Daily Chat Tuesday 6th October - come and join the madness

redsquirrel80

Morning, it is dull and soggy here, blah! Last day at work this week though then I am off on my troubles :j

Good luck with DWP Bookie.

Have a good day all x

bookseller1980

I wish I lived nearer too Sammy. I think we could help each other a lot - and not only with the food!

Silly DWP sent a letter yesterday saying they cannot backdate my clainm due to ref 19(4) blah de blah and to phone for explanation. Girl on phone had no idea but apparently an award letter will reach me soon.
Give up - will not be deterred from positivity. £45.71 a week is a princely sum after all.

I am dressed and beakfasted and the bed is changed. I am trying to do what normal people do if working - ie get up and ready for 9am. All this lazing around has to stop.

Lucifa73

sammy115 wrote: »

Talking of slow cookers I was gonna do sausages in the slow cooker 'a la Maz' but do I brown the sausages first do you think.

Definitely brown them - better flavour (swish some hot water around the pan you use and pour into slow cooker too - picks up all the flavours left in the pan - called deglazing if you want to be a bit cheffy;)) I would soften the onions first too if you're putting them in.

elfen

Got a little time before uni: today we're going to be filming our "training" video and try not to laugh

(Land_of)_Maz

sammy115 wrote: »

morning savingcaz....never be scared of joining in...we don't bite.

Some of us (not me of course) have barks worse than our bites...but we love newbies....

Talking of slow cookers I was gonna do sausages in the slow cooker 'a la Maz' but do I brown the sausages first do you think.

Bookie, please move nearer here, I have made chicken soup and chicken and chorizo pasta and I have too much food....I am gonna be eating chicken forever and a day, I keep forgetting that its really just me and chloe cos Lils is never in...

i don't.... but i am a lazy mare...!

i honestly lob raw sausages raw onion and a couple of oxos mized in about a pint of kettle hot water...

then i add some bisto for the last half hour so the gravy is thicker.....

deglaze the pan indeed! lucifa, you try to tell me you ain't posh!!!

sammy115

bookseller1980 wrote: »

I wish I lived nearer too Sammy. I think we could help each other a lot - and not only with the food!

Silly DWP sent a letter yesterday saying they cannot backdate my clainm due to ref 19(4) blah de blah and to phone for explanation. Girl on phone had no idea but apparently an award letter will reach me soon.
Give up - will not be deterred from positivity. £45.71 a week is a princely sum after all.

I am dressed and beakfasted and the bed is changed. I am trying to do what normal people do if working - ie get up and ready for 9am. All this lazing around has to stop.

Thats the spirit...although if they can't backdate your claim you will get back on to that MP right!?:cool: stupid stupid people.

I could do with your help today, I am waiting for the postman to deliver three months worth of paperwork from SIL so I can complete her VAT return to be submitted online tomorrow night.....sould destroying! And I don't get paid....(well I will when my kitchen is fitted...:rotfl:)

Also waiting for DD1 to pick up chloe and drop her off at the childminders, I was going to walk her there but its raining and I am still not dressed.....

sammy115

Lucifa73 wrote: »

Definitely brown them - better flavour (swish some hot water around the pan you use and pour into slow cooker too - picks up all the flavours left in the pan - called deglazing if you want to be a bit cheffy;)) I would soften the onions first too if you're putting them in.

Oh I am going to do some deglazing later....:rotfl:

(Land_of)_Maz wrote: »

i don't.... but i am a lazy mare...!

I wouldn't normally but I am trying to get the kids to eat my cooking more....wanted to make them look a bit more appealing...

12 sausages is too much for me and Chloe though...:cool: should have thought of that one before I bought twelve and emptied the freezer...

bookseller1980

Now that is the sort of paperwork I love Sammy!

redsquirrel80

bookseller1980 wrote: »

I wish I lived nearer too Sammy. I think we could help each other a lot - and not only with the food!

Silly DWP sent a letter yesterday saying they cannot backdate my clainm due to ref 19(4) blah de blah and to phone for explanation. Girl on phone had no idea but apparently an award letter will reach me soon.
Give up - will not be deterred from positivity. £45.71 a week is a princely sum after all.

I am dressed and beakfasted and the bed is changed. I am trying to do what normal people do if working - ie get up and ready for 9am. All this lazing around has to stop.

Good on you Bookie. Honestly you would think they were paying you their own money not the governments! :rolleyes:

I could eat sausage casserole right now :rotfl:

sammy115

bookseller1980 wrote: »

Now that is the sort of paperwork I love Sammy!

I should have got her to send it to you...:rotfl: