As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

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:T:T:TOooh I just read everything. Congratulations jedi :T:T:T

I always used to use white vinegar for pickles etc but went to costco today and got a gallon of malt. Is this ok for pickles and chutneys?

I ate soya for years and for years had something like IBS. One day I gave soya up and the IBS symptoms went away. I cannot tolerate soya. I can`t tolerate sesame seeds either but love nuts and fruit so good very happily become a fruitarian

We bought a greenlife juicer 35 years ago so that I could juice wheatgrass. It was horrible stuff but we used the juicer ever since. I juice lettuce if I have a glut and cabbage leaves etc but always with apple and carrot. Maybe that is why I have good colouring and am healthy. Brocolli and its stalks juice well and so does beetroot. We make a point of juicing if we don`t happen to be eating quite enough veg that day. I think we must actually eat about 8-10 a day

Ds and his oh are very commited veggies and I have loads pf veggie books like the moosewood books and Rose Elliot. Rose Elliot saw my family through the most difficult of frugal times. Simply delicious, not just a load of old lentils and thrifty fifty to start with. Really superb recipes that you could feed to any non veggie

GreyQueen

kittie wrote: »

:T:T:TOooh I just read everything. Congratulations jedi :T:T:T

I always used to use white vinegar for pickles etc but went to costco today and got a gallon of malt. Is this ok for pickles and chutneys?

Just for the amusement of the Scottish contigent, I confess that when I first moved to Scotland as a teenager and went into a chippy and saw white vinegar instead of malt vinegar....I didn't know what is was..........:rotfl:Never even heard of non-malt vinegars, never mind all the exotica which is to be found in Waitrose. I've always done pickles and chutneys with malt and it's fine IMO.

Rice pud was divine and no different with Basics long grain than with "pudding rice" to the astonishment of Mum (aged 70) and the disbelief of Nan (aged nearly 88). Mum's conclusion re the marketing of "pudding rice" is that THEY have been taking the p*ss. So, you can teach your elders a few (MSE) tricks.;)

I have had a little windfall in respect of a sale online which will cover 2 unexpected bills so am feeling blessed and have a bootsale to rampage around tomorrow, so all will be well.

((Hugs)) to anyone who is going thru the mill and CONGRATULATIONS Jediteacher on the safe arrival of Daniel.

cat_smith

GQ How's the weather? You had any more rain? We've had a deluge today. AGAIN.

Jedi congratulations.

GreyQueen

cat_smith wrote: »

GQ How's the weather? You had any more rain? We've had a deluge today. AGAIN.

Jedi congratulations.

Hullo Cat, I've not been in Provincial City since 5 pm on Friday so can't speak for the weather back there. I'm an hour's drive away in the Hometown. P.C. had a small shower of heavy rain as I left. Here, it's much cooler than it has been and has been on and off with showers all day, but nothing heavy. P.C. is on t'other side of a weather front from the Hometown and they have very different weather patterns. P.C also has bizarre microclimates; you can be in the city centre under a rainstorm and chatting to a friend 3 miles across the city who is is strong sunlight and vice versa.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there's a HUGE raincloud stationed over the burb where my lottie site is and that it's dumping oodles of rain onto my own private dustbowl and refilling those poor water butts.

Thanks for asking, hun.

EDIT Honeybee83 I often find my runner beans start off a bit ropy, particularly when I transplant them from pots into open ground. They go from lush and deep green to yellow-y green and don't seem to grow much for a while. Then, all of a sudden, they find their feet and off they go. I believe this is nitrogen defficiency. Think it's because they are forming the symbiotic relationship with the benficial bacteria on the roots (nitrogen nodules grow) and until that's up and running they can struggle a bit. They also HATE being blown around in the wind which is why you should, if possible, grow them up sticks rather than strings, so they don't get billowed about. In Slovenia, they grow their runners 4 to a pole around a very tall sapling type pole about 15 feet high and as thick as your wrist. If I'm on holiday and there's a veg patch I'm having a good snout around and asking in point and go Greek or whatever how/ why/ what? It's lovely seeing what other gardeners are doing.

katholicos

jackieglasgow wrote: »

katholicos I keep meaning to tell you how pleased I am to see you posting more regularly again. x

Bless you, that's very kind of you to say/write. Thank you!

lora

lora wrote: »

Sadly, as a result of a routine eye test, my brother discovered he had a malignant brain tumour.:(

Sorry should have said--he died within two months.

GreyQueen

lora wrote: »

Sorry should have said--he died within two months.

Oh hun, (((((so sorry)))))):(

katholicos

lora wrote: »

Sorry should have said--he died within two months.

How sad. May he rest in peace. (((hugs)))

EstherH

Charis, sorry I got your name wrong before. I have predictive text on here but dont always realise that it had come out wrong.

Have been on the phone all night so not really had chance yet to look at the links you all sent me but I do appreciate it.

Jedi, I was rushing out this afternoon when I read that you had given birth to Daniel so just wrote congratulations. Hubby wouldn't have been impressed if I had gone into a long message. That was a great weight and such quick time. My first was 9lb4oz, I spent all night in labour not believing it was labour because I had an internal on the Monday at my antenatal visit and the doctor said don't expect anything for another week, the neck of the womb isn't ripe. I was five days over and I naively believed him. So when I started getting pains on and off from abut one o'clock in the morning I wouldn't wake hubby up because it couldn't be the baby and he had to go to work next day. They were every five minutes. Well at six I thought what if I am in labour and hubby goes to work, I might be one of those women who have them on their own at home. So I rang hospital and they said come in and we take a look. Well the labour pains stopped by the time i got there. They kept me hanging around for a couple of hours and then said we don't think anything is happening so we'll send you to anti natal ward but first do an internal. Well I was five centrmeterss so they were really surprised and broke my waters. Then the pain really started and went on and on. I was nearly an hour and a half pushing, every time the head got to the end it slipped back. They had to cut me in the end but I wouldn't let them do it so in the end she just did and I didn't feel a thing. 16 and half hours altogether.

Softstuff

Congratulations Jediteacher! :j

GreyQueen wrote: »

Rice pud was divine and no different with Basics long grain than with "pudding rice" to the astonishment of Mum (aged 70) and the disbelief of Nan (aged nearly 88). Mum's conclusion re the marketing of "pudding rice" is that THEY have been taking the p*ss. So, you can teach your elders a few (MSE) tricks.;)

Having read that you've made me wonder if I really do need medium grain rice for my beloved sushi. Once I've used the last of it, I'll give it a go with the value long grain and let you know (don't hold your breath if anyone's curious, it's likely to be a over a month from now!)