Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

tellmeitsfriday

My BF (!!!!!!) is 37 and occassionally needs reminding to do some of those things, in particular cleaning the loo! I think it's a man-thing!

Memory_Girl

SODA BREAD
Irish Soda Bread–White Version

Combine:

4 cups flour
1 tablespoon sugar
1-3/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 cups water or water/ yoghurt/ milk mixture
2 teaspoons cider vinegar

Stir; it very quickly becomes dough. Form a round loaf. Place on greased baking sheet. Cut slits in top. Bake 40 minutes at 400° F.

TORTILLAS

Best recipe is the one on this link

http://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Cookery/Bread_making/

also on this page is pizza bases, another soda bread recipe and scones etc.


QUESADILLA's

Take a tortilla and lay flat - top with your filling. A couple of tbsp of tuna and a sprinkling of cheese. Top with another tortilla and squash together.

Heat a frying pan and toast the tortillas on each side until golden and beginning to crisp and the cheese goes runny. Slide onto a plate and cut into segments (like a pizza).

Its glorified toasted cheese sandwich - but quesadillas sound much less frugal :rotfl:

http://www.antonio-carluccio.com/Pasta_allUovo The Italian God's recipe for Egg pasta

MG

Memory_Girl

Been thinking about Gemmzie this afternoon, abut how hard it would be now to go back to being without my store cupboard.

So I went and stood at the door to the store cupboard and thought - if I had £10 what would be the things I would buy to see me through ten days.

1. Chickpeas - 1 bag makes hummus,felafel, chickpea burgers, curry and soup 68p
2. Potatoes - 2.5kg would make baked potatoes, chips, soup and stovies £1.19
3. Flour - 2 bags - sandwich loaves, pizza bases, tortillas, pitta breads, crumpets,scones and pikelets £1.08
4. Oats - for breakfast, biscuits, flapjacks and oatcakes £0.59
5.Tinned tomatoes - 4 tins 0.99, pasta sauce, pizza sauce, soup, curry
6. Pack of ten eggs 0.89

which would leave £4.58 for skimmed milk powder, carrots,cabbage, onions and some rice or couscous to go with curry, chilli or whatever.

You would be pretty short on your 5 a day - but I guess you wouldn't starve.


What would be your essentials?

MG

Bitsy_Beans

Party was a great success, weather was NOT kind (well not until half an hour before people were due to leave). I haven't sat down til now, been up since 5.20am with DD and am about to have something very large and alcoholic

Not really time to post properly but just wanted to offer hugs to those that need them, well done's to those that merit them and hope you all have a good remainder of the weekend.

Dustykitten

Bitsy glad the party went well

I have finished my room and sorting all of the boys clothes. Have large bag for the charity shop, some books for the oxfam book shop, and a large bag for recycling.

Two bedrooms all cleaned, other two hoovered and beds done so I'll just dust tomorrow once the boys have tidied them.

DS2 to clean windows upstairs tomorrow
DS3 to sort basket in the family room.

Time to sort some dinner and wash up

tellmeitsfriday

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Been thinking about Gemmzie this afternoon, abut how hard it would be now to go back to being without my store cupboard.

So I went and stood at the door to the store cupboard and thought - if I had £10 what would be the things I would buy to see me through ten days.

1. Chickpeas - 1 bag makes hummus,felafel, chickpea burgers, curry and soup 68p
2. Potatoes - 2.5kg would make baked potatoes, chips, soup and stovies £1.19
3. Flour - 2 bags - sandwich loaves, pizza bases, tortillas, pitta breads, crumpets,scones and pikelets £1.08
4. Oats - for breakfast, biscuits, flapjacks and oatcakes £0.59
5.Tinned tomatoes - 4 tins 0.99, pasta sauce, pizza sauce, soup, curry
6. Pack of ten eggs 0.89

which would leave £4.58 for skimmed milk powder, carrots,cabbage, onions and some rice or couscous to go with curry, chilli or whatever.

You would be pretty short on your 5 a day - but I guess you wouldn't starve.


What would be your essentials?

MG

Time is short in the mornings - So Weetabix.

Lunch - Cheese sandwiches, crisps, a banana

Evening - I don't know if I could be veggie - even for 10 days, so I suppose mincey dishes (beef, turkey, pork all relatively cheap) tinned tomatoes, onion, maybe a bag of those horrid frozen sausages (but I might spend £11 instead of £10 - cheat and buy nice ones).

I'd also like to have salad - so the odd lettuce, cucumber etc. I would even buy a pack of cress seeds so I could grow those as I love it.

I can't make bread (really) so the odd loaf of nice bread or rolls would be necessary.

Is that about £10 worth?


When I was a student I could shop for a week of £7.50

Tesco Value huge bags of pasta, chicken soup, bread, fishfingers, and frozen sausages (oh and some vodka!).

Memory_Girl

tellmeitsfriday wrote: »

When I was a student I could shop for a week of £7.50

Tesco Value huge bags of pasta, chicken soup, bread, fishfingers, and frozen sausages (oh and some vodka!).

I was just telling MrF about that the other day - I was atthe part in my script where I was talking about a 3 course meal being: A cup of coffee, a Marlboro light and a bottle of vodka :rotfl:

How we ddin't end up with scurvy I will never know - yes I do, the lime in the bottles of cheap beer :rotfl::rotfl:

MG

Must go and get DS2 off the naughty step now

tellmeitsfriday

Oh bless, what's he done!

My vitamin c came from the tablets mother bought for me...! Bless her, the mad old bear!

Memory_Girl

Just being a typical three year old stroppy toddler "No no no no" - I work on the theory that you teach them when you can still lift them - then hopefully they are housebroken by the time they can lift you.

I have got such a sore head tonight - wish it would just thunder and clear the air.

MG

ETA Thunder and lightening a go-go - woohooo!!!

Dustykitten

Having a stressed half hour so have just cleared the kitchen up and am now wide awake. DH has rang, finished his charity 12 hour 3 peak or something walk. Bad news is his vision went all blurry on the way down the second peak and is still like it now, like his glasses are misted up he says but it is his eyes. Hoping it is not something too serious. He is up in Yorkshire and we live in Hertfordshire, he has travelled by train with other people so will be fine getting back to London I hope.

Youngest finally settled in bed, middle one sent up to bed and eldest and friend preparing their stuff for tomorrow (and resurrecting my Living Room to how it was before PS3, pizza and cake).

I'm going to catch up on some emails I think until they are all settled down.