It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

greenbee

Roasted beetroot kittie. It's delicious hot with roasts, cold in salads and turned into soup. It can also be frozen.

Pink.

kittie wrote: »

can we now get back on topic LB. My nephew has worked for a long time in the banking sector too, he is a counter clerk. My bil has worked in the banking sector a long time and he is in a very senior post in the hong kong arm at present, both are experienced. None of us are in cloud cuckoo land but life can be full of `what ifs`. I respectfully suggest that the topic is continued on the discussion board

Kittie,

Many people on this thread (including yourself) have been discussing the economy in great detail so I don't really understand why you are singling out LB by asking them to get back on topic???

May I also respectfully suggest that nobody, let alone a new user, should be told so bluntly to post on another board when they are simply joining in with the thread.

He/She is taking part in the current discussion on this thread and should be given the same respect as regular users would give to one another.

Pink

NualaBuala

kittie wrote: »

moodys and standard and poors have already been slated over their rating systems, they aren`t failsafe

True, they certainly didn't forsee the problems with Anglo and other Irish banks that got us into such a mess.

I hope I wasn't the one who started the worry when I said I had some worries about my savings - things are different in Ireland, have no idea about the UK. And even here our savings are guaranteed unless the government goes bankrupt.


Mardatha - what about things like stews and cottage pie? I find them really warming and you could put in less meat and add beans of various kinds for protein and to fill you up healthily (I'm experimenting with lots of different kinds), lentils etc. Plus beans/lentils count as one of your 5 a day. And you could put chopped carrots, celery, parsnips etc in too. You could change the proportions bit by bit so it's not too much of a shock to poor RV's system!

I'm not much a pudding person but since it got colder I make tapicoa from time to time but with only a tiny bit of sugar so it's not too unhealthy.

My Dad grew up in the war and his Mum used to make things like that - but sometimes they didn't have "normal" cuts of meat - mainly offal. He loved all those childhood dishes so our Mum used to make them for him and we grew up with them too. Cottage pie, steak and kidney pie (sometimes no steak in it or some mystery cheap meat) and liver and onions featured a lot! She made crubeens (pigs trotters), tripe and onions for him which he adored (lucky we didn't have to eat it, it stank and looked yuk!) but drew the line at another favourite of his - sheep's head. I remember seeing sheeps heads in St John's market (I think that was the name of it) in Liverpool (where he grew up) and wondered if maybe it was just a Scouse thing - I stood staring for ages in fascination, have never seen things like that in our butchers! The portions of meat he had were quite small but filled up on bread and desserts, mainly milk puddings - semolina, rice pudding, tapioca with a spoon of jam etc. But of course they used a lot more energy back then than I do - if I ate like that I would be the size of a house!

Edit: re beetroot - if anyone wants it, I have a recipe for a delicious beetroot, garlic and cumin dip I got from a demonstration I went to in National Organic Week. It was gorgeous!

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Frugalista

NualaBuala wrote: »

Edit: re beetroot - if anyone wants it, I have a recipe for a delicious beetroot, garlic and cumin dip I got from a demonstration I went to in National Organic Week. It was gorgeous!

Yes please .

Mrs_Chip

Nuala - lol you have reminded me about the food of my childhood! Both my parents were children during the war and out meals really reflected the food they were brought up with (coupled with the fact we had very little money). Tripe was a great favorite with my Dad, Mum used to boil it up with onions and boy did it stink! There is very little I will not eat, but tripe is up there at the top of the list! The 'head' of choice in our house was pigs, and I have vivid memories of the split head boiling away merrily on the hob. Stuffed lambs hearts were regularly on the menu and our joints were the fattiest (therefore cheapest), belly pork or hand and spring, breast of lamb or shoulder. All very trendy now but we ate them out of necessity. I don't recall going short of meat though, I think mum believed it was important to have a meat and two veg meal every day.

Lionel_Blair

kittie wrote: »

You seem to have forgotten that the tough threads arose due to me forseeing the oncoming financial crisis in 2006 and wanting to alert people. We are now at another very important stage and fulcrum and it is very relevant that people are kept informed so that they can keep planning and perhaps adjusting their os ways

Scaremongering and wooden spoonism is not the way to go. Anyway enough said from me re the economy, it is as it is

Surely, and this is only my opinion, that being kept informed and being able to prepare is what is being discussed here. You may consider it to be scaremongering others may see it as beneficial in order that they can make an informed decision and be able to keep abreast of what is currently happening. If, as you say, you alerted people to the pending crisis as far back as 2006, then that too could be considered as scaremongering as well, could it not? The most important thing is that you should allow people to make their own choices, you place the information there, they either act upon it or they don't. If you stifle debate then you could be seen as pulling a shroud around the whole situation and clsoing avenues which would create discussion. To debate is good, to take a sledgehammer to prevent discussion is sadly wrong.

I am very sorry Kittie that having since posted this, I realise that this is your thread which you have started and therefore I now will agree to your request to not to post here.

Nuala - it was not you who started this so do not attach blame to yourself nor Rainy-Days either.


Pink - thank you for your decency and integrity, which is much appreciated.

Rainy-Days

I am really sorry but I just feel that this is very much my fault and I should not have posted it, but kept it to myself. I just thought that this was okay to put it in here! I am very sorry for causing so much trouble!

NualaBuala

Frugalista wrote: »

Yes please .

Coming up!

Beetroot, Garlic and Cumin Dip

Ingredients:
4 beetroots
1 garlic bulb
Olive oil
Squeeze of lemon juice
cumin to desired taste - about 2 tsp is good
salt and pepper

Method:
Preheat oven to 200C.

Drizzle olive oil on the beetroot, season with salt and pepper

Chop the top off the head of garlic so you have taken the skin off the tips and can see a bit of garlic flesh - leave the rest of the skin on though. Drizzle with some olive oil, wrap in tin foil.

Place garlic and beetroot on a tray and roast for about 50 mins or until tender.

Peel the beetroot (and good luck not making a mess of yourself and your kitchen with this bit!). The cook who demonstrated said she finds those thin latex gloves handy for this bit.

Put the peeled beetroot in a blender, squeeze the garlic head so that the pulp oozes out and add into the blender with lemon juice and cumin.

Blend into a puree and with the motor running on slow, gradually add olive oil until you have a nice soft consistency.

Taste it and add more lemon juice, salt and pepper if needed.

Enjoy! We had it with toasted pitta bread, oat cakes and crudites.

rachbc

so erm beetroot - i love beetroot and coconut soup - very very easy too.

Cook 500g beetroot til soft (roast or boil), fry an onion, add 1tbsp red curry paste, the cooked beetroot, a tin of coconut milk and the same of water/ stock. Cook 15-20 mins then blend luckily my kitchen walls are the same colour as this soup so splatters don't show up