I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Kirri

Yes, we've got quite thick snow here now!! My road was gritted around 6pm before it started but it's all white now

I can tell, lipstick, you have a few extra characters in your typing tonight

I was thinking of going to buy some eggs tomorrow but the local nursery says the chickens have slowed down laying so might not have any - but is a nice walk out to there so I might still go.

Lip_Stick

i'm off to bed nght night all

x

littlewillow

Kirri wrote: »

Aw LW, a month is a long time!

Do you have any almond essence and ground almonds in stock?? This biscuit recipe is gorgeous, I reduce the flour by 25g down to 125g and put 25g of ground almonds in, they taste almost shortbread like. Keep well, best biscuit I've made recently.

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/Almond-fork-biscuits/r80066/RecipeDetails.raction

I don't, however, I am at the folks house at the moment and my Ma has a cupboard full of everything which seems to magically refill so I will see what I can do thats a great a suggestion thanks for the recipe, definitely give that a go

Edwardia

Kirri wrote: »

Lol @ Edwardia, he has potential with the cooking, not sure men will ever be quite as good as women though with the shopping Some of the Morrisons recipes are quite good, I like to get the mag but it seems to run out of copies if you don't get in the shop the day it's issued.

I didn't know there was a magazine, actually. Thanks for the tip. I tend to mess around with recipes whereas OH follows them mostly. We have a pretty good filing system though - I cut them out, stick them on the plain backs of A4 letters or cheap lined paper and put them in plastic pockets in a lever arch file. That way I can use the page in the kitchen and wipe it off if it gets mucky I am indebted to an ex boss for that one. It also saves having piles of magazines around and scraps of paper. I like to stick in the pics too so it looks colourful.

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

I didn't know there was a magazine, actually. Thanks for the tip. I tend to mess around with recipes whereas OH follows them mostly. We have a pretty good filing system though - I cut them out, stick them on the plain backs of A4 letters or cheap lined paper and put them in plastic pockets in a lever arch file. That way I can use the page in the kitchen and wipe it off if it gets mucky I am indebted to an ex boss for that one. It also saves having piles of magazines around and scraps of paper. I like to stick in the pics too so it looks colourful.

You can also read the magazine electronically but my pc doesn't cope well with it... so I prefer the paper version!

I do a similar thing but I buy the plastic display folders in Wilkinsons, are about £1 and have 40 plastic pockets per file so displays 80 recipes - I have one for baking, one for world foods, one for snacks, one for main meals etc... but I like the idea of a lever arch file and plastic pockets as then I could shuffle the recipes about as I want as I like to keep recipes for each ingredient together ie all the squash recipes etc...

Edwardia

It's a good job I'm immune to cakes and biscuits with all these carb-laden recipes about LOL. I think I might get OH making his own ginger nut biscuits though !

Kirri try updating your Adobe software that might work. Or it could be you need QuickTime ?

Mrs_Vimes

Yay I can post on here. Yesterday I made tea loaf from a recipe on here, belgian cake using up mince meat from Christmas (from a recipe from here) and scones. Get me! All caked up, some in a cake tin and some frozen for as and when.

Lip_Stick

Morning all - that snow's a bit bright.

Feeling blinking shattered here. Snow has laid overnight. At least I'm all stocked up and don't need to visit the shops. That's the theory anyway. Today will be a NSD as I'm going to the folks for Sunday dinner.

Those almond biscuits love gorgeous. Will bake some of those this week as I have ground and flaked almonds in. Tomorrow I'm planning on doing salmon a la creme. Cook salmon then flake into warmed double cream, with lemon juice, fresh dill and black pepper and serve on a bed of pasta. Looking forward to that, one of my favourites.

blackandwhitebunny

Another good combination is butternut squash with chilli beans. I make butternut soup by softening an onion, then adding cubes of squash, a tin aof tomatoes and enough stock to cover and cook till soft, liquidise the soup and then add a tin of red kidney beans in chilli sauce. A good 'full meal' soup.
You can also do this as a bake, cook cubes of butternut anyway you like, I usually steam then mix with the tomatoes and beans, place in an overproof dish, sprinkle with cheese and / or breadcrumbs and bake till golden.:D

Kirri

^^ I like the idea of adding the beans in, as soup never seems filling to me. I often add oven roasted sweetcorn kernals to give a bit of substance though.

Morning all, welcome Mrs V/B&WB and hope you're not too hungover Lipstick!

Edwardia, I tried the Adobe update the other week but I'm on an older Mac, it doesn't like anything Flash related no matter what I've tried

I went for a long walk in the snow this morning, decided not to do the extra mile out to the nursery for the eggs but they messaged me when I got back to say the hens have laid some, !!!!!!, not got the energy to go out in the snow again, it's hard work walking in it up and down hills! Might go tomorrow though now as they are probably the most local, freshest eggs I can find.

Breakfast - toasted hm fruit bread as per usual

Mid am - got home to large mug of hot choc (still 1.5 jars left)

Lunch - will be more hot drop scones with maple syrup

Dinner - to be decided..