Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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caronc wrote: »

Oh I do like a piece of sticky flap jack PN but I can only ever manage a small piece. Not made one for years but used to make them pretty much every week when the boys were at home. My Gran used to make a "syrup loaf" as a teabread which sliced thinly and buttered was lovely. It was a WW2 recipe of flour, pinch of salt, syrup and milk and I have fond memories of helping her make them. Once it got a bit stale it was lovely toasted. I have her recipe and used to bake one fairly often for my late f-i-l.

Do it!

My flappies were 100g marg, 25g sugar, 80g GS (easier to weigh than using spoons). I didn't have enough oats so put in the 170g I had (should've been 200g) and I had the mixed fruit so lobbed in about 150g of that (trying to use up the pack, but had a bit left still). Melted the first 3 together in the nuker, then added/stirred the remainder. Nuked 3 minutes. Spread in a dish, left to cool.

Eaten a lot today.... it was super hot, I've stayed indoors.

2x toast, 2x scrambled eggs, beans
2 rounds of egg/cucumber sandwiches
Last 2 pieces of the flapjack I made yesterday
An ENTIRE pack of chocolate "angel delight", made in a jug and eaten from the jug with a big spoon.
Large portion of oven chips.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Thanks for the flapjack recipe PN, looks pretty similiar to mine though I've never nuked it, I always add dry fruit as I do think it makes them nicer.:)
I hope the first beans were delicious Farway.:D


It has pretty much been a "perfect" summer day here, warm & sunny with a light breeze. I've spent most of it in the garden and had both breakfast & lunch outdoors. My balance was a good bit better thankfully so I got quite a bit done re-doing pots and also tamed the jungle that my greenhouse had become. :DMy sis popped round early afternoon and we managed to find some shade and have a good natter.
Lunch was the last of the oatcakes & brie with grapes and salad. For dinner I've defrosted a venison burger and I'm swithering whether to have it a crusty roll with salad or steam nuke some new potatoes/veg and make a peppercorn sauce. I suspect the easier option of roll/salad might win, I'll decide after I've watered my plants;).

Brambling

I woke up to rain this morning which meant my lawn didn't get its hair cut from my neighbour first thing. I must bake him a cake and buy him some beer as a thank you as it's a job which makes me sneeze and wheeze even with my small lawn and i haven't had to do it at all this year

My sister borrowed a beach hut from a friend so even through it was over cast we drove down to the coast after an early lunch, it was still warm enough to sit in a t-shirt and drink tea whilst enjoying the view and lovely and quiet. For three hours we put the world to rights and discussed our trip to Devon at the end of the month . The sun did come out enough for me to put on sun lotion although with my fair skin it doesn't take much sun

Lunch was a couple of crumpets I found in the freezer . Dinner was the LO lentils and runner beans from yesterday with a pan fried mackerel fillet

Wednesday2000

I've been feeling bored all day, I got up late and then haven't been doing very much!

I have lots of books to read, but I wasn't in a reading mood. I couldn't even be bothered to watch the tennis.

I made a veggie and bean rice dish for lunch but only ate half of it. Then I got hungry so I had some toast just now.

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

My sister borrowed a beach hut from a friend so even through it was over cast we drove down to the coast after an early lunch, it was still warm enough to sit in a t-shirt and drink tea whilst enjoying the view and lovely and quiet. For three hours we put the world to rights and discussed our trip to Devon at the end of the month . The sun did come out enough for me to put on sun lotion although with my fair skin it doesn't take much sun

How lovely Brambling, you don't see many beach huts round here too wild & windy I expect. I do have vague memories of "changing huts" that the council used to wheel on the beach that you could hire for the day or longer but as I was a local rather than visitor we never hired one. I did used to be envious of the folk that had got one.:D


I hate unsettled days Wednesday, thankfully I find my books are usually enough to keep me occupied but sometimes even they don't do!



Dinner is a bit of a compromise- crusty roll with venision burger on one half and stir fried mushrooms/garlic/courgette/peppers on the other.

CRANKY40

Hello all,

I'm a lurker and a bit of a fraud as there are actually two of us in my household. My son aged 14 has sensory issues and his eating habits are a continuous work in progress so sometimes I cook one thing for him and something different for me and sometimes we both have the same. He is happy with the OS routine that my gran would have loved - he has the same thing on each day of the week, week in, week out just like she used to cook.

His favourite meal is pasta in a tomato based sauce which I'm not keen on hence the different meals and why I read this thread for ideas. What I really wanted to ask was caronc please could I have your recipe for syrup loaf? I'm probably going to make flapjacks too at some point this week thanks to PN. Nice to meet you all and hello Brambling who I know from another thread.

Wednesday2000

Green smoothie for breakfast. Spinach, bananas and apple.:A

caronc wrote: »

I hate unsettled days Wednesday, thankfully I find my books are usually enough to keep me occupied but sometimes even they don't do!

I realised that I had PMT yesterday so I think that was why I was a little moody, haha.

CRANKY40 wrote: »

I'm a lurker and a bit of a fraud as there are actually two of us in my household. My son aged 14 has sensory issues and his eating habits are a continuous work in progress so sometimes I cook one thing for him and something different for me and sometimes we both have the same. He is happy with the OS routine that my gran would have loved - he has the same thing on each day of the week, week in, week out just like she used to cook.

:wave:

I am married but I usually cook separately so that it why I am on here.:)

pattypan4

I am walking slowly, dressed in a cotton tent and hiding from the sun, heat is already building up and curtains closed on the sun side. Up at 6 and breakie of yoghurt, blueberries and granola, water to drink. Not wasting my day so I started sorting an upstairs room straight away. Breaktime with a nice fresh coffee and a piece of honeycake. Got LO soup for lunch and can see me wasting some just -turning milk, cba making scones with it. I have LO salad stuff needs using so one salad meal coming up later, probably with a few nuts. Ooh yes I found a frozen summer pudding, yum

Farway

caronc wrote: »

I hope the first beans were delicious Farway.:D
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They were, thanks. Just enough to be worthwhile. I also found a forgotten parsnip in the fridge so that joined them + carrots.
My new spud peeler is real whiz, no fiddling, would slice a finger tip in a flash. made easy work of my fuzzy carrots

Welcome Cranky 40, your son's meals sound very CFO in some ways, "some old same old" but why not? No reason not to if that's what is enjoyed. I have porridge most mornings for instance but if Nigella popped round with Eggs Benedict I'd eat that instead;)

Today's meals are going to be very CBA & use up
It was routine porridge & sliced banana breakfast
Lunch, use up YS rolls with cheese & piccalilli filling
Dinner, very likely to be use up stale bread as cheesy beans on toast, with couple of eggs topping

Brambling, seems you're my Pathfinder to Devon, I'm just looking at accommodation to visit my brother in Plymouth, probably September, too many things on in Plymouth in August, and nobody who could avoid it would choose the A35/30/38 during bank holiday week

PasturesNew

CRANKY40 wrote: »

....My son aged 14 has sensory issues and his eating habits are a continuous work in progress...

I have that; ASD/Aspie related

It is, in part, why I eat peculiarly, irregularly - and cook bizarrely.


I have many "food rules" that make me unsuitable for inviting round and awkward to eat out with