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

ceridwen

betony wrote: »

Peppermint leaves are much better for this. Crush a leaf to extract the juice and oils and rub onto the area. Probably acts as a local anaesthetic. Though, if you're out and about, dock is much easier to find

I can try that - with a bit of a time delay:rotfl: - as I've got a peppermint plant:)

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lizzyb1812 wrote: »

Now.... what can I do with last year's dehydrated courgettes? The courgette eater is no longer here. Suppose they'll have to be added a handful at a time to soups. Not even growing them this year but can't bear to waste all the ones I've got. Ideas anyone?

They're great for padding out stews and pasta sauces.
This thread has loads more ideas: Lots of courgettes??

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redlady_1

Hey Lizzy - guess which exams I am currently taking?!?!! Yes, very odd indeed young lady. :rotfl:

FS - thanks for that about Pouting. The fillet was 35p so if I like it I can get a big bit for next to nothing whereas the smoked haddock I have I will need a mortgage soon!!!

Says the girlie who decided to have a treat tonight and we have scallops!

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I came back from costco yesterday with only a relative small amount of meat instead of the pile I thought I would be buying. Maybe I need to digest the meat prices and then go back when reality has set in. I bought minced steak but couldn`t make myself pay £!5 for a tray of pretty fatty (non halal) lamb chops or £20 for a tray of braising steak. I just went on the local food site instead as I wanted non homogenised milk and I ordered shin beef from them. Costco did have nice pasta so I have added to my stash and I did get olive oil from them

My new folding waterbutt had arrived so I set it up quickly as it was raining and I transferred 225 litres from our fixed butts as we are expecting horrendous rain tomorrow. We can now store 1000 litres and that will make one heck of a difference when the drought comes back. I got soaked through to my undies but all in a good cause

With one eye on the weather, I did 6 washes this morning, 4 of them were 30 minute washes as it uses rainwater from the harvestor. I wanted to get it done as the tank will fill again tomorrow. I was like a whirling dervish today and am glad to sit down now. I also dehydrated another 9 trays of onions and must say that they do better in the excalibur. They are now packed and away.

Monday I will harvest the rest of the peas and quickly sort the soil before sowing autumn king carrots, gosh the seasons are turning pretty fast.

ChocClare

Basic salad dressing: one good teaspoonful of Dijon mustard in your salad bowl, add salt and enough vinegar to make it a bit runny (practically none - a teaspoonful). Now GRADUALLY beat in oil a little at a time so you get an emulsion. Keep adding oil until you have a thick, gloopy dressing. Don't use olive oil unless you particularly like the taste - veg or sunflower oil is fine.

This is the sauce moutarde that you have on (real) French salads. Put your salad on top and toss it all together. Yum.

Much nicer than so-called "French" dressing.

mardatha

ChocC, you must be psychic. I kept meaning to ask you about French cooking and forgot

kezlou

kate1974 wrote: »

One of my most useful MS buys recently was pasta making machine from our local charity shop.The cost of freshly made pasta for four of us is around 10 pence.it's a bit of hit and miss to begin with but as soon as you get used to it it's brilliant.And pasta tastes great!

~Hi Kate i was wondering if you could up your recipe for pasta? I have a machine, but i ahem, haven't used it yet thanks x

mamaninie - mine did that too. I just added extra yeast to it and it seemed to work fine. Another thing i also do now is instead of string white flour, i just use ordinary plain flour and it works a treat.

dolly - they tend to just come in a box. The sainbugs basics one are like that too.

Hi everyone,. got loads to catch up on with the thread.
Seems more and more people are posting welcome!!!

Thanks for information regarding nettles and arthritis, i will definitely be looking into that. Finally got a kind of diagnosis off the consultant, apparently i have arthritis caused by the break in my knee. Took them a year to say "go home, keep off your feet, do physio, you'll have a cracking sound from your knee, you'll be in pain, and nothing we can do now". Lets just say i am not a happy bunny. But physio gave me lots of advcie and i'm going to take it.

Been a crazy few weeks with kdis / OH birthdays, classes etc.

but i'm back on with the OS style living. Going to spend the next few days catching up on the thread and fixing j's (OH) caving oversuit. Well it'll saving me the £95 for a new one.

See you all in a bit x

mardatha

Just talking to the RV (we do talk sometimes) - the wee village where he grew up in the 1950s had 13 wee shops, 2 market gardens, a Co-op, an Italian cafe and a chip shop. Now it's part of Edinburgh and has an Aldi, Iceland, a Chinese, and 2 shops.
I bet his mum got a lot more bargains than I do - she had such a lot more choice.

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mardatha wrote: »

Just talking to the RV (we do talk sometimes) - the wee village where he grew up in the 1950s had 13 wee shops, 2 market gardens, a Co-op, an Italian cafe and a chip shop. Now it's part of Edinburgh and has an Aldi, Iceland, a Chinese, and 2 shops.
I bet his mum got a lot more bargains than I do - she had such a lot more choice.

Don't you live just outside Edinburgh? Do you ever go there to look for bargains? I love Edinburgh, it's a fabulous city.

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smileyt_2

I've done nothing today. I was going to go on the allotment but it started hailing so I gave up and went back to bed. I must have needed to because in spite of setting my alarm clock, I slept for nearly 3 hours :eek:. I do feel to have wasted the day, though.

Tonight's lovely job is to shampoo my chicken's bum. She has a badly sprained leg and can't walk yet (although she is starting to put a bit of weight on it) so she is sitting in her poo. I texted my neighbour to see if she had any spare plastic containers I could use as a bath. She said I was the only person she knew who could send a text about washing a hen's bum :rotfl:

Do I live the high life or what. Saturday night and I'm spending it grooming a hen's derriere!!