Preparing for winter IV

greenbee

mardatha wrote: »

Have cut cardboard, stuck foil on with sellotape, and hung over the brackets. Perfect, thanks MSErs

Want to do mine now?

mardatha

..............Will you pay me in sweeties??

Confuzzled

mardatha wrote: »

..............Will you pay me in sweeties??

you sure you don't want payment in KALE _pale_


:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

kmiller4

Hi All-- its been forever since I posted. I'm Kathy in New York (central part of the state-- not NYC). We get 125" (over 4 meters) of snow here every winter (thankfully not all at once). Its quite cold as well.


I hope to reconnect with past friends from this thread and make some new friends as well!

greenbee

mardatha wrote: »

..............Will you pay me in sweeties??

I'll make you some of MG's tablet...

toozie_2

Had a massive thunder storm about 4pm today, it was dark outside, rain was unbelievable, and fork lightening, quite good to watch. But probably very scary if you were out in it.

Got my torches out ready in case! Put TV and computer off just in case of power surge, and had coffee looking out of the window.
Cat was snuggled on settee, and luckily I'd put a huge sausage casserole in the slow cooker this morning, so that was already cooked if the power went off, and as I have a gas oven, I could have lit the gas with a match to do some jackets. Luckily we only had some flickering to the electric but it didn't go out.

I had an experiment last night/today. I treated myself to my own Xmas present of a soup maker, I have loads of onions, so I thought I'd make onion soup, but not French.

Googled, and found a recipe with involved roasting the onions slowly in their skins to sweeten them.
So I put 5 medium size onions in the slow cooker with one spray of Fry Light, in their skins, warts and all, and 2 garlic cloves. Left them roasting all night on low.
They were soft this morning, and the smell was amazing. Took the skins off, sliced up, put in my soup maker with one small sad carrot, some fresh coriander, a veg stock cube, a dolup of creame fresh, black pepper and water.

It really was amazing soup! Best I've ever made, just the thing for this windy weather!

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have a look at post 516
http://forum.netweather.tv/topic/78796-possible-severe-atlantic-storms-over-the-christmas-period/page-26#entry2869042

if this happens then it may well be very necessary to have all the wind ups and candles handy

The weather people are saying that the situation is extremely volatile this coming week. It is a glorious sunny day today but I am not being taken in by it and am getting all my charging done today

Rosetta92

kmiller4 wrote: »

Hi All-- its been forever since I posted. I'm Kathy in New York (central part of the state-- not NYC). We get 125" (over 4 meters) of snow here every winter (thankfully not all at once). Its quite cold as well.


I hope to reconnect with past friends from this thread and make some new friends as well!

Welcome back Kathy. :j I always enjoy reading your posts - especially as we tend to get your storms here about six days later, so you give us a very useful early warning :T

Kitty - thank you for posting - very useful as ever. So glad I decided not to book a Twixmas break.

I'm doing the family Christmas present exchange later, and then going into hibernation for the next week.

Stay warm and safe everyone.

R

mardatha

The Scottish weather forums are really concerned too kittie. Lot of them cooking xmas turkey tonight just in case power goes off. Looks really bad for Scotland.
Also if anybody down south is coming home for xmas, please be aware that there's heavy snow and blizzards up north - lots of snow gates closed. Add this to a big storm and the result will be chaos on the roads.

115K

kmiller4 wrote: »

Hi All-- its been forever since I posted. I'm Kathy in New York (central part of the state-- not NYC). We get 125" (over 4 meters) of snow here every winter (thankfully not all at once). Its quite cold as well.

:eek:

toozie wrote: »

Googled, and found a recipe with involved roasting the onions slowly in their skins to sweeten them.
So I put 5 medium size onions in the slow cooker with one spray of Fry Light, in their skins, warts and all, and 2 garlic cloves. Left them roasting all night on low.
They were soft this morning, and the smell was amazing. Took the skins off, sliced up, put in my soup maker with one small sad carrot, some fresh coriander, a veg stock cube, a dolup of creame fresh, black pepper and water.

It really was amazing soup! Best I've ever made, just the thing for this windy weather!

Sounds delish.:A