Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Farway wrote: »

Up early, porridge for breakfast, then with a bit of time spare I made the dough bit for short breads using Caronc recipe. That is now in the fridge chilling out

Farway wrote: »

Had a stab at the shortbread, the dough would not roll, just crumbling, so made shortblobs instead

They taste just fine, in fact excellent, but a bake off fail. I think that, like my porridge, it will be trial and effort, plus a few hundred zillion calories



Plenty of time to muse and chomp some shortblobs with a cuppa

Not a fail if they taste good - the dough was probably chilled for a bit too long hence the crumbling. It can help to roll it out between 2 bits of clingfilm or greaseproof if it is determined to crumble:)

meg72 wrote: »

As the weather has deffo turned so cold decided it was time to visit farm shop for potatoes and onions. Potatoes are only £5.00 a sack 25kgs so 20p a kg and onions 25p kg. Thats quite a big saving on supermarket prices. I store the in an outside meter cupboard and they last for months.
I used to stock up on parsnips and carrot too but parsnips are so expensive now and carrots dont keep.

That's a fab price Meg

I'm late on parade as the weather has been lovely so I spent most of the day gardening/recovering from gardening/gardening ....... All bar 2 of the hanging baskets have been composted as they were on their last legs and some more with violas planted up. Got a couple of wee courgettes but the plants have had it so they've been composted too. Picked a load of brambles. beans and toms and what is probably the last cucumber. My back is twingeing like billyo so reckon I'll be stiff tomorrow, oh how I wish I could get in the bath!

Breakfast was the usual toast and fruit, lunch a ham salad roll and dinner will be lamb chops, runner beans and thinly sliced potatoes/onions baked in a mix of stock and creme fraiche:)

Farway wrote: »

I thought that may have been the problem, I made the dough, then went out YS mooching so it was well over 2 hours in fridge, thanks, never too old to learn from experts :T

Dinner was going to be the frozen fish, except it was a disaster. The fillets had been in the freezer soooo looong they were one solid inseperable block of iced fish, all I could do was wrap in tin foil and bung in the oven for ages to cook

In the meantime I thought of chips, as a CFO mind often does, popped them on whilst waiting for the fish. Needless to say, chips ready, fish still half frozen. Bummer

Dinner turned out to be a chip butty, very nice it was, plus a crumpet, good job it is just me here

The fish eventually thawed & cooked, now in the fridge and I think some kind of fish cake things are looming tomorrow

Not the best of CFO days in the kitchen, but hey ho, no one died and the world is still turning

I think we all have days like that

If you find it easier gently roll the shortbread into balls, flatten with your hand until they are they are flattish, stab the tops with a fork a few times then chill and then bake;). At the end of the day it's the taste that matters especially if you are CFO :cool:.

Good morning everyone,

After yesterday's lovely weather it's back to wet, cold and windy today. I'm not CFO tonight as my Dad, Sister & Nephew are coming round and we are going to treat ourselves to a takeaway. Breakfast was the usual toast & fruit and lunch will be the wee drop of LO spuds from last night with bacon and egg.