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

redlady_1

HJ - the OH would be up there in a heart beat! And we have said that if this place falls through then we are going to move away from here so you are not out of the woods yet!!!

It will be an odd week this week as it's the anniversary of the OH losing his wife. Her sisters are coming up to be with him as they do every year. They will go and see "tree" and do their thing and then go out for a meal. Tree is an oak tree they planted as her ashes are scattered in a natural cemetry.

After doing a 12 hour straight shift on Saturday at the pub I am completely shattered....but, this month will be a bit tight for me so the money will be lovely. My veg box arrived so I found in the hovel cook book a recipe for turnip and lentil bake so will see what happens there. Lots of salad stuff so I guess that is what I will be eating this week.

ceridwen

Redlady

You'll have to let us know how you get on with those "Hovel" recipes - I've tried one or two and not been very successful with them.

I wouldnt eat that turnip and lentil one - I feel about turnips the same way Mardatha feels about kale_pale_. Howsomever - I would be interested to hear your verdict on how workable/tasty any others are purlease.

redlady_1

Never tried turnip so who knows what will happen!! The best cook books for me so far have been the Paupers Cookbook (never had a bad meal from there) and HFW latest one.

Potatoes, lots of lovely potatoes!!! Still no bloody tomatoes though

mardatha

I like turnip, and onions, and parnsips - and that's about it as far as veg goes. On the bedroom windowsill I have the new sowing of tomatoes - and they are heading for 5ft high. Got first red tomatoes on there and loads of green ones. And any one of you could do the same, they're only early because they're an early variety and indoors !
My tatties are budding now and my onions are not ready yet. My lilac is coming into bloom now.
Does anybody else think how bloody TIRING old style is when you're a bit under the weather ? I have been fantasizing lately about a M&S steak pie that you just sliiiide gently into the oven :rotfl:

jackieglasgow

Ah but Mardatha our turnip is not the same as theirs, they are talking about our swedes Our turnips are their swedes IYSWIM?

silvermaid

mardatha - I know exactly what you mean about the steak pie. When I'm feeling like that we eat from the freezer - steak & mushroom pie mix, cottage pie, moussaka or lasagne. When we make these meals from scratch we are usually feeding either 2 people or 7. Inevitably we have enough for a meal for 2 left over. I freeze these for times when time and/or money is tight or I am feeling below par. DH and I find they freeze and heat up well. x
Our tomatoes are beginning to ripen now. Last year's tomatoes were harvested and obviously eaten at the time, but we deliberately overgrew (i.e. 30+ plants). The excess were simmered down to half volume and either frozen as they were or turned into salsa with the addition of hg onions and hg chillis. The last salsa is in the freezer and will be used in the next couple of weeks. We did not have to buy any tins of tomatoes until March:)
jackieg - down 'ere in the south we call the big yellow ones swede and the smaller white ones turnip. Is that different in the North?

jackieglasgow

yes, its the other way round

paidinchickens

mardatha wrote: »

I like turnip, and onions, and parnsips - and that's about it as far as veg goes. On the bedroom windowsill I have the new sowing of tomatoes - and they are heading for 5ft high. Got first red tomatoes on there and loads of green ones. And any one of you could do the same, they're only early because they're an early variety and indoors !
My tatties are budding now and my onions are not ready yet. My lilac is coming into bloom now.
Does anybody else think how bloody TIRING old style is when you're a bit under the weather ? I have been fantasizing lately about a M&S steak pie that you just sliiiide gently into the oven :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I was poorly last week. DH was away and they kids ended up with hotdogs twice in one week:eek: I just could not stand any longer to cook. I lay on the sofa wishing the steak fairy would pop to the local pub and bring me steak, mushrooms and onion rings mmmmmmm ended up with a bowl of cerial:rotfl:

modern_millie_2

Hi everyone, finally caught up again. Hope everyone who has been poorly is on the mend now. Make sure you are all eating your greens (ducks for cover).

Had a quietish weekend, working on Saturday but came home to find just over a pound of blackcurrants from my nice neighbour at the back. Made them in to jam - have to say this was really easy and the result is delicious! I always use an old Maguerite Patten book for jam making, and have so far found it foolproof.

Had some potatoes from the garden yesterday, Charlottes, were good, made me wish we had dug another bed to plant more (we were too lazy).

Reading Nella Last in the 1950s at the moment, still interesting reading but sad that her life seemed to centre around coping with her husband's illness. Some things don't change - she loved getting value for money for her shopping and the satisfaction of making things from scratch. As someone else said, cake features in her menus a lot, also jam and honey - they must have been a sweet toothed lot.

I'll be working the next few days so probably not much time for posting. Mrs VP, don't know how you get through all you do - try to rest if you can.

Hope everyone is getting their share of the sunshine, esp. all of you oop North who have done without for so long. Changing tomorrow apparently, so enjoy while you can!

ifonlyitwaseasier

ChocClare wrote: »

Spidery - OH yes. We are the spider capital of the western world. Dusty - not so much...

there goes my dream of living in a thatched cottage then

mardatha wrote: »

O god noway CC, I couldnt live in a house with spiders. It's either them or me. One of us has to die !!!

^^ with ya all the way Mar, hubby has the killing duties!!