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Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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  • candygirl
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    I am eating pizza... blow your head off, nose-sniffing, pizza :) Chilli overload :)

    Base had garlic and chilli in it.
    Topping was some green peppers, a whole/really fat green chilli and all the seeds, one tomato and loads of cheese.

    *sniff* ... hot :)

    That sounds lush .I'm having a fungi pizza after Dancing on Ice :D
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  • Brambling
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    Elona I always double check mine before throwing in the food because I worry I'll do the same :o

    PN I have always found the orange aero too sweet, but another lovely sounding pizza :)

    Quiet day for me I slept really bad last night it was 3am when I turned the light off for the fourth time, having had no sleep, the cat gave up trying to sleep at the bottom of the bed and went back downstairs at 2.30am. I then woke up my usual time :cool: so the most I've done today is filled up with petrol a bit of moving stuff around aka tidying and cooking dinner.

    Lunch was some quorn goujons from the freezer, just thrown into the airfryer and ate on their on. Dinner was roast pork with root veg mash (swede, carrot, turnip, parsnip and celeriac) braised peas and lettuce and a little bit of oven braised celery :D. Plenty of LOs for a repeat tomorrow with the exception of the celery which I plan to blitz and see if it works as soup as it has no potato to thicken. I'm all vegged out now :rotfl:
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  • caronc
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    Good evening everyone,
    :mad::mad: Brambling there's always one in every workplace:mad::mad:. Still gin chats are never a bad thing;).
    SG - shame you didn't find the source of the smell but hopefully the extra clean has banished it.:)
    :eek::eek:Elona what a kerfuffle at least you managed to rescue it:).
    PN - yep only way to get rid of a less than satisfactory choc bar is to scoff it and of course the calories don't count if you don't enjoy it:rotfl:
    Farway - glad you enjoyed the lego, good YS haul as well:). If you don't like the orzo you can lob it northwards:)



    Boiled eggs and soldiers are real comfort food IMHO, a few years ago I had an op and wasn't very well after at for a couple of weeks. My lovely son offered to make me boiled eggs & toast, he cooked the eggs beautifully and had set up a nice tray with napkins and a cuppa but he cut the toast into triangles:eek::eek:. I had to really work hard to avoid a "petted lip" :rotfl:


    I got up this morning feeling a lot more with it:), still tired and washed out looking (thanks sis (not :mad:) for pointing that out!) but definitely recovering:D. As it was sunny, though icy, I decided that once the ice had lifted I would head out for some fresh air. Best laid plans etc., first my Dad popped by and then my sister, by the time they left and I had a late lunch of a cheese & lettuce roll it clouded over and started to pour.;) The rain lasted until it got dark and now the temperatures have dropped and it's due to freeze overnight again. Still forecast is ok for tomorrow so will hopefully get out then.
    Second set of thwarted plans were that my gammon was still rock solid after an overnight in the fridge so didn't get it cooked, another task for tomorrow's "to do".:)
    Round steak*, onions and mushrooms have been braised just need nuke steam some charlotte spuds and savoy cabbage and dinner is ready. Unless I'm very greedy there should be enough for a portion for the freezer.
    * I think "round steak" is a Scottish cut of beef. It's fairly thinly sliced top rump or silverside. It's very lean and ideal for braising or beating out and stuffing for beef olives. Sliced very thinly (think thin bacon rasher thickness) it's known as "raw beef ham" which is often sold spiced and is lovely flash fried in a crusty roll with fried onions:).
  • Brambling
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    I believe it's in a sister's job description to be 'honest' Caronc. :rotfl::rotfl:
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  • caronc
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    Brambling wrote: »
    I believe it's in a sister's job description to be 'honest' Caronc. :rotfl::rotfl:
    Apparently........:think::think:
  • Brambling
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    caronc wrote: »
    Apparently........:think::think:

    At least you only have the one :D
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  • caronc
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    Brambling wrote: »
    At least you only have the one :D
    Thank goodness:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • PasturesNew
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    I've 1½ sisters.... one's 200 miles West and one's 200 miles North. Neither have ever been to my house :)

    We were never a family of "getting together", nor even "family meals", nor "going out to eat/lunch" types of people. Not a "close" family in that sense.

    I did an early morning launderette run and hit a "lucky spot". They're usually very busy Mondays and I feel "in the way" as they have a lot of service washes from small B&Bs and football teams, as well as householders who have service washes and still stick to the "Monday is laundry day" system.... but, this morning, I got there and it was entirely empty of staff or anything going on (usually it'd be knee deep in 20+ big bags and two members of staff shouting at each other in a very narrow/small space. Managed to get it all done and the manageress and staff of one appeared at 8.30, so I must've hit the one day of the year when, for whatever reason, they started late on a Monday :)
  • Lots of water so far and that is it.
    I am eating pizza... blow your head off, nose-sniffing, pizza :) Chilli overload :)

    Base had garlic and chilli in it.
    Topping was some green peppers, a whole/really fat green chilli and all the seeds, one tomato and loads of cheese.

    *sniff* ... hot :)

    Oh no, that sounds delish! This is torture as I have to go and get a blood test later and I have to fast beforehand.:rotfl:
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  • Farway
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    Nice & sunny, may pop out later & inspect the crocus to see if opened yet, they were out at Wisley yesterday

    Porridge breakfast
    Lunch is planned as the last LO bacon in a sarnie, and fingers crossed it doesn't become Caron style sniffy bacon. The bacon is a few days past it's death date
    caronc wrote: »
    Farway - glad you enjoyed the lego, good YS haul as well:). If you don't like the orzo you can lob it northwards:)

    I tried it Caron, keep your eyes peeled, it will not the the Aurora or a fireball in the sky:D
    Too currified for me, left aftertaste of yucky garlic:(
    The beetroot + apple was OK

    Dinner, complete ideas fail, so I've taken a YS pasty out to defrost while I try and think of something other than beans to go with it
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