Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

One of the reasons there are no goodies here is because no two people in this house/family like or will eat or can eat the same things, except a meat/veg dinner. So anything I could cook I have to either adjust so more/everybody could eat it (but probably wouldn't for a variety of reasons), or I have to consider whether I can genuinely eat it all myself and whether that's actually a good thing to do.

So, things just don't get made by me. I could make/bake anything at all - but as I'd "be in the way", in a tiny freezing unheated kitchen .... cooking in a horrid, ancient old stove... and it's all just for me, I kind of lose the will to bother.

misskool

PN: You're welcome to ours if you would like to make it over and leave the oldies to themselves.

the christmas sales have started so I've started looking

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Maybe your Tesco is not an extra extra big ginormous one?

I'm trying to guess what Tesco stock in white that is basic plastic.

A funnel? pastry brush?

There are no "big" shops in the whole county. "Big for here, compared to 10 years ago", but no "big shops". I've always wished that all shops would put the square footage of their shops in with their store details, so when you want something and you use the store locator and can see the 6 nearest ones, you can specifically head for the biggest one, on the basis they're more likely to have what you want.

Some shops now though are starting to have an upstairs. Only two I think though. Certainly Sainsburys was doubled in size and has an upstairs (Sainsburys 20 miles away though, not the one 1 mile away, which is tiny). I looked online for a particular "common or garden" beer last night, saw that S do it, specifically went there today to get some - they don't do it. And this is just a common or garden, been around for donkeys years, basic ale in cans.... and mysupermarket said S do it, but not in my town.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

PN: You're welcome to ours if you would like to make it over and leave the oldies to themselves.

the christmas sales have started so I've started looking

I'd never be spoken to again if I did a runner!!

michaels

I have tongs - can't quite see how I'd use them on a yule log but I guess I am just lacking in imagination?

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm intrigued. Everyone has one...makes me think grater, fishslice, wooden spoon. Plastic rules those out so I think some sort of lemon squeezer. (I don't have one!). My new favourite thing are my kitchen tongs. I use them for everything and can't imagine how I lived with out them.

Just baked a yule log and feel quite chuffed. They always go wrong for me.

michaels

My supermarket seem to be insisting I register now - can't remember having had to do this previously?

PasturesNew wrote: »

and mysupermarket said S do it, but not in my town.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

My supermarket seem to be insisting I register now - can't remember having had to do this previously?

There's a link underneath that to ignore registration.

I've only recently started using it as it does Asda, Sainsburys, Tesco and Waitrose - and I've had none of those before; they were 20 miles, 20 miles, 20 miles, 50 miles away... but now we have a teeny Asda and teeny Sainsburys and a teeny Tesco Metro, but Tesco Metro isn't Tesco when it comes to prices so doesn't count for that website.

There's also no 24 hour shopping, nor petrol. In fact, after about 10-11pm when the corner shops shut it'd be a 30 mile round trip to even get a can of coke. I looked up when the shops open again after Xmas and all our supermarkets are shut Xmas Day/Saturday and Boxing Day/Sunday this year

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Large collander, but couldn't be white or cream. You can find these things all the time/everywhere when you're not looking for them. I'd have liked to have seen a range of colours to choose from.

What are kitchen tongs? And what do you use them for??

Never baked a yule log, we don't buy them either. No Xmas goodies here. Just a dinner. No starters, no desserts, no buffet, no visitors. Just us and a dinner. I plan to do some baking of some sort on Boxing Day maybe though.... just for something to do as I won't be able to watch the telly.

I'd never had a yule log before living with DH. He insists on all christmas type things American, British and Italian. He loves christmas. I believe while doing the animals this morning he is wearing a tinsel scarf and a paper crown he found in the office. The joy of having no children is this sort of thing makes you eccentric not an embarrassment. He really is a terrible Jew at this time of year. He wakes me in the middle of the night to sing carols and ill probably come to church with me tonight...if I go.

I don't mind having yule logs, but we don't have things like tins of chocolates (which he is used to and would prefer) because I can't eat them, there are already a lot of calories about and it just has to stop somewhere so our middle ground is all the ''traditional stuff'' and not the commercial carp. So, mince pies yes, roses no, oranges yes, chocolate oranges no (well one, for his stocking whch is a surprise every year).

Oh the darlng is back in and I can hear him feeding the dogs. I'm so lucky :smileyheato have him.

misskool

i have a @%@$£%^%£&$* cold

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

i have a @%@$£%^%£&$* cold

Me too...Its a pain isn't it. Nevermind, we'll both live And have plenty of excuse for hot toddies/mulled wine...kill those germs.

edit: lir's secret for hot toddy is not to forget to heat the lemon juice and Scotch. After all, its almost half the glass so don't want it to cool the water down. I ut the lemon juice, Scotch (I use the cooking scotch not the drinking scotch) and honey in a milk pan while the kettle boils. A clove is a nice touch too.