Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

ryanmaryland wrote: »

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.

Hot tubs .... the potential for the bacteria from strangers' bums being squirted at your bum. Not an activity I'd be queueing up to join in with!

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Hot tubs .... the potential for the bacteria from strangers' bums being squirted at your bum. Not an activity I'd be queueing up to join in with!

I had to giggle at this thought:)
The only hot tub I used was years back, working in Florida and went with colleagues to American friend's house. All every pleasant, cold beer, hot sun & water. I'm sure cold beer kills bum germs doesn't it? Probably needs more study, cold beer + sun that is not the other

PN, maybe the "mould" is lingering in the crumpet pores / holes. Back to bum germs:D

I don't like lentils, but fancy lentil soup now, just maybe look into that with my LO slow cooked beef stock, smells too nice to not do something with, some sort of beefy based soup was my initial thought

Thanks Brambling, never thought of Lakeland for wooden tongs

Last night I also had bowl of muesli, just not enough LO toad & beans to fill belly up properly

Porridge breakfast

The SC beef is falling apart tender & tasty, it will participate in lunchtime sarnie with fresh HM loaf. Unfortunately still no horseradish sauce in this house, curse on L's for that

Dinner, must be cold beef, maybe with baked spud & salad?

Pud has been delivered. This morning I gave a colleague some of my excess tomato plants, he has given me some of his excess fresh rhubarb
Crumble ahoy:j

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
:rotfl::rotfl:PN re the "bum germs" but re the mouldy tasting crumpets.
I do enjoy a hot tub but they have to properly maintained or you can get infections as my son found to his cost a few years ago after a boys weekend:eek::eek::eek:, he had a terrible rash over most of his body but not his face. The Dr took one look and immediately said "hot tub", it cleared up okay but was scaly & itchy for a while.
It's still perishing here and very windy, I've lots of adminy things to do so happy to have an indoors day. Lentil soup for lunch and either pasta or a stir fry tonight.

Wednesday2000

I was going to have beans on toast but I felt that the avocado was now ripe so I had an avocado sandwich and a fruit smoothie.:)

I have some more of that curry but yesterday I blended it up and added some coriander but it didn't taste as nice. That might have to be binned.

ryanmaryland wrote: »

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.

Interesting.:)

caronc wrote: »

I do enjoy a hot tub but they have to properly maintained or you can get infections as my son found to his cost a few years ago after a boys weekend:eek::eek::eek:, he had a terrible rash over most of his body but not his face. The Dr took one look and immediately said "hot tub", it cleared up okay but was scaly & itchy for a while.

Yes, I've heard about that before!:eek:

Farway

Lunch solved, used up last scrape of HM chutney on my SC beef sarnie

Rhubarb duly stewed & in a crumble, along with baked spud for dinner, not in the crumble although it reads like that:D
Very MSE, using same oven:money:

After lunch I potted on nearly 30 tomato plants, I think yet again I've over done the toms, only needed about 20 total, including the small pot ones

If it wasn't for blight I'd be happy with them outside, think I'll have to risk it this year, no choice, only so many I can [STRIKE]palm off [/STRIKE]give away to friends

Farway

Update, crumble's out of oven, looking good enough to eat:)
Found packet of L's ready mix custard, just in time, BBE is July

I'll try & remember to get more in tomorrow, the crumble is a two tin size:D

Wednesday2000

I've had an apple and crackers with PB.

I'm having Quorn pieces with mashed potato, carrots and cauliflower and gravy for dinner. HP sauce on the veggies too.:)

Fire_Fox

Needed a few ingredients for recipes to use up less-than-fresh veg, but went to the supermarket on an empty stomach ....

Came home with a big wedge of 'The Best' stilton, two rainbow trout fillets, 'The Best' pork and ale sausages, watercress, red gem lettuces, and frozen pomegranate seeds. All yellow sticker except the pom seeds. I have two packs of good sausages and several packs of salmon in the freezer, and I don't eat many leafy salads. :doh:

Then made Middle Eastern tomato salad (red onion/ long pepper/ walnuts/ pom molasses/ spices). Party in my mouth!

