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

HariboJunkie

squeaky wrote: »

Hmmm... the topic is - It was getting tough in 2006...

The next year or more is going to be tough enough without losing the support group here on Old Style; so please can you all "agree to disagree" nicely?

I couldn't agree more as I said in my last post.

Can't believe it's so wintery here today. So much so that we had heinz tomato soup for lunch and I'm making steak pie for dinner. Our staple winter food in August. :cool:

Mardatha I use leeks and turnip chopped finely and sauteed in butter as the base to most of my veg soups.

boultdj

mardatha wrote: »

Can anybody give me ways - ideas & recipes - to cook leeks and turnips please. If I leave stuff out there much longer it's just going to rot in the wet.

Cut both into chunk's, along with carrot and potatoe, coat with oil and herb's of your choice and roast in the oven, serve with meat or use it as a base for vegetarian lasagne or pasta bake

scottishminnie

mardatha wrote: »

Can anybody give me ways - ideas & recipes - to cook leeks and turnips please. If I leave stuff out there much longer it's just going to rot in the wet.

hoe about curried leeks. I don't put sultanas in though andusually serve a nice salmon or tuna fillet on top. You could have it with chicken though.

grandma247

I have been busy minding grandchildren and canning 9 jars of carrot,onion and celery for winter stews and soups. These are mainly for instant use when I need something very quick and will go nicely with some jars of mince and seasonings. One gds peeled the carrots and another chopped the ends off whilst ds and gds3 played on the computers. They have been very good in spite of the horrid weather.

Jedi when I was at school in England (my last school after going to forces schools, mostly abroad) I was shocked to hear a girl say her mother was coming to "sort out" a teacher that had given her detention. In my family if you were told off by a teacher or a policeman you got into hot water when you got home. I can even remember hiding behind a wall with my cousin when we were about four years old because a "Bobby" was knocking on the door of my Aunts flat. We hadn't done anything wrong but we were afraid. I brought my own children up to have respect for those in authority, even if they felt they had done nothing wrong they were to speak respectfully. It has stood them in good stead and they are passing it on to their own children.

blackandwhitebunny

Emerging from lurkdom for a few minutes:D

Jedi - I also had a thought about this, many of the looters are secondary school age - I probably taught similar when I worked in London - in a few weeks they'll be back in class and the public and government will be expecting one teacher to install discipline (with both hands tied behind your back figuratively speaking) cope with their feral behaviour and still manage to educate them. Anyone want to discuss these huge undeserved pensions we get?:rotfl:

Scottishminnie - I don't know what the UK equivalent might be but many years ago a farmer in SA was trying to re-establish a native water plant in a dam along a popular hiking trail. His efforts were constantly thwarted by hot hikers disturbing the young plants when taking a dip. Signs and notices explaining the idea had no effect. He eventually solved the problem by putting up a large sign saying 'Please do not feed the crocodiles':)

Anyone feeling the pinch - I can't recommend a visit to the discount coupons thread highly enough. I just saved over £10 on a £20 shop and its all things that I would normally buy, except the almonds which were completely free.:T

flowertotmum

Hi all...well its wetish,windy and warmish here today...been busy shredding all my papers today...hubby made last payment on his loan so thats all finished..only 2 to go..my credit card and his..then we are totally debt free..been a long hard fight to do it but we are about to step out the tunnel into the light...
I have bought some new throws for my sofa and chairs..a lot of money but well worth it...
Hubby went to wilkos and got some seeds all reduced to between 10p and 25p a packet..those are stored away safely..also he bought some draught excluder that goes around the doors and window frames..even though we have DG and new doors front and back..they really are carp..a friend told me what she did was buy that stuff then go around the edges yourself ..seems to have worked for her..will try it,,got nothing to lose.
This might sound mean but i taught hubby a lesson this morning...even though he works for poundland he won't buy anything when he goes to work,he has time and opportunity to do so...for the past week i have been asking him to get me some Nescafe Gold Blend coffee in the re-sealable bag...he has not done so..so when he went to Mr. A this morning i made him buy me some...he almost fainted at the price lol...he has now gone to work and is promising to buy me some when i want it rather than buying it from else where...haha..expensive lesson for him..nice coffee for me though..
got to go..tea-time..
take care all of you
ftm

Athome1

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Can you try cutting and pasting the recipe into a Word doc and then printing?

thanks HariboJunkie - You're a genius! :beer:

Red_Doe

Today, I cooked game stews for freezing, along with a couple of fish pies topped with tatties and made in a HM cheese sauce, and batches of HM soup with veg from the garden. But I'm always wary of freezing stuff because we get power cuts here in winter and I'd be devastated to lose a whole lot of food I'd put by for winter use, when we get cut off here and have no access to even the one wee village Spar five miles away.
Using my old Prestige Hi Dome pressure cooker, I was looking through the booklet that accompanies it and there are methods in there for bottling and canning, even meat! I know nowadays the advice is to never use a pressure cooker for such, but back then (sixties and seventies) some folks must have done it or they wouldn't have put it in the booklet!
Has anyone here ever used a pressure cooker to bottle food and if so, how did it work out?
Every single proper canner I've ever seen is way out of my price range.

ETA, regarding taking the law into one's own hands...I have done so in the past because of a very serious matter, when the law that should have protected a member of my family let us down. Sometimes, right and wrong isn't so black and white...

jediteacher

grandma247 wrote: »

Jedi when I was at school in England (my last school after going to forces schools, mostly abroad) I was shocked to hear a girl say her mother was coming to "sort out" a teacher that had given her detention. In my family if you were told off by a teacher or a policeman you got into hot water when you got home. I can even remember hiding behind a wall with my cousin when we were about four years old because a "Bobby" was knocking on the door of my Aunts flat. We hadn't done anything wrong but we were afraid. I brought my own children up to have respect for those in authority, even if they felt they had done nothing wrong they were to speak respectfully. It has stood them in good stead and they are passing it on to their own children.

I have to confess that I run my classroom with an iron fist. I'm known as 'the witch' by the children (and I'm sure a lot worse) but I really don't care as I am very firm on discipline and fair with it. Apparently the parents are quite scared of me to and I often get asked to deal with 'awkward' parents as they are less likely to be abusive to me. I'm also the teacher children get threatened with and sent to when they have misbehaved. Although I am tough with the children they know where they stand with me and if they are treated unjustily by anyone they know I will fight their corner. My hubby says I'm so strict because I'm intolerant to so much but I have to say that at the end of the school year (I teach year 6 - 11 year olds) I have only had positive comments from children and parents.

I've had another no spend day - which is 2 in a row. A small miracle for me.

I now need to start looking for my daughters school shoes as she is such an awkward size I find it hard to find general shoes for her! I just hope she doesn't grow too much.:cool:

ChocClare

RedDoe, I am just going out but if you tell me what you want to bottle, I will pm you later.

Having grown up with American canning sites, I was very finger-waggy about canning with a pressure COOKER rather than a CANNER. However, I have just come back from France and bought there a Le Parfait recipe book with a guide to preserving "stuff". They blithely bottle all sorts of things, using only a pressure cooker. What is more, the town where I was staying had home-produced "canned" things - including meats - on display, which they have been selling for years with no recorded ill-effects. They had glass jars of coq au vin, foie gras, soups, vegetables - all produced with a pressure cooker.

I know that botulism is the big worry, but even the American sites agree it is EXTREMELY rare - there were 9 recorded cases of botulism in France in the last records where EVERYBODY (practically ) bottles produce, compared to 22 in the UK where practically nobody does - and this out of a population of 60-odd million in each country.

So, as I say, what do you want to bottle? I have recipes and timings!!!