Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Normal Friday, into L's only needed milk but found a YS MFO Chicken chow mien, so that came along as well. I think I'll freeze that because I've still got yesterday's YS pie to cook


Bit dull today, with a breeze, so pie seems ideal


Lunch was last of the YS rolls, with cheese & tom filling
Dinner will be some the YS pie, probably with chips & LO mushy peas from yesterday
The mushy peas are L's, not bad really, so I bought a replacement tin this morning

Wednesday2000

It's still quite warm and sunny here. I am really looking forward to having crisp Autumn days, hopefully soon!:)

I had a yummy wrap for lunch.

I'm having a Quorn fillet thing with lots of roasted veggies and a side salad for dinner. Trying to lose some more weight now I have a friend reunion thing coming up in a couple of weeks.:D:p

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Normal Friday, into L's only needed milk but found a YS MFO Chicken chow mien, so that came along as well. I think I'll freeze that because I've still got yesterday's YS pie to cook


Bit dull today, with a breeze, so pie seems ideal


Lunch was last of the YS rolls, with cheese & tom filling
Dinner will be some the YS pie, probably with chips & LO mushy peas from yesterday
The mushy peas are L's, not bad really, so I bought a replacement tin this morning

A thoroughly good line up

I find the L1dl straight cut, 95p/1.5Kg chips cook up well .... but I recently had to make do with thinner 4ldi ones, which weren't too bad either (similar pricing/pack size).

Not a fan of the 4ldi or L1dl mushy peas - or any brand so far - but I still buy them because they're cheap. Mum used to make ours, steeping them overnight - and I often think of doing that, but then it's a question of quantities involved.... so I never get round to it. At least with a cheap tin it's just 2 meals' worth and under 20p without any prep or planning at all.

It's cloudless blue skies here. Scorchio with a slight breeze.

Brambling

Evening all from sunny West Dorset :wave:

Just a quick hello as I've worked out hotspotting from phone to iPad all without a small child to help :rotfl:

Lovely weather here with just a wet evening on Wednesday and family haven't driven me to drink yet . No cooking as my bil is really fussy about what he eats so I refuse to do any, just KP duty for me. Lots of walking and the sea air seems to be working as the cough is a lot better

Farway I was a little late in leaving on Sunday 7.30am it seems i wasn't the only one with the same idea, traffic not helped by a cycle race on the A27 and then a long queue to get off the M27 into Dorset :cool: but luckily not too hot when I arrived just after 11am

Enjoy your weekend

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Glad you are enjoying your holiday Brambling and it's so far so good on the family front:cool:.
It's been a truly horrible day here weather wise though at least the strong wind has died back.

My "finances" remain undone as my bank's website was running so slowly I abandoned ship.:mad: Importantly I could see my pension went in as expected and the rest I can catch up with.:)
Meat order arrived (it all looks wonderful) and bar some rump steak & bacon it is now portioned and in the big freezer. I didn't have to play freezer tetris though my smaller freezer is almost at the completely full stage after I added brambles, 4 portions of pastitsio, a tub each of meat sauce and bechamel and a bag of macaroni noodles:eek:. I'm embarassingly pleased that I didn't have to disrupt the storing system I spent so much time on a few weekends ago.:D However, I accidently ordered two heads of celery in my shopping instead of one :o so will need to chop and find space for a bag of that plus the batch of passatta I need to make over the weekend. I think these will need to go on what I have called the "holding shelf" in my big freezer that I had more or less cleared so I had somewhere to open freeze things. Still I'm not complaining the celery was on SO and I use a fair bit of it and the garden beans have been more prolific than I thought they might. I'd much rather have good store of food and I'm very thankful that unlike so many folk I'm not struggling to put food on the table. In my working life I came across far to many people who literally didn't know where their next meal was coming from and despite what some of the press might portray for the vast majority it wasn't through bad life choices.:( One thing I noticed when I was popping stuff in the freezer is that I have two big chicken carcasses in there taking up lots of room, I must get them out and make stock with them which will free up a good bit of space on one shelf of my big freezer. I'll reduce the stock down so it doesn't take up too much room when I stash it.



I enjoyed my bought prawn salad for lunch, it felt like a proper "treat". The salad had lots of different elements, just small amounts of each but the sort of thing that to replicate as CFO generates lots of LOs/use ups. When I was working I used to buy lunch rather than take a pack up on "pay day" and it's something I'll look at doing again in future.
Smoked haddock fish cake with oven chips, roasted tomato and peas for dinner. After the mushy pea talk I'm tempted to open a tin but I'm not going to use them up over the weekend and really don't want to freeze or even worse waste them. :eek:

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I accidently ordered two heads of celery in my shopping instead of one :o so will need to chop and find space for a bag of that ... Still I'm not complaining the celery was on SO and I use a fair bit of it ...

