Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Well, a variety of random items have been scoffed today, for varying reasons.

1/ Lunch was two medium spuds, topped with chilli and cheese. That was because I've got to use up the spuds and I've got to eat the chilli ... and I already had cheese grated.

2/ A bread roll filled with tomato, that I'd made yesterday (ate the other one at midnight last night)

3/ 9 pieces of turkish delight chocolate, three times 3-pieces. And, the remainder of the bag of chocs.

4/ A bread roll filled with boiled egg/salad cream ... that wasn't supposed to be eaten. I made the egg, to fill the roll and wrap and put in the fridge, but, when I picked the egg up I thought "that's a biggun", so when I cracked it open the white was set, but the yolk runny .... so I mixed it with salad cream and put it in the roll anyway, but it was a bit runny, so I thought it would be better to eat it immediately

Brambling

:j:j it's Friday

:wave: SSuper

Usual work day today I had a Friday slump as I was leaving the office so I was glad it was the end of the week

Glad you had a good evening Candy . food you haven't had to cook and good company what more can a girl ask for

Lunch was spinach and ricotta lasagna from the freezer,I had forgot that I made it with griddled aubergine and courgette instead of pasta

Dinner was going to be corned beef hash but I didn't fancy it when I got home, after poking about for ideas I made some vegetable spring rolls using the air fryer, probably just as well I was CFO :rotfl: they tasted really nice but the wrappers and I didn't get on :eek: one of those I'm not sure if they were worth the effort cook :think: I'll use the rest of the pack and see it I get on better with them next time :cool: maybe it was the make of wrappers?

candygirl

Brambling wrote: »

:j:j it's Friday

:wave: SSuper

Usual work day today I had a Friday slump as I was leaving the office so I was glad it was the end of the week

Glad you had a good evening Candy . food you haven't had to cook and good company what more can a girl ask for

Lunch was spinach and ricotta lasagna from the freezer,I had forgot that I made it with griddled aubergine and courgette instead of pasta

Dinner was going to be corned beef hash but I didn't fancy it when I got home, after poking about for ideas I made some vegetable spring rolls using the air fryer, probably just as well I was CFO :rotfl: they tasted really nice but the wrappers and I didn't get on :eek: one of those I'm not sure if they were worth the effort cook :think: I'll use the rest of the pack and see it I get on better with them next time :cool: maybe it was the make of wrappers?

I'm veggie, but my Nephew absolutely loves corned beef hash.Mum makes it 're him a lot:D
That lasagne sounds lush

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

.... vegetable spring ..... wrappers and I didn't get on .... not sure if they were worth the effort cook

I've never bought any because ..... they look a faff.

While they look nice if you're buying them ready made/being served them, the reality of faffing about is offputting.... and then you consider, what is it you're actually after...? Well, it's not the wrapper is it. OK, that crunchy bit's nice, but it doesn't actually do a lot in reality. You're eating the item because of what's in the middle .... and there are plenty of easier ways to eat that middle bit

Wednesday2000

I've had cereal and almond milk for breakfast.

I'm having 2 wraps with cheeze, cherry toms and salad leaves and dressing for lunch.

Not sure about dinner yet.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I didn't get online yesterday evening as I had a friend drop by early evening. By the time she'd gone and I had made dinner and caught up with MasterChef it was bedtime:).
It was a lovely day yesterday as long as you were well wrapped up and out of the wind and I got quite a bit done in the garden. The first of my crocuses has flowered so I'm hoping the rest won't be far behind as it's looking a bit lonely. I had hoped to get more done outdoors today and wash my back windows as the sunshine showed up how manky they are:o. However, it looks as though it's going to pour so I think they'll be staying dirty!
I've run out of sliced bread and was going to nip to the local shop to get some but instead I've decided it's a good opportunity to use up some of the bread products lurking in the freezer over the next few days. Lunch will be a toasted soda scone with cheese and tonight I'm having breaded pollock with a baked spud and peas/spinach.


PN- if you do make the trip to IKEA their box graters are great, I've had one for years and it has stayed sharp https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/cookware/kitchen-utensils/idealisk-grater-stainless-steel-art-66916200/

Farway

Turned cold & fogy this morning, I'd sort of penciled in volunteer gardening, erased that once I looked out

Porridge breakfast, still slight whiff of kippers from the nuker, must be in the "works" somewhere

I had a crisp sarnie yesterday evening, I'd forgotten just what a simple pleasure they can be

Lunch, another BLT sarnie

Dinner, weather is ideal to use up the LO braised beef + LO mash, may boil some fresh cabbage to go with it, I may as well have kitchen ponging of boiled cabbage as well as kippers:eek:

Clicked wrong button shopping this morning, now on trial A*zon Prime:mad:, I know I can cancel in time, just annoyed at myself for not paying attention

I may of course use the unintended consequences by binge watching the TV bits that come with it

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Just posted on similar forum tonights dinner which is 2nd half of last nights stir fry, also cooking curry, enough for about 3 days, in sc, I love doing sc meals as it is 3 at once, either freezer or next day, later will make soup, 3 portion in sm. Really fancy making rice pud in sc but will wait until its empty tomorrow after I have taken my cup of porrige out. Thank goodness for freezers as although I love cooking I just CBA to do it every day.

PasturesNew

Breakfast was sausages, scrambled eggs, has browns, beans, splash of brown sauce and a black coffee.

Now nibbling choc oaties, with a coffee.

PasturesNew

whmf00001 wrote: »

Just posted on similar forum tonights dinner which is 2nd half of last nights stir fry, also cooking curry, enough for about 3 days, in sc, I love doing sc meals as it is 3 at once, either freezer or next day, later will make soup, 3 portion in sm. Really fancy making rice pud in sc but will wait until its empty tomorrow after I have taken my cup of porrige out. Thank goodness for freezers as although I love cooking I just CBA to do it every day.

When I cook 3 portions ... I try to eat them all as my freezer's quite small and by the time I've got chips and hash browns and peas in there that's almost half the freezer gone

I used to love rice pudding at school dinners, I used to ask for/get given trible "skin" as most people didn't like it so the servers would scrape it to a corner and I'd get my portion then say "ooh, can I have some skin?" and they'd dole that out too... never ask before they've served you, else the portion size is reduced to accommodate the "extra" (top tip for fatties that is). I just buy the 20p cans of pud now from 4ldi and have half a can on two days running.... so very low volumes eaten, so no desire to make it in the SC and have rice pud overload.