And made Moroccan carrot salad (chickpeas/ orange/ golden sultanas/ pistachios/ spices). Needs more spice and no chickpeas.

Slowly eating the sea bass with harissa from last night, plus a portion of each salad.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Lunch solved, used up last scrape of HM chutney on my SC beef sarnie

Rhubarb duly stewed & in a crumble, along with baked spud for dinner, not in the crumble although it reads like that:D
Very MSE, using same oven:money:

After lunch I potted on nearly 30 tomato plants, I think yet again I've over done the toms, only needed about 20 total, including the small pot ones

If it wasn't for blight I'd be happy with them outside, think I'll have to risk it this year, no choice, only so many I can [STRIKE]palm off [/STRIKE]give away to friends

Rhubarb crumble is my favourite way to have rhubarb and crumble though any kind of crumble is lovely:).
I wish my toms were at the stage yours are at Farway, I've reached a lull in seed sowing as it's been far too cold to harden off & get my bedding plants outdoors and I've no more room indoors. One of the panes in my greenhouse needs fixing so it's not an option though my son has promised to sort it next week.:D

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Needed a few ingredients for recipes to use up less-than-fresh veg, but went to the supermarket on an empty stomach ....

Came home with a big wedge of 'The Best' stilton, two rainbow trout fillets, 'The Best' pork and ale sausages, watercress, red gem lettuces, and frozen pomegranate seeds. All yellow sticker except the pom seeds. I have two packs of good sausages and several packs of salmon in the freezer, and I don't eat many leafy salads. :doh:

Then made Middle Eastern tomato salad (red onion/ long pepper/ walnuts/ pom molasses/ spices). Party in my mouth!

And made Moroccan carrot salad (chickpeas/ orange/ golden sultanas/ pistachios/ spices). Needs more spice and no chickpeas.

Slowly eating the sea bass with harissa from last night, plus a portion of each salad.

Oh lovely sounding meal Fire Fox, I'd happily take any LOs off of your hands;):).


Good evening everyone,
It's still really cod here though the wind has dropped a bit, we've showers forecast for tomorrow which should warm things up and there is apparently to be a heatwave this weekend so fingers crossed. I'm fed up of fleeces & thermal socks!
I had a reasonably productive day, got the admin I wanted out of the way done and cleared out the two bottom shelves in my larder cupboard. Glad I did as I found a leaked tin of golden syrup making a sticky mess, it had got knocked over and shoved to the back of the very bottom shelf which I find hard to access. I had forgotten I had it and the BBE was 09/2016:o:o:o. It's in the bin along with a bag of "boil in the bag" rice of a similiar vintage that I don't remember buying so must date from I had resident kids:o:o. The shelf now only has stuff at the front that I can reach easily so I can see what's there:D.
I had soup & bread for lunch and it's meatballs, tom sauce and pasta for dinner. I've a pork steak in fridge to defrost to make some sort of stir fry tomorrow.

Brambling

Caronc heads you can have Fire Fox's LOs tails I will .

Fire Fox where do you get frozen pomegranate seeds I've never see them? Can you make something like peas and lettuce to use up your salad leaves I usually make it with little gem lettuces, you could go from middle eastern to french

I love rhubarb crumble as well, definitely a taste from my childhood and reminds me a lot of my mum as she made a great one with birds custard most Sundays during the rhubarb season as we had several crowns but I'm trying to be good so I'm omitting the crumble from mine and it's not the same

The temperature is beginning to warm up here for a forecast barmy 22 at the weekend I walked lunchtime without a jacket, it was just a little chilly when out of the sun.

Lunch was a portion of the veg soup I made yesterday and dinner LO gammon with a 'Thai' salad with a peanut dressing