un-hinged!

mary_hinge

so during my cuppa break I flirted with our resident yummy mummy Stripes :rotfl:booked a Gp appointment next week, sorted out our as safety check, spoke to SC about my DD due to works incompetence and paid the next installment for Missy Hinges school trip to France :eek:..... and yes my cuppa did go cold :cool:

:rotfl:whilst I checked on the chicken's in the oven I did a freezer audit......
5 chicken legs
1 chicken breast (+4 in the fridge)
8 GF Sausage
1kg lamb shoulder
1.6kg lamb leg
450g pork fillet
2 mini gammon steaks
4 pork chops
500gm 0% mince (+ 800gm in fridge)
2 chicken breasts in garlic and wild mushroom sauce
1 portion HM Spag Bol
2 portions HM Chilli
1 cod fillet
2 tubs of veggie tom sauce
4 aunt bessie yorkie pouds
6 s/w thins
1/4 bag french fries
1/2 bag pea
1/2 bag green beans
2lb brambles
6 chicken nuggets (+48 chicken goujans in the fridge)
4 fish fingers
3 packs ready rolled pastry
:T:T:T

now for a hot cuppa whilst the chicken cools down!!...... I'm thinking of using the bones for stock as I have a YS bag of dried broth mix and it would make a yummy soup or stew with some crusty bread tastey, filling and warm proper winter warmer comfort food :rotfl:

mary_hinge

My chicken made 5 bags of "meals" for me and missy H, 5 litres of chicken stock and some scraggles for the cat :rotfl::rotfl:

This afternoon Superman helped make apple pies and a huge pan of chicken and veg soup :j he is awesome at cooking but took a bit of his apple pie and almost threw up. They were delicious but he just can't cope with new tasts and testures. The fact that he is waiting to try new foods is amazing :T

Superman's harvest festival was awesome is was a dingly dangly scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat :rotfl::rotfl:Missy H's is tomorrow and she is singing a solo part to open the show:D

very proud mummy :A:A:A

liltdiddylilt

Blimey I sat down on the sofa (sorry, no diary here either) and all of a sudden chaos had ensued around me. Presume this is normal in the Hinge household. Must bring ear defenders in future along with biscuits!

Thanks for the welcome! I am super intrigued by your chicken thigh cooking methods and how oven cooked thighs became 5 litres of stock :huh: but then I used to boil up the bones and skins etc from leftover roast chicken to make stock, is this how you did it? Sorry, haven't done it in years, but have roast chicken so rarely as Jellytot refuses anything chickenlike, and Him has had roast chicken on a Sunday for his entire life pre-me so turns his nose up also.

You should be a very proud mummy indeed. Missy Hinge sounds like me as a child. I was summed up in a school report by my 3rd year teacher as 'Mean, moody & magnificent' - that was my entire report and my mum agreed entirely. :rotfl: my stubbornness and penchant for calling it how it is sees me through some tough times and rubbish friends these days so I hope she keeps that feistiness!

Your freezer... :eek: do you have several? How do you pack all that in there?! You'll never need to shop again! I have recently started adding red lentils to anything such as lasagne, spag bol, cottage pie etc. Follow the destructions on the pack, which I think is to rinse the lentils 4-5 times in fresh water, then sit them in fresh cold water for 10 minutes, rinse again and cook in boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain them, and add them into your cooked mince, followed by your chopped tomatoes/sauce ingredients, and it basically doubles the mixture. Saving me a fortune, as I got them on the same deal as you! Lucky is a red lentil hero.

Hugs! xx

mary_hinge

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

Blimey I sat down on the sofa (sorry, no diary here either) and all of a sudden chaos had ensued around me. Presume this is normal in the Hinge household. Must bring ear defenders in future along with biscuits!

diary has been found :T:T master Hinge had taken it to preschool :eek::rotfl:Ear defenders are a must in the house of Hinge Superman Hums rather loudly to block out any back ground noise, teamed with missy Hinge singing/talking the hind leg of a donkey and a high pitch squeal of excitement from master Hinge :eek:......... maybe this is why both sets of neighbours have put their houses up for sale in the last month?! :rotfl:

Thanks for the welcome! I am super intrigued by your chicken thigh cooking methods and how oven cooked thighs became 5 litres of stock :huh: but then I used to boil up the bones and skins etc from leftover roast chicken to make stock, is this how you did it? Sorry, haven't done it in years, but have roast chicken so rarely as Jellytot refuses anything chickenlike, and Him has had roast chicken on a Sunday for his entire life pre-me so turns his nose up also.

i roasted in the oven my 24 chicken thighs, when cool i drained their juices in to a pan before throwing in the bones, skin and anything that appeared chewy! I added carrot peelings, broccilli stalks, onion skin/tail end and the apple cores/skin from superman's apple pies. filled the pan with water and boiled. and boiled. i drained it all before throwing it back in the pan and repeated. I always get 2 pans full of stock and it's yummy!
You should be a very proud mummy indeed. Missy Hinge sounds like me as a child. I was summed up in a school report by my 3rd year teacher as 'Mean, moody & magnificent' - that was my entire report and my mum agreed entirely. :rotfl: my stubbornness and penchant for calling it how it is sees me through some tough times and rubbish friends these days so I hope she keeps that feistiness!

