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Original poster

to think cooking two fillets of fish for one person is a bit much?

325 replies

MarianneSolong · 01/12/2015 18:43

I'm going out. Spouse is cooking two salmon fillets for himself. I think it's a bit greedy and he should either have just one - or save the packet for a night when we're both in.

OP posts:
UmbongoUnchained · 05/12/2015 23:51

durham I'm a monster when I drink. I eat till I pass out. Luckily I only drink once a year on my birthday!

MistressoftheYoniverse · 06/12/2015 00:18

Umbongo did you grill them? Deep fry?...Grin

MistressDeeCee · 06/12/2015 01:37

God, I couldn't stand living with a foodwatcher

UmbongoUnchained · 06/12/2015 03:03

Oven!

MrsKoala · 06/12/2015 16:11

Half a poussin? Aren't you meant to eat them whole? I do mine with outrageous amounts of garlic and herb butter and lots of steamed broccoli and buttered peas. Mmm.

limitedperiodonly · 06/12/2015 17:46

It was okay in the end MrsK. I was just feeling a bit peckish.

I used to eat one for myself but it really is too big. For me. I was just eating for the sake of eating. I'm not boasting about my birdlike appetite or going to tut over anyone else for devouring a whole one.

These are Gressingham brand spatchcock poussins seasoned with salt and various peppercorns. They are really nice. I don't know what they do but I can't copy it. I definitely recommend giving them a whirl if you see them.

What's going to make me sound even more sad is that I only buy them reduced from Sainsbury's and split them and stash them in my freezer. They do recommend that one bird serves two. I can't see that. DH would eat a whole one.

Anyway, after a bumper night on the reduction counter last night I have a bit of a poussin stockpile to eat through Blush

limitedperiodonly · 06/12/2015 17:49

God. That was a really interesting post about chicken, wasn't it?

Sometimes I'm so very scintillating that I even stun myself Wink

expatinscotland · 06/12/2015 17:50

'God, I couldn't stand living with a foodwatcher'

Nor me. My ex h's brother was like that and he was divorced twice by the time he was 30.

TeenageWildlife · 06/12/2015 17:59

Is OP for real? What a joyless household, nasty, mean, pinched and judgemental.
So glad I'm single.

MrsKoala · 06/12/2015 21:00

Oh I love those gressingham ones. I grill them till the skin is brown and crisp and then serve topped with loads of garlic butter melting on the top. Some fresh parsley and green stuff. So good. One of my favourite dinners. I never see them on special tho :(

in more exciting poultry news, we had a lidl ready stuffed roast in a bag chicken for dinner and it was surprisingly good. Was quite small looking but easily served 3 and was stuffed with sausage, sage and onion. It was a 'higher welfare' bird too. For four quid it was well worth it. i will boil the bones for stock, so will get a good soup base out of it too. Well this is mumsnet, what did you expect?! Grin

Bambooshoots14 · 06/12/2015 22:01

are you hobbits

Grin
ArmchairTraveller · 07/12/2015 06:41

Hobbits are known for their generosity with food. And they (and my DS) believe in Second Breakfast. So no, the OP and her partner are definitely not hobbits.

IHaveBrilloHair · 07/12/2015 08:24

We are having cod fillets tonight, I have defrosted the whole bag of 5 fillets for two of us

DurhamDurham · 07/12/2015 08:40

But IHave what about the guidelines.........will no one think of the guidelines Grin

MajesticWhine · 07/12/2015 08:59

Not enough for sandwiches all week mrskoala? Shame on you.

expatinscotland · 07/12/2015 14:11

Surely you can get a curry, sandwiches and a pasta bake out of the leftovers, Koala. So greedy. Bet you are all heifers under the skin. Grin

MrsKoala · 07/12/2015 15:41

Umm yeah, all the leftovers...err. I am a lean mean machine I'll have you know expat thank you very much. Did a spin class this morning and everything

I'll confess i used to be a chicken stretcher (that sounds quite depraved). In our more lean times i used to get 3-4 dinners out of a large chicken. BUT i will say, there were only 2 of us, they were all made with the help of additional cheaper meat (i like to pad my meat out with more meat, fuck lentils) and the 4th was a 'veggie' soup with the stock, no meat had survived that long.

i became obsessively parsimonious and restrictive about it. So much so that when our income increased i wouldn't up the budget. It took doing low carb boot camp to make me realise how joyless i had become about it all. I actually felt quite tearful at the thought of spending more on food for myself (not dh or the boys). It was so silly as id be spending twenty quid on flowers but walking 4 miles to aldi and back with the buggy to save a few quid on food.

the thing is I'm so lucky i have never been really really hard up, but i was starting to shop like we were. It became a competition with myself. It was pure poverty tourism on my part. I was just embarrassing.

Fiderer · 07/12/2015 16:39

The Germans often have a second breakfast, known exactly as that. Not because they're hobbits mind, the fecking school and work day starts so early. S1 went to a secondary school for 5 years where the first lesson was at 7.40 am. A.M. IN THE MORNING A.M.

NoahVale · 07/12/2015 16:43

i bought some cod fillets in batter, youngs, half price, dh said one fillet wasnt enough. the next time i cooked them he had 2, well almost 2, i had one and a third and he had one and two thirds.

but salmon fillets, small is best. it is greedy and extravagent

NoahVale · 07/12/2015 16:44

oops, Blush just realised I might have angered people up thread.

whatever works for you

NoahVale · 07/12/2015 16:45

my DH is just like the ops. but when you are watching the pennies. it makes a difference

limitedperiodonly · 07/12/2015 21:16

A fucking excellent bubble and squeak using leftovers - including kale, Mumsnet's 2015 favourite - is coming to the end. I will serve it with the last of the reduced chicken crown

expatinscotland · 07/12/2015 22:32

I made a delicious casserole using fluff from the hoover and padded out with lentils, carefully weighed out to the suggested serving size/person.

Meat? How greedy! Just download photos of it and wave it at the person. That's more than enough.

Christina22xx · 07/12/2015 22:58

i wouldnt eat two but maybe he just really likes them, Does he have it with a side as well or on its on? I usually make salmon fillets with sweet potato mash which is really filling.

TeenageWildlife · 07/12/2015 23:48

expat can you put those in recipes please? Interested to know how you season your Hoover fluff, I find it easy to over salt. As to waving photos, hit MIL in the face with my iPad whilst serving photo of duck breast.