A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

D&DD

Just been amending my xmas shop at MrT and thought I'd stick on some lemon juce as I've only got a couple of bottles left...Those little jif lemon thingies are 79p :eek: MrT's own is £1.19 :eek::eek: but fortunately their ingredient one is 40 odd pence so needless to say there are a dozen now in my basket
Blimey I know its been a while since I bought any easter I think when it was reduced after pancake day but still..better tell my OH to pull his finger out with his lemon tree I got him last year :rotfl:

Sorry to hear of all the bad weather in the North do stay safe and warm all XXX

Raining and not too cold here atm but xmas tree is finally up so starting to get in the mood now,just changed my home phone ringtone to Joy to the world lol I usually have Jingle Bells but its not on the new phone

icontinuetodream

I always think that having a stockpile is better than money in the bank...:D having lived through some really dire financial times and having little on the savings front means that if everything goes to poo....at least I can keep food on the table for a number of months if I have no income for a period of time or have to use my income for other emergencies!!!;)

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Are all the people having snow up in Scotland? Keep warm if you can, its perishing here and I'm under my knitted blanket trying to keep my knees warm I am knitting OH a tank top for xmas out of some ebay wool and onto the front now, it will be handy for him round the house, I'm a big fan of tank tops and wear one all the time at home.

Roast chicken went down a storm and I have cunningly stripped the meat off for tomorrow to start the rubberisation process (lol) and SC has a stock bubbling away too so it smells nice in the house.

For all the crying onion peelers, I read once that putting a pencil between your teeth works and I tried it once and it works.

BTW kettles on...anyone fancy a cuppa?

fuddle

WeegieWumman wrote: »

Poor you!
Is this the third or the fourth landslip you've had in the past three years?:eek:
Hope the road opens again soon.

Is it the rest and be thankful area? My father in law is headed back up home and had to go over on the ferry as opposed to the 'the long way round'

It's lovely up there we choose the long way round while when we can and save on the ferry charges - probably be the same price now with petrol prices.

paidinchickens

5 hours of painting the cat pen. I still havn't finished the first coat :eek: This is a second hand pen the charity provided and it is soaking up like a sponge. I have had to put the lid on as it is raining, cold, dark and I just can't take any more. I can't stand up straight and the sciatica is in full swing :( I wanted to get the pen finished before the really bad weather comes as DH still has to do the leccy for it.


Aunty C brought us a food parcel yesterday and in it was a big pork joint that has been in the slow cooker all day and smells lush, the only problem is I can't face sorting the rest of the dinner til the back eases a little.

I've had the tumbler on nearly all day as the porridge pot of washing was nearly spilling down the stairs and I would never have got it all dry. I still have all the jumble stuff drying on the two airers.

Sunday a day of rest??? not in this household :rotfl::rotfl:

I hate peeling onions and have not found an easy way to do it. I just do a load in one go and freeze in portions, that way I don't have to go through the agony as often :rotfl:

Moan over

On a nice note my DS has been to his dads today and got his pocket money. He then proceeded to go to town with his Dad and spent £20 on my Christmas present :eek::eek::eek: This is the first present he has ever bought with his own money ( he is 15) I did say he should have bought summat from pound shop and saved his money but I am also glad I have such a lovely DS. He has not bought anything for anyone else though :rotfl::rotfl:


Must get off butt and sort some veg out and peel some spuds :( after I have checked the weather for tomorrow.

PIC x

fuddle

I'm having a break. I'm backing papering the dining room with the hope of just painting it. It's blebbing really badly though so will have to see. I've invited my mum and mum in law and her partnerfor Christmas lunch and desperate to not sit in a bomb site. It has *embarrassingly* been like that since March. I have a hot chocolate colour left over from redecorating our bedroom so will use that on the feature wall - it's going to be full of photo frames (pound shop oak look a likes ;p) and get some magnolia for the other walls.

I have been to the christening. I'm not a religious person at all, in fact I can't bring myself to say the prayers, although I do sing, but I really enjoyed the service. He really included us into the service and made my children think and ask us questions. A great deal of the people at the christening were moaning at how long the service was, which just annoyed me - what did they expect!

Looking forward to the weekly weather on Countryfile soon. I think we might just get a bit more snow

I lost 2lbs this week Really stepping up my dog walks.

Have a good evening if I don't get online. Got another 3 strips of wallpaper to put on then I'm quitting.

westcoastscot

WeegieWumman wrote: »

Poor you!
Is this the third or the fourth landslip you've had in the past three years?:eek:
Hope the road opens again soon.

4th Apparently from tomorrow it's going to be open 9 am to 3 pm, so that should allow traffic through - it doesn't really give time for those travelling to the farthest corners though to get back to Glasgow again.

taurusgb

GreyQueen wrote: »

Sofa's out of bounds at the moment as covered in carp. Blasted carp; those fish get everywhere.........

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Made my day!!!!!!!!

maryb

GreyQueen wrote: »

I'd like to see that! It was dead funny watching a cat I knew had never seen snow in her life confront it for the first time. She was obviously desperate for a pee and confronted the snow and tried to edge around the stuff on the ground by hugging the edges of the patio, disappeared for a couple of mins then came back, shaking snow off each paw at each step and looking beyond disgusted.

