Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

No bacon butty for me:(, the bacon was OOD and looked a bit iffy so didn't risk it, had the last of the corned beef with lettuce and pickle instead. It was was perfectly fine but not what I had tastebuds set for!
Hope you find the the pong SG, nothing worse than a UFO (unidentified foreign odour:rotfl:).
Pizza sounds good PN despite the missing onion & chilli:)

Wednesday2000

I looked at my blood test forms and remembered I am getting tested for coeliac disease as well and my GP told me to eat at least 2 slices of bread daily for a month beforehand. I'm pretty sure I must have done that.

It was so long ago that I got the form that I forgot!:p

Ho hum. I just had 2 slices of toast with raspberry jam and peanut butter.

Farway

Only CFO could have pizza & pongs in same thread:D

Hope you find it SG, and it doesn't / didn't have a tail
The Left Out veg curse PN, me the other day, then your turn, who's next?
Shame about the bacon Caron, I know how it is when you are so close you can almost taste it, then Sort of like the Fry's 5 boys in reverse

My bacon butty was yummy:D

The LO savoury mince is back in low oven to heat through for dinner, manky pot & all

Had reminder e-mail, my fixed electric deal expires next month, I've gone goggle eyed looking at alternatives, I can understand why it is easier, not cheaper, to just let it carry on regardless, actually not much in it, I'm a low leccy user really, main energy is gas for me

Spring is creeping on, during my spot of gardening the large crocus are showing colour, they'll be out next week when sun is due
And the apricot had pink buds, never any apricots, just the blossom & leaf curl:(

I'll be MIA until later tomorrow, off to Wisley with the grandchildren, more Lego, in the greenhouse this time
https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/wisley/whats-on/the-great-brick-safari
Food will be whatever is there

PasturesNew

I despise cooking in the dark even more than any other cooking - and as my kitchen's "dark", with a brown floor, brown worktops and brown units ... and just four ceiling spotlights... it's quite "dark" in there.

So I ate my tea early

I had a portion of the sausage casserole with basmati.

I've got 4ldi mint "Aero" in my head.... I might snap in a bit and go out later for a bar of that ... but, if I do, I might as well bite the bullet and go later when there's a little chance I might spot something with a red sticker on it .... rather than going now and there definitely not being any. I don't expect a find... but if I go now there definitely won't be, so I might as well wait another couple of hours and take my chances. Don't need anything of course! It'll just be food overload won't it But ... who knows, if there's a half price carton of mince or steak cubes, they'd go down treat in something some time in the next month or so. There won't be half price sausages, there never is.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Yes Farway I most disappointed, had the griddle pan heating up and had washed the lettuce ready for a BLT.:(
The wind has died back and it's turned into a cold evening, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a frost overnight.
I've decided this week's soup will be "pea & ham", I've a small piece of gammon in the freezer that I'll defrost and slow cook tomorrow for stock and I'll make the soup on Monday. For dinner tomorrow I fancy braised steak and onions as I've not had that for a while. Hopefully between removing the gammon & the steak, finding freezer space for a couple of portions of the smoked sausage & bean stew I made on Thursday won't be too difficult.:)

Brambling

Enjoy your day with the grandchildren Farway, the advantage of grandchildren is an excuse to go look at Lego :rotfl:

Your pizza sounded really nice PN good use of LOs

Caronc I've been there with bacon and once the idea gets in your head that it smells a bit funny i can't eat it even if it isn't I'll feel sick after :cool: I was going to copy your pea and ham soup idea as suggested earlier until I've just realised I took a pork joint out the freezer instead of the small gammon joint :wall: so pork for the next few days as it was brought YS just after Xmas for when I have family round.

Another working Saturday I didn't want to do it as I've done more than my share but the boss guilted me into it :cool: I was annoyed this morning as the person I was doing it with texted me with 'flu', I'm not being unsympathetic but 3 weeks ago I told my manager that I wouldn't be happy if she called in sick or had a 'child emergency' :mad: I could tell she wanted me to tell her she didn't have to work but I wouldn't play her game she's senior to me:cool:, she would have told the boss 'she would have worked but I told her not too' she's very predictable. So she 'worked' but was as much use as a chocolate teapot :mad: I've told the boss if I was doing two peoples work I wanted two days off in lieu I also told him he better hope I wasn't as p*ssed on Monday as I was today. Not all bad I got to discuss gin with a colleague in Holland

Lunch was falafels from the freezer with pita and salad. Dinner was rump steak with a large stir fry. I was going to cut it in two as it was a good size however ....... in my defence it was very nice piece of steak

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

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Hate people like that. Some people just take the pee and don't deserve a job....



I didn't go out in the end. It turned dark, then the rain and wind came.... I was only going out for a minty aero bar.... which I still really, really fancy ... but CBA.

I also CBA to make a flapjack... digging all the bits and bobs out of the cupboard ... weighing stuff ... then standing and waiting for it to finish ... and creating washing up.... so that won't be happening.

I still "fancy something".... but nothing springs to mind that I've got and/or fancy.... house of food, nothing I fancy.... or stuff I kind of fancy a bit, but CBA to put the effort in to make

If I were wealthier, I'd have just ordered an indian takeaway ... and scoffed the lot. But I can't justify that profligate use of money on something that's not essential.

Farway

'morning, quick clock in before off Lego watching with grandchildren

Rain is on the radar but sun's out just now, luckily where we want to be is in the greenhouse so rain not a problem

Brambling, none of my business but I used to get paid overtime and I piled it in when around, paid of the mortgage early, and retired early, so it was sort of time in the bank and two fingers to them as well

Caron, now I MUST have braised steak & onions, not had it for years, I cans see it now, with mash, cabbage & carrots I've also not got

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Rain is on the radar but sun's out just now, luckily where we want to be is in the greenhouse so rain not a problem

It's raining here.... not heavily, but it's definite "medium rain".

About midnight last night I thought "beans on toast" as I really fancied "something".... got to the kitchen, grabbed beans from the cupboard and spotted the chocolate spread... so the beans were put back in the cupboard. Reached for the bread (still going strong with a date of 4 February) and had a skinny crust and last slice from the bag

SunnyGirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

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".

Oh I wish this existed! I couldn't find anything at all anywhere but the sofas have both had a good vacuum and the floors underneath everything are clean at least. Maybe, as my Scots grandmother used to say, my nose is too near my ar#e :rotfl::rotfl:

Good morning to everyone.

In true CFO style last night I reheated the tuna pasta at about 8pm and ate it from the Pyrex dish I'd cooked it in As my son said when I told him 'living life there Mum' It was very pleasant sat in my pyjamas munching away watching tv.

Hopefully today's meals will be served on a plate as I'm doing a cooked lunch for myself of roast chicken breast, mash, mashed swede and carrots, green cabbage, stuffing and gravy. I'm planning on mash and veg leftovers for tomorrow's evening meal which will be bubble and squeak with egg and beans. Tonight's meal will be boiled eggs and soldiers

General pottering here today and printing off lecture slides for the week. I have a shopping list made up but won't need any of until Wednesday or Thursday so don't need to go out.