MSE Parents Club Part 10

pinkpig08

Did anyone see them make the fish pie on TM last week? I'm going to try and do it later - sorry for a daft question but how do you wilt spinach? Do you just boil it for a few seconds/minute? Never had spinach before!

weezl74

Aless if you're around, please can you help me?

What do Americans call these?



I am having problems with the USDA food database...

xxx

SugarSpun

PP I just throw carefully washed spinach into a frying pan and put some heat under it till you can see it start wilting. No boiling!! No steaming!!

Weezl marrowfat peas are just marrowfat peas in the US

Edit: try also maro, because that's the Japanese name and apparently there's some usage of both names. Are you looking for nutritional information?

weezl74

Oooooh MFD you're online at the same time as me

You never said if you remember the first thingy you said to me about having a race

Sami_Bee

SusanC wrote: »

:eek: It's nine o'clock and we haven't had breakfast!

:rotfl:I was still in bed when you wrote this

3onitsway wrote: »

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ETA: I've just remembered. Does anyone else worry that RL people stalk them through MSE and read posts? After my moaning last week about my Mum and MIL doing nothing useful when V was born, when Sami (for example) is spoiled rotten by hers.
Mum turned up yesterday with a homemade corned beef & onion pie for us, an hour later MIL turned up with a homemade banana and sultana cake.

:rotfl:I like to think of it as cosmic ordering (you know that stuff that Noel Edmonds does) if you ask the universe for something nicely then you get it *shrug*

Weezl - what you said about dominoes was amazing, did you come up with that analogy or is it a standard one? - made we well up anyway and I'm going to nick it

WooHoo I know a published Author :T yey for SS

everything else has been lost in my brain!

Glam - have your tea early with us and let OH n BIL get their own later :cool: mwah hahaha!

cuteness - Chris just got a tissue and wiped Ed's nose :A

workinmummy

Sorry can't possibly read 40 pages to catch up. Have only read this page.

Took Joe to Build a bear in Manchester on Saturday. He is now the proud daddy to
Cheeky the Karate Suit wearing Monkey.

Made a change getting out of Wigan.
OH went out, (sigh) his brother paid. Because the bank of me was closed.
And Alex is back to waking many times in the night. (Double sigh).

Glam, your OH sounds like mine. Proper stroppy. I spent an hour with Alex in his room between 4 and 5am trying to get him back to sleep. At 5am I gave up and brought him in with us. Much sighing from his dad. And a lot more at 6.30am when Alex decided it was wakey, talkey time. Stuff it, why should i go in the spare room and have no sleep, while he gets a full night in, whilst trying to get over his severe hangover. Payback time.:D

Also thanks for the suggestions for my neices birthday. I asked her what she wanted me to get her, she said Heelys. I said sorry love far too expensive. Then i found these http://www.sportsdirect.com/heelys. I ordered her a pair in her size for £15 at 10pm on Friday and they were delivered today at 8.30am on the standard delivery. Just suggesting it, in case anyone has any older children with birthdays coming up. You are restricted with the sizes, but i thought they were a bargain.

weezl74

Sami_Bee wrote: »

:rotfl:
Weezl - what you said about dominoes was amazing, did you come up with that analogy or is it a standard one? - made we well up anyway and I'm going to nick it

yep was me .

It's a decision I made myself a while ago (trying to keep to it)

And I love meeting others willing to give it a go too.

SS yep, I'm scouring the food database for them but nowt coming under marrowfat, maro or dried pea. SHRUGGY MAN SMILEY I NEED YOU BACK!

My_Fathers_Daughter

weezl74 wrote: »

Oooooh MFD you're online at the same time as me

You never said if you remember the first thingy you said to me about having a race

Sorry sweetie. I haven't been able to go back. Life is a bit tough in MFD world ATM.


A race?

LOL - the only thing I can think is that I was due before you but Fergie is a much better timekeeper than my laid back Benjamina :rotfl:


How you doing my lovely? Got your head around all your nasty work stuff yet? xx

aless02

weezl, TBH I'd never heard of marrowfat peas until I moved here! It's not something I have ever seen or had in the USA, but with a lot of foods it might be more popular in another region that I'm unaware of. Sorry that's not more helpful...the closest I would think of calling it would just be "dried peas", but you said you've searched that...

eta: Googling tells me it's not something that exists in USA food culture, as it seems the only place to buy marrowfat peas in the USA is from British/Irish import stores/sections!

SugarSpun

weezl74 wrote: »

SS yep, I'm scouring the food database for them but nowt coming under marrowfat, maro or dried pea. SHRUGGY MAN SMILEY I NEED YOU BACK!

Nutritional information.


MFD is there anything I/we can do for you? I wish I could help with something, you must be feeling very overburdened.