Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

Habibiboo wrote: »

:wave:

Just had quick catchup with my muesli ... shame about the lettuces, will you plant any more or call it a day for this season?

Good news for Miss Clarissa learning the bedtime routine, I think these darker earlier and quicker evenings are making a difference, mine definitely don't faff around as much as they did in the summer twilight.

How rude to miss you off the intranet list, although Greying is quite right with her perspective on that! Sounds like a miscommunication or failure to pass on the right info to the right person, which companies are pretty good at unfortunately!

How did your spicy pears turn out, or is that a task for this weekend? x

:wave: Hbbb

I've still got my fingers crossed that the lettuce recover...

Miss Tilly learnt quite quickly but the other 2 were roosting in the run (after the first week I left them to it because me picking Miss Clarissa up and putting her in with her tormentors was stressing her out ). Then with this week's cooler nights Miss Effie started putting herself to bed in the coop and a couple of nights later all 9 were in there :T

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I'll be up to my elbows in spicy pear pickle tomorrow... I need to make another batch of crab apple jelly before I stink the house out!

muddywhitechicken

Karmacat wrote: »

What a pain about the company! Great about everything else, except the sycamores - are you meaning because they grow into sycamores at the drop of a hat, or do you have ponies and horses nearby? They're killers an online friend of mine lost a 2 year old pony that way

Wirenth wrote: »

They're poisonous to dogs, too. Dreadful things.

The former KC

I remember you writing about your friend's pony before but I didn't know about dogs
I shall warn my neighbours

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 0

The culinary genius aka Mr MWC has burnt soup whilst reheating it - he blames a work phone call, I blame his hangover :rotfl:

He will get a chance to redeem himself at dinner with Anjum Anand's Bengali butternut squash with chickpeas and white cabbage stir-fried with nigella seeds

I've treated myself to a snuggly red fleece Tu top (25% off) that matches my brushed cotton jim jams - the idea being that the CH will stay off for a few more weeks...

Happy weekend everyone

muddywhitechicken

There are some yummy recipes in the current Mr S magazine :T

I hope to be eating the following dishes in October:

Moussaka meatballs with pasta
Red onion bangers with kale mash
'Margherita' mac & cheese
Griddled peppers stuffed with feta, black beans & pumpkin seeds
Tandoori salmon with spiced lentils & raita
Peruvian chicken & coriander soup
Feta, mint, lentil & pistachio omelette
Spiced sweet potato, red pepper & chickpea stew
Crispy pork, apple & radish salad with pomegranate & mint
Spiced duck with walnut & pomegranate salsa, harissa-roasted butternut squash and minted split pea puree

Butterscotch, apple & blackberry crumble tart (cross between treacle tart and crumble)
Chai, apple & coconut tealoaf
Banana & caramel muffins

:drool: :drool: :drool:

greent

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

There are some yummy recipes in the current Mr S magazine :T

I hope to be eating the following dishes in October:

Moussaka meatballs with pasta
Red onion bangers with kale mash
'Margherita' mac & cheese
Griddled peppers stuffed with feta, black beans & pumpkin seeds
Tandoori salmon with spiced lentils & raita
Peruvian chicken & coriander soup
Feta, mint, lentil & pistachio omelette
Spiced sweet potato, red pepper & chickpea stew
Crispy pork, apple & radish salad with pomegranate & mint
Spiced duck with walnut & pomegranate salsa, harissa-roasted butternut squash and minted split pea puree

Butterscotch, apple & blackberry crumble tart (cross between treacle tart and crumble)
Chai, apple & coconut tealoaf
Banana & caramel muffins

:drool: :drool: :drool:

Yum!! - Fancy a house guest?!

muddywhitechicken

greent wrote: »

Yum!! - Fancy a house guest?!

Now if you'd asked that question before I bought 8 kg of pears...;)

greent

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Now if you'd asked that question before I bought 8 kg of pears...;)

Ohhhhh - I could have brought you so many more than that as payment!! My trees have been so bountiful this year!

muddywhitechicken

So much to do and so little energy... hopefully I'll have a bit more get up and go after a second cup of tea!

Plan for the weekend:
- finish spiced crab apple jelly
- make 2 batches of spicy pear pickle (each one takes about 5 hours to cook :eek:)
- find some more jars for Mr MWC - he wants to make piccalilli this weekend
- 5 loads of laundry
- walk into town/shopping
- general tidy up in the garden
- paint the front garden fence
- a ramble
- housework
- power wash the chicken coop

HDK's weight loss has inspired me to knuckle down (I've lost 15 pounds since coming back from Norway but I've struggled to stick with it for the last couple of weeks...)

Karmacat

All the jellies and chutneys you're making sound marvellous! And you've still managed to lose 15lbs? Thats really good going!

muddywhitechicken

Karmacat wrote: »

All the jellies and chutneys you're making sound marvellous! And you've still managed to lose 15lbs? Thats really good going!

I don't actually eat anything I make KC!
Well that's not quite true - I eat the spicy pear pickle and piccalilli but only at Christmas and we use the hedgerow jelly instead of redcurrant jelly in recipes - everything else is gifted to friends and family

Make that 6 loads of laundry :eek: whites, light colours, dark colours, jeans, towels and bedding