Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Back for another[STRIKE] lazy sort of [/STRIKE]convalescing day, YS Pukka steak & kidney out to defrost for dinner


Porridge as usual breakfast
Lunch, no idea, dinner the pie + frozen chips I think


I may plant up two tomatoes int he conservatory, I can manage that
I miss relaxing in there in this weather, I've got a sunbed type lounger I use, but I'd never get out of it without straining my op so best avoided


May potter into garden, my French beans need plating out in a large pot but I'll see how I feel later


FlubbZ, good plan building up a reserve, I used to do that, just take any available overtime, you never know if or when he tap could be turned off

Wednesday2000

I haven't had anything yet as I have to go and get my blood tests! Just drinking water.

Wednesday2000

I just had two toasted pitta with houmous and olives.

I'm still hungry,:o:D I'm going to have the last of the soup and add half a tin of green lentils to it.

Farway

Lunch became grilled cheese on toast topped with piccalilli


Dinner still Pukka steak & kid pie + frozen chips

Made a mistake & watched Till us do part + Freddy Starr on you tube, ouch my poor old hernia hurt with laughing


Planted two toms in conservatory but decided to play safe & skip the outside Bean planting for today

Wednesday2000

I had a nap as I felt woozy after getting the blood tests, it was quite warm here today too.

My shopping is coming soon, I really fancy the strawberries I ordered.:drool:

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Oh I just love spanakoptia and while mine is decent enough it's not as good as my son's Greek fiancee's even though I seem to make it the same way. I wish I had some lurking in the freezer that, a nice greek salad and a glass of wine would just hit the spot tonight!
I'm a tired teddy thos evening , did a load of bendy housework this morning and then after a quick nap headed out to carry on planting. It was a bit of gloomy, dampish start to the day but it then turned lovely & sunny. Maybe not quite a hot as yesterday but still pretty warm. I had a small grocery shop delivered (made up with beer for the kids next week and some wine for the rack to meet the minimum basket charge;)) mainly bits for my friend coming over tomorrow and enough staples to keep me going over the weekend as I'll need to stock up for a houseful at the beginning of the week. Lunch was a tasty seeded sub roll filled with the remaining pastrami, some cream cheese & sliced tomato and 1/2 a huge crisp apple. It was far too big for me to do it justice so the other half is sitting cut side down in a little water in the fridge. Seriously cba so dinner will be a fridge/freezer rummage and see what I fancy.:)

Brambling

Evening all

I've just managed to get off the phone with one my sister's a lovely long catch up until my BIL asked what we had to talk about for an hour . Not the easiest conversation as I was wearing the cat, he was draped across my bust purring in my ear I'm assuming he through I was talking to him.

Lovely drive home tonight and as I passed the house near me with the peacocks there was one on each gate post with long tails hanging down with a third standing between them, I just wish I could have stopped but there was a car behind me and it's a narrow lane

Lunch today was the last of the chicken in a salad, I brought a half cooked one and it did me four good lunches. Dinner was Nasi Goreng with some LO runner beans and broccoli, I had no cooked rice so I used a sachet of rice so nice and quick, there's enough LO Nasi for tomorrow lunch minus the veg and egg. Salmon take out of the freezer for tomorrow dinner I'll have to think what to do with it, will depend on what kind of day I have tomorrow probably will be something simple as I have new potatoes to use up

flubberyzing

caronc wrote: »

Hope you are being MSE and making stock from the carcass;):), I do love how a whole chicken stretches into many meals.:)

I didn't, I'm afraid. Stock isn't something I ever use in my cooking, and my freezer space is only 3 smallish drawers, so it would be a waste of time/space. On the extremely rare occasion I need some stock, I just use a cube.

Dinner tonight was "chicken curry in a can" with boil in the bag rice. I wasn't home from tutoring until nearly 7:30, so just wanted something I could be eating quickly. It sounds a bit unsavory, but I actually really like the Tescos "curry in a can" and always try to have at least one or two cans in the cupboard for quick dinners.

Fire_Fox

Wednesday: Just snacked no proper meals.

Made rhubarb and grapefruit sauce (ruby red grapefruit juice/ banana shallots/ orange peel/ ginger/ garlic/ soy sauce/ spices). Originally planned as rhubarb and orange sauce but I used the last orange in a salad days ago! :doh:

Thursday: Smoked mackerel fillets from the freezer with a ladleful of rhubarb and grapefruit sauce. Took the entire afternoon to eat because I did not fancy it at all.

Huge bowl of fruit with the last of the kilo of Lancs. Farm Greek yogurt. :j Tiny bit of mould high up in the tub so finished just in time.

Bowl of bolognese sauce with chestnut mushrooms, sunblush tomatoes and Stilton. The tastiest incarnation to date!

Food waste: Tomato salad (left out of the fridge). Half a wedge of Grana padano cheese (mega mouldy).

Going food shopping tomorrow, partly because I have a £5 Lidl voucher. Plenty of food in the flat but little that I am craving or enjoying.

Fire_Fox

Brambling wrote: »

Evening all

I love spanakopita Firefox I like to make in triangles and freeze raw, they cook from frozen in the air fryer

I have not used pastry for years and am rubbish at following recipes, so this could go quite badly!

flubberyzing wrote: »

Dinner tonight was "chicken curry in a can" with boil in the bag rice. I wasn't home from tutoring until nearly 7:30, so just wanted something I could be eating quickly. It sounds a bit unsavory, but I actually really like the Tescos "curry in a can" and always try to have at least one or two cans in the cupboard for quick dinners.

Yes! Tescon's canned curries are tasty and really convenient, just as you say. I add chopped veggies and microwave, which makes it fairly healthy too.

Shame they discontinued the canned lamb curry in favour of a beef curry though. I tried their lamb rogan josh ready meal when yellow stickered but was tasteless.