Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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elona wrote: »

Does anyone else feel they CBA to cook but don't want ready meals etc either or I am just going a bit odd?

I can rarely be bothered to cook; I really dislike everything about it. I even dislike being in the kitchen. As for ready meals ... at the prices most charge for them these days I don't even look at them any more! There used to always be a good range of cheapo ready meals in shops, then they cut that right down ... and replaced most of them with artisan/hand baked/premium goods with posh/modern fillings.

So, I either have to cook .... or hit the biscuits

Cooking everything is a massive effort for me. There's just me, only me, so it'd be super easy to simply stick to beans on toast and oven chips if I let myself slide that far.

PasturesNew

SSUPER wrote: »

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I think the surprise would be .... if I bothered with all that

I do dislike ..... all that effort

I'd do it without the oven bit, so no browning ... and the rest I'd do in the microwave. Slap it on a plate and get a spoon

EDIT: No. No plate... I'd eat it directly from the dish I'd made it in

caronc

Hello SSUPER
That recipe takes me straight back to Home Ec at school though ours had a very, very small amount of cooked ham in it so rumour was the "surprise" was finding a piece of meat in your portion:rotfl:

PasturesNew

When I was out I bought a 4-pack of bread rolls (half price sticker/dated tomorrow) and a pack of 6 tomatoes... so I just made up two of the rolls with a tomato apiece, then wrapped them in foil and tossed them in the fridge... so there's some instant food for sometime in the next 24 hours... who knows if I'll fancy that at midnight, 3am, for breakfast or lunch tomorrow.

Tomorrow ... I'll knock up a couple of egg/tomato ones, or maybe cheese/tomato, or cheese/egg, or cheese/egg/tomato .... look at me with all my choices Whatever goes into them I'll wrap them and toss them into the fridge.... I simply couldn't face doing four tonight.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

The sun is shining and the wind has died down so some gardening beckons. Many layers will be needed though as it still chilly.
Soup with crackers & cheese for lunch and tonight I'll use up the remaining gammon with an egg, veg and fried spuds.

Wednesday2000

I had the last of a (stale) baguette with some vegan cheese and ketcup and mustard. It wasn't that nice, but I was hungry.

Just had a packet of french fry crisps and some water.

I'm having salad, tofu and marinated mushrooms for lunch. Need something healthy!

Brambling wrote: »

Hope you enjoyed your Indian Candy when i was a waitress (about 100 years ago :rotfl:) we would pick out the married couples as those who weren't talking to each other :rotfl:

We still talk to each other when we go out and we have been together longer than 25 years!:cool:

Farway

Welcome SSUPER:hello:

Another glorious day outside, sun's not quite at right angle to warm the conservatory enough for me to sit out there without extra heat

L's have more stock in today, loads of YS diced beef, the good, not too fatty, type. Two packs of that, BBE is tomorrow so time to think about use or freeze it

Lunch was another BLT sarnie

caronc wrote: »

Good evening everyone,
Good result on the braising steak front Farway, I hope you enjoyed it It was lovely thanks, and some left for another day

Cotoneaster has been (temporarily) tamed but my was it chilly in the garden, my hands and face were numb when I came back in. I was very glad of my mug of pea & ham to warm me up:D. While I was pruning I managed to lose my balance and topple over, bumped rather than hurt myself but of course managed to knock over the cuttings bucket and scatter the contents over an unduly large area for the amount there was :o. Thankfully no one could see my inelegant sprawl, though any passerbys might have heard [STRIKE]swearing[/STRIKE] muttering through the fence:rotfl::rotfl:. Still no major harm done and the cuttings are now safely in the wheelie bin.

I had a laugh at this image, I've done similar myself, cutting a hedge and just tumbled into it:o

Dinner is salad day, salmon fillet out defrosting, spud salad made using the LO baby spuds, including this year's first produce from garden, chives:D

If I CBA I may go poncy and grate a carrot to tart it up

You did well in Sainsbugs BramblingBlack pudding envy coming on

Someone mentioned beef & mushrooms? Set me thinking about my YS diced beef, I've got everything available to make it, but because I've braised beef LO, and stew overload I think I'll end up freezing the YS diced beef I bought this morning

A committed MSE Kitchen God would of course make it & freeze, but CFO = CBA for now

candygirl

Had a fab meal n giggle with the girls last night .Weirdly enough it was very quiet, with zero lovey dovey couples :eek:
Having HM spicy lentil n tomato soup and tiger bread tea for tea:p

Farway

Update, both packs of YS diced beef has gone in freezer

Carrot out for grating, a long lost in larder salad cream, BBE April 2019 so best get on with that one tonight

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Farway wrote: »

Another glorious day outside, sun's not quite at right angle to warm the conservatory enough for me to sit out there without extra heat

I've had no sun in my house whatsoever so far... six months of the year it simply doesn't get over the surrounding buildings. Even in peak summer it's gone entirely by 5pm, behind a big unit.

Makes you unaware of what's out there if you're not getting it/seeing it at all....

Farway wrote: »

Carrot out for grating

Every time I see the box graters in £land I think "I should get one of those, for grating carrots". But then I think "for £1 won't it be rubbish and won't I wish I'd never bought it" ... but I should get round to it as there are lots of things I often wish I could grate. I use one with a turning handle for cheese, but my hand isn't big enough to grip that for something hard like a carrot.