Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Those cut throat razors make me cringe!

I actually cut my leg for the first time in years when I was using a safe razor the other night. I dread to think what I would be like with one of those ones.:eek:

I cut myself on the most blunt bread knives or opening packets with a sharp edge.

I'm so clumsy. It's why I never bothered to learn to drive.:rotfl:

I intend to be very, very careful as I don't have a great track record with shaving my legs.....:o I suspect the tricky bit will be inserting/replacing the blade so I'm hoping not to lacerate my fingers doing that.

Yep blunt knives seem much more likely to cut you than sharp ones, though when I do get myself with a sharp one it tends to be a good 'un. I cut myself terribly years ago with a mandolin when the guard slipped though it was my own fault as I was chatting and not concentrating on the task properly. :(

Brambling

Evening

My worst cuts were caused by a corned beef tin and I still have the scars 25 years later :eek: I probably needed stitches but refused to go to A&E I just sat for half an hour with my arm in the air . I'm another one who ready shouldn't be allowed near my good kitchen knives :rotfl:

Work is really busy at the moment and due to get worst with the beginning of the month stuff starting tomorrow I worked through lunch and stayed until 7pm going over a shared piece of work with my colleague and we still have at least a couple more hours of work to try and fit in around our 10am - 5pm system testing this week :cool: the trouble with CFO nobody was cooking my dinner ready for me to get home, in fact the only male in my life was sitting on the doorstep loudly complaining about his dinner being two hours late :rotfl:

Lunch was LO black lentils and vegetables with the last of the mackerel eaten cold. Dinner was not as planned a mini roast dinner using chicken thighs but chicken and chips both done in the air fryer I have a LO thigh for lunch tomorrow.

I've a first world problem I think my dishwasher is dying or at least it will need surgery it does eventually start but I think it's the knob isn't selecting the settings as it will sometimes sit and hum it probably didn't help that it came away in my hand :cool: I'll have to think before replacing as I only have room for a slimline one which is more expensive than the usual size

caronc

My most random serious cut ever was on the edge of a kiddies paint box when I was about six, still have the rather horrible scar on my ring finger.:( I was trying to get the last bit of colour out of one of the embedded pellets to finish my painting and was suddenly sliced. It bled like billy o and ruined the rest of the set and I bled over my "masterpiece":(:(...... A&E did not do a tidy job of fixing it but I think I was more upset over my picture being only fit for the bin (though it probably was anyway:rotfl::rotfl:)

Dishwashers come under the "essential" category for me, mine is 10+ years old so keep waiting for it to die. When it does I'll definitely be getting it replaced and will cut corners cash-wise elsewhere!;)

Brambling

My dishwasher's only about 8 years old, I would miss it but wonder sometimes how much use a slimline one is ? My washing machine is approximately 12 so I think is on borrowed time, I need to find the time to work from home so I can get a man out

PasturesNew

Re knives, I'd be dangerous with a knife. Although I do possess a really cheap set of 3-4 (probably cost £1-2 or so), they're "just in case" I ever need a big knife. I think I used one once....

I do all my peeling/cutting/chopping/whatever using a small 65p/£1 paring knife. I've got a straight one and a serrated one. They're both probably 10-15 years old. My parents, too, used paring knives to cut 99.99% of anything, so that's "the norm" for my experience.

Yesterday I removed a pack of mince from the freezer; I'd bought some with a half price YS on and split the pack into two portions to freeze. I think it's mixed pork/beef mince. The plan is to toss it in the general direction of the SC in a bit, with some chopped onions and a couple of tins of assorted beans and some chilli powder.

Yesterday I ate:
2 bread crusts with baked beans.
Last slice of bread, toasted, with chocolate spread.
1 bread roll, with margarine.
60g of chocolate.

Today I might go out to get some bread/rolls at 8am. I don't need anything else, I need to eat what I've got.

I'm short of/just about run out of cheap cheddar cheese now - ideally L1dl would have a cheese weekend offer, but, no doubt, I'll buy some full price cheese and then they'll announce a deal the following weekend, which is always annoying as I could've waited.

EDIT: Well, the chilli went on about an hour ago.... but it's only just hit me! Last night I'd decided I wasn't going to make a chilli, I was going to make some porcupine meatballs (good sized meatballs with rice throughout them) in tomato/basil sauce. Oh well. I'm always doing that, having a good/better idea, then forgetting. I used to like those when they appeared in the works' canteen years ago.

EDIT 2: Had a quick look on MSE to see if there were any mention of L1dl cheap cheese, looks like I missed it, it was last weekend

Took a quick run out to 4ldi when they opened, perchance a YS + I needed "something bread like". Did all right. Spent £7.21

YS: Pack of 8 fresh beefburgers, pack of 5 mixed peppers, pack of 4 cheese topped rolls.

Pack of 4 bread rolls, tub of sandwich filler, 4 egg custard tarts, bar of chocolate, pack of chocolate oat biscuits, a smallish block of extra mature cheddar.

The peppers were the cheapo bags, usually £1.21 for five, so 61p for five. I'll have to freeze those peppers (still got one from the last bag), but I instantly chopped one up and tossed it into the chilli. These bags tend to be mostly the horrid greens, but there is one red one, one red/green and two of the greens are slightly on the turn/orangey. I chopped up the solid green one for the chilli, just to get rid of it.

