Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

candygirl wrote: »

I know you're all prob gonna think I'm weird, but I find cooking very therapeutic. Have just made carrot n coriander , n potato n leek soup, red lentil lasagne , n chick pea, spinach n potato curry.
Will freeze a lot of it, n give some to Mum n my friend.
All my recipes are very experimental, but tasty, n obvs all veggie ❤

Nope I don't think you're weird as I'm the same I cook to unwind and bake when I'm stressed. If I'm home on a Sunday afternoon I often have a cooking session which is probably why my freezer is full :think:

candygirl

Brambling wrote: »

Nope I don't think you're weird as I'm the same I cook to unwind and bake when I'm stressed. If I'm home on a Sunday afternoon I often have a cooking session which is probably why my freezer is full :think:

Haha glad I'm not on my own.I know some people love cleaning too, but not me :rotfl:

Brambling

candygirl wrote: »

Haha glad I'm not on my own.I know some people love cleaning too, but not me :rotfl:

Now loving cleaning :eek::eek: that I don't understand :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

Me neither - re loving cleaning:rotfl::rotfl:.

Cooking sessions I can understand - but cleaning:eek:. One of the reasons I like my house as logically organised as possible )and it's struck me that I don't have any pictures or ornaments at all basically) is it minimises cleaning. Admitted it would help on that front if I didn't have quite so many books....:rotfl:

Right now - I'm in the process of springcleaning (having decided it's logical living in an area with weather like this to confine springcleaning to depths of winter) and it's the kitchen's turn at the moment. Yep - I'm logical enough that I've got similar foods lined-up in a row (so all 6 things I use for sweetening all together) - just the white sugar (kept for other peoples drinks) in the drinks cupboard. That's part of what I mean by springcleaning - ie getting my house arranged in a time-and-motion conscious sort of way....

If anyone actually liked cleaning - I'd be more than happy to bribe them to do so with cooking up nice meals for them for doing so:)

Farway

My scales have groaned up a couple of pounds over Christmas, not worrying about it 'cos I know it'll come off when I stop eating XCFO sweets & cake

My only cooking yesterday was fry an egg:o

Nearest I've got to cleaning was open the chocolate orange my cleaners gave me for Christmas:D

Sunny out, had intended to go into town, but woke up late & CBA now, nothing really needed

I think my flat roofed porch is leaking, getting mould patches on ceiling:( New felt was fitted Oct 2011, so about due.
I may splurge out and get a sloped tile roof on the porch to replace the flat one, not sure, will depend on cost benefit analysis, for instance what are chances I will be around long enough to worry if replacement felt leaks in twelve years time?

Breakfast was porridge etc

Lunch, into "use up" mode the streaky bacon I bought for pigs in blankets, BBE 02 Jan needs using because I never bought the chipolatas to make PIBs

And I've standby PB baguettes BBE mid Nov, they need to get eaten

Lunch is therefore bacon, lettuce & tom baguette

Dinner, I've taken a YS beef & black bean MFO out to defrost, quick ping & peel is dinner sorted

If I remember I'll get one of the posh pork chops out for tomorrow, I fancy a roast dinner with yummy crackling

candygirl

Brambling wrote: »

Now loving cleaning :eek::eek: that I don't understand :rotfl:

Nor me!! I despise it, especially as naughty pup Zeus always tries to kill the Hoover, n ride on the steam mop :rotfl:
I'm having chick pea curry n garlic naan tonight.Have been told to save some for my Bestie, who's in Lanzarote at the mo , craving curry

Wednesday2000

My neighbour must have got a new vacuum cleaner for x-mas and it doesn't half make a racket!:eek:

I haven't eaten yet today as my husband is working nights so I've been in bed.

I'm having a Quorn breaded fillet and baked beans and some toast as well probably.

Farway

I've taken tomorrow's pork chop out from freezer, it's massive, one of my ethical ones

Only need nuke the MFO black bean / beef / rice dinner for tonight and today's CFO is done

Brambling

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

My neighbour must have got a new vacuum cleaner for x-mas and it doesn't half make a racket!:eek:.

Hopefully it's was a requested gift otherwise the noise you hear could be someone cleaning up a crime scene :rotfl:

Although officially off work I did log on this morning to run some reports as the boss gave everyone the day off :cool: just collecting some brownie points you never know when they will come in handy

I walked into town to get my glasses looked at as the nose pieces were wonky which effected the varifocals a little, so now they're too loose . I popped into M&S for some veg and picked up runner & french beans, tenderstem broccoli and asparagus all half price YS I was too lazy to walked down to S*insburys which is the other side of town . I also picked up a small pork loin crackling joint also half price not bad as it was only 2pm

Didn't really have lunch, just some crackers and a pack of crisps so early dinner tonight, roast beef, roast veg, runner beans, broccoli and mash potato. The beef was a reduced joint from the w*itrose meat counter brought a couple of weeks ago not too big so not too many LOs I cooked extra veg so bubble and squeak Sunday with some cold beef. The beef size gap in the freezer was filled by the pork :cool:

Farway I've not been brave enough to get on the scales yet, I just glanced at them this morning before getting in the shower :rotfl: maybe tomorrow, maybe not

candygirl

BRAMBLING I have varifocals n have to take my specs off to read books, n online