Cooking for One

A gourmet of one person cuisine would eat the beans cold, with a spoon, straight from the tin and then have the toast with a bit of jam on it for dessert.

I'm telling you this for a friend. 

oh yes - cold baked beans from the tin are delicious! I think we must have the same (non) recipe book Turlough

or you start a recipe and realise you have run out of the essential ingredient. Rhiannon

Oh Luigi, I hope this doesn't happen often! I cook for just me quite a bit as I am the only vegan in our house. If you have an onion, a carrot, tinned tomatoes and baked beans, you might rinse out the sugary sauce the beans come in, and cut up half the onion small and soften it in oil in a pan, then add the beans and tomato and, if you have any, some other left over cooked vegetables chopped up, and herbs, and make a lovely soup? It's not a proper recipe, but sometimes it turns out delicious if there are the right odds and ends in it ("Pot Luck"!) And the other day while looking for something easy for my son to cook, I found a wonderful recipe from Italy (not vegan) called polpette di uova? Have you tried this? You being a great cook would know all about it I expect, but I had not heard of it before. I think there must be lots of variations one could do, like adding mushrooms instead of cheese, or different kinds of cheese (I had cheddar, not Parmesan, so it wasn't proper). I made spaghetti while cooking the polpettes, then tipped them out and made a quick tomato sauce in the frying pan, then mixed it all together

Hi Luigi :0) Very glad that your poem was not biographical! I remember from previous writing of yours that you have a wide knowledge of ingredients. Of course I found this poem humorous, you have a brilliant wit :0)

Luigi you should try instant oats and banana bread for breakfast, and instant oats for supper with banana bread for desert, and with a 2 liter Coke but my doctor said I must stop the coke so I switched to milk. Instant oats comes in three flavours, banana and srawberry, and caramel think. But usually you make two packets the helpings are a bit small. Yes and gingerbread is also quite good instead of the banana.

I was living alone yes, these days my brother cooks his food is excellent.

All the best! Tom Brown

On your birthday you can have hot milk for your instant oats And a 2liter coke for a treat instead of the milk, and for christmas you can have a cracker too. For the diet you see). Lucky my girfriends birthday is every day (just not Christmas day, that is Christmas day).

Salut! Tom