Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

I'm regularly stumbling across old friends from that long ago on facebook and they're all 50-60. What about LinkedIn? Friendsreunited?;)

Very true. I hate Facebook but people could track me down via LinkedIn and Friends Reunited if they wanted to. Not 50 yet though.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Eggs - I do a lot with eggs.... scrambled, boiled, fried, omelettes, spanish omelettes... I liekz eggz!

I always have cheese in (except last week when I opened a packet and found it was already green) ... and can always knock up a cheese omelette in under 3 minutes from scratch. Love that.

I also like pickled eggs, but not enough to ever make any.

Most things I like, I have 1-2x a year. e.g. take cake, cake's easy to make, cake's nice.... but I only actually want about one slice of cake a year, so no point making one. Same with biscuits/cookies/hobnobs - 1 a year's enough.

I like the idea that out there I can pick up stuff spontaneously, as I stumble across it - and enjoy it about once a year because I see it and fancy it .... rather than planning and having to not have something I fancy because my meals are already planned (and defrosting).

I should share some of the egg recipes. I get very bored of eggs i have to admit. Sometimes i get utter revoltion of them!

If whereever you end up you can fit in a freezer i think it would be more exciting...bake a cake, freeze in slices, freeze cookie dough etc.

Btw, i often make enough biscuits for just dh, and keep the in a tupperware for the weekend. Might be worth trying. Though i think value or smart price biscuits work out cheaper than home made!


When i meal plan i do roughly ten meals for a fortnight plan. Then i can reassess near the end of that, or be spontaneous the other nights. Well, as spontaneous as you can be with egss .

Freezers do make everything so much easier though. Tonight i ate a pie e of toast with pate, and a piece of toast with honey, and some apple and celery. The honey, celery and apple were not fromthe freezer. I get throguh astounding amounts of celery. Its about to overtkae apples as my favourtie food i think.

PasturesNew

I've tracked my mate down, one with the funny name.... he's some top nerdy geezer at a top car place doing embedded software systems. Just googling his employer, see which town/country he might be in.... he's in the UK.... and it looks like still in the home town too.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Very true. I hate Facebook but people could track me down via LinkedIn and Friends Reunited if they wanted to. Not 50 yet though.

On none of the three.

I still have the same mobile number as i did the week after i keft ex. A friend tracked me down through dh, having losg my mobile number and said she found it really weird she could not trace me, she was considering trying to find my sister and getting to me through her. Which made us both snort a bit.:D

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I should share some of the egg recipes. I get very bored of eggs i have to admit. Sometimes i get utter revoltion of them!

I've come across an eggs cookbook that'd been lurking at the parents' house for the last 30 years; something I bought (cheap of course) back then - and have never used.



In the past fortnight I discovered a brand new word - and when I looked it up I thought "GENIUS". Well, it's 3 words. You guys probably know about it already: Rough Puff Pastry.

Now - I've figured that this pastry is dead easy to whip up - and in a quantity that can easily be done for one person. One portion, enough for a mini quiche or a pasty is easily done.

ALL it uses is frozen butter, flour, salt and ice cold water. No milk, no eggs. And a portion of pastry for one uses 50g of butter, so it'd be possible to take a 250g block of marg, cut it into 5 and freeze the parts individually.

This means, I can literally make a veggie pasty, for one, by grabbing one of those out of the freezer, grating it into the flour and mixing it with the water and bob's your uncle.

So, at some future point, that's on my list of things to do

lostinrates wrote: »

If whereever you end up you can fit in a freezer i think it would be more exciting...bake a cake, freeze in slices, freeze cookie dough etc.

I will have a freezer, but I won't be freezing cakes. I'd end up eating it all just because it has to be used up. Cake overload!

lostinrates wrote: »

Btw, i often make enough biscuits for just dh, and keep the in a tupperware for the weekend. Might be worth trying. Though i think value or smart price biscuits work out cheaper than home made!

I don't generally have biscuits, just 1-2x a year really, so no point making my own or I'd have to eat them up before they went off. Food in a freezer [a] has a freezer-life of about 6 months and takes up space. If everything I am doing is being frozen I'd run out of space after a week... and have a freezer full of stuff I then had to eat before I could do anything else.... and I might not fancy it for months.

lostinrates wrote: »

When i meal plan i do roughly ten meals for a fortnight plan. Then i can reassess near the end of that, or be spontaneous the other nights. Well, as spontaneous as you can be with egss .

The trouble with that is that if I do, say, a chilli and a macaroni cheese - that's 10 meals. So, it's back to not much variety.

lostinrates wrote: »

Freezers do make everything so much easier though. Tonight i ate a pie e of toast with pate, and a piece of toast with honey, and some apple and celery. The honey, celery and apple were not fromthe freezer. I get throguh astounding amounts of celery. Its about to overtkae apples as my favourtie food i think.

