Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Farway wrote: »

I was starving so had my C & O pie dinner a bit earlier than usual, plus added slice of toast as well, just to mop up the bean juice

Now found I'm out tomorrow, [STRIKE]traipsing round the shops [/STRIKE]getting SIL birthday pressie

At least no CFO for lunch problems, except what to choose from the menu, luckily not fussy eater so any old thing. If I were on my own I would like fish & chips out of the bag, eaten with greasy fingers, just for a change

Have a light lunch and pop to the chippie of the way home :)

Hollyharvey

Farway wrote: »

At least no CFO for lunch problems, except what to choose from the menu, luckily not fussy eater so any old thing. If I were on my own I would like fish & chips out of the bag, eaten with greasy fingers, just for a change

Great minds think alike! I was just thinking that I fancy fish and chips from the chip shop, I haven't had any from a chippy for a good couple of years.

Farway

caronc wrote: »

Have a light lunch and pop to the chippie of the way home :)

Good idea, except I'm not driving and I don't fancy arriving home with my ears well & truly bent

spirit

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I have one of these too. It really is like giant lego

PasturesNew

I am lucky enough to live near a really good chip shop. The owner was previously a top chef in London/similar - and he's got two shops in this area. You get a good sized portion (you can eat half and have half the next day) for about £2 or so ..... and they're really good, old fashioned chips. Not over-greasy, not over-cooked, not mis-shapen. Just perfect.

But I never end up going there ..... I'm too tight I guess. I think "for £2 I could buy a pukka pie at the supermarket, a whole 1Kg of chips and a tin of mushy peas at Lidl and cook my own bigger meal and still have enough chips for 3 more days".

mcculloch29

Pizza rosso for tea here, or 'the pizza you make when you haven't any cheese.' The base was a tortilla, as they make the quickest pizzas of all, topping was flaked mackerel (from a tin of fillets in oil), sundried tomatoes and capers on a tomato puree base.
The tortillas were Morrisons, via my Am@zon Pantry order, these are much smaller than my usual ones from Aldi, so I ended up making two small pizzas rather than one large one.

PasturesNew

Somebody appears to be eating all those chocolate biscuits I bought earlier (350g pack) ... nearly all gone.

Odd thing is, I don't feel that "well" .... I know it's because too much chocolate makes me feel grotty..... but I STILL found another portion disappeared from the pack.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Odd thing is, I don't feel that "well" .... I know it's because too much chocolate makes me feel grotty..... but I STILL found another portion disappeared from the pack.

Snap :rotfl: I'm also suffering from self-inflicted not feeling very "well". I made a lasagne yesterday and had the remaining portion of that at lunch time with some garlic bread and salad as my main meal.

Then, there was a pack of 4 hot cross buns that kept jumping into the toaster. I had to add butter to them and eat them. All 4 of them over the course of the day and this evening.

I wish I knew why I was so hungry, and more to the point, why it was them that I fancied. They are not something I would usually eat more than one of. Although I am so very tired, that it could be because they were there and it was so easy just to toast them rather then get something else that needed more effort.

At least I had eaten a decent meal, and I did have scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast.

suki1964

I hate to tell you all, but I work to one of the biggest chip suppliers in Northern Ireland, so I get chip shop chips whenever I want, FOC

And omg, they are soooo scrummy. I have to be really strict with myself and only take some every couple of weeks.

I do love a good chippy chip

Can you believe that we living in the land of the spud, import spuds fron Lincolnshire to make chips with?

PasturesNew

suki1964 wrote: »

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My chippy cuts them from the sack on site, on demand. No chip suppliers, nothing frozen.

He even makes his own curry sauces, pies and more. Everything there's cooked "from scratch", proper job. He's got a couple of branded items I think, as people like them (e.g. I think he also sells Pukka pies). Bit pricey though for most of his stuff.... good quality food, but not back street chippy prices, even though it's based on a council estate near an industrial estate and near the tip.