Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Passing on an idea from another site. Make up your cake mix but freeze it. I think would be ideal in muffin sizes as us CFO could take one or two out and cook instead of a whole (tempting) cake.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Nice to see you CG , sorry to hear you've been unwell <<hugs>>
That sounds like a good idea whmf, the other way round from baking a batch, portioning it and freezing it.
Dry and sunny here today but there's chilly breeze. I had a couple of errands to run and I was glad I'd popped a cardi on.
After all the manky weather my windows are filthy, once I've finished my cuppa I'll get them scrubbed. After lunch and popping my feet up for a bit some more gardening beckons - the greenhouse is needing tamed again.:eek:
Ciabatta roll with fish sticks and salad for lunch. Dinner tonight is a cooked turkey wing (Christmas LOs ) I discovered when I cleared out the freezers, with new spuds and veg from the garden.

Wednesday2000

I had some leftover roasted tofu with a salad and crackers for brunch today.

Farway wrote: »

'scuse me but I think I'll pass on cold lentil pasty as well as cold pasta.
I loath lentils, every time I get convinced to try them I find my original loathing was correct
Probably links back to projectile lentil vomiting days of yore:eek:

I tell a lie as I checked and the pastie was chickpea, spinach and sweet potato, God knows where I got lentils from.:rotfl:

candygirl wrote: »

Hope you're all ok!I've been MIA as haven't been very well

:grouphug:

Farway

Dry today awaiting downpours tomorrow

L's first thing, YS fairy had been, 6 pack of bread rolls 20p plus a Wensleydale & apple chutney RM sarnie., also 20p

Lunch was the YS sarnie, just right, followed by tow choc digestives:o

Dinner, I think it's nuke some LO savoury mince so far

Brambling wrote: »

I think I'm coming down with a cold .

Darn, me to. My nose was like a tap last night, with bit of a tickly throat this morning. Feel OK though so maybe a false alarm?

My gas oven has problem now, the spark ignition has lost it's spark. I suspect the battery is flat, but the battery is located near floor & beyond my bendy reach
A five year old could replace it with guidance so not a big job, just a bummer. I've got alternative ignition means, even matches should I need to
I'll get one of the grandchildren, or their dad, to replace it next time they're around

Caron, my climbing French beans have had it, not a good year at all but a friend I gave plants to had a great crop & still cropping. But that's gardening

Farway

Quick garden patrol yielded one ripe fig. Duly scoffed even though had to fight a wasp for it
There's another fig nearly ripe, maybe next day or so


Confirmed, dinner will be nuked LO savoury mince

caronc

Farway wrote: »

But that's gardening

Isn't it just! My first batch of dwarf French beans have produced a further two beans though I noticed there are a few babies coming. The second, later batch are doing well and picked a good few from it today. Runners and climbing beans which looked iffy at first look as though they will give a good crop, as I picked a lot and there are lots of wee ones. The broad beans have produced but not lots, I doubt if there will any surplus of them to freeze this year.
I've had a reasonably productive day, the front windows got scrubbed and I gave the front garden a good tidy weed. Greenhouse remains untamed as I ran out of oomph and time. There have been a couple of sharp showers but basically a decent day though definitely on the cooler side.
Younger son is unexpectedly arriving late tomorrow evening on a "hi and bye" visit until either Thurs pm or first thing on Friday. I'll see him briefly but he'll mainly be working so he's here for a bed rather than to see his Mum!
I'm just off to make courgette and potato soup in the pressure cooker. A poke about the courgette plants revealed another largeish round one so I need to use up the three that are still lurking from last week. I have a tub of HM paprika spiced chicken stock in the freezer which I think will work well in it. I intended to do this earlier but my sis popped round for a cuppa, she's off this week and decorating so wanted to escape the paint fumes and chaos for a bit.

Dinner prep won't take long as I'll steam the spuds, veg & turkey, I'm debating making up a sachet mix of peppercorn sauce that is lurking in the cupboard as I fancy it more than making instant gravy but it will mean a portion and another tub for the freezer.:rotfl:
I think it's just as well I already have a dental appointment for tomorrow, though they are very good at fitting you in if needed, as my tooth with the chipped filling was a little twingey when I bit into a crusty roll at lunch time. At least if I'm numb afterwards there will be soup in the fridge :cool:.


ETA - in the end up I had neither gravy or sauce I reckoned the new spuds and garden veg only needed a little butter & seasoning. Soup is made and I added some finely chopped then steamed (bought) green beans and a splash of cream that were lurking in the fridge to it after I blended it. It tastes lovely.:)

Brambling

Nice to see you Candy sorry you haven't been well

I was coughing and wheezing on and off all night and woke up achy this morning with raised glands so I think my sister has definitely shared her germs . I'm not sure my team appreciated being shut in a meeting room all day with me :cool: sniffles haven't arrived yet I've gone straight in with a 40 a day cough and tight chest. Hope your cold stays away Farway

I've been working at those 'put off' jobs this evening so have crossed a few off the list, I've got to make a couple of calls lunch time tomorrow, anything to avoid the freezer sort . And a call from one of my sisters killed another hour

Lunch was another attempt at noodles in a jar, they were better than yesterday with added chilli, five spice and lime I'm still not sure if I can be bother again, I feel I could just as well make vegetable noodle soup :think: dinner was the LO chicken laksa which had matured nicely in the fridge

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Picked 3 small courgettes and half dox small tomatoes so will have roast tonight with carrots and some culifower rice with a chinese pork steak (YS) tonight.

Farway

And the rain has arrived as promised, on the plus side my maybe cold seems to have come to nothing so far, sorry to hear yours went full on Brambling

Bit Autumnal this morning, I've had to put a fleece on this morning. Luckily I have one LO portion of savoury mince left that will be ideal nuked for tonight's dinner

After breakfast it was crack on with fresh batch of yoghourt, then stewed my fallen pears & apples. I didn't add plums in, I'll see if they ripen in the bowl

I have enough stewed fruit now for a crumble if I CBA

My cooker ignition seems to have healed itself, guessing the battery is on it's way out but an overnight rest has restored a bit of oomph to it, I suspect most can relate that;)


Lunch, probably YS rolls with cheese + salady filling

Wednesday2000

It's pretty chilly here today!

I've had some fresh fruit and a yoghurt. Cup of green tea.

I made a batch of soup, enough for today and the next three days. I'm just waiting for it to cool down before I have a bowl with some hot toast and marg.