Your freezer... :eek: do you have several? How do you pack all that in there?! You'll never need to shop again! I have recently started adding red lentils to anything such as lasagne, spag bol, cottage pie etc. Follow the destructions on the pack, which I think is to rinse the lentils 4-5 times in fresh water, then sit them in fresh cold water for 10 minutes, rinse again and cook in boiling water for 10 minutes. Drain them, and add them into your cooked mince, followed by your chopped tomatoes/sauce ingredients, and it basically doubles the mixture. Saving me a fortune, as I got them on the same deal as you! Lucky is a red lentil hero.

Hugs! xx

Just the 1 freezer but it is like a game of food tetras every time I want anything :rotfl:I take out everything from plastic trays and bag up as to not waste space, I make "bricks" by freezing home made meals in food bags inside marg tubs so they stack better!

I have never rinses or boiled lentils :cool: just sling a handful in here and there as i'm dry frying my mince :eek:

Nice to see you Lilt, for the record Twinks Hobnobs are always welcome but I will accept custard creams but never fig rolls or pink waffers :rotfl::rotfl:

Bubblesmum

Oh Mrs H

not pink wafers ........ Pass them my way....x

liltdiddylilt

:rotfl: duly noted on the biscuits! I would never ever share my fig rolls with anyone. I buy a pack when I know full well I will sit and eat it to myself in one sitting... Hence I don't buy them often also good with Missy H's constipation problems you know :rotfl:

I had actually never rinsed or boiled them myself until the last couple of attempts. Have to admit there was a world of difference between the dry fry version and the boiled version. I think I would still add them to the mince dry if I was pushed for time though!

I LOVE the brick stacking idea - genius! Thank you so much for the stock recipe. Sounds delicious!

Master Hinge & Jellytot have much in common on the noise front it would seem. She has so far killed off one neighbour:rotfl:, sent 4 others packing back to Poland, & is currently working on the super quiet, super windy older gentleman now living underneath. I am hoping he does not go the same way as the first neighbour :eek:

mary_hinge

liltdiddylilt wrote: »

:rotfl: duly noted on the biscuits! I would never ever share my fig rolls with anyone. I buy a pack when I know full well I will sit and eat it to myself in one sitting... Hence I don't buy them often also good with Missy H's constipation problems you know :rotfl:

I had actually never rinsed or boiled them myself until the last couple of attempts. Have to admit there was a world of difference between the dry fry version and the boiled version. I think I would still add them to the mince dry if I was pushed for time though!

I LOVE the brick stacking idea - genius! Thank you so much for the stock recipe. Sounds delicious!

Master Hinge & Jellytot have much in common on the noise front it would seem. She has so far killed off one neighbour:rotfl:, sent 4 others packing back to Poland, & is currently working on the super quiet, super windy older gentleman now living underneath. I am hoping he does not go the same way as the first neighbour :eek:

:eek::eek::eek: thankfully we have thick walls we never hear our neighbours and luckily they say they never hear us, How I do not know.... maybe they wear ear defenders :rotfl:


BM you can gladly have the pink waffers :rotfl: Lilt keep your fig rolls :rotfl: I'm on a diet after all

mary_hinge

So not feeling it today

meltdown from superman woke the whole house up at 1am, ended up cuddling him to sleep and slept sat up with him on my knee hands interlocked around my neck clining on for dear life. Feel like death warmed up and fast frozen again :eek:

Missy Hinge raised the roof at her harvest festival and did a Spanking job :j

Afterwards, Mr Hinge took me for breakfast and posh coffee before a afternoon of shopping for a coat and a new jumper. I will be warm this winter.... if bankrupt

whilst I felt rotten and in massive amounts of pain I thought I had better get my caterpillars tamed, eyebrows well and truely threaded and it hurt. Alot. it seems fibro pain does make eyebrow threading even more painful :cool:

3rd attempt from work to pay my wages correctly for the month of September and I've lost count of what I've been paid and what I haven't :mad:

Lasange thrown in the oven for tea, the house is a pigstyle and will remain that way today unless Mr Hinge tidies up as I'm declaring this evening a sofa session ad going on strike. I'm grumpy and I don't care!

Grumble mumble grumble

Mrs H

stripes

Sucky day Mrs Hinge, stay on strike on the sofa and chill in front of the TV :beer:

mary_hinge

I am yet to move :rotfl: Bladder of steel and all that

Mr Hinge is on hand with the cuppas and I have a multipack of crisps for company! :beer: