Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Must be warm enough in my lounge, the dahlias I sowed about a week ago have germinated and are now on the window sill soaking up what bit of sun there is

Lunch as planned, no change to dinner plan, but may add some frozen chips today. I left them out yesterday due to making the crumble, too many carbs I thought at the time

caronc

Glad wrote: »

very odd weather here, one minute lots of blustery snow, the next hailstones and the next sunshine and blue skies

Very similiar here earlier, just grey and miserable in between the snow, sleet and hail showers.

moneyistooshorttomention

Duly did follow plan and did that pesto carrot noodles with white beans & tomatoes.

Verdict - portion on the smallish side (so need to serve with something else like crusty bread in future).

But it was tasty - a repeater.

mcculloch29

I had the rest of the saag aloo, and it was even nicer, the turmeric, mustard and cumin had matured overnight.
CBA tea of fine egg noodles, defrosted Christmas turkey leftovers, and soy sauce. Not a gourmet meal but it filled a hole. I ate a couple of sweet Golden Syrup Weetabix in lieu of dessert, dry, as you would a breakfast biccy. They are lovely.
I often nibble on dry cereals, but ordinary Weetabix are no good for this (unless you have butter on them, which is another story).

PasturesNew

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Not a gourmet meal but it filled a hole.

The CFO Food Bible.

moneyistooshorttomention

CFO bible indeed:rotfl:

Maybe we ought to change that one though to that awful phrase from the adverts - ie "Because we're worth it..." (ie don't we deserve nice food too?).

Yep....yesterday evening's meal was Instagram worthy - quite a bit of colour and served in a bowl:rotfl:. I've got a selection of dipping bowls/little bowls/big bowls/huge bowls and 3 different sets of plates (though admit to never using the HUGE white more "server" type plates from Waitrose). It's usually bowls or a pasta plate that I use for myself.

EDIT; In fact I can see me pondering on that "Because we're worth it" topic at intervals over the course of the day. When one encounters prejudice of any description (maybe particularly if you're not someone who might ever expect to be on the receiving end of any......) then I think it's a useful morale-boosting strategy to have "Because I'm worth it" ways of treating oneself as a counterbalance. Handy for those times when the self-confidence takes a knock/it may take a while to realise that that knock might have had that intention!!! /rally round and get that confidence back (does help that I'm from a very "confident" city....).

Wednesday2000

I'm having toasted rye bread with cucumber, tomatoes and yellow mustard and then a mango and banana smoothie afterwards.

I have to use up some more of my herbal tea today, I'm aiming for 2 cups of day to run it down.

I'm just about to call up to pay a big chunk of the mortgage off again. I did this at the end of last year too.

Eek, I'm excited. Then I'm going to reduce the mortgage payment so we can have some extra money each month to start to put into my personal pension and just for going out and general living!:T

Wednesday2000

I didn't have cucumber on my toast as I realised that I ate it all yesterday!:D

I just paid £10,000 off the mortgage, very nice way to start the week!:A

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Breakfast was two portions of creme caramel fluffy cheesecakey tiramisu thingy.

If there is a dessert or a fresh cream gateau in the fridge I will eat it for breakfast. My ex husband used to be appalled at this .

Wednesday2000

PasturesNew wrote: »

Breakfast was two portions of creme caramel fluffy cheesecakey tiramisu thingy.

Sounds delicious.:A

MrAPJI wrote: »

That's really good news and I'm delighted for you

Thanks.xx:)