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MG - The Matrix Re-wired

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  • Lara44
    Lara44 Posts: 2,961 Forumite
    Good morning everyone :)

    I feel a bit perkier today too! Been up and made MG Scotch pancakes, with little bits of frozen raspberry crumbled into the mixture. Yum!

    Hopeful - that's such good money news, well done :j

    Greenbee - glad to hear you're feeling better.

    Marru - good luck on the job hunting - you're covering your bases well :)

    Trog - congratulations on the little one!

    I'm going to work hard today. Trip to Uni is tomorrow so best be getting everything sorted today. There's a talk this afternoon by this famous academic type. Not sure whether to go? Hmm....

    Hugs to all
    :A :heartpuls June 2014 / £2014 in 2014 / £735.97 / 36.5%
  • troglodyte wrote: »
    Thanks MG, so far so good! Not sure about you doing it 'right' the third time - wouldn't want the two boys to feel that they were not 'right', IYSWIM. And from your descriptions of them they sound very 'right'!

    Boys are perfect - and they both know that the Universe sent them to me personally, so even though our family is not "nuclear" it is most certainly "stellar".

    MG
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • greenbee
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    I have shredded a bowlful of onions/shallots/garlic in the magimix (I remembered to leave them for 10 minutes before taking the lid off :D) and they are now cooking away slowly on the hob... thanks to Pat and MG for the inspiration yesterday. I'm sure onion soup will see off any remaining germs.

    Now I need to work out what to do with all the other stuff in the salad drawer before it goes off - two heads of broccoli, two courgettes, several red peppers, a cabbage and a bulb of fennel. I also have some carrots, some potatoes that are starting to sprout, a couple of leeks and a pack of bacon lardons that all need dealing with. I have lots of pulses and tinned tomatoes in the cupboards and luckily have some space in the freezer (along with a whole lot of frozen coriander. Any suggestions for easy to make (minimal standing and chopping/stirring... happy to use the magimix/SC where possible) freezable stuff would be good. At the moment I can mostly only eat light soup, jelly (I made some last night from a packet I found in the cupboard BBE Sept 2008 but its set), yogurt and ice cream, but I don't want to waste this lot.
  • Kittikins
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    greenbee wrote: »
    TA - Marru - any idea about what a dream about a kitchen with a special fridge just for chocolate might be about :pQUOTE]


    Funnily enough, one of my friends HAS a fridge just for chocolate!! I couldn't, it wouldn't last in my house, I'm too greedy...I think I'll have a fridge for wine and soft drinks, tomorrow when we move! I'm taking my fridge/freezer and have bought the one at the house cheap cheap (as mine is a bit knackered it made sense, cheaper to buy this one than get an engineer out or replace the dodgy shelves!)

    Right, back to the clearing up...
  • Wow I had one of those funny nights sleep - where you dream all sorts. Now I often dream - and when I wake up they have gone ................... but this one has stuck around. Been up three hours now.

    I dreamed of that guy again - remember the one outside the theatre? Only this time he was showing me around this gorgeous modern house (not my usual sort of dream house and not the house I use for my Mindstore visualisations) Normally I dream of old houses with hidden rooms - but I had the strongest feeling that I was going to be moving into this one.

    It was a bright sunny day - but cold outside with flecks of snow falling, inside was beautifully light and modern - loads of windows looking onto green garden (although I am sure it was in the city)

    Oh, and small detail, I was pregnant - heavily so, enough that I could feel the baby kicking inside (bear in mind I shall be 43 this year so this is looking unlikely to actually be)

    Wonder why this house is sticking in my head?

    MG

    Maybe this one isn't so much a dream as a premonition hmmm :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
  • Maybe this one isn't so much a dream as a premonition hmmm :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

    Oh Belly Hoo!!! I am off to Boots NOW!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

    MG
    FINALLY AND OFFICIALLY DEBT FREE
    Small Emergency Fund £500 / £500
    Pay off all Debts £10,000 / £10,000
    Grown Up Emergency Fund £6000 / £6000 :j
    Pension Provision £6688/£2376
  • greenbee
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    Oh Belly Hoo!!! I am off to Boots NOW!!!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

    MG
    Oooh... what haven't you been telling us ;)
  • Greenbee it looks as though more soup might be the easiest thing. Roasted veg soup could use up the courgettes, red peppers, fennel and carrots (plus any garlic or onions you still have), and would only require rough chopping then just leaving them to roast before blitzing with a can of tomatoes - yummy! Then you could do potato and leek possibly with the bacon added. That leaves the broccoli and cabbage. You could just cook the broccoli lightly and freeze it then use it later for something like broccoli cheese bake or broccoli and stilton soup. Cabbage you could shred and slow cook with apple and onion then freeze for use as a ready-made side dish later. Any good?
  • greenbee
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    Thanks for the ideas Troglodyte :) I shredded the cabbage in the magimix (as it was out) and made braised cabbage which tastes yummy... I think there might be a leek and potato recipe on the same site (I got the onion soup from there too) so as it has been successful so far I might try it...

    I will slowly work my way through all this stuff. I'm NOT going to let it go off!
  • Good for you!
    I'm currently struggling with the proposed 'Charles Dickens day' that DD's school have planned for Thurs. I'm damned if I'm going to spend £15 or so buying a 'Victorian' costume just to satisfy the whim of a teacher, so have found an old (and I mean really old - could perhaps be Victorian itself as it came from my great-aunt) lace-trimmed pillow-case which I am going to try and transform into a smock/tabard type thing this evening (planning to just cut up the sides then add ribbons to tie it together at the sides when on). After all the whole issue with Victorian children was that most were too poor to afford decent clothes at all, never mind dressing-up stuff. Maybe I should send DD to school barefoot? :rotfl::rotfl:
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