Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Loved this idea, go on, now make the grid into brick shaped blocks that look like a house, or perhaps a plan view of your plot and shade in as paid off? Wish I had thought of that years ago

:o:o Guilty as charged m'lud -my grid is already (sort of) house shaped.......:o

Shame about the shower, at least it's not sweaty weather and you have stew & dumplings as a consolation:)

PasturesNew

Chips and fish fingers.... that's it.
Quick/easy .... as it's so cold I can't feel my fingers

wort

I've eaten the aloo saag, but the call of the fish fingers was too much so they are sat cooking now with a gf thin sat with cheese on waiting for them!!!:j

I was extremely lucky that my lovely daughter paid the last 13 thousand of my mortgage off when hubby died. My other daughter "bought" hubby's car and is paying the money to dd1 so only 7 thousand owing to dd1 when I die, that is going in my will. I didn't want to take it but the relief of not having to make those payments each month, and knowing I'm safe here and don't need to move is immense.

moneyistooshorttomention

Dinner tonight was another recipe from current cookbook ("How not to die").

So this time it was black bean burgers.

Verdict - not bad. Needed something colourful and liquid-y with it - hence sauted tomatoes. Also had oven-baked chips (basically Slimming World chips - minus the few minutes par-boiling before baking them).

At least the cookbook writer put in the method that one has to put the burgers into the fridge to "firm up" a bit before baking them. That makes a change from the number of times that that instruction has been missing from burger recipes by other people - and then I've wondered why they've fallen to bits somewhat (ie because I'd followed their instructions - so how come they hadnt worked?).

One plus point to date of this cookbook is I've not yet come across any missing ingredients or missing part of the how-to about it. That's one blessing anyway - as so many cookbook authors do miss out either an ingredient or two or a bit of the method and it's blinkin' annoying every time to realise they've clearly not proof-read their own darn book before it got published or they haven't realised they must put in all steps of the method.

Another thing to date is I've not found so far the "swopping and changing" of the number of people the recipe will feed and it's remaining the same as far as I can see so far. That's another thing I don't like about some cookbooks - ie the author thinks it's okay to change from a recipe that's for 4, to a recipe that's for 6, to a recipe that's for 5 and so on. After which it becomes very clear that they've been very lazy in compiling their book - expecting the customer to have to "pick and choose" as to whether a recipe is divisible or multipiable according to how many mouths they're feeding.

At least this one has put some thought into it and not expected the customer to "do their work for them".:)

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Chips and fish fingers.... that's it.
Quick/easy .... as it's so cold I can't feel my fingers

Good job fish have them, fingers that is, and they are mostly frozen like yours are:D

The stew & dumplings was not as nice as last week, nice enough but not quite the same. Trouble is last weeks, like this one, was a lobba one so not repeatable

After spending hours trawling t'internet I found the identical shower, in Screwfix locally. Went to see if I could manage turning stop male chicken off, managed it, then tried shower to prove water was off. BUM, shower now works:j. Maybe all it needed was a good swearing at?

Extra stew now in storage, ready for meal another day. Tomorrow if all well will be Pancake Wednesday, may even spread some of the vegan choccie spread on them, drooling thinking about it

Farway

Ahh, cook books. I know we all have fumed at them, but I found a classic last week browsing, one of the recipes was for "Wild Boar with Juniper"
I was so gob smacked that I never noticed how many it served, 4 if you have a leg each I suppose

caronc

Good evening everyone,
PN- I've not had fish fingers in ages and still have a few lurking in the freezer. They could well be featuring some time soon:)

wort- I'm sure your daughter's were delighted to give their Mum (and themselves) peace of mind knowing your house was secured.:)

Farway - :rotfl:re the shower, it's amazing though the things that seem to magically fix themselves after a good "talking to" and the threat of being replaced.

MTSTM - my pet hate is not inconsistency on serves X between recipes but inconsistencies within recipes especially where it is X served with Y where X serves 6 and Y serves 4- blinking laziness I always think :mad:.

It was actually quite sunny & milder this afternoon but the clear skies mean it's baltic now. Back to rain/sleet and gales later and my balance isn't happy with the weather pressure change....:(

Pancake batter has been given a good beating and is now having a "think" in the fridge. Thankfully the OOD egg (use by 29/01!) showed absolutely no sign of floating nor did it's pal which will be boiled tomorrow. I'm just going with the tin of chicken supreme with added mushrooms, spinach and corn as the filling which I'll then bake in the oven with a sprinkle of grated mozzarella on the top.:D

My younger son phoned a wee while ago, I think mainly to see if I was making pancakes tonight :rotfl:, he had planned to but had only just finished work and CBA'd. Weather permitting he's hoping to come up this weekend so I think it may have been a subtle hint to make another batch:cool:.

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway wrote: »

After spending hours trawling t'internet I found the identical shower, in Screwfix locally. Went to see if I could manage turning stop male chicken off, managed it, then tried shower to prove water was off. BUM, shower now works:j. Maybe all it needed was a good swearing at?

:rotfl:Now I could share a "fact for the week" that I learnt earlier this week at this point.....

The name "slider" doesn't just apply to a bit of gadgetry with a switch one can slide to and fro or the like.

It is also the name applied to a person that can (unconsciously) affect electrics (whether it's their own electrics or streetlights for instance). Wondering if you might have come across a slider or two in your previous incarnation as an electrician? Now you weren't in a temper the first time - and calmer the second were you? :rotfl:

A sort of unconscious Uri Geller of the electrical variety - as in the person isn't trying to do it - but if they are "exploding with temper" for instance about something - light bulbs/street lights/computers (yep...a whole office worth...LOL) can be affected. At least my mother thinks so .........:cool::rotfl:. Thanks mother.....:rotfl:

PasturesNew

I'd originally visualised fish fingers and chips in a toasted roll earlier, but later decided I CBA with the roll, so just had the fish fingers/chips at tea-time.

I've just had the roll on its own with a bit of marg. Didn't toast it.

I do like those big bread baps (4ldi, 4 for 45p). L1dl don't do bigguns. They're nice and big and soft

mcculloch29

Pancake Day, and I was determined not to miss out.
I didn't have any eggs or enough milk, so I tried bicarb in the flour and whey protein with water instead of milk. Worked a treat, lovely fluffy pancakes, much lighter than my usual flat crepes made with plain flour. Doing that again. They were far more like giant Scotch pancakes, but very yummy.