And then her people laughed at her, and cats ruddy well hate being laughed at..........:rotfl:

x

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuf61OjvoPQ

Fruball

GreyQueen wrote: »

Gigervamp wrote: »

The problem with those tinned pies is that when you dish one up, the family say "It's not as nice as yours".

But, I do think they're worth buying when cheap to put in the store cupboard.

And I forget who mentioned it earlier, but thanks for saying about using the tins as cat dishes.[/QUOTE] That was me; twas a family tradition as it suits the moggies very well as cats loathe deep foodbowls as they don't like their field of vision obscured when scoffing. And the shape of most shop-bought cat food bowls is pretty deep. Anyone ever seen their cat pick up a mouthful of wet cat food from a deep dish and drop it on the floor alongside the bowl before eating? That's why (it isn't an evil consipracy to vex the owners, excuse me, their slaves).:rotfl:

:eek: Well, after all the tinned pie banter yestermorn, I went off to turn my Monopoly money into GBP and then into P0undland for some more FB tinned pies as there are a mere 7 on the premises and.....and......and THEY WERE OUT OF STOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was you OS ladies, wasn't it?! I share my secrets with the thread and some of you have caused a run on tinned pies and there aren't any left for me, sob sob snivel snivel. And, even worse, there weren't any in the 99p store either. I have never known this to happen before.

Ladies and gennelmen, we have indeed seen Signs and Portents of the incoming dark days....the £1 FB pie seems to be extinct. Never mind the financial indices, this is a true OS moment. I shall go back to P0undland today and hope it was just a blip and that they will have re-stocked.......can't imagine the world without the emergency stash of FB tinned pies.

Fuddle, the tinned pie is a truimph of food engineering and I commend you to sample one without delay. They come in various denominations, the default being Steak and Kidney, but you can get Steak and Mince, ones with ale in and even Limited Edition Chicken FB pies. I have tried the latter and the chicken in it was very limited indeed and I never repeated the experience.

The tinned pie's advantage over proper home cooked food is that you take the lid off with a can opener, bung it on a baking sheet and cook it in situ. And you get a free cat-dish/ birdbath/ flowerpot saucer with each one. As mentioned elsewhere, they are very desirably-stackable.

In the event of serious civil unrest, the tinned pie will have multiple deployments; unopened, it can by thrown frisbee-style at insurgents. Opened and washed out, two pie-tins can be linked to form breastplates for those Boudicca-moments and the lids have lovely sharp edges which could double as offensive weapons or be hammered over and the lids overlapped to form a primitive armour-plating. There is no end to the things you can do with tinned pies and, if like me your guts were hardened by 1970s school-dinners, you will find them perfectly digestible, too.:D

Gosh, some much nonsense so early in the day; as you may have gathered I haven't taken those meds yet.

Today's cunning plan is to hit the Tinned Pie Trail and the library and the amble to the lottie with manure-forking-in to do. I am also about to make up 6 loaves of bread and leave them to prove during the day and then bake them off with an apple pie made from whoopsied apples. I have cheated and got Jus-Rol premade pastry, please forgive my idleness. I actually wondered if, given the prices of fats, whether it wasn't a reasonable deal.

Does anyone else find themselves plotting the use of the oven? I have a gas stove but when I put the oven on (not frequently) I try to get maximum value from the energy. Mum taught me this when she taught me to bake, back in the Jurassic Era.

This week I decided to have a FB pie and in fact, I cooked two at the same time, let the second cool before covering it in clingfilm and freezing it. Well, they cook at Gas 8 and that's a lot of juice, isn't it? So when I want another one, I shall thaw it and put it in the bain marie solid part of my 3 tier stainless-steel pan. This is a fab way of reheating stuff without using an extra burner. I have the tatties and other veggies in the steamer bit and either nowt in the bottom except water or bung some eggs to boil in there. Eggs have the useful side-effect of rattling so you know when the pan has come to the boil.

I saw a cookbook which had a cookie recipe which made me laff the other day; the first instruction was to put the oven on at Gas 3, then it told you how to make the dough, then to put it in the fridge for 30 mins to chill before rolling-out and cutting the bikkies out.

Honestly! Such foolishness. Impressionable and inexperienced cooks might be reading that and taking it seriously.

Mardatha, I read somewhere that pine-essence has pretty-much been abandoned by the toiletries industry as it has been so associated with cleaning products and disinfectants that we, the public, don't like it in our personal products anymore.

I love pine myself, but I don't use it in cleaning products. I also like sniffing certain brands of washing up liquid but then I'm a bit odd.

Cauliflower Q After hanging out at the Magic Greengrocer after work yesterday, where my £1 got me 7 bananas, 4 large conference pears, 2 heads of brocoli and a HUGE cauliflower, I need support and advice, if people would be so kind.

My normal cauli-strategy is to steam it and eat it as a hot veggie but this thing is larger than a football so I will need to have some alternatives. Could some of the keen cooks who frequent this thread post or signpost me towards cauli cheese, cauli soup and anything else cauli-related and preferably freezable, please?

Time for more tea, have a good one, ladies and gennelmen.

PS Can anyone tell me more about this Telegraph/ Lidl offer? SuperGran has the Sunday Telegraph, is that where it will be?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: You crack me up!!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: