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

mardatha

So is yours ! LOL

ifonlyitwaseasier

mardatha wrote: »

So is yours ! LOL

LMAO!! cheers for that!!


btw a heads up for those preparing for winter, argos have chocolate brown fleeces for 1.99

mardatha

Tomorrow's dinner is carmelised onion sausages from Costco. I have loads of tatties and baby leeks. Can anybody suggest something inspired and creative to do with them ? LOL

ifonlyitwaseasier

ok chop the leeks and fry in butter, just butter none of this healthy spray oil stuff

roast the spuds,


there all sorted

nn all

ChocClare

mardatha wrote: »

Tomorrow's dinner is carmelised onion sausages from Costco. I have loads of tatties and baby leeks. Can anybody suggest something inspired and creative to do with them ? LOL

Have you got a microwave, mar?

If so, I would suggest:

Get a largish tupperware dish (type you take your lunch in). Put a blob of butter in it - about an ounce. Microwave until butter has melted.

While it's melting, chop your baby leeks. Bung 'em in dish and zhuzh round so they get butter on them. Put back in microwave for 2 mins.

Meanwhile, peel and slice your potatoes (enough for the 2 or 3 of you if your son is still with you plus a bit extra). They should be about the thickness of a coin - no thicker than a pound coin!

Put a layer of potatoes on top of the leeks, sprinkle with pepper and a TINY bit of salt. Mix in with the leeks. Add another layer, season, mix, another layer, season, mix until you've used up all your potatoes. Season the top with pepper.

Now pour over milk to half way up the side of the box. Put back in microwave and cook on high for 10 mins.

Remove and stir - add more milk if you need to but you probably won't. Put back in microwave for a further 10 mins. Allow to stand for one minute. Potatoes should be cooked through and scrummy and should have absorbed all the milk. If not, cook for a further minute or so.

You can add a bit more butter or even grated cheese to this. It's a poor man's version of potatoes dauphinoises. Except without the garlic. And potatoes dauphinoises don't have cheese on top :rotfl:. Feel free to add garlic if you want!

if you don't have a microwave, you can do this in the oven. Fry off the leeks very gently and parboil the potato slices in the milk. Butter an oven dish, add potatoes and leeks in layers as before, dot with butter and put in a hot oven for half an hour. You must pre-cook the potatoes and leeks, otherwise it takes HOURS in the oven and uses up all your fuel!

If you don't fancy that, you can fry the leeks gently in some butter, then stir them into mashed potato. Yum.

ETA - I agree with IOIWE - you need butter to cook leeks. That is all.

JIL

mardatha wrote: »

Tomorrow's dinner is carmelised onion sausages from Costco. I have loads of tatties and baby leeks. Can anybody suggest something inspired and creative to do with them ? LOL

lightly cook the potatoes and then slice them. grill the sausages.

in an oven proof dish place sliced chunks of sausages and some chunks of leeks, pour over a tin of bbq sauce. cover with a layer of sliced potatoes and add grated cheese. bake for about half an hour.

its a take on hunters chicken but cheaper.

mardatha

I didnt think anybody would answer - thanks very much ! I have copied this all down. I love butter, dont use low fat rubbish , dont like it. I havent got a microwave so will do it in the Remoska. TY all!

Broomstick

scottishminnie, world gone mad...:eek:

If 'You and Yours' is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at the moment it's worth speaking to them. They were brilliant when I had a stupid story that needed sorting out years ago and they got the company concerned on the radio to answer questions.

Do any food outlets on the station site use cutlery including knives, or do any of the trains that leave the station have buffet cars which use cutlery? It would be worth pointing this one out to the manager and copying it 'for information' to the management of the food outlets/train companies concerned? It would be a sensible thing to do as a responsible adult to inform all these companies of the dangerous and illegal situation they are unwittingly participating in.;)

Maybe the community cops whose beat covers the station could be asked for their advice too.:) I'm sure they wouldn't want to have their time wasted by a jobsworth of a mis-manager.

B x

Softstuff

Gawd Scottishminnie, you couldn't make it up could you. What a *bleep* he was. The first thing I thought of when you mentioned offensive weapon wasn't the knife, but the fork, thanks to a bad joke about a guy faced with cannibals who make canoes from human skin stabbing himself all over with a fork and saying "you won't make a canoe out of me".

Larumbelle, they're running scared, and the more lies they tell the deeper they're digging their own hole. Best of luck with the desk assessment, I think things will start to go your way now.

smileyt wrote: »

Softstuff I hope your boob is better! My mum did that many years ago. I'm afraid she got no sympathy as my sister and I were rolling around laughing (how cruel were we??).

Well, it's a rather nasty looking scab now, and I think will take a while to heal given that it's a missing chunk, but thanks for asking . My husband stood watching in a state of shock and was particularly concerned when I had to pull the handle off myself. I was wearing a new bra at the time, and my primary concern was a blood stain on that, so he washed it with salt and cold water whilst I dressed the wound (first new bras in a few years so extra special!). It's finally made the decision for us though, and when we get a tax refund I'm getting a new vac.

charlies-aunt

scottishminnie wrote: »

I was halfway through the tale when he stopped me and asked exactly what was in the bag - " tupperware dish, paperback book and knife and fork" I replied at which point he said "if I were you I'd stop this conversation now. You've broken the law by carrying an offensive weapon on a train and I can have you charged. Choice is yours"!

What a t*sser! Where do they recruit these people from?