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

weezl74

BASHFUL wrote: »

I feel proud to say, I am 23, and have been cooking proper meals since I moved out of my parents house at 17 and before...I was always taught to be independant. Was doing my own washing and ironing by age 13.....evil mother!!!!!!

She sounds great! Any prizes for guessing how Fergus will be earning his pocket money? :rotfl:

Diva, thanks for that recipe!

I'd really like to update the index of recipes, but I can't remember where I got to!

I know I posted that I'd done it when I last did it IYSWIM, but now can't work out how to find out when that was!!!

Also, he may be 'suggesting' haagen daaz, but I am a mean mummy, and I am saying, for the time being, 'you'll have what you're given!':D

ISOM did you see my post about towelling nappies? Don't getcha about the pattern m'dear, wondered if I'm missing something?!

Mrs M, what have you been feeding your toms with, you've done so well with your crops this year! I'd like your secret. Unless it's 'grow them in Germany!':rotfl:

Jacket potato and chilli tonight at 678 calories, I hope Ceridwen and ISOM will be pleased with me :D:D

Love to you all,

Weezl x

lightisfading

Well, I *thought* I'd forgotten where the recipe came from, but then when I went to type it up I noticed I'd squiggled 'vegancooking' in the corner - which led me to the vegancooking community on livejournal, and then a little hunting found the recipe at it's original source. I wouldn't wanna steal

http://community.livejournal.com/vegancooking/1849262.html#cutid1

As I said it is in NO way healthy flour, sugar, cocoa, oil LOL. Having said that it probably IS moneysaving as oil is cheaper than butter/eggs.

I once made this subsituting about 1/6 of the flour for ground almonds, and almond essence instead of vanilla, and it was very very nice indeed

loocyloo

jtb2412 wrote: »

1lb of cooking apples
12oz self raising flour
6oz butter (I used marg, works just as well)
6oz soft brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2-3 tbsp milk (may not need, depending on how juicy your apples are!)

is it me .... just made this apple and sultana loaf ... and no sultanas in it ??? rather yummy though!!!

thanks x

BASHFUL_2

ah it was you foxy tigger...thanks for coming forward!!!! and thankyou so much, I've been smiling like a cheshire cat...so sad, I was taking pics of just the baskets!!!! Never been to Romford shopping, so whilst looking for Poundland, I couldnt believe how good it was, definately going back, huge poundland and wilko's....cant say fairer than that!!! and whilst there saw a job advert that I am going to apply for...eeek!!!!! so you saved my life in more ways than one....thankyou a million times.
Thankyou to lightisfading for that yummy looking recipe, will definately be giving them a go!! ;-)

In_Search_Of_Me

Chocolate and nut brownies

(Makes 16)

150g/50z plain choc, chopped into small pieces
120ml/4fl oz/ ½ cup sunflower oil
215g/7 ½ 0z/1 ¼ cups light muscadavo sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
65g/2 ½ oz self raising flour
60ml/4 tblsp cocoa powder
75g/3oz walnuts or pecans, chopped
4blsp choc chips (I didn’t use)


Preheat oven to 180oC/350f or gm4. Lightly grease shallow square 19cm cake tin. Melt plain choc over basin touching water. While choc melts in a separate bowl beat oil, sugar, vanilla and eggs. Stir in melted choc and then the sifted cocoa and flour. Stir in chopped nuts and choc if you’re using them (its seriously chocolaty without them!). Pour into the pan and cook for 3-35 mins. Take out of oven and cool before cutting and taking out of pan.

ISOM comment: Seriously yummy and definately comes in the better than S E X category!!

Taken from “Chocolate”; C Mc Fadden and C France

In_Search_Of_Me

I aint joking girlies this is yuuuuuummmmmmyyy! My boss is popping in later to see me so said I'd reward her caring by making her a jacket pot and some bronies and vanilla ice cream for pud so she can be my official tester! I've tested though (be rude not to!) and I'm well chuffed...if that doesent work in the bribery front (plan is to use the brwnies to bribe my mate to help with the allotment...cunning...moi?!!) then nothing will!!! Problem is I dont know when theyre coming round and am worried that they may all be gone by then!

carriebradshaw

weezl74 wrote: »

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ISOM did you see my post about towelling nappies? Don't getcha about the pattern m'dear, wondered if I'm missing something?!

you can get nappies in lots of shapes and colours hon, some are just square so you can fold your own way but others are shaped and fasten with poppers or even velcro
:T

BASHFUL_2

they sound yummy ISOM!!! Is the ice cream home made too??? would love a recipe if it is :-)

MRSMCAWBER

Hi all

Weezl -Im amazed at how wel I have done as all my tomatoes are grown outdoors and I was away for 3 weeks and they got neglected :rolleyes: the only thing I can put my tomato success down to is... growing them the old way -called "ring culture".... I cut the bottom off an old pot and sink it into another pot/trough so the plant has more root space..then when you plant your tomato out you sink it down into the compost so its 1st true leaves are just above the top of the compost (the bit of the stem underneath will throw out more roots )
Then you always water them into the bottom pot as the "water roots" are at the bottom... then feed into the top pot ..if you water around the top bit the roots grow close to the surface and have less strength .... watering into the bottom forces the roots to "root down" for water ...
You can make the "top pot" from stappled lino etc

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

yes! It's meant to make them really clever isn't it?

Pops off to switch on classic FM....:rotfl:

Errr.....our Weezl - I got news for you - Fergus/Fergalita is gonna be clever anyways - its in the genes....they got good genes from their parents...so I can tell you now they are going to be clever...I hope you've got their first book ready to read.....at the age of 2 or thereabouts..:D :rotfl:

But ya might as well switch on the Classic FM anyways ....and they might be on "War and Peace" by the time they're 5;) :rotfl:

(I've now got visions of Fergus/Fergalita up on a cloud somewheres earlier this year going "Now who shall I have for parents? I want to be intelligent and have absolutely loads of godmothers.....ah.....Weezl and Acetate Monkey...just the ticket..LOL)