The Tougher Thread continues.....

oldtractor

Yes you may!

dronid

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Welcome Sir. Are you single? (Sorry that just slipped out).....It will be lovely to get a male perspective on some things. Stop giggling at the back Mrs Chip.

Thanks for asking but no, I am a gentleman with a husband.:D

But as they say, nothing ventured...

Fruball

dronid wrote: »

Thanks for asking but no, I am a gentleman with a husband.:D

But as they say, nothing ventured...

Dammit - all the good ones are taken :rotfl:


Welcome Dronid :wave:

Mrs_Chip

Curses, got the book but it's in London on the top shelf of my cookery book Library :rotfl:!

HJ - do you think we should ask Dronid to go back and review the last few pages of the old thread?:o

Mrs_Chip

Ooh Dronid, just seen your location - you lucky boy you, so close to the market (tho now been poncified out of all recognition imho, and V expensive!). But once was my fave place to while away a Friday lunchtime!

Rowan9

I am so cheered by this v fab thread. Good banter, good folks, new friends joining in.
Getting dark here - early isn't it?
Fish in oven, potatoes on (last from my one-off organic veggie box delivery) and will have salad. Is there anyone else like me out there? I've had a bite out of a Toffee Crisp. I think and think mmmm I'll have that after tea and then WHAM I've sneaked into the fridge and had a bite out of it. DH never does this before a meal. Is it a female malady that makes us (trying to find peeps to join me here) EAT CHOCOLATE WHEN WE WANT IT?
Have kitchen to tidy and clean tonight. Own fault for letting dishes and 'stuff' pile up.
Will pop back in and see what you're all up to.
Frugalista - am another one who is pleased to see you posting:wave:
W

Mrs_Optimist

Well tea was an interesting affair!
A friend dropped around just before the orange chocolate fudge pud, to drop in a card and bottle of fizz - HIGH -
then DD and I had a huge row and her mobile has now been confiscated and she is in her room sulking - LOW. She is 13 next week, please god save me from angry teenage hormones for the next 7 years, I am tempted to open the bottle of fizz 2 days early and drink through a straw right now

alltrustgone

Afternoon everybody, long time lurker/sometime poster here. Re bendy parnsips – I had some of these to use up and found an unexpected (to me anyway) soup combination in a recipe book, parsnip and fennel. Had some fennel bulbs that had gotten semi-frozen in my rubbish fridge-freezer, so great opportunity to used them up. Really nice combination. Plan to try it again using crushed fennel seeds as a more OS option. I think there’s some self- seeded bronze fennel in the garden which I’ve left to see what it delivers, so that’s another option – the leaves smell wonderful .

Feeling cheesed off today – really disappointed there wasn’t a successful challenge to the NHS bill in the Lords yesterday, shaking my head over the Liam Fox story –– even basic common sense seems beyond them, let alone the other implications coming from this story. I used to go to a lot of meetings, and you know it never once occurred to me as appropriate to take my best friend along. Things are so tough for so many of us and this is the calibre of politicians we have steering us through this mess. So frustrated by it all.

Distracting myself by re-stocktaking my cupboards and stores and reorganising to house like with like – who knew there was so much pasta around the place. Well, I suppose I would have IF I ever managed to keep the stock list up to date! Anyone have ideas for using Egg Spatzle, a Lidl/Aldi impulse buy that seemed such a good idea at the time. Oh well, onwards and upwards – don’t let the Bar Stewards grind us down. Best wishes to all.

ATG

SDG31000

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Curses, got the book but it's in London on the top shelf of my cookery book Library :rotfl:!

HJ - do you think we should ask Dronid to go back and review the last few pages of the old thread?:o

Have sent you the recipe Mrs Chip, but don't blame me for the extra inches on the hips it causes. Hope it helps

shegar

Wow wee,ive just come on line to find a new thread at page 8 already:eek:.....................nice to see so many newbees too..............I sort of skim read the last 8 pages just to try and keep up.........in the winter and you cant get outside so much its easier to keep up with the pages, but beings the weather is so good ive been spending a lot of time outside, and not on line , trying to plant the spring bulbs but the dam ground is so hard I cant get them in 4 inches........:eek:
We had a nice tesco frozen apple and toffee crumble with custard for desert tonight it was beautiful and the price was £1.00:D you cant make that from scratch for a quid can you?........

Tesco as got some real tasty deserts at £1 each.................frozen I must add.........:D