Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I grew up in a brovil household spread on toast rather than marmite, you've reminded me Farway that I haven't had it as a hot drink for years

We shared your good weather Farway, with rain moving across the county line most of the day :cool: definitely dissuaded me from going to far today. I popped round to 'fix' an ex elderly neighbour's email, although all I did was click on a couple of things and removed a old email address on her tablet . I got paid with a cup of tea, I had to go out for petrol so combined. Picked up YS Savoy cabbage and cauliflower in the garage, (co-op)

PN i would find a shared household difficult to do after years of living alone, so I imagine it's worst for you, I know it's needs must so hopefully your perfect house will appear soon

Nothing much for lunch today apple and cheese and a pack of crisp. I roasted the gammon for dinner and cooked some Boulangere potatoes with celeriac when the oven was on. I made cauliflower with mozzarella sprinkled on top a low calorie version of cauliflower cheese, note to self the low fat mozzarella I brought was tasteless and didn't work . There will be LO tomorrow and gammon most of week which isn't a bad thing as I've a busy week

Glad you had a good weekend Caronc

Wednesday2000

I sometimes have a hot Marmite drink. It does remind me of being younger.:)

I am quite hungry today! I have a bit more leftover smoked tofu, rice, sweetcorn and peas in the fridge. I think I am going to fry some red onion, tomatoes and broccoli in olive oil and curry powder and add the leftovers to it. :EasterBun

unrecordings wrote: »

I've had some fairly nasty sausage rolls over the years, so stopped eating them about 20 years ago - except for simple vegan/vegetarian ones, so no unpleasant surprises. The Linda Mac ones are really nice.

Ooh, yes, they are nice!:T

PasturesNew

"When I have a home ..." I do like to have 3-4 tins in the cupboard that are "meals in a tin" and I'll usually have sausages/beans in there. I notice some shops offer veggie sausages/beans but never bothered to try those. I buy full sized cans as any half-can offering is disproportionately priced so you feel ripped off.

Meals in a tin will typically be: beans/sausages, spag bol, meatballs in tomato sauce. At one point in the past Sainsbobs used to do a vegetable soup with dumplings - and that was thick like a proper stew, so at 65p/can I sometimes had those in the cupboard as an "instant stew&dumps meal"

I had a quick look, looks like they still do it, 75p.... I'd not spotted it as I rarely go to Sainsbobs and I couldn't find the cans last time I looked (I wasn't expecting a tin change) https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-chunky-beef---dumplings-soup-400g

Yesterday I had my cooked breakfast and later on I had a toasted sausage sandwich... a bag of doritos and some sweeties were eaten. But "that was it".

Raining again/still. I've a loaf, I've beans open, I've cheese - I expect I'll have cheesy beans on toast later.

Out of eggs and almost out of coffee, so I guess I might have to go and get those today.

unrecordings wrote: »

I've had some fairly nasty sausage rolls over the years, so stopped eating them about 20 years ago - except for simple vegan/vegetarian ones, so no unpleasant surprises. The Linda Mac ones are really nice.

It is an upbringing that included gristley sausages and gristley mince that makes me picky about what my meat looks like and if I'll chance it.

I was great about the L1dl cheapo 6 packs of sausage rolls for taste/cost but they changed the recipe about 3-4 months ago and the last time I bought a pack I think there was one knobbly bit in there, which turned my stomach, so not rushing to eat them again.

I grabbed a pack of Linda M's sausages at L1dl last week, those lovely rosemary/onion ones. £1.25 from memory... not a great price, but I was there, they were there, I fancied a change and grabbed them. Pack still unopened at present... but they will get eaten in the next 1-2 weeks.

caronc wrote: »

I didn't expected to read you had been using a gas hob PN, great news . Do you think when you get your new place that you might feel able to use an electric hob if it was one you could switch the circuit off at the wall when not in use?

It is always "the dream", to "be normal and just get on with it" and I'd like to be able to use these things, but we'll just have to see. In part, my ability to use them will depend on kitchen layout... I feel more "twitchy" about electrical items in a kitchen that has no outside door/escape

Only time will tell how things turn out.

unrecordings

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a quick look, looks like they still do it, 75p.... I'd not spotted it as I rarely go to Sainsbobs and I couldn't find the cans last time I looked (I wasn't expecting a tin change) https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/sainsburys-chunky-beef---dumplings-soup-400g

I like the look of that, but I won't go into Sainsburys - ours is horrific starting at the door with a massive trolley escalator

PasturesNew wrote: »

It is an upbringing that included gristley sausages and gristley mince that makes me picky about what my meat looks like and if I'll chance it.

last time I bought a pack I think there was one knobbly bit in there, which turned my stomach, so not rushing to eat them again.

Sausage fear - 'wall's have ears' as Victor Lewis Smith once said. When I used to trolley up & down the M1 in a van full of flightcases, it was traditional to stop off for a pasty etc halfway back. After a series of knobbly pasties (Ginsters) I stopped eating them too. There's a local bakery does a really nice pastie, but I fear that sooner or later I'll be knobbled

Farway

Another wet day, with yellow warning from lunchtime on, so no going out for me

For a change I had fresh mango in my porridge.