I don't buy/use celery, but I did buy some the other year to make a nut roast for Xmas. I wrapped it in foil in the fridge and it kept more than adequately for over 2 months before I finally pushed myself to using up the remainder.

Yesterday I ate a portion of the sausage/onions/peppers, bl00dy lovely it was too. Two more in the fridge to get through. I cooked some basmati with that. Just one portion of basmati left in the packet and that's another opened packet I don't have to deal with when/if I move and put everything into storage.

pattypan4

The hm watercress soup is hanging over my head, did not fancy it but was not about to waste it. I bit the bullet and had half after my muesli, so it is eaten for today and rest tomorrow. I sliced my big sd loaf and it is in the freezer after testing a slice, yummy and I never had to make it myself


Costco rm falafels with the LO prepped veggies, the veggies will go in the steamer together including part cooke small spuds. They were nice steamed. At least that is an easy meal, big wash is out and I have an event to attend early afternoon, will be sure to show my face, rush around and get back home. I need a day off, the aches tell me I have been working too hard

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Planned on making sout dough yesterday but actually set to bake a loaf so sliced it up and put 3/4 in freezer. Having some today for lunch with last rasher of bacon. Thinking of pasta with cheese for dinner, or get the 2 x cooked sausages out of freezer and have with some cougettes etc. Not yet decided.

Farway

Sunny start for the day, more domestic stuff to do today

Caron, jogged my memory, I need to shuffle money around as well this weekend & new month, trouble is with interest rates so low there is just not the urgency for a paltry 0.2% extra these days, gone are the days of "stoozing" between 0% credit cards & high interest accounts

After same old porridge breakfast I made a pan of stewed apples using mixed w/falls & small picked ones. No crumble this week. Last week's seems to have finished up round my belly:(

My Stanley plums are improving with age, really nice left indoors to ripen, only a few left on the tree now, and only one fig left to pick as well

I had one of my YS oblong crumpets last night, but too many to use before they go green IMO so I've frozen the rest to use as required

Lunch, I think I'm going for another Ploughman's with my YS mixed posh cheese & one of my yummy fresh apples and maybe spot of salad stuff

Dinner, not sure. I've got half the M & S YS pie left, it was lovely BTW, not sure I'd pay over £5 for it, but OK at YS price
I had it with frozen mash in the end, good choice as that soaked up the mushy pea liquor
I'll leave dinner decision until this afternoon, could finish up as beans on green bits cut off toast:D

Brambling wrote: »

. No cooking as my bil is really fussy about what he eats so I refuse to do any, just KP duty for me.

Good move on the BIL meals, no point with fussy eaters.
Reminds me with my kids, they refused to eat unpeeled stewed apples & I CBA to peel them.

Told them if they wanted to peel them go right ahead & do it themselves. Somehow unpeeled apples were no longer a problem:)

Enjoy the rest of the holiday

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't buy/use celery, but I did buy some the other year to make a nut roast for Xmas. I wrapped it in foil in the fridge and it kept more than adequately for over 2 months before I finally pushed myself to using up the remainder.

Thanks PN, yes I do sometimes do that, it was a tip I got in the early days of CFO threads, or stick a little water in a pint glass and stick it in that if goes limp. However, it's getting to the time of year where I use it mainly as a base for soup, casseroles etc. rather than salads so I'll probably chop one head and keep the other fresh. They're nice big heads so were good value at 25p each.:)

Farway wrote: »

Sunny start for the day, more domestic stuff to do today

Caron, jogged my memory, I need to shuffle money around as well this weekend & new month, trouble is with interest rates so low there is just not the urgency for a paltry 0.2% extra these days, gone are the days of "stoozing" between 0% credit cards & high interest accounts

Aren't they just, I'm tempted just to bung it into an easy access account I have with my BS until I see something better.


Good morning everyone,

pattypan - it sounds as though a "day off" is well deserved.
whmf - I'd go for the sauage,courgette pasta option with some grated cheese on top :drool:


My it was wild overnight, lashing rain and howling wind. The rain's dried up a bit but it's still blowing a hooley. I made the most of a lull to do a bin run, water the greenhouse and pick some more toms. beans and a cucumber. The weather looks pretty dire for the rest of today and it's to drop to single figures this evening so I think I'll set the stove up in case I want to light it later. It feels a bit early in the year to be doing that :eek:but a small fire should just be enough to take the chill off.

Last night I ended up cooking potato croquettes rather than oven chips, mainly just to use up a lurking bag. There were three left so I cooked them all but in the end up only ate one, I'll have the LOs with dinner tonight. Lunch is will be a blt with cucumber sticks on the side and for tonight I have a rather lovely looking piece of Aberdeen Angus rump steak which I'll griddle with flat mushrooms and tomatoes. The croquettes should go nicely with that.:D