Pinot's Potty debt free journey!!!

Hopelessly_Hopeful

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Afternoon Mrs P, ooh I'd have made pie mmm, chopped up all the veg , whacked it into a pie dish, chopped up the gammon and thrown that in, some kind of white sauce if you fancy, top with slices of potato, bake in the oven mmm.

Sounds lovely

HHx

brizzledfw

Ah Mrs PG like the attitude of safeguarding those pots:rotfl:

Today I made a chicken pie ( even made the pastry..only took me 5 mins and had forgotten how therapeutic it feels!) with some ( not all! How frightfully MSE!;)) LO chicken, gravy, veggies and for some reason some crime fraiche! It's going to be for tomorrow ..but it was easy and most families love pies!

There is still chicken in the fridge so will be either Thai chicken soup or for kids sandwiches. 2kg chicken has gone a long way.

Re camping..any chance you can get away over the Jubilee weekend? Know
Lots of places are getting booked up but it's nearer than August!!

PinotGrigio41

Well all the suggestions sound lovely thankyou, and pies always go down a treat here. I seem to be forever making chicken pies these days as well Mrs B !

Sadly I didnt get a chance to try out the Gammon in the slow cooker or Kerris suggestion as the evening didnt go to plan !

On arriving home at 6pm I found DD1 and cronies very frustrated in the kitchen, with a bowl of cake mixture, recipe books ( you can imagine the mess!!) and a couple of loaf tins full of uncooked mixture sitting in the oven. Apparently there was something wrong with the oven , noone thought to call me about it though and they had been waiting for over an hour for the cakes to cook. I'm sure you can guess................................they had forgotten to turn the oven on, but what they did do was turn the top oven on but only to about 50 degrees, therefore there was a small amount of heat seeping through into the main oven so they decided that it must be on !! Anyway, I had to take control as a powerpoint had to be done as well as the cakes baked, decorated and labelled, hence I had extra mouths to feed and there was no way 2 Gammon slices would sretch that far. After raiding the Sealed ISH Pot I grabbed some chicken breasts, thankfully I had everything else I needed and rustled up a quick chicken curry and salad which went down well with the hungry hordes. They finally left at 10pm last night and I now have an eroding Cliff Face Cake sitting prettily in the kitchen !!

Mrs B I would love to go away the Jubilee weekend, but we are working all over the Bank Holiday unfortunately:( Have you plans for that weekend ? x

Skint_but_Optimistic

I have found you but need to catch up, read the last few posts so need to eat something now...
x

PinotGrigio41

Skint_but_Optimistic wrote: »

I have found you but need to catch up, read the last few posts so need to eat something now...
x

You could be in for a very long haul !!! Feel free to skip a page or 10 !!!

Lovely to see you though ! xx

newroadahead

PinotGrigio41 wrote: »

Well all the suggestions sound lovely thankyou, and pies always go down a treat here. I seem to be forever making chicken pies these days as well Mrs B !

Sadly I didnt get a chance to try out the Gammon in the slow cooker or Kerris suggestion as the evening didnt go to plan !

On arriving home at 6pm I found DD1 and cronies very frustrated in the kitchen, with a bowl of cake mixture, recipe books ( you can imagine the mess!!) and a couple of loaf tins full of uncooked mixture sitting in the oven. Apparently there was something wrong with the oven , noone thought to call me about it though and they had been waiting for over an hour for the cakes to cook. I'm sure you can guess................................they had forgotten to turn the oven on, but what they did do was turn the top oven on but only to about 50 degrees, therefore there was a small amount of heat seeping through into the main oven so they decided that it must be on !! Anyway, I had to take control as a powerpoint had to be done as well as the cakes baked, decorated and labelled, hence I had extra mouths to feed and there was no way 2 Gammon slices would sretch that far. After raiding the Sealed ISH Pot I grabbed some chicken breasts, thankfully I had everything else I needed and rustled up a quick chicken curry and salad which went down well with the hungry hordes. They finally left at 10pm last night and I now have an eroding Cliff Face Cake sitting prettily in the kitchen !!

Mrs B I would love to go away the Jubilee weekend, but we are working all over the Bank Holiday unfortunately:( Have you plans for that weekend ? x

Oh dear sound like you evening really didn't go as planned, hope tonight is better. Enjoy the cliff face (cake):D

I am just in from my first morning back at work and Im shattered so a quick peek around the boards and then 40 winks I think.

Catch up later

NRA xx

PinotGrigio41

newroadahead wrote: »

Oh dear sound like you evening really didn't go as planned, hope tonight is better. Enjoy the cliff face (cake):D

I am just in from my first morning back at work and Im shattered so a quick peek around the boards and then 40 winks I think.

Catch up later

NRA xx

After all the effort we dont actually get to eat the cake, it has to go into school as part of a Geography project !! Shame though it looks quite tasty.

Hope your morning went well and you enjoyed your nap !

debtfreewannabe321

:rotfl:at dd and her cooking :rotfl: that reminds me of something i would do ...in fact i did when we first moved in here, we had a basic cooker in the last house and in this one it is a top oven and a bottom one and i kept switching the wrong one on and getting so annoyed with it :rotfl: (and tbh i'm still not much better at cooking )

Liking the sound of these pies everyone is making. I'm rubbish at cooking so wouldn't have the first clue hhow to make pastry (or what type!) perhaps i should buy some just roll stuff and do it the easy way :T

PinotGrigio41

debtfreewannabe321 wrote: »

:rotfl:at dd and her cooking :rotfl: that reminds me of something i would do ...in fact i did when we first moved in here, we had a basic cooker in the last house and in this one it is a top oven and a bottom one and i kept switching the wrong one on and getting so annoyed with it :rotfl: (and tbh i'm still not much better at cooking )

Liking the sound of these pies everyone is making. I'm rubbish at cooking so wouldn't have the first clue hhow to make pastry (or what type!) perhaps i should buy some just roll stuff and do it the easy way :T

Shhh DFW, dont tell anyone, but I dont make the pastry, I cheat !!! Keep it to yourself !! :rotfl:

HappyNow

Hello, just checking what you've been up to, and it's loads as usual .

Congratulations on paying off 13% already! That is really going some, well done. Bad luck on having to raid your sealed ISH pots though to feed the girls.

The forgetting-to-turn-the-oven-on story reminded me of one of Mr Happy's mis-adventures years ago. We'd just got married and had been given an electric deep-fat fryer as a wedding present. Mr Happy decided to make me some chips as a token of his affection (he is indeed very romantic!). He placed the fryer on top of the hob so that the extractor fan would take away any fumes. Then he absent-mindedly turned on the hob instead of the fryer. Then he left the room for 15 minutes, only returning to see what had set the smoke alarm off!! I can't begin to describe the mess - the fryer had completely melted all over the brand new hob, and all the oil had spilled out over the entire kitchen. And the SMELL!! I should have taken that as a sign - I was probably still in time for an annulment :rotfl:!