Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Beef was good ... but I didn't enjoy the curry.
The curry was fine, just too bl00dy hot! Gave me the hiccups by the 2nd mouthful. Still 3 portions to plough through

moneyistooshorttomention

Cats seem to like supermarkets. I can think of two branches of Tesco that have a nearby cat that comes and visits there and usually sits there at the entrance and makes the best of all the attention they get from visiting customers. They know they're usually pretty popular with shoppers and security staff get quite used to having to pick them up at intervals and put them back outside the door if they've found their way into the store.

Fine by me - as I like cats - and so will be one of the customers making a fuss of them.

I presume cats are impartial though - and will also park themselves outside all the other supermarkets as well give them half a chance.

Farway

wort wrote: »

I'm working today and having dgson for tea,

Boiled or fried? Makes a change from fish fingers I suppose:D I'll get me coat

PN, thanks for meat tip at L, I'm getting mine tomorrow so will be hawk eyes at check out

CaronC, sorry about your weather, it is really spring like here, warm and no wind today. Still resisting gardening though, too soggy underfoot

The shopping mooching had some good results, reduced fresh cauli in the greengrocer, 50p, maybe soup or C Cheese, not sure yet.

I bought some celery, just in case, for soup or stew with the L beef offer
Plus found a YS gluten free bread mix in A4da, not something I would normally buy, but at 49p was 2.50 and a BBE July 2018 it was not something I could leave on the shelf. Come in handy once I have used all the bread mountain in a jumbo bread pud. No spare freezer space for free loaves, rather use it for meat

Popped into C0stcutter on way home, bingo, another YS peppered rib eye steak:T:, 1.50. The last one I had was lovely, hoping for same tonight

Breakfast was HM yoghurt + honey
Lunch was grilled tinned sardines on toast, fancied something tasty but easy
Dinner will be the steak, grilled, with frozen chips, eggs, mushrooms & maybe a grilled tom

wort

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I'm working today and having dgson for tea,
Originally posted by wort
”Boiled or fried? Makes a change from fish fingers I suppose I'll get me coat

I came home hungry enough to eat him too :rotfl:

PN I'm wondering if you could perhaps add some yogurt to the curry to cool it down ? I haven't tried it but I'm sure I've heard it before!
Today has been beautifully sunny with the bitterest wind!!! Lovely to look out at not to be out in it!!

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

PN, thanks for meat tip at L, I'm getting mine tomorrow so will be hawk eyes at check out

As I stood and waited to be dealt with, it was clear there was some bigger issue going on in the shop.

The man (manager?) was on a phone and then they announced another till opening, then I over-heard the woman who'd served me explain to her next customer there was to be a hold up as she had to "reboot my till".... so I wonder if it was the till mine went through hadn't updated the prices properly and was still working off yesterday's connection/data.

PasturesNew

wort wrote: »

PN I'm wondering if you could perhaps add some yogurt to the curry to cool it down ?

There are many things one can add - but not if they're products that have never existed in your house

I don't have/buy/use yoghurt because the very thought of it turns my stomach... I heard the words "live culture" many decades ago and it turned my stomach, so I've never even tried it.

Ditto other things one could use. I'm sure it'll mellow once cooled/sat. And, if not, I'll just add a large helping of chips

caronc

Good evening everyone,
wort :rotfl::rotfl:re "having you gson" for tea. Hope he was tender?:cool:

PN- shame the curry was too spicy, fingers crossed it mellows rather than gets spicier after a sit.:)

Please, please, please can we have some better weather here, I am so "scunnered" (fed up) with the cold and stormy. It's playing havoc with my balance and I have stuff I want to do.....

I'm now home alone this weekend as my son has to work late tomorrow evening so has very sensibly decided not to drive home in horrible weather late on. He's planning on coming up next weekend instead.:) I had planned "mince round" for dinner tomorrow for us both but will put that on hold and I've popped a naughty pack of chicken kievs into my grocery order to have instead.

I've really not got much of anything done today so must go and sort out the kitchen before I boil some pasta/make dinner. The dishwasher needs emptying so there is a sinkful of dirty dishes waiting to get loaded. (Yes I could handwash them but I'm not going to...:p) I also need to do some meal planning so I can double check my order I suspect I might just hope for the best:o.

moneyistooshorttomention

I think everyone is thoroughly sick of the weather here too - even those that are from this area in the first place I believe (well it's gotta be bad if you've noticed sporting fixtures being cancelled - as I've got used to being gobsmacked at rugby being played in all weathers since coming here). You can imagine just how fed-up with it incomers from areas with better weather are:eek:. For those of us (ie me) that spent some of my childhood in hot climates - wah!!!!

I don't recall ever deciding not to go to something because of bad weather - until I moved here - and I should be out at something tonight for instance. But I just can't face going out in the cold twice in one day.

Dinner tonight was CBA - so the other black bean burger from couple of days back and baked chips again. Couldnt even be arsed to make anything else to go with it. Finished with some fruit and rice milk.

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I think everyone is thoroughly sick of the weather here too - even those that are from this area in the first place I believe (well it's gotta be bad if you've noticed sporting fixtures being cancelled - as I've got used to being gobsmacked at rugby being played in all weathers since coming here). You can imagine just how fed-up with it incomers from areas with better weather are:eek:. For those of us (ie me) that spent some of my childhood in hot climates - wah!!!!

I don't recall ever deciding not to go to something because of bad weather - until I moved here - and I should be out at something tonight for instance. But I just can't face going out in the cold twice in one day.

Dinner tonight was CBA - so the other black bean burger from couple of days back and baked chips again. Couldnt even be arsed to make anything else to go with it. Finished with some fruit and rice milk.

Yes we are that point in the year where even locals are fed up with the winter/weather and things get cancelled/put off.

mcculloch29

I missed my regular night out on Tuesday partly because of work (I work from home), but also because there was a real risk of black ice, and I am very likely to fall if I try and walk on it. I have a walker which gives me some small level of safety, but the risk is still high.

Usually I just use my two sticks to walk short distances. I am thoroughly fed up with high winds stopping me from going out on my trike. Not to mention brief bouts of warmer weather giving us false hope, before we plunge back to sub-zero temperatures.

It's Northern-Hemisphere wide, my Japanese clients are complaining about the weather as well. They have had a long, cold and snowy winter, not just in the northern islands, but down on the Pacific coast in Tokyo and Yokohama too,

Enuff moaning... I made a puff pastry pizza, I didn't have many ingredients, so used a lot of sun-dried tomatoes, plus anchovies and onion. I now know that it's definitely tomatoes that are the cause of recently developed acid reflux problems. A big swig of silicol gel (more expensive than Gaviscon and not as effective, imo) has helped. My sister swears by silicol gel, but I'm not as convinced. It tastes a lot like milk of magnesia to me, which is not a good thing.

My new toastie maker got used again yesterday, DD and DGD visited, and DD made some turkey and chutney toasties, gosh they were nice.

The turkey was, I think, the last of the Christmas leftovers, unless another portion bag is lurking somewhere in the freezer.