Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Some tasty sounding food in CFO land today, my dinner sounds very mundane in comparison - breaded pollock, peas & green beans from the freezer with a baked spud.
Finished the chicken, veg & rice soup at lunch time, I'll need to think what next week's batch will be.:)
Still blowing a hooley here and tipping it down definitely a night for a snuggle beside the stove and then my cosy bed.:)

Brambling

Farway these days it's not just alt, ctrl, delete or switch off it's clear the cache :rotfl:

Horrible drive home tonight I was glad I left at 4.30pm (either managers in ) and went the longer route which is less likely to flood as there was a lot of surface water. Farway the wet and windy weather started mid morning and was horrendous to drive in but at least it was still half light. The last mile it was almost too hard to see out but it wasn't safe to park and wait out, The rain stopped about six and I assume the fireworks I can hear are for Chinese New Year, his lordship has retired to bed he's not sure about them.

Lunch was LO tomato and bean stew with purple sprouting and my stomach entertained the office by gurgling all afternoon .
I had a cba moment re dinner but settled on airfried chips, quorn steak and sweetcorn not what I planned but better than the rubbish I was thinking of having :cool:

How are you feeling now Caronc? Once you've decided on you soup let me know I'm also looking for ideas for next week

candygirl

Went to see the new Shakespeare film today, to get away from the fire saga for a bit.Came home n made HM cauli cheese n wedges, was lush

PasturesNew

I got up early. I had a bath, I washed my hair, I got dressed. I'm sitting here in my jacket still thinking "bugg4h it".... Plan A had been to pop to L1dl for a couple of bags of their apricots which are the weekend special offer (49p instead of 99p)... but, while I'd really like these as I'm "slowly working towards having the ingredients in for a couple of things"... I really CBA and just think "so what if you go out and get them.... they'll only clutter up the cupboards - you've more than enough food in the house. Eat what you've got".

So now I can't decide if I should go and get some, or not.... at the moment "don't bother" is winning.

EDIT: "Don't bother" won I'd have only bought six sausage rolls if I'd gone out .... and I've food overload already.

PasturesNew

My dinner's evolving....

It's gone like this:

Plan A: You made that sausage casserole yesterday, have that with rice today.
Plan B: Look, there are two tomatoes that need using up - and those pizza bases that are troublesome to find cupboard room for, so they're omnipresent in the kitchen and perpetually moved... if you use up those tomatoes on a pizza base that could be two wins.
Plan C: Start prepping stuff for a pizza. Onion out ready to chop. Got a few strips of frozen green pepper out to defrost from the freezer. Grate the last three chunks of cheddar ready to use. Make a pizza sauce base and pop it in the fridge.
Plan If you scoop out some of the sausage from the sausage casserole and scrape off the tomato sauce bit ... you can can slice that up and do a meatball pizza.

I'm now at the stage of lunch being a meatball pizza... but umming and aahing over whether I now need those green peppers on it.... will probably toss them on anyway as they've pretty much defrosted.

Farway

Glad to hear you made it home safely Brambling, I'm guessing your weather was my LOs:) Wise move avoiding the flood prone roads

PN, AD, my lookalike is mainly potato starch, so maybe counts towards the 5 a day?, Nearly as healthy as blob of mash made with milk:D

Last night's beans on toast was not enough, finished up nuking a bowl of porridge later on:o I did stir a diced apple in though

More porridge this morning, for breakfast

Then out for an hour of gardening, wanted to crack on before the rain arrives.
Managed to sort out the buddlias that have been bugging me to get pruned, one in my front verge bit is rotten to the core, I think it's had it. Not too concerned it was much too large for the position I planted it in.
Thinking cap on for a useful but care free replacement

I finished just in time, rain is now here, in for rest of the day from the forecast I saw

Lunch will be another bacon butty

I've taken the savoury mince out of 'fridge, that'll go in low oven for my dinner, may do a few dumplings with it, but learning from the the other day, keep quantity low

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Brambling - I'm thinking pea or lentil & bacon soup wise but that could change and I do have a butternut squash needing used up.

My it was wild during the night and there is quite a bit of damage locally. Thankfully apart from the fence at the front between my neighbours and myself I can't see anything else that been affected. The fence was on it's last legs anyway and we had agreed to replace it in the summer so no real harm done. It's still blowing a hooley but seems to be beginning to die back slowly.
I'm still feeling pretty wiped out so happy to have another easy day. I need to sort out a grocery order for the beginning of the week but other than that I've nothing that desperately needs doing.

I think I'll follow Farway and have a bacon butty for lunch and tonight I'm going with jerk spiced chicken thighs roasted with sweet potato, mushrooms, tomato and a mini corn cob.

PasturesNew

Pizza is in the oven ....

It looked magnificent. Slowly I built up the layers..... the tomato/chilli/garlic base sauce... the pepper bits, the sausage bits .... the pile of grated cheese .... the sliced tomatoes.... sprinkle a bit more oregano on it ...... aaaaand.

Stand back to admire the size of it .... then ....

..... spot the unpeeled/unsliced onion still on the worktop that I'd intended to include and had completely overlooked

Oh well.

Pizza looks nice anyway

EDIT 12.08: The taste was magnificent, better than the majority of any supermarket bought ones.... but the base was still rubbish. It's an 4ldi vacuum-pack of 2 bases at 89p. Didn't like the first two ... but I'd bought four It goes crispy and I don't like crispy bases.... but the topping was magnificent.

EDIT 12.25: Ooops - only just remembered, I'd intended to put a whole chilli on it too... I'd looked through the freezer and even decided to use a green one... but I'd leave it in the freezer until I wanted to chop it .... only I forgot, until just now Oh well, no harm done.

SunnyGirl

Hi all.

PN The pizza sounds delicious even minus the onion

Had a total digital free day yesterday and watched tv, read a book and knitted. A few good long chats with my two closest friends and a good catch up with all 3 kids unusually on the same day.

Today I am moving furniture in the living room as I can smell something odd. I have no idea what it may be but am almost dreading it A good sweep and mop opportunity anywAy and my money is on the cat as the culprit one way or another.

No CFO today as my son in law to be is coming round to cut my hair and is bringing a McDonald's lunch. He's not a hairdresser but a civil engineer who is excellent at design and makes wonderful cakes iced with a steady hand. Him cutting my hair came about in the summer when I was short on cash and was threatening to do my own :rotfl: I have a bob style so it's only a case of cutting straight lines. My friend at uni highlights it for me and I do hers so it's all very MSE :money: No one can ever believe that I don't go to the hairdressers and pay £60 which is what I did when working full time.

Dinner this evening will be the leftover tuna bake that I was going to have for lunch so nice and easy.

Back to the furniture shifting now. Nothing under the first sofa apart from dust and a couple of pens......

PasturesNew

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Today I am moving furniture in the living room as I can smell something odd. I have no idea what it may be but am almost dreading it A good sweep and mop opportunity anywAy and my money is on the cat as the culprit one way or another.

I hate "odd" smells.... maybe soon somebody will invent an app that identifies them, so you've a head start on what to expect or what the source might be

Trouble is, if you find nothing, you're none the wiser... an app could detect "somebody has bad wind", or "who has bad breath" as well as spotting "dead mouse expected".