Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I hope all those in the path of "Gareth" are safe and warm. It's battering it down here with wind & flood warnings, thankfully I'm far enough back from the sea to be out of the flood path:). I've secured everything I can outside and hopefully I'll get no damage.
The weather was reasonable until early afternoon and as the forecast is dire for a few days ran an errand that needed doing this week. I had just got back in when my Dad appeared with a bag of food stuffs that should be off menu for a bit and he doesn't want them to be in his house as temptation. Yesterday's difficult chat might just have sunk in albeit temporarily:D and as a plus I won't need to buy bacon for a while:cool:.

I'm trying to get organised for the houseful I have from Thursday and big grocery order is booked for tomorrow afternoon. I'll have a domestic day tomorrow and then hopefully chill out for a few days and enjoy the company.:D
Lunch today was a lovely fresh morning roll with lettuce, tomato, corned beef and pickle.

Tonight it's an easy option of scampi, oven chips, broccoli and green beans while I catch up with Masterchef.

Brambling

Gareth has been battering the windows today, being on the fifth floor at work we certainly feel the wind blowing around us. Too horrible to go out lunch time and I had left my fruit at home luckily it cleared to drive home

Caronc maybe feed your visitors a traditional cooked breakfast to use up some of that bacon, before your Greek visitor experiences traditional British weather :rotfl: great minds thinking alike, I've scampi in the fridge for tomorrow dinner .

Farway I hope you aren't sharing more than just the bad weather as I think I could have lurking lurgy as well just sniffles and wheezing so far but my colleague was coughing and complaining today :cool:

Lunch was more of my chicken soup with crackers and dinner was pork chop (all Farways talk of pork ) LO mash swede and carrot and using up the roasted cauliflower I made a quick cheese sauce, maybe a little generous with the cheese . As I left my fruit at home I ended up temped with my colleague birthday cupcakes left from yesterday I don't know why as I'm not that keen on chocolate cake :cool:

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Caronc maybe feed your visitors a traditional cooked breakfast to use up some of that bacon, before your Greek visitor experiences traditional British weather :rotfl:

Absolutely - I have lorne sausage & tattie scones in my grocery order:D.

elona

Having cooked two different lots of beef stew over the last few days I am "stewed out!" I knew I was going to see DD today so "kindly" asked her if I brought her and her DH some beef stew and dumplings then that would save her having to cook tonight.

Just had an e mail and her DH has practically inhaled it and they really enjoyed it. I feel quite Machiavellian but it has saved them some time and given me a break from stew.

A musclefood delivery has arrived and been packed away in the fridge and freezer and will make lots of different meals. The sizes are quite small 200 grammes rather than 400 or more so gives me more options as if I want to make a big dish of something I can use a couple of packs instead of trying to use up one large portion of meat on my own.

I noticed yesterday than when the rain was heavy it was not loudly pattering on the conservatory roof as it usually would and when I went in this morning the conservatory was not as absolutely freezing as it is normally is.

Pastures

Could you toast the pitta bread and then cut it up into croutons on top of soup?

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Absolutely - I have lorne sausage & tattie scones in my grocery order:D.

Introducing your visitor to square sausage

candygirl

Just had a cheese salad wrap, with chilli sauce n salad cream .Tasted better than It sounds lol :rotfl:

Brambling

elona wrote: »

Could you toast the pitta bread and then cut it up into croutons on top of soup?

I open them out and cut them into small triangles, spray with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper, herbs or spices and roast them in a hot oven to make pita 'chips' instead of tortilla chips to dip etc

Brambling

candygirl wrote: »

Just had a cheese salad wrap, with chilli sauce n salad cream .Tasted better than It sounds lol :rotfl:

Nice with grated carrots added to the cheese

PasturesNew

elona wrote: »

Pastures

Could you toast the pitta bread and then cut it up into croutons on top of soup?

I don't like/do croutons. Had some, many years ago - not a fan of "dry/crunchy stuff" when it comes to food, especially with my missing teeth

I've also only got one portion of soup,. Not a "fan" of soup as a rule.

PasturesNew

Yesterday I ate twice.

1/ Toast, scrambled eggs, beans
2/ Half a tin of meatballs in tomato sauce with the last of the spaghetti.

It's nice when you see the back of a pack that's been in the cupboard a year or more - and that spaghetti's been in the cupboard about a year So many portions in one pack.... takes months/years to get through one.


On the basis the tin of meatballs cost me 45p and I used half + I bought the 20p/500g of spaghetti, that whole "main meal" cost me under 30p

It can also be done in one dish: cook the spaghetti... then drain the spaghetti and toss it back in the dish with the meatballs/sauce for a further 2-3 minutes Win, win, win for that quick/easy CBA dinner