Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Wet/windy here today.

Yesterday I made a naan pizza, just tomato/onion and cheese. 10 minutes later I cooked the other one (2-pack of breads) .... then I regretted it as I'd eaten too much and that was supposed to be two days' food.

Today I've had two bits of toast for breakfast.

I've got bread to use up, I've got 2 hard boiled eggs in the fridge, I've got YS tomatoes I bought the other day to use up, so that means egg/tomato sandwiches for lunch.

The fridge also has half a can of mushy peas, so that means it'll be chips/peas for tea

Farway

I went ahead and added a crumble topping to the stewed fruit, glad I did now, wet & windy outside as per PN, so a nice bowl of crumble & custard should be very comforting later this evening

candygirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wet/windy here today.

Yesterday I made a naan pizza, just tomato/onion and cheese. 10 minutes later I cooked the other one (2-pack of breads) .... then I regretted it as I'd eaten too much and that was supposed to be two days' food.

Today I've had two bits of toast for breakfast.

I've got bread to use up, I've got 2 hard boiled eggs in the fridge, I've got YS tomatoes I bought the other day to use up, so that means egg/tomato sandwiches for lunch.

The fridge also has half a can of mushy peas, so that means it'll be chips/peas for tea

Ooh i'll be trying that naan pizza tonight!Brilliant idea hun .I've got 87 days to clear my food stocks, as i'm having my kitchen done while I go to Goa

caronc

Good evening everyone,
And so it rains......
I did manage to avoid worst of the rain when I was out at the dentist earlier. Turns out my chipped filling isn't that but a bit of wear with a rough edge that was quickly filed off. No reason found for the "twinge" so she thinks I've jarred the tooth on something hard and it will settle down. Everything else was ok thankfully. The "wonky donkey" really doesn't like the tilting so it was a quick lunch of soup with crackers and cheese before I went to bed for a few hours to settle it. Apart from my trip out I've not done much today apart from make a batch of pesto some of which I'll freeze after I've used some tomorrow. The courgette, potato & green bean soup was very tasty though I've been a little heavy handed with the black pepper which with the paprika chicken stock has given it quite a kick.:eek: I like peppery things but perhaps not for anyone who's not keen. Just as well it's for CFO consumption.

Easy dinner tonight of a chinese style chicken thigh from the freezer, corn cob, garden beans and HM sweet potato wedges. The sweet potato is huge so there will be LO wedges for the freezer. Between surplus soup, pesto and wedges it's just as well I now have plenty of space in them.

PasturesNew

candygirl wrote: »

having my kitchen done while I go to Goa

TWO posh alerts in one sentence

I'm off to Google Goa now, see where it is.

I've never ever even been to France

Brambling

I'm officially feeling sorry for myself . With chills thrown into the mix so I'm sitting in my winter pjs and dressing gown with chattering teeth, I would go to bed but next door have been hammering all evening :mad:

Anyway enough moaning it's good for the diet:D

Lunch was crackers and soft blue cheese with a pear and dinner a bowl of cereal. Hot honey and lemon once the builders go and then bed

candygirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

TWO posh alerts in one sentence

I'm off to Google Goa now, see where it is.

I've never ever even been to France

It's in India hun.Will be my 12th time there

PasturesNew

candygirl wrote: »

It's in India hun.Will be my 12th time there

I can count my total adult holidays (40 years) on the fingers of one hand

1/ 1 week in a flat in Cornwall with a bf, 1986
2/ 1 week in a flat in Cornwall with sibling, 1991
3/ 1 week in a house in Cornwall with a sibling, 1993
4/ Two separate weekends camping in Dorset, 2017/18.

I've just never had the spare cash to go, or somebody to go with, in the main and the money was always needed for something else critical.

Total life holidays' spending's under £500.

pattypan4

I don`t need holidays, who needs a holiday when you live in the beautiful sw, I see thousands of cars on main roads if I venture out in holiday time, so I wait and go when everyone is back at school or work


Farway, that reminds me, I need to make buttery crumble topping to keep in the freezer, I have apples, rhubatb and gooseberries all waiting for winter. I started winter preps by stewing lots of slightly underipe apples, cba doing them all at once.


I had a couple of slices of bought olive sd, one slice with peanut butter/marmite, it is far too salty and tastes very oily and I bought 3 in costco. I will use them up, a scrape on an oatcake before bed. Soon to have apricots and green tea. Every day is use up mode right now. Last night my last mackerel with gooseberries, defrosted brown rice and spinach. Will be salmon today, rice and frozen brocolli. I have to make freezer space asap, trouble is that I now have sliced costco cake in there as well as the bread, filling quicker than I can eat


Hm pea and ham soup turned out lovely, took a few days but was worth it and 7 good portions are in the freezer, see filling the freezer too fast just because I make too much because I have to use the ingredients. Argh just remembered that my fish order arrives tomorrow

PasturesNew

I'm suffering from "not got the ingredients in the house / don't want to buy them"....

I've been thinking, as I've got onions, of tossing some onions/noodles and splashes of this that and the other into the SC ... chow mein.

But then I think "why not just nuke it and be done?"

Then I think "if only I had other bits to go in there... like a carrot or something".

But I've no desire to go out acquiring food that then needs to be eaten up!

Breakfast today was: Cheese and beans on a toasted crust. Might have that again later as the bag's now only got one more slice of crust in it and there's an opened tin of beans in the fridge....