Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,
<<hugs>> to those with lingering lurgy, mine is still there-low level but persistent! Hope you got the emergency chocolate SG:)

It's been really cold today I don't think it got much above freezing all day and the frost came back down as soon as it got dark. Even at lunchtime my garden was quite slippy when I gingerly ventured to the wheelie bin:eek:. Apart from the much needed sweep through I've had a fairly lazy day, pottered about a bit, had a snooze and read my book in front of the stove. Like PN I like to get my windows open to air the place on dry days so the house was pretty cold when I gave in and closed them up early afternoon, it's nice and warm in the living room but the rest of the house is still pretty chilly. I think the CH might be going on for a bit longer & higher before bedtime tonight instead of the usual half hour on low.
Lunch was the planned cheesy beans with mushrooms and tomatoes chopped through them. Made a nice warming lunch on some toast. I just need to chop some veg and bung it in the oven with the chicken thigh for dinner soon and then it will be a bit of TV until bedtime.

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Mind boggling even more now, DNA viewing after lunch on YouTube, a whole new language to understand o

Farway Have you just used the test to find out your ethnic background or is it one of those which allows you to find anyone with shared DNA? I read a interesting article on how it has been used to trace families of people who were abandoned as babies one woman before WW2 although it has also unfortunately revealed secrets about parentage :cool: i do find it interesting in how different your results can be from a sibling, depending on what DNA you each inherit

Quiet day pottering inside out of the rain, I woke with a headache and the sniffles both which have now gone although my attempt to top up my vitamin C has just ended badly as I've just thrown my freshly made fruit salad across the kitchen floor :mad: chopped fruit, juice and glass everywhere made from red grapefruit, blood oranges and apples, I was more annoyed about the glass bowl as it's one i use a lot and had about 30 years just the right shape and size at least the cut finger is on the other hand from last week is lordship is confused about his dinner in the dining room but I can't risk glass in his paws

Lunch was YS lentil koftas with salad, they were tasty lovely and spicy and not something I would make myself I'm not sure I would buy at full price but would if I saw them YS again . Dinner was slightly over cooked following clean up was pork chop, root veg mash, runner beans and broccoli.

Now I've a floor to mop and fridge freezer to pull out I'm sure I'll be finding bits of glass for days :cool: and I've just noticed blood on my clean jumper :eek:

caronc

Yikes Brambling you could be doing without that:eek: and what a shame about your much loved dish:(. If it's any help I got a tip that if a glass item had shattered to wet a cake of soap and then dab it over where it broke to pick up tiny fragments (also useful to find errant contact lenses!), another tip was to turn out the light and shine at torch as the bits glisten. Hope the clean up job isn't too horrible.

Brambling

Thanks Caronc, the soap is a new tip for me it comes to something when you can't carry a bowl half a dozen steps across the kitchen :cool: it wasn't just all over the floor but up the cupboards etc :eek: saves me washing the floor tomorrow :cool:

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

it comes to something when you can't carry a bowl half a dozen steps across the kitchen :cool:

Welcome to my world:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I can spill & drop to an Olympic standard:o, thank goodness for washable floors......;) The flat I lived in when I first got married had a pale grey carpet, it was never the same after I dropped a bowl of raspberry coulis on it:o:o

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Welcome to my world:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I can spill & drop to an Olympic standard:o, thank goodness for washable floors......;) The flat I lived in when I first got married had a pale grey carpet, it was never the same after I dropped a bowl of raspberry coulis on it:o:o

Considering how clumsy I am I'm not sure a tiled floor was a good idea :cool: when I was a waitress as I student I tipped a full sweet trolley over complete with jugs of single cream in the middle of a full restaurant :eek: I had to avoid the chef for days :rotfl:

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Considering how clumsy I am I'm not sure a tiled floor was a good idea :cool: when I was a waitress as I student I tipped a full sweet trolley over complete with jugs of single cream in the middle of a full restaurant :eek: I had to avoid the chef for days :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I can imagine:eek::eek::eek:

At least a tiled floor mops well:cool:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

At least a tiled floor mops well:cool:

True, it also breaks everything I drop :cool: maybe the answer is to only use plastic :rotfl:

SunnyGirl

Brambling wrote: »

Farway Have you just used the test to find out your ethnic background or is it one of those which allows you to find anyone with shared DNA? I read a interesting article on how it has been used to trace families of people who were abandoned as babies one woman before WW2 although it has also unfortunately revealed secrets about parentage :cool: i do find it interesting in how different your results can be from a sibling, depending on what DNA you each inherit

...is lordship is confused about his dinner in the dining room but I can't risk glass in his paws



Now I've a floor to mop and fridge freezer to pull out I'm sure I'll be finding bits of glass for days :cool: and I've just noticed blood on my clean jumper :eek:

I was going to ask Faraway the same thing Brambling!


Sorry that you've broken a favourite bowl it's annoying. Another tip for getting tiny shards of glass up off a floor is to press a slice of soft (ish) bread over the area. It works a treat as I can attest having had 3 kids and 2 dogs running around whenever I've broken a glass etc.


I'm in bed already with a book on my kindle and the laptop. Am feeling slightly better I think and have certainly had less paracetamol today which I'm taking as a good sign.


The chocolate was duly purchased and has been scoffed A bar of Cadbury's Caramel which was on offer at Tesco Express. Plus my son and his partner called in to say hi so I had a medicinal G&T with lime tonic (amazingly cheap at Tesco's). Between them both I feel brighter anyway.


It's been a cold, wet, dark day here so I was glad to be in. No plans for tomorrow apart from getting my uni stuff ready as lectures start again on Monday morning. The modules this semester are Contentious Issues in Prisons, Serial Murder: Reasons and Explanations and Research Methods for Criminology. Should be good and interesting, I hope.


Hope that everyone is tucked up in the warm now

White_musk

These last few posts have made me chuckle as they brought back a memory from a number of years ago.

I'd made the gravy from the juices of the roast for Sunday lunch and tipped it into the gravy boat to put on the table. As I was walking into the dining room I slipped and the entire lot of gravy went up the wall and on the ceiling, the gravy boat smashed to smithereens on the tiled floor.

How I got every last drop all up the wall and ceiling, to this day is a question I have no answer to. My family, sitting round the table, just sat with mouths open while I picked myself up.