remaining half a loaf in the freezer.

Freezer must be close to officially stuffed now!

I need to eat some of that freezer stuff.... those small Yorkshires will be a start, they're not much cop ... but 3 meals' worth... have to keep those in mind every day...

wort

I had a lovely afternoon yesterday, I had leek and potato soup, then had sirloin steak, with chips and veg. I wanted peppercorn sauce but was told it wasn't gfree! So asked if any were gfree, and was told the surf and turf sauce,so I ordered that not really knowing what was in it!. The gravy boat arrived full to the brim with king prawns,slithers of steak and baby tomatoes, and a thin gravy!!! I could have had that on its own!!!!
. I had the other cheese and bacon tart later . Then had to fast ready for my diabetes test today.
I've been to asda to get the beef joints whilst on offer. They are lage and I was able to split them into 3 pieces.
Dgson is here and we're having gfree breaded chicken fillets with garlic mash which I'm finishing under the grill to get a crispy top on it. Carrots and broccoli.
Mince pie and cream for me. Dgson has a custard from patisserie Valerie that my dd1 sent for him.

Novice_investor101

Ah, nuts! I really like nuts. But they're expensive. Esp my favourites like pine nuts & cashew nuts. Might add a pack or two to my XCFO nibbles platter... Can't decide if I fancy a but of meat on the day, now.
When I was in T I noticed they had big joints of beef which were supposed to be on offer. Never thought to get one & then cut it up into smaller pieces & freeze it. Might have a look at that & a pork joint too. In my local little T they're always reducing those huge joints - I need to stock up!

Looked at the cheeses for baking / fondue. They've a cheddar & wine one & a brie or camembert in a nice round ceramic pot - but again too expensive for what it is. They'd take up a quarter of my £20 budget.

Brambling

Pine nuts are a guilty pleasure toasted and sprinkled over salads or pasta or mixed with spinach and feta and wrapped in filo . And walnuts and honey in Greek yogurt for a summer breakfast

To be honest I'm another nutter :rotfl: I eat most but can take or leave hazelnuts they were the ones always left in the bottom of the bowl at Christmas when we were kids

There's been too many 'naughty' foods in the office today and I've no willpower it's also been a bad day a colleague from Dubai brought a big container of baklava and kept saying you must try this one its Syrian and this ones from Turkey etc. Another colleague brought back Christmas cookies from the states . It would have been rude not to try :rotfl:

When I got home I could hear the owl hooting from my neighbours tree I couldn't see him but he had a lot to say it's the first time I've heard him this year, lovely to stand and listen to until I got told off by his lordship, not only was I over an hour late with his dinner but he had to come down the path and demand my attention as I wasn't moving fast enough :rotfl:

Lunch was the minestrone soup I made yesterday and very nice it was too worth the extra effort and healthy with 9 vegetables in it, I'm trying to justify the unhealthy options I've made today :rotfl:

I didn't leave work until after 6 and currently cba or maybe too full of sugar to get dinner which is really bad as I don't have to cook as I have LO pulled pork