So poor I can't even pay attention

brizzledfw

Lemon yoghurt..what a good idea! Will try some of that!

Also having problems with NSDs, Piq, but had one today. Some of it is that I only count it as a NSD if no money at all gets spent by OH or I..means I get about 2 a month if I am lucky. Otherwise I prefer to count LSDs!!

Brizzle

Baldybear

Morning Tree beheading, oh how I miss those days, NOT! Especially when they do at speed and your head is by their shoulder and you hope that they know where they are going as you cant see naff all

Igamogam

gallygirl wrote: »

Sadly I think they turn up in a car though

Am I missing something here:rotfl:;)

Piquant wrote: »

Ohh a fireman instead of an electric blanket? That works for me:T

Hadn't thought of that *off to dig out very old electric blanket*:rotfl:

allybee101

Just nearly laughed out loud in the office reading Colin the Cat stories - you could make a book of these!
I make Butternut Squash soup in the same way but with Garam Masala sprinkled over before I roast it. I've not tried with chilli though so I'm going to try that! I have a squash sitting in my veg drawer at the moment so I know what that will be turned into tomorrow night...

I made Limoncello as part of a friends' wedding present in August. That went down very well and it's fairly reasonably priced. You don't need expensive vodka as the lemon and sugar steeped in it add a rich flavour. I almost spent more on the bottles.
I will dig out the recipe if you'd like it? I'm planning to make a batch this Christmas, along with tomato and apple chutney.

Igamogam

allybee101 wrote: »

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I will dig out the recipe if you'd like it? I'm planning to make a batch this Christmas, along with tomato and apple chutney.

yes please

lucielle

A vote here for the limoncello recipe please.
L

allybee101

I'll dig it out tonight!

Piquant_2

allybee101 wrote: »

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I made Limoncello as part of a friends' wedding present in August. That went down very well and it's fairly reasonably priced. You don't need expensive vodka as the lemon and sugar steeped in it add a rich flavour. I almost spent more on the bottles.
I will dig out the recipe if you'd like it? I'm planning to make a batch this Christmas, along with tomato and apple chutney.

Another vote for the Limoncello..... I've it iced from the freezer!

Piquant_2

...and here I am back again! I've been a busy bee gardening.

I've tidied, pruned, divided and weeded a garden and earned £60 The lady insisted on paying me £12 an hour as it is the rate she had been quoted by someone who hadn't turned up. Hard work, but extra money. It's a shame it's so late in the year I could easily do a few hours gardening a week. I'm going to think about it.

The lady also let me have several of the divided plants, so I now have some Coreopsis, Canterbury Bells, Heuchera and a purple Penstemon :T and I got a cheese sandwich made for me, as well as too much coffee [I had to pour it on the garden when she wasn't looking :rotfl:]

Colin's diet is going well, he is losing weight simply because he refuses to eat the expensive cat food. He likes the expensive dry cat food but not the wet. I think I'll keep him on the new dry and put him back on the wet food he likes, but only two meals a day, rather than the six he was having Colin is currently writing a catmail to complain to the shelter about lack of sustenance....

A NSD today :j I'm finding it hard to get the four in a row that I committed to though. Maybe this time as I'm working at Pr£t for the next two days and will have meals there.

I've made a batch of spicy parsnip soup, very nice. I took half of it over to my Dad as he loves parsnips. However, Mum hates them and won't cook them for him :rotfl:

Yesterday I spent £17.28 on the weekly shop, this included some store cupboard ingredients such as flour, suet [for dumplings - yum!] sultanas and pinenuts. A very good spend, apart from milk I shouldn't need anything else until next Wednesday.

Tonight I'm making a double portion of sweet potato and watercress risotto, an unusual combination but I think it will work. I'll report back on it later.

Igamogam

Piquant wrote: »

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Colin's diet is going well, he is losing weight simply because he refuses to eat the expensive cat food. He likes the expensive dry cat food but not the wet. I think I'll keep him on the new dry and put him back on the wet food he likes, but only two meals a day, rather than the six he was having Colin is currently writing a catmail to complain to the shelter about lack of sustenance....

Crikey TWO meals a day. I am glad our Big Boy is not curled up in front of monitor reading this - our cats get 1 meal a day ( 100g wet food pouch) and the recommended amount of expensive biscuits a day and the rest they have to catch and Big Boy is at the top end of his weight chart! When it comes to dry food they are I am cats of course;) and will not even sniff at anything else - in fact they 'bury' it. Many years ago we had 3 cats they had one tin between them per day. We only switched to pouches cos I was fed up of finding tins third full of festering cat food in the fridge:eek:

So I am not going to tell them of the rich picking at Colin'scos they would be packing their little red spotted hankies and heading off south:rotfl::rotfl: