Cooking for one (Mark Three)

pattypan4

old fashioned trifle must taste even a zillion times better in mid summer. Real trifle with sponge, tinned fruit, jelly, custard and cream and maybe hundreds and thousands


Honey cake is fantastic, I ate a decent sized slice, beautiful, Mary Berry recipe from an old book. I still have to get on and make the buns from the dough. Very glad I put it into the fridge.

Brambling

pattypan4 wrote: »

old fashioned trifle must taste even a zillion times better in mid summer. Real trifle with sponge, tinned fruit, jelly, custard and cream and maybe hundreds and thousands

I forgot the hundreds and thousands, I remember that being my job when I was pre-school age there may not have been an equal spread across the cream

flubberyzing

I'm glad to see the end of a fairly busy working week (almost... 2 hours of tutoring to do shortly!)

I've been booked for 4.5 days at one of my regular schools next week, which is good.

Tomorrow I'm driving about an hour and a half towards Cambridge, to visit my 93 year old great-auntie. She's got a ring she wants to give me, and we'll chat family history stuff, as it's something we're both interested in.
However, she's been on a feeding tube for the past year, which she does overnight, and has rather got out of the habit of making meals, and she's 93, so I'm not expecting feeding. I will have breakfast before I go, and perhaps grab a cheeky maccys or something, on the way home.

pattypan4

Thats it flubberyzing, I am buying the trifle bits tomorrow, will try and get a small rm custard and small tin of fruit. Trifle sponges if I can find them. Not buying hundreds and thousands or I could see me having them on bread and butter. That will be my weekend treat to myself


So now just waiting for 24 currant buns to do their final rise and silly me the freezer is groaning, I meant to keep at least one empty drawer for the berry season. I must stop making stuff

PasturesNew

pattypan4 wrote: »

.... Trifle sponges if I can find them.... waiting for 24 currant buns to do their final rise and silly me the freezer is groaning

I prefer sponge/cake to trifle sponges, which tend to be a bit lightweight/disappointing. Kill two birds with one stone and lob in 2-4 of your currant buns into the trifle. You can pick out the currants and eat them if you want. Just slice the buns thinly and either toss them in carelessly, or be very picky about where they land.

PasturesNew

Right, having defrosted the 12 chilli jam meatballs, I figured I might as well just go for it - and so I cooked those with an onion, then added marmalade and a tin of butter beans (half a tin'd have been enough, but I can't keep half a tin as it becomes a burden). Served with basmati. I was glad to use that marmalade as it was the bottom of the jar loitering in the fridge, so that's another opened/lurking jar cleared (for moving prep purposes).

One portion eaten, two portions in the fridge.

So, food that must be eaten in the next 2-3 days has now grown to be: one whole/large apple pie, 2 portions of chilli jam/marmalade meatballs & butter beans, 2 sausage rolls.... half a loaf of bread, 1/4 cucumber, 6 salad tomatoes .....

No more food buying needed for days

pattypan4

yes good idea PN, or maybe the honey cake would be nicer. yum

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Bird's Trifle always makes me think of caravan holidays when I was a kid. My Mum always used to make one up while we were away usually on the last night for a final treat. (No doubt because by that time funds were running low and it saved spends on ice cream;)). Apart from that trifle was always HM and only really appeared at Christmas and Easter. Topping was always a crumbled flake, probably because my Mum loved them and would use some and scoff the rest:rotfl:. Hundred's and thousands only ever appeared on top of sponge cake/fairy cakes for birthdays and us kids used get a small sprinkle on a saucer to dip a damp finger into, such simple pleasures.:D


My son seems to have brought some sunny weather with him as today has been lovely and quite warm. He's been a real sweetheart :Dand finished gutting out the lean to and replaced a rotting bench with staging made from mini-green house frames that came from my Dad's so very :money:. Like Brambling though I did get a "telling off" for not letting on how hard I was finding getting in and out of it (one of the reasons it had got so messy as I was basically chucking stuff in:o), it has a rather steep, rather eroded step down which he is going to build back up and also pop a hand rail on (I have spare one) - the step repair will cost about a tenner and it and the rail will make it a much more user friendly space for me.:)


Lunch was really rather tasty sandwiches with cream cheese, salami, cucumber and lettuce in seeded bread. We split a small bag of crisps between us to have on the side. If it had just been me I would probably either not had the crisps or eaten the whole bag but a few were lovely on the side:D.
HM donner meat is cooked and just needs sliced & reheated in the stock from cooking it. We are having it in wraps with HM takeaway-style kebab sauce & crunchy salad and oven chips. It won't take long to put together when he comes back from visiting his Dad.

Tomorrow we're off to my Dad's to do some more there and then to my sister's for a family get together, I suspect a few wines or gins may well be consumed so anticipating a quiet day on Sunday:cool::)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Like Brambling though I did get a "telling off" for not letting on how hard I was finding getting in and out of it (one of the reasons it had got so messy as I was basically chucking stuff in:o), it

Tomorrow we're off to my Dad's to do some more there and then to my sister's for a family get together, I suspect a few wines or gins may well be consumed so anticipating a quiet day on Sunday:cool::)

I think this is going back to the 'being too independent' conversation Caronc . I did remind him 55 isn't old :cool: Enjoy the family time and have a gin for me

The sunny weather has also returned here :j and the weekend should be good . For once the weather suited my lunch choice of 'crab' stick and egg salad

I had a worrying family phone call when I got home tonight, nothing I can do now and a hundred miles away, although to be honest nothing I could do down there either but it obviously stressed me enough for my Fitbit to log 21 minutes of aerobic exercise during the call. Anyone want one of my sisters? I didn't fancy cooking so original dinner plans changed, the chicken thigh fillets needed cooking so I breadcrumbed them with spiced breadcrumbs, air fried and ate just them. I also found some jelly beans and have finished them as well :cool:

PasturesNew

I can now tot up what I did eat yesterday, most of it I had no idea I'd be eating as it was purchased on a whim yesterday.

A/ 2 scrambled eggs on 2 toast.
B/ 2 packs of c/o crisps, an entire large bag of jelly babies (for the record, Aldi jellies are tastier/better texture than Lidl ones, both their 65p packs).
C/ A portion of 4 meatballs with onions/butter beans on a bed of basmati.
D/ 1/3rd of a family sized apple pie + 1/8th of a tub of caramel ice cream

Then I nodded off ... and woke up about 4am groggy. I ate too much/too much sugar yesterday, which has that effect.

I think I'm going to start making my own sweeties, I'll price it up and see how it compares against cheapo bags. Might not get round to it before I move though as it involves buying new ingredients into the house and I'm against doing that.