I was given the mango, it's not something I buy 'cos it's too fiddly & slippery to prepare, plus lot of waste if paying full price. However it was nice enough for free

Lunch I think will be corned beef rolls, may add raw onion in, or maybe a tomato, I still have my own toms to eat, enough for this week anyway

Dinner, with this weather I'm thinking of belly filling use ups

I've got gammon, plus YS spuds sprouting so I'm thinking of big pot of mash, then Andy special [stir in cooked peas] stir the chopped gammon in, serve with PN nuker cheese sauce on top
Real CFO homage:D

AndyCF wrote: »

Do you think the ones (if I can find them!) with the veggie sausage would be a better bet then ? I'm thinking only Hz's here simply as I can't get to Morr's anyway, no doubt other markets have them but I'd probably want a decent brand for 'new things' to try to start with.

I think for first time outing the veggie ones would be safer.

The meat ones I've had are finely minced filling but just in case there is a knobbly bit best avoided on first attempt

Likewise PN, I went of L's saus rolls after a knobbly bit, I've sort of given up on them now. I like Linda M's but only eat them when invited round to veggie rellies
Linda M pies are nice as well, not cheap though

On knobbly bits, I find I same with pork pies, so I stick with real Melton M'by ones because the have to meet PGI standards

Caron, fishing with a hand-line, we still do it with the grandchildren, for crabs in a large boating lake on the sea front. Loads of kids doing same. Loads go down on a sunny day, plus the model power boats for the big boys:D

The water is only a couple of feet deep so even a toddler could stand up and survive if they fell in

unrecordings wrote: »

I like the look of that, but I won't go into Sainsburys - ours is horrific starting at the door with a massive trolley escalator

Sausage fear - 'wall's have ears' as Victor Lewis Smith once said. When I used to trolley up & down the M1 in a van full of flightcases, it was traditional to stop off for a pasty etc halfway back. After a series of knobbly pasties (Ginsters) I stopped eating them too. There's a local bakery does a really nice pastie, but I fear that sooner or later I'll be knobbled

Must be a Sainsbob thing with escalators, ours has them as you walk in. I use the lift cos escalators & my wobble don't mix


Oh, knobbly pasties has reminded me, uggh,:eek: I do eat them still, but tend to either buy posh expensive genuine pasty shop ones or stick to veggie versions

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Farway wrote: »

Caron, fishing with a hand-line, we still do it with the grandchildren, for crabs in a large boating lake on the sea front. Loads of kids doing same. Loads go down on a sunny day, plus the model power boats for the big boys:D

The water is only a couple of feet deep so even a toddler could stand up and survive if they fell in

Simple pleasures Farway, I used to do the same with my kids when they were younger at the local rocks.


PN- hopefully you'll get a kitchen that will work for you layout wise.:)


Unexpectedly dry here this morning though how long for remains to be seen. I'm going to make the most of it a get stuck in to some gardening. I think it's time to take most of the tom plants down so it will shortly be green tomato time in my conservatory, if anything like previous years they'll ripen quite happily in there.


Soup from the freezer for lunch and a "sausage, black pudding and parsnip bake" for dinner.

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L/o sausage and rice from yesterday may have for lunch although have a portion of carrot and orange soup too. Took small portion of what looks like mince out of freezer as well as a lump of what I think is cooking bacon so having a think. Whilst oven was on yesterday I put a couple of potatoes in to cook and a couple of onions wrapped in foil - they could be used with the mince or bacon to make a sort of pie type thing, we will see.

Wednesday2000

I had a really big breakfast, I added some soya mince as well.:D

I'm making a batch lot of carrot, potato and onion soup. I will blend it with my stick blender when it's done.

I also have some blueberries defrosting for my banana, spinach and berry smoothie.

unrecordings

Farway wrote: »

On knobbly bits, I find I same with pork pies, so I stick with real Melton M'by ones because the have to meet PGI standards

Must be a Sainsbob thing with escalators, ours has them as you walk in. I use the lift cos escalators & my wobble don't mix

Didn't know about the Melton Mowbray thing - good to know - thanks. Pork pies were also off the menu apart from ones we used to get from the (very expensive) farm shop at Chatsworth, pork & stilton or 'good times pie' as I used to call them.

As for escalators, I have a bad case of vertigo at the moment, so having problems with stairs, escalators, and lifts. On the latter, I went for an MRI last week, and accidentally looked down the lift shaft (which they'd helpfully illuminated) as I crossed the threshold. I think I was still shaking when I got home

Farway

unrecordings wrote: »

As for escalators, I have a bad case of vertigo at the moment, so having problems with stairs, escalators, and lifts. On the latter, I went for an MRI last week, and accidentally looked down the lift shaft (which they'd helpfully illuminated) as I crossed the threshold. I think I was still shaking when I got home

I don't like heights these days, never worried me before but not now


This one makes me shiver just looking at it [just in case of collywobbles, , it's a lady photographer on a sky scraper
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