Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Welcome Steve900, I'm sure you'll find plenty to suit here, very mixed bag of ideas, some MSE & some not

Into L's again this morning, YS back on the shelves, MFO ready meals Thai green curry, veggie chilli & large pizza.
Bish bash bosh, three days meals sorted for £3.33.
Plus in the clear it quick at 20p, chestnut mushrooms, bag of ready salad & sliced fresh fruit.:j:j

Lunch was half the pizza, with half the bag of salad

Dinner, probably the curry, with the sliced fresh fruit for pud

I'm out tomorrow so food will be eaten out, but the chilli will keep which I why I left it to last, being veg I'm assuming it won't have the same propensity to go off like chicken curry could

Disaster on my cunning growing beetroot plan, something, cat I bet, had knocked over the pots they were growing in:mad:, salvaged what i could, time will tell:(

elona

I have been eating homemade spicy chicken and veg noodles for the last two days and still have a big portion in the fridge. I really don't fancy it so am waiting till I get really hungry to try to tackle eating it.

Another grocery delivery arrives in about 30 minutes with ingredients for a lasagne using courgette slices instead of pasta sheets, salad veg and pork ribs and veg to make a soup/stew as well as frozen lamb chops and more veg as well as eggs and low fat sausages.

Two DDs and maybe fiance are coming round on Sunday so I promised lasagne with salad and lots of veg.

Just decided I could not face the chicken noodles so had some lean sliced ham and gherkins and pork ribs and veg are in the pressure king pro so I can try a little tonight and put most of it in the fridge for tomorrow.

DD came round today with her baby so I made us a lean burger with green veg and actifry potato wedges for lunch which we really enjoyed.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Hope the beetroot recover Farway - at least it's not to late to grow more if needed.
Don't blame you swerving the chicken & noodles for the third time Elona, when it comes to my main meal of the day I struggle to eat the same thing two days running though don't mind LOs or soup for lunch several days in a row. It's the CFO curse of making "family sized" meals - great in some ways but a PITA in others.;) Could the remaining noodles be frozen as is or turned into soup to have at some point in the future?:)
You rattled through the sausage rolls PN, you'll need to get them added back on to your shopping list.:):rotfl:
I cleared what I wanted to from my "to do" list and managed to avoid adding anything to it today.:D Just need to roast the aubergines/garlic tonight to make baba ganoush tomorrow, I'll pop them in when I'm heating up my steak bake & oven chips and let them finish cooking/cool overnight in the oven. It's really cold here tonight so no risk of them going "off" if not in the fridge.
My sis popped by for a quick cuppa on her way home and to confirm arrangements for going to our friends tomorrow, it was good to get a quick catch up, she's glad that's her first week back at work over. I think our wee overnight jaunt tomorrow will do us both good .

Brambling

Welcome Steve900 :wave:

If you're reading have a great holiday Flubberzing, enjoy Italy

I'm glad today's over as it's my busy day of the month and I'm usually stressed and ratty by the time I manage to leave the office . Not helped by my colleague who worked from home Skyping me at 5pm to say she hadn't done much work today :mad: I wasn't surprised as she was flying off on holiday tonight, I may have been a little snarky when I replied back. It's not usual for her but I think she was demob happy and didn't think when she spoke, unfortunately my work wasn't something I could share with her when she was at home :cool: anyway moaning over as it's Friday. :j:j :beer: and I'm thinking G&T :rotfl:

I'm meeting a friend in Chichester tomorrow for [STRIKE]gossip[/STRIKE] catch up we tend to move from one eatery to another and consider ourselves good if we make it to two shops

Elona I think we've all done the open fridge door and pulled a face at LOs and closed it again :cool: I cooked a lovely piece of gammon at the beginning of the week but was glad to see the back of it yesterday

I hadn't sorted lunch last night so it was simple soft blue cheese with some crackers and an apple followed by rhubarb and strawberries. Dinner was also a little cba I made a couple of fish cakes with LO mash and a little piece of cooked salmon from the freezer and LO runner beans.

caronc

Sounds as the G&T was well deserved Brambling - hope it hit the spot:beer::)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Sounds as the G&T was well deserved Brambling - hope it hit the spot:beer::)

Hic . :shhh:

So I'm watching Jamie O cook I'm not convinced by pork and peaches but then again I tend not to do meat and fruit however his pork chop looked delicious

caronc

I like a gammon steak with peach so don't see why with a pork chop it wouldn't be tasty as pork & apple works well.
Generally though, I'm fussy about fruit in savoury dishes but like French verbs pork & fruit is my exception:). Worst ever was a chicken & fruit cocktail concoction a friend made for a "girls night" in the late 80s, it decidedly didn't "go" with the cauli cheese and mash served with it_pale_, adding to the ick factor it was fruit in syrup rather than juice. When we get together we still laugh/grimace about it- these days if she is hosting it's a takeaway or pre-made "picky bits" :rotfl::rotfl:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

I like a gammon steak with peach so don't see why with a pork chop it wouldn't be tasty as pork & apple works well.
Generally though, I'm fussy about fruit in savoury dishes but like French verbs pork & fruit is my exception:). Worst ever was a chicken & fruit cocktail concoction a friend made for a "girls night" in the late 80s, it decidedly didn't "go" with the cauli cheese and mash served with it_pale_, adding to the ick factor it was fruit in syrup rather than juice. When we get together we still laugh/grimace about it- these days if she is hosting it's a takeaway or pre-made "picky bits" :rotfl::rotfl:

He was using tinned peaches and I'm assuming in juice as I was only half watching

Chicken and fruit cocktail _pale_ I've a couple of exceptions rabbit and prunes (french?) but I haven't cooked that in years and a Middle East type lamb dish with pomegranate couscous I love the pop of fruit when eating

Farway

Up a bit earlier, just couldn't drop back off again

Porridge for breakfast

Off out in a bit, I'm going in the opposite direction to Brambling, it's Romsey way for me, walking round Hillier's arboretum, hopefully looking & photographing blossom & spring flowers, after tea in the cafe of course:)
Sun's looking promising, at least no rain

Caron, I've got more beetroot in reserve, the ones in the pots were my cunning plan to get an early start, fail there:(

Another cunning plan, with my surprise success growing parsley from seed, and now I've a glut of the stuff I may just try a parsley loaf using my Panny, should work, much like herby bread I expect, no good for jam butty though:D

Lunch will be eaten in some cafe in Romsey I expect

Dinner, too far off to think, but if hungry it's either LO cold pizza or nuke the MFO veg chilli

Brambling

Have a good day in Romsey Farway, I like the Hilliers garden I sometimes go with my sister if I'm staying with her. . I remember a lot of sculptures I think? Have a good day

You can chop and freeze your parsley

I best shake a leg or I'll miss my train :eek: thanks to the Brighton team semi finals at Wembley? (that's as far as my football knowledge goes) engineering work has been cancelled so I'll catch the train to Chichester avoids trying to park and I can have a wine with lunch :beer:

Have a good day all