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YorksLass

elisheba - I always make my bread the day before I need it so it slices thinner and therefore goes further.  Plus, I remember my mum making bread on a Sunday and lovely as it was, still warm and smothered in butter, she always said not to as it would give you indigestion.  Not sure how true that was though - I think it might have been a bit of a porky pie!  

Glad to hear you're enjoying your holiday Jackie and couldn't agree more about not listening to the news, it's all too depressing.  Sadly, we're not enjoying your good weather here in Yorkshire.  It's a mix of sunshine and showers (some heavy) and windy too.  We're lucky if our daytime temperatures get up to 18C  :'(   and I think my summer clothes must be feeling I've deserted them!

Tonight's dinner is a tuna & mushroom pasta dish to use up the last couple of wrinkly mushrooms from the fridge, half a packet of tuna bake mix from the cupboard and a mix of peppers, peas and sweetcorn from the freezer.  There's also a couple of part baked petit pains to mop up the sauce so it's an easy and cheap use-up meal.

Elisheba

Definitely a porkie pie I think @YorksLass.  I have had bread on the day it is baked a lot, and it is very, very yummy and no indigestion ever caused  .  It does slice very thickly though as it is so soft

Toonie

Jackie, your holiday sounds absolutely perfect!

My plan to have cheaper salad over the spring and summer is working well. My salad bowl lettuce is doing well indoors (the outdoor bits got eaten) and the pea shoots have been brilliant! I'm using an old propogator we found whilst clearing out DP's Dads place and the depth is perfect for doing the pea shoots. A bit of compost and a sprinkle of pre-soaked dried peas and it only took three weeks to have shoots long enough to eat. I'm getting three crops from them before they get bitter, at which point I let them do a final grow and use them in a stir fry before composting the lot. My 80p bag of peas is a quarter empty and I've had loads of yummy salad and sitr fries. Really pleased at how cheap they are, especially when a bag in the shop costs about £1.50!

London_1

DD came home from her trip with two decent sized sea bream which is being oven baked at the moment for dinner tonight, she also caught a smoothound (rock salmon ) and a mackerel which are in the freezer for bait later on in the holiday.She actully caught three bream but one was too small so was returned to the sea to grow a bit more  

Although she adores fishing, she never eats fish,but my son-in-law and I are happy to help out She is having  a cheese omelette with salad for her dinner

Nice to have a free dinner courtesy of the ocean, its been stuffed with lemon, parsley and garlic and foil wrapped with a plash of olive oil. She passed the farm shop on the way home from the marina so we have strawberries and cream for pudding.

Just settling down to watch Nadal at Wimbledon now

JackieO xx

MrsCD

Sounds blissful, JackieO! 

Slinky

YorksLass said:

elisheba - I always make my bread the day before I need it so it slices thinner and therefore goes further.  Plus, I remember my mum making bread on a Sunday and lovely as it was, still warm and smothered in butter, she always said not to as it would give you indigestion.  Not sure how true that was though - I think it might have been a bit of a porky pie!  

My childhood friend's mother used to make us a fresh loaf of bread for taking my friend to guitar classes. It never made it home, we used to eat it warm with nothing on it in the car on the way home.

I sometimes get hiccups eating really fresh warm bread.

oldhaggis

London_1 said:

DD came home from her trip with two decent sized sea bream which is being oven baked at the moment for dinner tonight, she also caught a smoothound (rock salmon ) and a mackerel which are in the freezer for bait later on in the holiday.She actully caught three bream but one was too small so was returned to the sea to grow a bit more  

Although she adores fishing, she never eats fish,but my son-in-law and I are happy to help out She is having  a cheese omelette with salad for her dinner

Nice to have a free dinner courtesy of the ocean, its been stuffed with lemon, parsley and garlic and foil wrapped with a plash of olive oil. She passed the farm shop on the way home from the marina so we have strawberries and cream for pudding.

Just settling down to watch Nadal at Wimbledon now

JackieO xx

Well done to your DD catching sea bream. Your tale brought back happy childhood memories.

My mum worked at hotel where the owners would take guests on fishing trips from their private cove. Occasionally there would be a ring on the door bell and one the owner's young sons would appear with a large enamel bucket filled to the brim with freshly caught fish. They were mainly Mackerel and sometimes Pollock, if we were really lucky.
No one at the hotel wanted them. They weren't posh enough for them. Their loss, as far as we were concerned. Mum would gut them all and grill some with fresh parsley, lemon and garlic for our evening meal. The rest went into the freezer. Nothing was wasted. It all went back into the eco system. Mum would chuck the inedible parts onto the lawn and the local seagulls didn't waste any time in swooping down and helping themselves. 

Primrose

I love hearing these stories of simple holidays  enjoyed in times past.  How precious those times were - no queueing for hours at airports for cancelled flights etc, and no grandiose expectations.
If these current harsh economic times bring any benefits I hope it will be that many people find delights in simple pleasures again. It seems that the more wealthy a nation becomes, the further it risks straying from all the core values which keep it on the right track.

I think some of our simplest holidays were some of our happiest although I won't include one in a damp Welsh holiday cottage which had no heating where it rained every day for a fortnight and even the bed sheets were so damp that after the first half hour they had condensation rising from them and the heat of the hot water bottles we'd bought to try and dry them out!   I think half our outings were spent deep in slate mines trying to escape the downpours!

YorksLass

Slinky said:I sometimes get hiccups eating really fresh warm bread.

Me too.  And crumpets have the same effect!

Brie

Primrose said:

I love hearing these stories of simple holidays  enjoyed in times past.  How precious those times were - no queueing for hours at airports for cancelled flights etc, and no grandiose expectations.
If these current harsh economic times bring any benefits I hope it will be that many people find delights in simple pleasures again. It seems that the more wealthy a nation becomes, the further it risks straying from all the core values which keep it on the right track.

I think some of our simplest holidays were some of our happiest although I won't include one in a damp Welsh holiday cottage which had no heating where it rained every day for a fortnight and even the bed sheets were so damp that after the first half hour they had condensation rising from them and the heat of the hot water bottles we'd bought to try and dry them out!   I think half our outings were spent deep in slate mines trying to escape the downpours!

I understand what you're saying although I must admit I don't have much of a sense of nostalgia. 

I have dim recollections of going on long road trips with my family - memorable was one around Lake Ontario visiting every single historic fort en route.  I think my dad enjoyed it as he was a munitions buff.  And my mom would have been visiting every antique shop.  But not much fun for a 5 year old!  Of course it didn't help that in those days I would always get car sick so dreaded any holidays that involved more than about 30 minutes in the car. 

And then there was the time when heading home the traffic was so completely jammed (probably a big accident somewhere but with only the news on the radio we likely didn't know for sure what) that it got so late my dad had to pull over to stop and rest.  (don't recall mom ever drove on those trips, no idea why).  So we stopped a motel in the middle of no where, all climbed into bed and lasted about 15 minutes before we were all itching like crazy.  Bed bugs!  Mom insisted we have refund for the rooms and got us all back in the car.