Flying gleefully into 2009 - One Fresians adventures in debt-busting

cocalls

nomnomnom indeed

pixiechick99

flying_fresian wrote: »

Dinner is now in the oven:

Large lamb shoulder, soaked in water for a couple of hours to drain the blood out of it
Scored the flesh at the top
Herbs and pepper sprinkled over the top
Garlic put into the cuts in the top of the meat

Should be ready in about three hours, and will hopefully be very tasty. I have grand schemes for making something tasty with leftovers too

Oooooooh sounds fantastic....can I come up to Edinburgh for some?? (I'm only a few hours away:rotfl:)
I have quiche and oven chips for dinner....doesn't sound quite as appetising

mooomin

millyscarlett wrote: »

Oooooooh sounds fantastic....can I come up to Edinburgh for some?? (I'm only a few hours away:rotfl:)
I have quiche and oven chips for dinner....doesn't sound quite as appetising

You're more than welcome, but it will be cold by the time you turn up methinks!

I am actually planning on finding my camera in the next ten minutes as this looks really tasty and I want to record it for posterity :rotfl: My new-found love of cooking has gone too far I think!

laura2481

flying_fresian wrote: »

Apart from the dreaded shopping, we had a nice dinner out last night - Laura2481, if you like a good Chinese visit the Chinese Manor House in Corstorphine (Number 12 bus will get you there) Tasty times indeed. It was £58 for the three of us, so not MSE but tasty good

Thanks for tip F_F! I'm not that fond of Chinese but OH loves chinese. However, unless it's all you can eat buffet he's not really interested :rolleyes: (yes, he's greedy :rotfl::rotfl:)

Valli

Hiya Fresian
Not being a regular on the DFW board I have popped in because you're supporting my Flymate Flower
You (and all the other DFWs) are doing a sterling job making the effort - what I am interested in though is your switching off lights.
One of the things I do (because I am tight) is I have started turning off my microwave as it was on, day and night, telling me the time - but being used for minutes a day! and not even every day!

Did you 'doggy bag' any of the chinese (for your freezer?)

mooomin

My adventures in cooking from yesterday Roasted lamb shoulder, peas and parsley butter tatties. Nom indeed!

*prays Photobucket doesn't go demented again and post HUGE images*

mooomin

Valli wrote: »

Hiya Fresian
Not being a regular on the DFW board I have popped in because you're supporting my Flymate Flower
You (and all the other DFWs) are doing a sterling job making the effort - what I am interested in though is your switching off lights.
One of the things I do (because I am tight) is I have started turning off my microwave as it was on, day and night, telling me the time - but being used for minutes a day! and not even every day!

Did you 'doggy bag' any of the chinese (for your freezer?)

My microwave is off at the plug too. I don't use the thing, only my flatmate does!

I didn't doggy bag the Chinese as there wasn't a scrap left

mooomin

Remember how aaaaaaages ago I took out a contract with Vodafone for t'other half? T-Mobile have taken two months payments from him and are telling him that it's 30 days to cancel the contract he has already cancelled.

Swines.

I have now had to lend him the last £70 in my bank account until his student loan comes through, so it's cheap fun for us for the rest of this week. Barstewards.

He is going to have to go to the bank and do a Direct Debit Indemnity and try and get the money back as T-Mobile are being *rseholes about it.

Direct quote from (my very irate) OH: "I left T-Mobile because of sh*tey billing and I'm having to call you back because of sh*tey billing."

Eek - they just told him that he is going to be getting another bill taken off at the end of next month. More charges and more nonsense. The only reason that the bill got paid this month is because his dad had given him £50 birthday money.

I'm going to put the kettle on.

Primula

flying_fresian wrote: »

so it's cheap fun for us for the rest of this week. Barstewards.

Every cloud and silver linings and all that............. "cheap fun"?!

mooomin

Primula wrote: »

Every cloud and silver linings and all that............. "cheap fun"?!

I'll be advocating the MSE aspects