How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

ceridwen

SunshineBear wrote: »

For a variation take out the chick peas and replace with cooked cauliflower.

Follow the recipe as above and simply leave out the chick peas.
Cook the cauliflower until the stalk end starts to soften.
gently fry the caulifower in oil. I feel this adds to the flavour.
You can if you want start the cauli off in oil and put a lid on to gently steam it. You end up with more crunch this way.

Then pour the dahl over the cauliflower. Yum
Use brocholli (sic) as well for variation.

If you are in the habit of throwing the stalks away, DONT.
Chop them and cook them and add to either the Chick pea or plain dahl.

Another one sent over to a private blog of mine:T for later having a go at.

That was a good tip someone gave recently about clicking on the post number brought up just that one post as a sorta "screenshot" - I've been saving all sortsa useful recipe posts from MSE since then - by saving the individual post that way and then clicking on my p.c. "banner" to "share" and sending it over to Blogger to that private blog.

Got my recipes I want all saved neatly together in one place - ready to write them out at some point:D (as I dont have a p.c. printer).

(ways the computer-illiterate like me cobble together sometimes to do summat .....LOL..)

redlady_1

I have a theory about womens mags. They are full of stuff about losing wieght, if your man doesnt do this then your relationship is pants, having the lastest thing or you are pants etc etc. I found that they actually made me feel quite inadequate in the end so stopped buying them. I feel they are just another way of keeping up with the Joneses.

Annie56 - How far gone were you if you dont mind me asking?

ceridwen

SunshineBear wrote: »

My comments a prob in the wrong thread. Should I start a new one??

Well - I'm certainly hoping for a few more cheap recipes personally.

So - this would be the way, I feel, for you to share a whole tranche of recipes with us - ie to start a new thread specifically on this topic, as this is a "general" Hard Times thread. So - mine is a vote for you to set up a thread specifically for that please.:D

....Then that way I can add lotsa more recipes to that private blog of mine...:D

ceridwen

Annie56

Have sent you a link you will be interested in by PM.:D

EDIT: Make that two PM's I sent you. The first one didnt go straight through to the bit of the website concerned - just to the Home Page of it. So I've sent you a second one explaining the "route" from there to the bit I'm linking to.

ceridwen

redlady_1 wrote: »

I have a theory about womens mags. They are full of stuff about losing wieght, if your man doesnt do this then your relationship is pants, having the lastest thing or you are pants etc etc. I found that they actually made me feel quite inadequate in the end so stopped buying them. I feel they are just another way of keeping up with the Joneses.

Annie56 - How far gone were you if you dont mind me asking?

Well - they had their uses to start with - as in telling me basics like how to apply cosmetics/working out the best Diet to go on if need be and suchlike.

but - once one has learnt that sort of thing from them - then its pointless to keep reading them I feel.

GreyQueen

Miracles do happen! The dental anaesthesia finally wore off about 4 pm (they'd put loads in at 9.30am) but I managed with 2 paracetamols and a visit from SuperGran with all the neighbourhood gossip. It's amazing what can go on at Shoebox Towers during the few hours of my workday.:rotfl:Decided soup wasn't necessary as I had a h.m "ready meal" of curry and rice which I'd defrosted. Put some h.g frozen peas into the stainless steel stacking pan with the curry in the bain marie above and it was all done in 15 minutes. If I'm not doing potatoes in the main body of the pot I'll often boil eggs (4 at a time) for free and have them shelled and ready in the fridge for a quick breakfast or snack. I love my stacking pan, had it 25 years and use it every day. So energy efficient plus I use a plate instead of the lid so that is nicely-warmed, too.

:)When I spent 3 years in Bedsitland I had an electric cooker which was connected to a 10p meter all of its own. It concentrated the mind wonderfully on energy-efficient cooking, believe you me!

Idiot Boy wasn't too bad overnight but yesterday evening he spent a solid 20 minutes tapping on his woodwork to annoy me. Some of the time he was actually tapping out tunes and he briefly switched to the radiator pipes to percuss a tune on them! He must be absolutely bonkers.......:rotfl:

Magazines used to be a major feature of my life as a young woman and if I could have every penny I spent on them and chocolate bars in a bank account right now I'd be one happy bunny. As others have remarked, they endlessly recycle the same old same old and are just designed to make you feel dissatisfied with your own life, whether its your looks, your wardrobe, your relationships or your modest but perfectly adequate home. My dentist has a coupla upmarket decorating-type magazines and I was reading one of those, think it was Living Etc and read a feature on this "tiny London apartment" which was on two floors and 100 square meters. I laughed aloud; so that makes it 76 square meters bigger than mine. How the other half live........

Well, my manager won't let me take the big dentist's day next week as annual leave although they understand that after 90 minutes of root-canalling I probably will be fit for nothing. I'm to take it as "special leave" which is better for me. I'll be damn*d before I have I.B.-caused problems appearing on my record as sickness leave.

We have light rain here which is a bit visually-disappointing but very necessary for the old allotment.

kidkat I wonder if you have seen the housing charity Shelter's website (www.shelter.org.uk) if you feel you might want some advice on the situation? They have an advice line number up there, too.

((Hugs to everyone and I really hope the day goes well for us all))

SunshineBear

ceridwen wrote: »

Well - I'm certainly hoping for a few more cheap recipes personally.

So - this would be the way, I feel, for you to share a whole tranche of recipes with us - ie to start a new thread specifically on this topic, as this is a "general" Hard Times thread. So - mine is a vote for you to set up a thread specifically for that please.:D

....Then that way I can add lotsa more recipes to that private blog of mine...:D

OK started one here:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/3144210

mardatha

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/superscrimpers-waste-not-want-not/4od#3176994
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Totally amazing programme !!

Molly41

rachbc wrote: »

The thing is rumours cause doubts, which cause loss of confidence which cause panic which cause collapse - and thus rumours of financial instability become self fulfilling prohpecy...

Personally I'd need something a little more reliabe than a US survivalist website to start worrying.

ETA yes please potato curry recipe - yum!

I agree. Nothing worse than posting a scaremongering story on banks collapsing. Actually there is - posting half a scaremongering story and then speculating on it in a self satisfied manner!

mrswive

I never buy magazines as, they don't really contain much that interests me, but for those who enjoy them maybe an idea would be to get together with some friends and buy one each per month and swap them; that way everyone gets several magazines a month for the price of one.
In a few places I've worked in the past, I've instigated a 'book box' where people take in books they have enjoyed, put them in the box, take out anything they like the look of (I've read some good books that I would never have thought of reading that way) and put it back when they've finished. If there's a book that you want to have back at some point, just put your name in it. This would work with magazines too, and DVDs.

Thanks SunshineBear for the great recipes; if there's more where they came from I'll definitely be checking out your new thread.