Best way I ever stumbled across to eat apples was when I discovered apple in a grated cheese baguette. There was cheese, onion, small apple pieces, tomatoes, cucumber and bits of peppers ... lovely it was. I didn't buy it, sibling bought it and it was a baguette so huge so she ripped a bit off and said "try that". That was about 18 years ago, been meaning to go back and have one ... never got round to it.

LydiaJ

I went to my legal meeting today.

They were happy with the info I'd got for them and didn't ask me to go and track down any more numbers.

They did ask me speculate about what might have happened in various hypothetical situations that might have transpired if LNE was still alive, but I could do those. I found it much easier to talk about it in the room with them than to read their letters and make notes in response.

The solicitor is lovely - I've met her once before and talked loads of times on the phone, so I already knew that I like her. Today I met the barrister too, and I like him as well. He's obviously quite senior and very experienced, and knew his stuff very thoroughly. I found him encouraging, approachable and professional, and he made me feel confident that he would be a good person to handle my family's case. I liked the way he explained things too - he managed to explain the legal stuff that I didn't know without making me feel that he was talking down to me or thought I was a moron. But then, I suppose since he's a successful barrister, he earns his living explaining legal stuff to non-expert juries, so I shouldn't be surprised that he's good at it. He even gave me two quid when I needed to go out and feed my parking meter and hadn't any change!

Tonight I am having to be firm with myself. I've done really well so far at not counting any of the compensation chickens until they've hatched, but the amounts of money they were talking about today were larger than I'd previously been led to expect - like more than twice as much - so I am finding that the temptation to spend it in my head has flared up again. Must not do that. Must not. Must not. Must keep reminding myself not to. Must carry on with life with my finances as they are now. The money is not guaranteed, and even if I do get it, it may not be for years and years because the issue of liability is very complicated in this case. I'm not going to say any more about that on an internet forum, though.

vivatifosi

I tend to eat like a single as DH and I have such different tastes in food - he's a carnivore that doesn't really like veggies and I'm a vegetarian - that we might as well have a store cupboard each. Yes we can share stuff like salt, pepper, ketchup, vinegar - the staples, but we do tend to go completely our own way beyond that. I find that the best cookbooks for singles are student cookbooks as students tend to have the same issues - cost, lack of storage, not big stores of individual ingredients.

This is my favourite one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pasta-Pancakes-Ultimate-Student-Cookbook/dp/1844007332/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1330553392&sr=8-8
I also like this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ingredients-Quick-Delicious-Recipes-Using/dp/0857200550/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330553486&sr=1-2
I've also got a fantastic book on leftovers which isn't on Amazon or I'd put a link up.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I'm regularly stumbling across old friends from that long ago on facebook and they're all 50-60. What about LinkedIn? Friendsreunited?;)

I've not really got into LinkedIn .... I'm a bit wary of it. I did join it in 2006 as somebody told me to ... and I recently went in for a look around again - but there are all these bizarre strangers wanting to be my friend. On the other hand, when I did try to contact a couple of people I vaguely knew, or wanted to contact for genuine reasons, it wouldn't let me message them. So I didn't go back.

As for FriendsReunited, tried that in about 2004 and there weren't many people on it I knew .... well, there were 1-2 who I wasn't interested in being in touch with again who wrote to me and kept pestering me.... so I stopped going there too.

I don't want to be pestered.

I'm not naming names (you know who you are if you read the NP thread, but you don't post as you're not really a NP are you) .... but I've been pestered by PM on MSE this week and given somebody's messenger contact. I don't get pestered much in PM on MSE, which is why I've stuck around. Only had about 2 "nuisance callers" here in 5 years.

lostinrates

Freezer life....our stuff is in their longer than three to six months. Sometimes it lasts a year ....um, or so....we have some spinach that moved with us and a lot of stilton from chrstmas befoe this last one....its ok, i wouldn 't use it as a table cheese, but its still fine for cooking with/crumbling.


Re ten meals....cook less of iit in the first place! If you use half a pack of mince for chilli, you can use half for some burgers, or meatballs for spaghetti. i would even consider freezing the in portions so i could do something as the mood took me from the meat. Mac cheese i cook to the amount from frozen cheese! So backwards to you! The cheese can also then be used in mash, for croqueetes, on burgers,

Make your baguette sometime when you are settled again....moving in treat? It sounds yummy!

vivatifosi

Sorry to hear that re the pest Pastures. Is there a way of ignoring PMs from certain people, or blocking them access to your PM box?