Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Have always preferred chinese take-a-way chips then chip shop chips (not the same now they have to use healthy oil and not fat) but my fav potatoes are good crispy crunchy roasties, the ones with dark brown crunchy hard edges, not those that some carvery chains give which have been fried off in chip pan. This is why I love a carvery as just not worth it just for one, not the same. I like a jkt done in micro but again, would prefer done in oven. Them were the days !!!

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Yeah crispy roasties or proper dripping chips are so lovely. There is a chippy in a near by town that still uses dripping to fry and they are always queued out the door:).

I start of my baked spuds in the microwave so they just need to go in the oven to crisp up.

Gloomy, windy and pouring here this morning. It's to be windy all day but supposed to dry up later.
Going for a cooked brunch today of a toasted soda scone with lorne, egg & mushrooms.
Tonight I'm doing a version of sumac chicken where you roast it & lots of onions on top of a flatbread (I'm using a Greek pitta). The bread absorbs all of the cooking juices and goes lovely and crispy.:D I'll mix the onions with some red pepper as I've half of one needing used up and will serve with spinach.

Wednesday2000

I think I will make roast potatoes today now.:D

I had a gross breakfast of 2 slices of toast with cherry toms, salad leaves, vegan cheese and apple cider vinegar. I ended up throwing half of it away, the leaves were too bitter.:eek:

I had some crisps instead.:o:p

SunnyGirl

Afternoon everyone.

I'm having a bit of time on the laptop while my hair colour 'cooks'. I'm another one who loves potatoes in any form at all but my favourite is mashed with lots of butter, black pepper and salt

Faraway When I've had similar yukky smells in the microwave I've dissolved some bicarb in warm water and given everything a good slosh round. Leave the door open and let it sit for half an hour then rinse and repeat if needed. It gets rid of most lingering smells. In the summer my son heated up, and exploded, an oily lamb curry in mine and it smelt/made everything taste of curry for a week before I tried the bicarb trick. HTH.

My Mum was at the doctors on Friday for her test results and it was okish. Her leaking heart valve was at the mild stage 4 years ago and is now at the moderate end of the scale. However, the usual practice is no surgical treatment until it passes the moderate stage. She has been given another tablet to help her heart as it's working very hard at the moment, and an urgent referral to a cardiologist as she may need another angioplasty and stents inserting in some other small veins.

It's not a quick fix and she has to learn her limitations but it's not the death sentence we were dreading. All in all we're positive about everything.

Home alone last night and today and am having a very lazy day and am not even dressed yet :rotfl: Lunch was a packet of crunch cream biscuits and I have no idea what dinner will be. I was going to go to my parents but Mum is tired and having a rest today. I have some fish fingers that I discovered in the freezer so may have them either in a sandwich or with potato in some form and beans. I only have new potatoes in the house at the moment but could roast them now you've all got me in a potato mood Decisions, decisions

I've planned my meals for the coming week and will be eating a lot better/healthier than I am today

Farway

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I had some crisps instead.:o:p

Hat's off to you, true CFO style:D

No sign of my package, delivery update has now changed to "today" from a specific time, good job I never stayed in on purpose

Tales of exploding microwave food, I'll try the bicarb option, or learn to love kippery porridge;)

I've cooked the lamb and it's now "resting" before I put the roast stuff in later, lovely smell, tried a lamb slice, just in case:o
I foresee cold lamb sarnies on the menu

Spuds peeled, skins manky, rest of veg prepped, another harvest from the garden, thyme sprigs added to lamb when cooking

PasturesNew

Today I've had some chocolate oaties biscuits.

Breakfast was my last egg/scrambled, sausages, beans, hash browns.

My meal I'm currently cooking is a pack of a frozen beef stew I made in the past (no idea what's inside it... but it's beef/stew for sure).... the final Yorkshire (from the 4-pack I bought for Xmas dinner) that was cluttering up the freezer, some frozen peas and some mashed potato.

I'm trying to run down the freezer as it needs defrosting .... it'll get done some time in March by the looks of it. Determined to do it now and not be tempted to put anything else in there, else I'm just storing up future trouble for myself as ice grows, it doesn't decrease.

caronc

Good evening everyone.
I'm glad SG that your Mum's test results weren't as bad as you feared and you are all feeling positive.:DRoast lamb Farway lucky you - I hope you have enough left for a darnie as IMHO cold lamb is just as lovely as hot:). I was in my early teens before I ever had cold lamb as if we had it as a roast the remains were always used up in shepherd's pie the next day. I was out for high tea with my grandparents for a treat and lamb salad was one of the main options. It was blinking lovely:).
As forecast, it did dry up though it remained windy it was fine for another potter in the garden. Lots of the crocuses are now out and the muscari are just beginning to flower:D. It's turned cold tonight though and the wind has fair ramped up over the last hour, I think we are in for a stormy night!

Chicken & veg are prepped and in the marinade and just needed popped on a pitta and roasted. I'll enjoy dinner with a glass of wine and "Call the Midwife":)

Brambling

Glad the news wasn't as bad as you feared Sunny

Beautiful day lovely and sunny and I got in a couple of miles walking my one daffodil is in flower, not sure what happened to the others this year although I do have a small clump of narcissus which are in bud.

I seem to have a temporary wonky donkey of my own at the moment I was fine out walking this morning but bent down to sort something out when I got home and was dizzy enough to have to sit down suddenly . Initially I thought it was because I didn't eat this morning having forgotten I hadn't eating much last night but unfortunately food hasn't fixed it :cool: I had a really bad night's sleep last night so it could be that but seeing as moving my head too much and bending over makes me dizzy it's reminding me of Labyrinthitis . I'll have to see what tomorrow brings after hopefully a good night sleep.

Luckily I made my soup this morning butternut squash, carrot and leek with a few other odds and ends of veg thrown in, there does seem to be rather a lot as I used the bigger saucepan by mistake and filled it :eek: I also made a fruit salad at the same time which this time made it to the fridge and not the floor :rotfl:

Lunch was quorn steak air fried for ease as I was a little wobbly in a pita with some salad followed by Greek yogurt and fruit. Dinner was inspired by the same part of the world as your sumac chicken Caronc chicken thighs marinaded in pomegranate molasses, cinnamon, tomato puree with roasted shallots and peppers on a bed of bulgar wheat mixed with loads of veg and pomegranate seeds with additional green beans. There was a lot of veg so I ended up eating just the one piece of chicken and half the bulgar wheat so LOs and i think the fruit salad will end up as breakfast

caronc

Oh no Brambling - much sympathy re the wonky donkey symptoms they're so horrible. I hope they resolve overnight, if not please get it checked <<hug>>. Hope you enjoyed your chicken sounds lush- pomegranate molasses are like hen's teeth in these parts!

Brambling

Thanks Caronc ive currently a slightly drunken stagger when I first get up so I fear it's my ear

There is a little shop in town which sells stuff lose in bins flour, sugar etc etc as well as the bins he has a good supply of reasonably price food usually found in the World Food aisles of supermarkets like the pomegranate molasses, Gram flour etc as well as little bags of nearly every herbs and spice you can think of usually approx 40p a bag one of my favourite shops :rotfl: