Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Enjoy your G&T Caronc . I have been tempted myself as work didn't finish until 6.45pm tonight just as well I was home :cool: but as you say a school night

I baked a tea loaf today, soaked the fruit overnight and made it lunchtime I had all the ingredients to hand , it's a new for me recipe from a W*itrose mag with apple and ground almonds. I've had a very small slice and I think it will need to go to work tomorrow I don't think I'll have room to freeze it :think: i don't know what I was thinking making it :cool: luckily my brain kicked into gear when my hand hovered over the all spice rather than mixed spice :eek: it would have been a completely different taste profile and maybe not for work :rotfl:

Wednesday2000

I'm having toast in a minute and I made some lentil soup for later.

I had to get up early as I'm waiting for an Amazon delivery, story of my life.:rotfl:

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I know the dangers of reheated rice but is it the same for orzo. I had half a bowl left over, put in fridge , and was thinking of having today. Neighbour gave me a portion of lamb curry yesterday so may have that with some rice (if not the orzo - I know that is more Italian but we are CFO).Had dinner/tea at dd last night fahittas, not my fav but dgs b'day, and am out for lunch tomorrow so taking it a bit easy foodwise.

PasturesNew

It's rained overnight.

I've finally reached the end of the loaf of bread I bought. It had a date of 24th. Out of bread now, but, having just got through one whole loaf I'll be putting off buying the next until the last minute! Still got 1/5th of a cucumber though And four tomatoes. Food is always out of sync when you're dealing with items that don't keep forever and you don't always have in.

Yesterday I scoffed:
1/ half a bar of chocolate. Two blobs of caramel ice cream.
2/ Scrambled eggs and beans on toast.
3/ Portion of the meatballs I made in the SC the other day + spaghetti.

Today I had beans on toast for breakfast. It started out to be scrambled eggs/beans, but, having got the beans in the nuker I realised I finished the eggs yesterday.... so, out of eggs.

Got to go out later this afternoon, unsure what to do food-wise really today. I've a portion of meatballs, so I might as well get those over and done with before I go out, for lunch. That's the end of those meatballs.

dan958

whmf00001 wrote: »

I know the dangers of reheated rice but is it the same for orzo. I had half a bowl left over, put in fridge , and was thinking of having today. Neighbour gave me a portion of lamb curry yesterday so may have that with some rice (if not the orzo - I know that is more Italian but we are CFO).Had dinner/tea at dd last night fahittas, not my fav but dgs b'day, and am out for lunch tomorrow so taking it a bit easy foodwise.

Orzo is just pasta, so it is fine to reheat. Rice is also fine to reheat, as long as it was cooled correctly (not left out at room temp for too long, or put into the fridge in a massive batch where it cant cool quick enough)

Farway

A bit fresher today with the overnight rain, but noticed blight warnings are around with the muggy weather, and my toms are only just forming fruits, bit early for them to curl up & die. Everything crossed


Into L's this morning, only really needed a cuc & some celery, they had cuc but zilch celery. I'll pick some up tomorrow when I get my specs
Nothing YS at all, except prepacked mixed salad leaves which I don't need


Lunch was cheese & piccalilli sarnie
Dinner, it's salad again, I think it'll be hard boiled eggs but that may change

flubberyzing

I was sitting in the classroom at 2:45 this afternoon, thinking "I'm ready for my tea!" Ridiculous! Then I remembered I hadn't had my usual second cup of coffee, so that was probably the difference.

So, had tea going as soon as I got home, then finished off with a slice of melon.

I've got choir this evening, so I'm going to chill with my book for a bit, and then head out about 6:30.

elona

It seems to be confuse Elona week. I am waiting for a phone call from Sainsbugs about the refund and had ordered two packs off 44 nappies to arrive today. The package duly arrived but seemed a bit small - only one pack of 44 nappies!! After an online chat Amazon agreed to refund me half the cost as I only got half the quantity - another refund on the way!!

DD phoned me today as baby is still producing spectacular nappies she can't be in nursery so baby is coming to me tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. Think I may need a few early nights to build myself up for the fray.

I just used up a steak I defrosted with a pack of button mushrooms and also have a beef stew in the pressure king pro that I can cool, put in fridge and use tomorrow for me and dd.

I have some pork chops for another day but no potatoes so might nip out for some or else make up a concoction of pork, tomatoes, garlic and butter beans, Even when poorly baby is an active little person so very little gets done apart from feeding, changing and entertaining her. She recognises my voice so her Mum often skypes or phones me when baby is a bit grizzly and I sing nursery songs at full volume to distract her. She has started patting the phone or laptop wondering why she can't cuddle into me.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Sounds as though you'll need the early nights elona, my friend recently became a gran and says she had forgotten how exhausting young babies are though she's loving every moment:).


whmf- you can get the same type of food posioning from pasta as you get from rice, but if your orzo was popped in the fridge quickly after cooling it and not stored too long it should be fine.



I got up this morning to no broadband which failed to respond to all the usual remedies & various automatic fixes.:( Eventually managed to speak to someone who magically sorted it - he's not sure why the fix he ran worked as it's same test as the automated ones! Feel as though I've spent most of today fiddling with my router:rotfl::rotfl:.
Funny day weather wise, very close & damp feeling but no rain and not actually that warm. Skies seemed to have cleared a bit now though. It's midgie city out though so I decided to wait to re-pot the courgettes until I won't get eaten live and just quickly watered the garden. I noticed there were lots of ladybirds hopefully feasting on the midgie pests! I picked my first garden produce today - 3 very sweet but still peppery radishes and had them with a parma ham, lettuce & caesar dressing wrap along with a bowl of pea pods (bought mine are only just thinking about flowering) and the last bunch in a punnet of grapes. I had planned to have a piece of cake from the weekend late afternoon but wasn't hungry so I'm just going to slice what's left and freeze it, as it's too lovely to waste. Dinner tonight is a piece of the asparagus, leek & ricotta tart I made a few weeks ago from the freezer with Jersey Royals (I cooked extra last night), green beans and courgette. It will be a very green coloured plateful but hopefully tasty :cool:.

Brambling

Good luck with the explosive nappies Elona

I'm not sure if I slept through the threatened torrential rain last night or if we missed the worst of it :cool: I know the trains weren't running via my work town first thing this morning due to flooding overnight. After a damp start to the day it got quite hot and muggy by lunchtime

We've still got major IT issues at work so I was dragged into a meeting as soon as I walked in the door this morning, unfortunately we were still having issues when I left tonight so I fear tomorrow could be a repeat of yesterday and today we've been grumbled at in several languages all day :eek:

Lunch was a prawn and egg salad. I wanted to use up LO stir fry vegetables so dinner was another quick stir fry this time with quorn pieces from the freezer