Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Excellent PN - I have a pair from the kiddies "kitchen tools utensil" at IKEA and they are fab for toaster poking. I use all the other bits too- https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/childrens-ikea-products/children-3-7/toys-play/duktig-5-piece-toy-kitchen-utensil-set-multicolour-art-80130168/ and at £2.50 for the lot well worth the price as they are really sturdy.:)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Excellent PN - I have a pair from the kiddies "kitchen tools utensil" at IKEA and they are fab for toaster poking. I use all the other bits too- https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/childrens-ikea-products/children-3-7/toys-play/duktig-5-piece-toy-kitchen-utensil-set-multicolour-art-80130168/ and at £2.50 for the lot well worth the price as they are really sturdy.:)

LOL. Great, if they do the job.

Ikea's about 20 miles from me or so. I did go once, when I bought this house.... and meant to go back, but have never got round to it. I bought the kiddies' beaker set, which is what I mostly drink my cold drinks from. Like this, but mine were cheerier colours https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/childrens-ikea-products/children-3-7/childrens-tableware/kalas-mug-multicolour-art-30421297/

I should go again.... but I keep putting it off. It'd be nice if I could go with somebody, but my one friend has a small dog ... so that restricts things like when we could go as she doesn't like leaving her dog home alone at all, so then "is it dog friendly" and it's not, naturally.

I do want a rug... and you've just reminded me that they do rugs... so I'll look through at Ikea rugs and if there's something I fancy then I'll take a trip over there Car battery needs a good blast, so that'd be ideal.

candygirl

Had crumpets n a coffee , with Mum, in Morrison's cafe this aft, then HM spicy tomato n lentil soup, with crunchy rolls for tea

caronc

Yeah definitely worth a visit if you have a list PN.:) I used to have (still have a couple ) those beakers and they are great. The missing ones didn't break but "moved out" with my kids LOL and as far as I know still going strong:D. I have a good few IKEA bits in my home and all have been good buys. Though the mini catcus that grew & grew & grew and would now need a removal team wearing gauntlets to get it out my conservatory is perhaps another story:rotfl::rotfl: (Though in fairness I've had it for 15 + years and it was quite well behaved for the first 5 :cool:)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I have a good few IKEA bits in my home and all have been good buys.

I've only been half a dozen times in my life. First about 1991, bought two sofas and 3 sets of drawers and a Billy bookcase. Had to get rid of some of those over the years, due to moving house - I wanted to minimise stuff going into storage else the cost of storage is greater than the cost of buying new items again.... shame, they were good items. The sofas were brill and I'd love to find that design again, but no shops sell that design... it's a bit like: remove all your current sofa cushions, bum and backs, then take a double duvet and chuck it over the sofa. That was a great design.

In 2007 I had moved and wanted some storage, so picked up a couple of wooden storage boxes, they were £7 at the time, a good price. Since then they rocketed. They're not for sale at Ikea any more (that I can find) ... but you can get them on ebay at £29-44!!! staggering. They were kids' toy storage boxes and strong enough for little bums (which includes mine) to sit on ... although I've never used one as a seat, it's nice to know they are sturdy.
They're these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ikea-Wooden-Storage-Box-White/dp/B006UV1OI0

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Shame IKEA no longer do the box you like PN, maybe if you go to the store you'll see something similiar.
It's trying to be sunny and trying to rain this morning! If the rain holds off I want to prune a cotoneaster, I didn't cut it back in the Autumn to maximise the berries as the birds love them. The berries have al been scoffed now so it's needs pruning as it has ambitions to take over the world:rotfl:.
It will be soup again for lunch with crispbreads and cheese. Tonight I'm going to make a ham & mushroom sauce for pasta using a tin of condensed soup. There will be more sauce than I need so that will probably get frozen.

PasturesNew

I'd picked up a 500g pack of minced beef, half price, best before 3 December and frozen it. I popped that into the fridge to defrost the night before yesterday. Just browned that, then into the SC with 2-3 small onions, some of the peppers I'd bought half price/frozen, tin of mixed beans, tin of baked beans ... and emptied the remaining chilli powder in there....

That'll do nicely. With basmati no doubt.... or, I might make another cheesy mashed topped/browned chilli pie from it ... or that might happen tomorrow, as I do still have a bag of half price spuds to get through.

EDIT: Well, that went down a treat. Couldn't wait any longer, so served a portion at 2pm... with rice and topped with a bit of grated cheddar. Left the pot cooking for now.

With onion, peppers, beans, mixed beans.... it must be close to that mythical "5"

Wednesday2000

Smoothie for breakfast and then to the dentist again for a check up and filling. Dentist said I had to make another appointment for the filling. !!!!!!.:mad::rotfl: I have to go back there again in a couple of weeks.

Succumbed to a baguette again from Coop and had it with PB when I got home.:)

Really warm and bright out today! Lovely.:A

Pie, chips, veg and gravy for dinner tonight.

Farway

Frosty start to the day, lovely & Spring like now

Still had porridge for breakfast, not quite as kippery this morning

Into town for mooch & general top up stuff

Thursday is always good YS day in my Iceland, 3 x 400g packs of lean [5% fat] mince, half price @ £1.25. I've had their mince before it's fine, especially at that price. For the freezer standby

Dinner was planned to be salmon fillet with salad etc, but Asda provided YS braising steak, wish fulfillment time, into trolley, along with a couple of YS Kate & Sidney Pukka pies fro freezing

W/rose provided YS lunches, posh streaky bacon

Lunch was some of the YS streaky, in a BLT sarnie

Dinner is the YS braising steak, with onions etc, I've added a sachet of "casserole mix" I had knocking about

Prepping the steak made me clean my manky pot to use it again, been soaking since last week, idle s0d:o

I'll have cabbage & mash with it, with LO for bubble & sqeak maybe

PasturesNew wrote: »

Result!

Tried my new wooden toaster tongs just now, as I toasted a single crumpet. They work a treat!

Going to pick up a couple more when I am in £land next ... ideal Xmas presents for my two siblings ... one who is "dangerous"/careless ... and the other one who is a "finger poker". I bet both of them need to hook things out of their toasters and probably just burn their fingers through general carelessness.

I went in £land this morning for the wooden tongs, a big hole where they should've been. Only had the metal kill me quick type in stock:(

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

I went in £land this morning for the wooden tongs, a big hole where they should've been. Only had the metal kill me quick type in stock:(

Well, at least you know they exist there.... and so you might spot them in the coming weeks, preferably you spot them before you accidentally kill yourself poking about for a small YS crumpet.... "cause of death: extreme pauperism".