Cooking for one (Mark Three)

meg72 wrote: »

Also had to change password, why? wish t hey would leave things alone. TV also giving me the evil eye, some channels have been changed, follow instructions, would if I could find them lol .

Had a senior moment and tipped the carefully strained chicken stock back into electric pressure cooker without the inner pot, big clean up and now error messages from said appliance.

My all singing and dancing, expensive lol, sewing machine is having a hickey fit, my lovely yoghurt maker decided to take a holiday and didn't yog.

Cant decide if I should, if its still possible, just to forget modern stuff and haunt the car boots for reliable, lol ,old stuff or let them cart me off to a care home.

Oh and I also cant find where I stored photos so I can post on here, you were kind enough to advise some time ago.

Anyway just wanted to ask how much is the beef on offer from lydl next Thursday.

Sounds like the machines are out to get you, what a bummer

I'm having problems this morning on Internet banking, both sites I've tried are sloooow, and have notes about "upgrades" tomorrow, more improvements to confuse the already confused I expect

Anyway, to answer two questions, image posting is

https://postimages.org/ and follow instructions

Lild beef offer from Thursday 15th, "British beef lean diced steak" 400 grammes, £2.19, normal price 2.59

Frosty morning, but now turned to cold rain, CBA to go out in it, nothing needed urgently so could be binge watching summat later

Breakfast was pot of loose leaf tea because I had time, followed by HM yoghurt with honey, my maker still yogs, but it was a new at Christmas so it blooming well should

Lunch will be the final 1/8 of the C & O pie, with piccalilli

Dinner is planned as a grilled gammon steak, with frozen chips, omelette using OOD eggs, grilled wizened tomatoes and grilled "not quite wrinkly but soon will be" mushrooms. Sounds a gourmet MSE feast:D

My "house" is actually a modern-ish (built 2008) 2-bed flat on the middle of 3 floors. As you enter, there's the bathroom on the right, single bedroom next, and then the master bed on the end. On the left is the kitchen and then living room.
The second bedroom is basically a junk room. I didn't bother getting a bed to go in there, as I rarely ever have a guest to sleep round, and I need the space in the room more than I need the bed IYSWIM.

Last summer I kondo'd pretty much the entire flat... This summer coming I will be brutal again and get rid of everything else that didn't get touched in the last year. There's stuff, particularly in the second bedroom, that I wasn't quite ready to throw last year, which will definitely be going this year!

On another topic, food for me this week is going to be flexible! It's half-term (I'm a school teacher), so meals get a bit "as and when". I'll also be away Tuesday-Thursday, so won't need meals then. I thought beyond that, I'll live on what I already have (a bulging storecupboard and freezer!) and stay out of the supermarket now until at least next weekend.

Spur of the moment after lunch, used the "fed up with looking at them" apples that have been lurking since I scrumped them last October. Washed & stewed, skin & all.

Then remembered the blackberries I froze in the summer, chucked them in the stewed apple

Found pack of OOD crumble topping mix [07/17]

Looks like pud will be memories of summer of 2017, with either instant custard or Greek Yoghurt

My house is a modernish (1964) terrace, two large bedrooms and one smaller one. Loo and bathroom are up some very steep stairs, which give me an enormous hallway. This has its uses as it enables me to keep my adult's trike indoors.
It's a townhouse, which means a large flowerbed at the east-facing front, and a small patio with flowerbed at the west-facing back.
My attic is empty, as it's too dangerous for me to access it, living on my own. Stuff that would be in the attic ( suitcases, etc) is in the two bedrooms not in use.
I would love a two or one bed bungalow with secure covered storage for my trike, but they don't exist for purchase in my locality, though there are plenty of housing association properties of this description.

Back on topic. Yesterday I had a CBA meal of roast sausages and roast tinned potatoes with a lovely thick gravy. I buy tinned potatoes a lot, and never ever eat them as they come out of the tin, (vile), but always in things. They are great sliced for hotpots, roasted, or in the food processor with cooked fish of some description for fish cakes.