Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Glad ratty seems to have gone whmf00001
Hope you have a good day out Farway:)

I think the sister/aunt and mum/aunt scenario is quite common, I know two women where that is the case. One was told as a young adult that her sister was actually her Mum and the other only found out when her "aunt" died and left her house to her with an explanation in her will as to why. It was quite a shock as she had no inkling throughout her life and had, had very little contact with her Aunt (Mum) who lived some distance away.
Bitterly cold and icy underfoot here today. I decided I wanted a fresh roll to have the black pudding in for lunch so slid my way to the shop. It was hard going to stay on my feet and I'm glad I don't have go back out today.

Pasta tonight I think with the LO roast veg from Saturday's dinner.

PasturesNew

All change on the food front. Somebody's looking at my house later today, so no smelly food can be cooked

No spicy rice .. no spicy soup to be reheated. I think I'll just have toast today and pick up some sausage rolls while I'm "hiding/out of the house" while the agent's here.

EDIT: 5 minutes after that call, another, TWO lots of nosey eyes scanning my gaff ... so it's definitely toast ... or nothing and I'll eat afterwards. If I eat toast I'll create crumbs to clear up, a plate that needs washing up, a knife that needs washing up .... so I might not bother with even toast.

Wednesday2000

I had a nightmare about rats last night! It's you all talking about them on here. I hate mice and rats, well, not hate them, but they scare me.

I'm having a vegan bacon sandwich for breakfast.:cool:

I have some leftover smoky bean salad for lunch, I might have it with rice. It's ready made from Ocado.

PasturesNew wrote: »

The other scenario a few are discovering is: Spouse turns out to be sibling!

:eek::eek::eek:

Farway

Hooray, seems CFO may be rat free, nice work whmf00001:j

Back from Wisley, it turned out lovely & sunny, blue sky etc, bit chilly but OK wrapped. Anyone not been for a bit, there's a lot going on, it'll be fantastic come summer by looks of it

Lunch was bit later, went to local pub, sat inside though. I had Steak & Tanglefoot Pie [beef & ale], with mash, leeks & bacon bits in leeks. Luckily they do "small appetite" size, which I opted for, it was ample, especially for post lurgy https://www.anchorpyrford.co.uk/

I may just plop some LO beans onto some toast later on

Had text from DD, seems DGD has been sent home from school, she has lurgy now. Saw on local news one school had to close due to so many off.

Hope everyone else steers clear of it

PN, your house must be "right price" and area to keep getting views, at least we know it is not the smell of cooking attracting them, like Bisto kids:D

SunnyGirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

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The other scenario a few are discovering is: Spouse turns out to be sibling!

It's all a bit Jeremy Kyle is that!! But I think, like Caron, that in the past certainly many a young girl gave birth and the child was then brought up as her sibling. I'm glad all that shaming etc has gone now.


Busy day today back at uni with a lecture this morning, half an hours lunch and a seminar this afternoon but I understood what was being said more afterwards


Sandwich and a biscuit pack up lunch and tea is in the oven as we speak. Its an Aldi frozen cod fillet that I've wrapped in 2 rashers of bacon and am baking with some wrinkly cherry tomatoes that were lurking. Chips and peas will accompany them. A meal almost all from the freezer this evening

PasturesNew

While out I went into £land and came away with a 4-pack of C/O crisps (been fancying some of those for well over a week) and a 225g bag of the choccies I like. Had a pack of crisps in the car park ... and 3-4 choccies.

Next, it was L1dl - I only went in for sausage rolls. I spotted a single Mince/Onion Slice with a 30% off sticker, so thought I'd get that. The reduced price was £1.04, but it rang through the till at 76p, so that was a winner! For tea I've already cooked/eaten: one of those slices, a potato (I'd overlooked a single spud when I thought I'd used them all up the other day) and I opened a new tin of beans.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Fingers crossed that one of the viewers becomes a buyer PN:)

Glad you had a good day out Farway and the weather was kind:).
It is blowing an absolutely hooley here with torrential hail/rain/sleet blooming perishing too. All in all a really unpleasant evening.:(
My roll and black pudding was fab, I added a fried egg and of course managed to squirt the yolk everywhere! I had skipped breakfast and thought my lunch plus some fruit would keep me going until dinner tonight but mid afternoon my tummy was rumbling and I had a cupasoup and a couple of cracker with cheese. I have the cheek to be hungry again now.:o I'm not sure I fancy pasta tonight though do want to use up the LO roast veg. I'll have a check of my freezer lists and see if anything takes my fancy:)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

I think the sister/aunt and mum/aunt scenario is quite common, I know two women where that is the case. One was told as a young adult that her sister was actually her Mum and the other only found out when her "aunt" died and left her house to her with an explanation in her will as to why. It was quite a shock....

When my exSIL was in her early teens her mum was killed in an accident one of her 'sisters' told her that she was really her grandma as their other sister was her mum, it's still something that affects her even 50 years later,

Glad to see we are now rat free in CFO land unless the cold means they set up home in Caroncs wood store :eek:

Considering I don't live that far away I haven't been to wisley for years Farway, something to add to my 'to go' list for 2019

-5 when I scraped the car this morning, my feet didn't warmup until lunchtime, but that could because I'm a soft southerner typically on a cold Monday it took all morning for the office to warm up

Lunch was HM minestrone soup which was needed after a lunchtime walk brrr. Dinner was jacket potato with beans and cheese, meat free Monday today

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

-5 when I scraped the car this morning, my feet didn't warmup until lunchtime, but that could because I'm a soft southerner typically on a cold Monday it took all morning for the office to warm up

Nope as a "hardy Scot" at -5C my feet would have taken all day to warm up;).


Dinner ended up as an "oven bung it in" - southern fried chicken from the freezer, baked charlotte spuds and the LO roast veg. It wasn't spectacular but suited my mood perfectly:). Lorne sausage is now in the fridge to defrost so I can make "stovies" tomorrow:D.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
In the few hours I've been up I think (apart from warmth) we've had every type of weather going:eek:. It seems to have settled now on sleet/hail/rain and I'm very glad that there is nothing I need to go out for:).
Stovies tonight and I might make some soup to have with a bagel for lunch.