Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I'm meeting my friend for lunch in a vegan cafe in London today so all I have had is a banana and a cup of white tea and some water.

The diet is out of the window today.:rotfl:

AndyCF

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I'm meeting my friend for lunch in a vegan cafe in London today so all I have had is a banana and a cup of white tea and some water.

The diet is out of the window today.:rotfl:

Might be interesting to see what is on the 'menu' as such if you've not been to one before, I have not. I do eat meat on occasion however I also appreciate a few vegan items too.

Brambling

PN I didn't like the lemon drizzle kit kats _pale_ if I do have kit kats I do prefer either the dark chocolate or the mint dark chocolate ones, not that I'll turn down a milk chocolate one :rotfl:

late lunch today and i didn't fancy the chicken laska I brought in, I also have my asthma review later so decided against it, it will keep until tomorrow. Therefore lunch was a M&S iced bun with lemon curd inside :cool: just the one with a cuppa tea. I'll drop the other off when I park at my sister's later

I called the doctors earlier to book my asthma review as it usually takes about 4 weeks for them to find a 20 min slot and was offered one this afternoon at 4.40pm, the boss was happy for me to leave at 4pm tonight so i took it other wise i've been known to work from home around the appointment especially as the next one with a week away at 11.20. The nurse will give me my flu jab as well so it will save me going back for one of their Saturday flu jab sessions which can be a little chaotic especially if old dears from the patients association 'help':eek:

Dinner will be LOs again, crispy smoked tofu with coconut and peanut butter sauce, rice and tender stem broccoli

Having watched the chaos which is the British Parliment on the news this morning I am debating about leaving my freezer well stocked rather than trying to eat the contents down. Although as my sister has advised that if there are empty shelves she will be shopping at my house

candygirl

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I'm meeting my friend for lunch in a vegan cafe in London today so all I have had is a banana and a cup of white tea and some water.

The diet is out of the window today.:rotfl:

Ooh let us know what you have hun:D
I'm off to the Stonehouse carvery with my mate, for tea. I have a 40% off voucher, so Happy Days :rotfl:

AndyCF

Never got around to my A1d 'adventure' , this may have to wait till next week now simply as I think it may be silly to go until fresh pennies arrive.

I did look in BM earlier for the small frying pan I was after, I can't recall if it was thsi topic or another on here where I mentioned it, I was actually looking for one of those (what I would call) 'stone' type ones that can be used oil free but that's not terribly critical I think. Anyway I found a 20cm (9 inch) pan for 2.99 but I did not buy it I was not in the buying mood for it at that moment, even with its free cheapy spatula! It will still be there next week if I do not see one elsewhere.

Regarding foods well nothing exciting here very sorry. I boiled up a few new potato's and then semi-mashed them, as it knocked them about a bit after cooking until they were about sugar cube sized pieces, which I then had with some 'not best brand' sweetcorn (not brilliant, not getting that one again) and a tablespoon of 'quick gravy' from some granules quickly made in a mug. I was thinking I could of just done with a few onion bits perhaps but I did not have any. There was other veg available but I did not fancy it somehow, only peas and/or carrots mind you 'in pantry stock' currently.

Does remind me to look again for 'ready cooked' dried onion bits, years back you used to be able to get a small cardboard pack about the size of the cup/soup or sage/stuffing boxes with dried onions in. I did follow a kind members advice on here and ask at a couple of the 'other shops' although one only had it in a 3KG bag ( ! ) and the other did not sell it.

Anyway tea time was quick and decent aside from the not brilliant sweetcorn.

PasturesNew

AndyCF wrote: »

Does remind me to look again for 'ready cooked' dried onion bits, years back you used to be able to get a small cardboard pack about the size of the cup/soup or sage/stuffing boxes with dried onions in. I did follow a kind members advice on here and ask at a couple of the 'other shops' although one only had it in a 3KG bag ( ! ) and the other did not sell it.

I've an unopened bag I got from Home Bargains a year or so back. I bought a bag, started using them, thought "this is handy", so bought a 2nd bag and then stopped using the 1st bag. As you do.

They were cheap... bag's big, about the size of, say, a grab pack of crisps.

Just not ever got round to continuing to use them....

PasturesNew

Today's scoffathon has included:

Toasted fat crust, topped with cheese & beans.
And again, another toasted fat crust, topped with cheese & beans.
The remaining THREE Kit-kats.


Now out of: bread, beans, eggs, cheese.

Opened/in the fridge I've got: half a tin of mushy peas, half a tin of chicken in white sauce, 2 Walls' sausages, 1/3rd of a tin of beans.

Fresh food to use up: 3 spuds, 4-5 onions.

Freezer still only contains 20 chips.

I am awaiting/overdue exchange, so still trying to get through what I've got and use up some things I've been putting off etc.

