Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

It's a Waitrose free zone here Brambling both shops & deliveries.:( Tbh my gate was pretty ancient but I hoped it might last another winter there's obviously been one storm too many in recent weeks:eek:.

Congee is good PN it's very similiar texture to rice pudding. ( I shared a house many years ago with a half Chinese guy and tried it. Much to my surprise I really liked it, needs lots of soy sauce, chillies and spring onion though IMHO or else it is very bland.) I would imagine crab roe might be hard to get but brown crab meat or even crab paste with some tinned crab added would work fairly well.

unrecordings - everyone needs a good blow out from time to time. On New Years Eve my kids made a fairly authentic chinese feast and if I had eaten anymore I would have burst but it was wonderful.:D (The mess of the kitchen was another story:rotfl::rotfl:) My indulgence this weekend when it's a family gathering is likely to involve lots of fish and seafood, knowing our lot there won't be LOs:cool:.

PasturesNew

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll go shopping tomorrow... bread, eggs, beans .... and "see what I fancy"

I've just done this. A little too much of that "see what I fancy" though

I went to 4ldi, then to Sainsbobs. 5-pack of doughnuts from Sainsbobs

From 4li I got the planned bread (rolls), eggs, beans. Also got crumpets, a sausage casserole mix .... and 4 egg custard tarts and a bag of their own brand mini bounty bars

Breakfast today was: 1 doughnut

caronc

Good morning everyone,
It's pouring here this morning and due to rain all day before clearing overnight after which it is supposed to be dry for a few days. I do hope so as I'm having a few days with my family:).
Tesco is due in a bit with supplies for the weekend - no doubt come Monday they will be decimated!
Younger son arrives this evening though probably not until quite late so I may well be CFO tonight it will depend what time he gets away from work. Elder son & his fiancee are travelling up tomorrow.

I've chicken LO from last night which I'll use up for my lunch. Dinner tonight is tbc.
I won't be about until Monday and will catch up on CFO-land happens then.:)

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Out with dd for lunch today so soup and toast for tea. I love the Masterchef Australia/MKR etc. as well as UK cookery programmes. Try not to look on food network and am trying to not look at the UTube ones (I still do though) as I end up wanting to cook some of them and but ingredients which sit in cupboard. Looking for uses for the crystalised ginger at the mo. Am diabetic so have to be careful.

Wednesday2000

candygirl wrote: »

Thanks Girls: We had two mahoosive pizzas, n unlimited salad n drinks, for £11, cos I had a voucher.Brought half the pizza home though, n shared with piggy Bon Bon :rotfl:

I bet she enjoyed that! I gave my dogs some of the leftover cupcake when I got in.:D

Brambling wrote: »

I pickup the smoked Tofoo in W*itrose Caronc I'm lucky as there is a very large one just down the hill from the office

Tell me what you think of that brand.:) I have heard very conflicting reviews of it from vegan people i know online!

Wednesday2000

I've had a banana and spinach smoothie and then a few crackers with marg.

I'm making HM carrot and red lentil soup for lunch.:cool:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

everyone needs a good blow out from time to time. On New Years Eve my kids made a fairly authentic chinese feast and if I had eaten anymore I would have burst but it was wonderful.:D (The mess of the kitchen was another story:rotfl::rotfl:) My indulgence this weekend when it's a family gathering is likely to involve lots of fish and seafood, knowing our lot there won't be LOs:cool:.

I've booked my plane ticket Caronc i love fish and seafood and the food at your family gatherings always sound soooo good I cooked a chinese feast last year for my sisters birthday (2 of my sisters have birthdays 4 days apart) it was very nice if i say so myself although I'm slightly worried as one of my sisters brought me chop sticks and a steamer for Christmas as it was so nice and has arranged to come up this year for her birthday :cool: Have a great weekend with the boys and maybe you can get the gate fixed at the same time

whmf00001 wrote: »

I love the Masterchef Australia/MKR etc. as well as UK cookery programmes. Try not to look on food network and am trying to not look at the UTube ones (I still do though) as I end up wanting to cook some of them and but ingredients which sit in cupboard. Looking for uses for the crystalised ginger at the mo. Am diabetic so have to be careful.

I enjoy both these programs WHMF but i'm not sure about the MKR NZ which has just started even through it has the same judges, just a case of getting use to the contestants i suppose.

Do you like rhubarb? the crystalised ginger will work with stewed rhubarb or crumble or make a ginger cake and freeze in slices

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Tell me what you think of that brand.:) I have heard very conflicting reviews of it from vegan people i know online!

I do like this one Wednesday although I've only tried the smoked one, no need to press and I serve it crispy with a coconut and peanut butter sauce, I enjoy the smoked favour. However I don't eat a lot of tofu so haven't really tried a lot to compare it to.

A couple of meetings this morning has meant a later lunch again, I did walk down to W*itrose to avoid falling asleep in the office which seems to be very warm today, I'll tamper with the air conditioning when no one is looking I picked up some YS green veg so I'm happy and they have chickens on offer half price so that's a roast at the weekend, I need to cook a small gammon so I'll pop it in the oven at the same time to utilise the oven

Lunch was a large portion of chicken laksa, not enough for two portions but was a little over generous for one. Not sure what dinner will be yet but after a large late lunch probably not a lot

PasturesNew

whmf00001 wrote: »

Looking for uses for the crystalised ginger at the mo. Am diabetic so have to be careful.

I had a quick look through my collection of nearly 5000 ideas.... and all those with this ingredient in my list are cakes and biscuits and puddings

I found: Gingerbread biscuits, slow cooker sticky ginger cake, fruity tea loaf, slow cooker ginger & cranberry tea loaf cake, self saucing ginger pudding and a flapjack recipe that also tosses some crystallised ginger into the mix.

So, not much help to you.

Mind you, my collection only contains things that I like the sound of.... they go in my collection if I want to be reminded of something, or if something catches my eye... they're all full recipes to be followed, but I use them simply as an ideas bucket of what I can do with XYZ ingredients.

To search I just had to type in crystal ginger and it showed me every recipe I've got that contains those words/part-words.

PasturesNew

So far today I've chomped my way through (further edited as I scoffed):

A doughnut
A mini bounty

2 crumpets with marg
Another doughnut
Another mini bounty.

Another doughnut
A packet of Doritos.

An egg custard tart.
Another doughnut.



I had planned, possibly, for tomorrow to get a takeaway and to make my own chow mein (well, a lo mein really). BUT ... I'm suddenly not going to be around here to keep an eye on the SC and I'd like to keep an eye on it while it cooks. So a chinese might not occur -or- I might just buy a chow mein from the chinese if I do get s/s chicken balls.

Farway

Back home after too much food
It tipped down on way to Plymouth, like driving under Niagara, but it had stopped by the evening

Monday dinner, liver, bacon & mash in pub on the Barbican- yummy. No room for Spotted d!ck & custard which was on the menu;)

Tuesday, full gut buster English breakfast
Cream tea on the Ho for late lunch
Dinner, super BLT with chips & salad, in same pub

Wednesday smaller breakfast, bacon & mushrooms
Lunch smaller cream tea
Dinner, Hunter's chicken & chips, same pub

Today, bacon, mushrooms & fried eggs breakfast
Yet another BLT for lunch on way home
Bought some HM chocolate & pear cake in the farm shop, plus treacle tart. TT scoffed with a cuppa when I got in

Also bought some Black Bomber & Dorset Blue Vinney cheese for next week:D

One YS purchase last evening, mooching in T*sco Express, mushrooms 28p pack, looked as good as new, so I've got them ready for an omelette later if I get peckish