Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I've had that horrible herbal stuff a glass of water and then a cold Linda McC sausage.

I fancy beans on toast but I put beans in the curry I'm having for lunch today.

I might just have crumpets and Marmite instead.

Farway

Back again, new TV + stand installed by DS, good job I'd never have managed even lifting the thing. At last I'll be able to read any subtitles & text
This thing seems to have more controls than a moon rocket

Late lunch of corned beef & mustard sarne

Dinner, no real idea, nice beefy smell from the slow cooker so either some of that or last of the LO toad IH + LO beans
No other cooking will take pace here today

PasturesNew

Breakfast today was toast/beans/scrambled eggs.

Some chocolate oat biscuits were scoffed with coffee.

Lunch was 2 crumpets/marg.

For tea I've almost finished cooking spicy chilli meatballs with mexican rice

Brambling

You're have to check Lakeland next time your in Chichester Farway I think their wooden tongs are just over £2 they were by the till and there are bamboo ones in their catalog which are about £1.50 but not sure if in store. Enjoy your new [STRIKE]toy[/STRIKE] tv

Quiet day pottering, my head was too full of work when I went to bed so I only got about four hours sleep when I'm tired and grumpy I'm best on my own so I declined a walk into town with my sister. I did some tidying and made a simple vegetable soup for lunches with odds and sods from the veggie container.

Lunch was stir fry veg with rice. For dinner I made a leek in blue cheese recipe and added it to cauliflower rather than making cauliflower cheese and had with asparagus and gammon. Stewed rhubarb for pud

Please stop talking crumpets I'm trying to avoid the ones in the freezer

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

I'll pour you a glass, I have a local gin opened :rotfl:

If I had a straw I would have stuck it straight in the bottle .

Bother I was in my pjs with a cuppa when you posted - is there any left?


Good evening everyone,

Happy new TV Farway - if you're anything like me you'll use just a few of the numerous buttons.:rotfl::rotfl:
It has been unbelievably cold here today with a biting wind bringing the "feels like" factor to just a couple of degrees. My friend's walked their pooches on the beach before coming over and despite being well wrapped up were frozen when they arrived. I'm so pleased I decided to make us soup rather than salady bits for lunch. Must be lentil soup weather UK-wide as I've been coaching over the phone/text my elder son how to make lentil soup like I make it as they had bought a ham hock. Although he used to be a chef until a few years ago he wasn't a soup fan so never "learned" my way unlike my younger son and apparently previous attempts haven't been quite right:rotfl::rotfl:. I think he was probably over-complicating but they seem pleased with the results. I might now not need to make a batch over Easter as is the usual request. For the first time since my Mum died in 2002 I'm not hosting dinner on Easter Sunday:eek::eek: but we are going to the friends who were here today instead. On Saturday with all the kids home we are doing a lot of clearing at my Dad's so I was delighted when they offered as it would have been a lot to get organised on top of a busy/stressful day. Like they always do when they come to mine we will make various things to take with us but these (HM beetroot cured salmon, mackerel pate and devilled eggs) can be done advance or put together on the Sunday morning so no stressing.

In true CFO-style I had a slice of LO pizza for breakfast :cool:and then my soup/bread/cheese lunch which was tasty. Dinner tonight is jerk-spiced roasted chicken thigh, flat mushroom, cauli & charlotte spuds, my favourite easy oven "bung in". There's a good few portions of lentil soup left as it was a big pot full so lunches are covered for a few days and some will head to the freezer.

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Bother I was in my pjs with a cuppa when you posted - is there any left?

I'll swap you some for some beetroot cured salmon . It sounds like they are good friends and you had a good day

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

I'll swap you some for some beetroot cured salmon . It sounds like they are good friends and you had a good day

Deal :). Yes they are:D - one of them is actually my second cousin so family really but easier to say friends as it's a fairly distant relationship on paper though far from it in reality.

Fire_Fox

Thank you for the welcome Caronc, Brambling, Wednesday2000 and Farway. All the chat here is making me crave granary bread - cheese on toast, eggy bread - and I don't usually bother about it!

The curried vegetable soup ended up thick, more like lentil daal, probably because I used a full block of creamed coconut. Tasty and very filling.

Forgot to add the garlic to the blue cheese and vegetable soup yesterday. :doh: No idea HOW given that garlic is one of my favourite kitchen smells! Nice but nothing special.

I took some yellow sticker sea bass fillets out of the freezer last night, so they need cooking tonight. Not sure how best to 'spice them up' ... harissa paste maybe ...

ryanmaryland

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I would love a hot tub where you could sit outside and get daylight, but be in hot water so you are warm. I can dream, lol.

Did you know, a hot tub experience is actually good for your well-being. Read it here: https://!!!!!!/2FOFflK

An exercise group was created to check and see the benefit of a warm tub experience in treating depressed patients.

I don't know about you but it sure does make my day fresher after taking a warm hot bath.

PasturesNew

Last 2 crumpets of the pack for breakfast, but they taste of mould.

Can't see anything, no green bits.... still eating them though