But you can't just eat things that have been lingering in the cupboard as there's never a "complete meal" in there, just random purchases that don't fit with either anything else in the house, or what the weather's doing, or what you fancy.

AndyCF

@PN , HB is on my radar so to speak as its not -that- far away, by the crow as such its nearer than Ald or L1d , but its a tiny HB, relatively anyway. Its on my radar as I managed to find an app form to print off to hand in there in case they have any part time things going, going to mention this in Ald actually too, neighbour said local one is usually looking. Has to be Ptime though for various reasons, none of which are lazyness or inside my control!

The 3kg dried onion bag was huge though! About the size of those catering rice/dried coconut bags you sometimes see. Wish I could find the small cardboard pack of them still but they are obviously long since gone as it was donkey's years ago. I did have a random 'do you remember' search on those foody sites without luck.

That reminds me does anyone remember a 'well known' brand probably beginning with P that still sells a lot of tinned meats but also sells meat paste ? The question here is does anyone remember a time when these used to come in white/off white small oblong-ish (but rounded) ceramic type pots ? They were definately ceramic or suchlike not plastic! Talking possibly early 80's here. For some reason I'm reminded of the vaseline 'half rounded but rectangle shaped' small tubs as its shape is not that dissimilar. I do remember them but no one else does!

Oh I had a 'peppered bloomer' from Morr's a while back it was lovely, aside from when some of it sliipped off the counter and bounced behind the cooker into some fluff so that was ruined, I can't recall if I mentioned this or not, thankfully I'd eaten 2/3rds of it before then. No local places seem to sell this. It was cheap and it was quite a lot size-wise!

I'm not even a pepper fan but there was just 'enough' to make it nice somehow, I could do with finding some kind of wholemeal/brown very mild peppered sliced bread really, I did ask at our bakery place but the answer was no. They knew exactly what I wanted though which is one good thing I suppose.


Back onto the topic in hand: @PN I see you must of enjoyed the KK's

Couple of potato's with an onion sprinkling perhaps sounds good when mixed with something else. Maybe a 'mild onion' mash to add to something ?

Note to self: Try to find a brand of frozen chips/fries in a brand you've heard of before and a -small- bag for < £2 this week. Seems around here most things are sold in large quantity items but to be fair this is the nature of the local clientele. Same with that cooking oil, 'other shops' have huge gallon / 3-5 gallon catering barrels of it if you want at a sensible price but if you want a single 1L bottle its BM only as mentioned. I've noted to try to grab a spray tiny air-fryer type topup bottle for my highly limited uses of this oil.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

I hope you enjoyed your meals out Wednesday and CG.
PN - I'm not keen on the flavoured kit kats, like Brambling I prefer the dark chocolate ones or at a push a milk one.
Brambling - hope your asthma review went well.

Andy - I bought my dried onions in Asda. There's a couple of recipes I use them in so they last for ages. The pack I have is the Great Scot variety weighed 40g (doesn't sound like lots but it's a decent but not overwhelming amount) and cost about 50p.

I'm late on parade today I had a couple of errands to run this morning and then a routine medical appointment. However by the time I got home I was very unsteady so it was a quick soup lunch then feet up for a few hours. Tesco order has placed for the family gathering this weekend and for someone who rarely eats chocolate or sweeties I've just ordered two big tubs as they are on SO. One will no doubt get used this weekend while we are chilling/playing board games and the other put away for Christmas. Now I'm CFO I know I can safely do this unlike while the boys were at home.
After a dry start to the day the forecasted wind/rain arrived earlier than expected and it's now cold, wet and blowing a gale - the stove has been lit. Tuna pasta sauce from the freezer with dischi volanti (looks like flying saucers when dry but cooks into loose spirals) pasta for dinner.

Brambling

Asthma review went well thanks Caronc my peak flow is still lower than last time but nowhere near as low as it was a couple of weeks ago . I did have to bite my lip at being asked if I know how to use my inhalers :cool: unfortunately I couldn't have my flu jab as they haven't arrived yet, the over 65 one is in and they have theirs first my appointment is made for the 26th October, the receptionist was obviously not told there was a difference or she couldn't work out my age from my date of birth :cool:

My sister agreed to do me a big favour and took the second iced bun off my hands :cool: to save me from myself :rotfl: her payment was a cuppa when I picked up my car and a tiny bite of HM chocolate chip cookie still warm, well timed as my nephew had been baking I did avoid a whole cookie, it was hard

I re-crisped my tofu in the air fryer for a few minutes which worked well and no extra oil needed, I also added some spinach to the bottom of the dish before pinging the rice to wilt and cooked some tender stem broccoli as a second veg. Next time I may try the coconut and peanut butter sauce with some chicken