Memorygirls - The Matrix Reloaded

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Yep! When I was 15, I didn't know that you had to put water in the pan to boil carrots my boyfriend wrote a poem about it

ClootiesMum

Ah cookery failure confessions - I like them. But I'm not as bad as a friend of mine..... I told her I put a lemon cut in half in chicken when I'm roasting it to be asked - How do you know what end is the butt to put the lemon in?

Let's be honest - does the chicken care at this stage in the game anyway?

Memory_Girl

Did I tell you about me teaching my Non-Os London friend about how to make stock from the Tukey Carcass one Xmas.

She listened, she chopped, she prepared veggies, bouquet garni and simmered gently overnight in her brand new slow cooker. She was s proud of herself.;)

"Now you have to strain out the bits" I said. You need to pour it through a colander ................... which she did!!! ...... and straight down the sink as she hadn't put a bowl/pan underneath to capture the beautiful stock.:eek:

............. not all my friends are as clever as you guys.:T

MG

Memory_Girl

ClootiesMum wrote: »

Let's be honest - does the chicken care at this stage in the game anyway?

Existentialism ................ from a Chicken .......... thats clever.

BTW for those of you not in Scotland that used to be a Knorr Stock Cube Advert up here.

"Pea and Ham .... fae a chicken?? ............. that's clever"

MG

OliveOyl_2

I had a friend who said she couldn't cook spaghetti until she'd bought a spaghetti saucepan - she'd seen a fish kettle and she'd seen raw spaghetti and come to her own conclusions.......

Kittikins

Aaah bless, love the sound of the spaghetti saucepan!!

Now....MG, I want to make the lemon soup, but when you say 4 bits of lemons, do you mean a preserved lemon cut into quarters (I have a jar inherited from my parents from the one time they did a "moroccan" dinner ) or just 4 little bits of the lemon.....I don't want to put too much in as I reckon it might be a tad overpowering

My grocery challenge....well, including my wild night out on Friday, I was up to £14.70 then today I "had" to buy £2 worth of grape juice and (shhh) choc and sesame snaps when I stopped off on the way to my parents to buy a much-needed pair of leggings as it was flipping freezing up there compared to the tropicalish heat at home Darn it, £6 that I really didn't need to spend......*sigh* So £16.70 out of £100 spent all flipping ready!

Memory_Girl

Kittikins wrote: »

Now....MG, I want to make the lemon soup, but when you say 4 bits of lemons, do you mean a preserved lemon cut into quarters (I have a jar inherited from my parents from the one time they did a "moroccan" dinner ) or just 4 little bits of the lemon.....I don't want to put too much in as I reckon it might be a tad overpowering

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I've just had a poke around in my jar of preserved lemons. My lemons were cut into 6 pieces - so just over a half a a lemon should do you - remember it's just the skin and not the insdes that you use to get the flavour.

The soup is quite "lemony" - but then there is very little else in the pot to create any flavour IYSWIM.

My grocery spendies for today - 99p for a bag of red apples. DS1 and I are munching our way through LIDL offer Grany Smiths but the wee one likes his apples a bit sweeter.

Not too bad though.

Dinner tonight is Spinach Lasagne and chips (proper ones for the kids - SW one's for me)

MG

Memory_Girl

Oh Dear - I think I've worked the wee one toohard this afternoon.

I was cutting down ivy and the boys were stuffing them into plastic buckets to go to the skip later in the week. We were only in the garden a couple for hours - but now the bubs is sitting at the table with his dinner with his wee head just about dropping into his lasagne.

I'm a Baaaaaadddd mom - but child labour is the best!!!!

MG

Kittikins

Thanks for the lemon info MG and child labour wins in this house too! Bless your wee one, hope he'll sleep really well after you wake him up to get him ready for bed!

Memory_Girl

Got to make packed lunches for us all tomorrow - do you think I should give this a go?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_hbPLsZvvo&feature=fvsr

Mmmmm!!!

Think we will be having something a little simpler - although I am tempted to whizz up a batch of gazpacho to carry in my food flask.

Got to be something from our stores though - don't want to waste the Grocery Challenge funds on a sloppy sandwich.

MG