So - food overload!

I'll, no doubt, have sandwich filler in a cheese topped roll in a bit and an egg custard tart

Wednesday2000

Oh God, these cutting stories are making me cringe, I would never use a mandolin either! :eek:I cut myself badly a few years ago when I was cooking after drinking.:o My husband wanted me to go to A&E, but I refused. It's healed now, luckily. I can't even remember where the cut was.:rotfl: Probably finger.

caronc

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Oh God, these cutting stories are making me cringe, I would never use a mandolin either! :eek:I cut myself badly a few years ago when I was cooking after drinking.:o My husband wanted me to go to A&E, but I refused. It's healed now, luckily. I can't even remember where the cut was.:rotfl: Probably finger.

Good morning everyone,

Nope alcohol and sharp things are not a good combination - I managed to stab myself years ago on the the small sharp bit on corkscrews for cutting foil on wine bottles after a few glasses:o:o.
PN- I tend to use small knives too, I have small hands so find them easier but it's small knives I tend to nick myself with rather than big ones.
My loaf is out of the fridge to prove for a couple of hours before I bake it. It has been a bit of a faff but I'm sure I'll be more streamlined next time. I just hope the results are worth the effort!
It's another damp and drizzling day, I have a quick errand to run which I'm hope to do between showers but suspect that might be wishful thinking, still I won't melt if I get rained on :rotfl:.
Last of the mini pork pies for lunch and a gammon steak tonight for dinner tonight. I have cheese sauce in the freezer and a cauli in the fridge so might knock up a quick cauli cheese to go with it.

Farway

All this knife talk and I'm sitting here with sliced thumb LO from the other day;)
I do like having sharp knives though, my normal one is long carving type one. I've got a mandolin type thing, but it's got a food holder for slicing, not that I use it much, far quicker to slice with my big knife than faff around finding the slicer jobby in the mess that is my "where shall I bung this" cupboard



Woke to fresh bread smell, another loaf on overnight timed in the panny, looking good on the side cooling.

Caron I tried sourdough making a few years back brewed up a starter etc but found it too much faffing for me, then the starter went "off" and that was the end of that


I finished up with just cheesy baked spud last nigh, went off the salad idea. I think the YS chipolatas I bought did not agree with me, I noticed I had tum ache before, and same last night with cold cooked LO, now binned:(


Back to porridge + banana for breakfast


Now I've a fresh overnight loaf & LO mash I had a light bulb moment before I got up
Lunch corned beef + sliced raw onion sarnie [fingers well tucked under;)]


Dinner will be corned beef hash using the LO mash:j Ages since I've had hash, and today's the day


Very warm out today, even moved the tomatoes out to start hardening off. Plus my next batch of French beans have germinated, full steam ahead for summer

Brambling wrote: »

My dishwasher's only about 8 years old, I would miss it but wonder sometimes how much use a slimline one is ? My washing machine is approximately 12 so I think is on borrowed time, I need to find the time to work from home so I can get a man out

Like you I've only space for slimline, when my DW went pop in January I bought a new one, mainly because of lack of bendyness just no way I could crawl around on floor, upend it etc.

Once sums were done it was debatable about getting someone out with labour costs + parts.



My new one was from Ar6os, own white label, about £180 delivered & take the old one away, it's nothing fancy, just 4 wash options, but does what I need and 4 options are 2 too many for me really, quick rinse & wash would suit me

It washes fine, even gets the manky tea stained teapot clean


Bummer, just checked to supply the link, it's gone down £30:(

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Like you I've only space for slimline, when my DW went pop in January I bought a new one, mainly because of lack of bendyness just no way I could crawl around on floor, upend it etc.

Once sums were done it was debatable about getting someone out with labour costs + parts.

My new one was from Ar6os, own white label, about £180 delivered & take the old one away, it's nothing fancy, just 4 wash options, but does what I need and 4 options are 2 too many for me really, quick rinse & wash would suit me
It washes fine, even gets the manky tea stained teapot clean
Bummer, just checked to supply the link, it's gone down £30:(

Thank Farway, when i brought my last one it cost more than the 'normal' size one so I may have to think about it, as you say time I paid to get a man out. I'll have to do some measuring when I get in as it's a tight squeeze for the one I got so I can't have anything bigger see how easily I can be talked into it :rotfl:

I use several knives depending on what I'm doing I have a lovely well balance large kitchen knife which is great for doing a lot of chopping or for herbs other wise i tend to use a paring knife especially if peeling and chopping a potato or carrot etc. I use my mandolin quite a bit but lost my guard for it years ago so have to be careful of fingers :rotfl: My mum only used either a carving knife or a paring knife and as kids we spent a lot of time hunting the compost heap for her well worn brown handle paring knife which she would throw out with the peelings :cool:

late lunch today and I didn't fancy the planned LO chicken thigh this morning so I made a quick smoked mackerel and watercress salad with a dollop of horseradish on the smoked mackerel. Dinner may be the chicken but I will probably save that for tomorrow lunch as I have a small YS cheese and tomato pizza in the freezer calling my name which I can add extra toppings to and air fry quickly

UncannyScot

Hi Folks, just popping in

Been doing some home baking this week and done two Date and Walnut loaves so far...
Have a few more bakes to do though undecided as to what to tackle next