50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

sammy_kaye18

Hi ALl

What foraging dedication i showed yesterday - torrential rain, my poor jack russell got roped in fro his walk, me balancing brolley and tub and going blackberry picking.

I only did the little line of bushes id seen and got about 20 - 30 berries. Got home and boiled kettle intending to let it cool and then put over berries nd bf decided to be helpful and pour it still hot over berries - water is now bright red but hoping they will be ok and if nothign else clean so will have to find somethign to make with it later - have got bramley apples so im thinking a crumble - i still have the patch at my mother in laws to go to and i found another huge bushed site yesterday - was slightly deterred and would have come away with more but the partof the bush with nic eberries on had about 8/9 bees round it and the bush had a big central lump to it so declined because i was worried there was a hive lurking under it! :eek:

anywho there were still lots of unripe and ripening berries there yesterday so ill go back in a few weeks - hopefulyl no rain this time and see how i get on - after all theres only 3 of us but im keeping space in teh freezer just incase. Plus i have about 8 jars under the side that could do with filing so if i get a realyl good haul like nikki (well done btw!) i might jsut make some jam but sieve it because little one doesnt like pips. :rolleyes:

ceridwen

Just to say a quick "thank you" all who contributed curry sauce recipes - will duly make notes and start experimenting. Ta muchly.

ceridwen

foxy-tigger wrote: »

Hi in search of me! I completely agree aout the Bread Maker!!!!
Tho I am looking to be making my own bread "properly" now. do you have any good recipies for a newbie bread maker..... like myself that arn't too hard?!!!!
Ta!

Two possibilities here:
- either look up Weezl's blog (its on her homepage on M.S.E.) and try her "Bread of Heaven")

- or look up my blog (also on my homepage on M.S.E.) and search the links for "food" - and my bread recipe I use regularly is there in a food post. (Need to click the "food" heading under links on mine - because covers a lot of other subjects besides food).

shaz_mum_of__2

Hiya all

cw18 the marrow chutney

10 chillies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! any ideas on size/type if they get removed at the end i may just add a pinch of dried to the mix and leave it in other than that i think i have everything and i need a jar of summat for a show in september!!

minibudgetgal - haven't frozen it didn't get chance kids werent so fussy as the adults ...............i guess to kids cake is cake !!
I would imagine its fine to freeze ...................nigella also suggests making muffins with the mix and turning into almost butterfly buns with the cream cheese frosting and drizzled with lime curd


Nicki loving the blackberries/brambles what you going to make?


Shaz

cw18

will ask my Mum about the chillies. Can't for the life of me remember what I used when I made some think they probably went into the Muslin/whatever with the cloves?

.... wanders off to send Mum another email -- she's going to be feeling very popular with two emails from me in as many days .......

NemoToad

I made bangers and mash last night and had it with some cabbage and leeks that we'd had for ages. The boys seem to buy meat sausages and bacon everytime they do the shopping, despite the fact we don't use them often, so I'm trying to get through them as I'd like to empty the freezer to defrost it! Bangers and mash is a good tea though as it's easy to do some veggie sausages seperately for me.

I decided to mash all the potatoes we had (with some carrots that also looked a little passed their bit) so tonight I might make them a Shepherd's Pie. Despite being a Shepherd I've never made one, so I'll have to see if it works. There's a portion of veggie 'cottage pie' somewhere in the freezer, so hopefully it's still okay, it's been in there quite a while. If not, I'll have to make a small new one for myself. I don't really like making two seperate meals though!

Well done to everyone on their blackberry foraging. If the weather's nice at the weekend I'll see if the berries are ready in the nature reserve behind our house. There's a crab apple tree too so I might make Bramble Jelly.

nicki_2

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Nicki loving the blackberries/brambles what you going to make?

Crumbles :rotfl: DD and I both love crumbles so I'm going to freeze the berries and use them to make crumbles over the winter.

After washing/sorting them last night I still managed to fill a 4 person casserole dish with them :j Will weigh them later before I freeze them

Plum_Pie

Hello ISOM,

I wasn't referring to any event in particular. The ****cursing was a joke (ahem, an unsuccessful joke) about the fact that many people behave badly when they can't see the person with whom they're communicating.

Plum X

cw18

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

cw18 the marrow chutney

10 chillies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! any ideas on size/type if they get removed at the end i may just add a pinch of dried to the mix and leave it in other than that i think i have everything and i need a jar of summat for a show in september!!

mum uses dried chillies, but I've only ever had powder so must have used that or totally omitted this!!!

shaz_mum_of__2

Thanks cheryl i have plenty crushed dried will just use a bit

Got a farm shop 200 yds away selling marrow for 80p got one yesterday


Shaz