Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

I followed The Girls to bed KC - asleep by 18:45! I don't feel any better for it though

Tilly - asking Mr MWC to make my lunch might be a request too far :rotfl:

muddywhitechicken

Eggs IN 5
Eggs OUT 0 yet but I might poach 2 for dinner

I popped into town briefly this afternoon to buy some essentials (milk, bread, tissues, cough syrup, ibuprofen etc) and now I'm pooped. I also bought ingredients for soup (Greying - is 69p for a 1.2kg net of onions and 89p for a butternut squash good?), baked beans, fruit and 16 rolls of toilet paper for the price of 8, so I don't need to leave the house again before Mr MWC comes home if I don't want to

I might do some menu-planning this evening in an attempt to find my appetite... it's gone AWOL... a very rare occurrence indeed :eek:

Karmacat

Hope you get lots of sleep and food over the next few days, MWC. I must admit, in your situation, I'd be buying lots of chilled food, never mind making it myself

Don't know about the squash, but the onion price sounds good - I got 65p a kilo for onions at Iceland, and I was pleased with that.

Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I also bought ingredients for soup (Greying - is 69p for a 1.2kg net of onions and 89p for a butternut squash good?),

Greying pulls out little black notebook and licks pencil.

Greying opens little black note-book, scribbles furiously......

Greying closes notebook and replaces pencil behind ear.

Greying pauses, tilts head slightly to the left and up. Nods, sagely............... Greying delivers thoughts;

Yep, I think those prices are within 'MSE' parameters MWC Onions at 57.5p a kilo - the only way you're going to get cheaper is to buy in a bigger pack size (or from an Asian grocery or farm shop), or buy one of the SM valloo lines - and sometimes they are small and faffy, so if you've some onions that you can peel one for a dish and have enough - or even too much, then that, as far as I'm concerned, is a win. The BN squash - again, in the ball park of a good price - depends on size, but if it's good enough for what you're making - then win, win, win

Hey, hun, I was just thinking of you. We were watching the first episode of 'Reza, Spice Prince of Vietnam' on the FN channel (DP has taped it for me, it's on at 6.30pm each night). He was in Hanoi and was trying the Pho soup for breakfast, then they showed how to make it (actually on location). He then went off into the fruit growing district and watched the most gorgeous looking fruit salad being made. Lovely food and great scenery - a good 1/2 hour prog

*Waves* to all the girls :wave:

Greying

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Greying pulls out little black notebook and licks pencil.

Greying opens little black note-book, scribbles furiously......

Greying closes notebook and replaces pencil behind ear.

Greying pauses, tilts head slightly to the left and up. Nods, sagely............... Greying delivers thoughts;

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Phew, I passed!

I've retrieved the BN squash from the squash box in the dining room (coolest, darkest room in the house) (yes, really - it currently contains the BN squash, 2 large harlequin squash and 1 onion squash :rotfl:) and weighed them... 900g each

Thanks for the cookery programme recommendation :T I don't know how to use the new fandangled TiVo box thingy so I'll have to wait for Mr MWC to come home and find it for me

Mr Hugh F-W has annoyed me this evening... I was looking for his barley broth recipe... looked under B in the index of Everyday, barley see pearl barley... recipe not in that book so looked under P in Veg Everyday, pearl barley see barley... :mad:

Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Phew, I passed!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

And BAH! to Mr H F-W - I tell you, 90% of the population would make better book editors than folk who are book editors! My current fave is a cookbook, that in the veggie section goes on about how they had a 'near miss', nearly incorporating anchovies in a Caesar salad for a veggie friend, so luckily had some tofu on hand (??) to prepare a delicious alternative....... whilst on the next page they give a recipe for macaroni cheese using...... Worcestershire sauce! :wall::rotfl:

Morning to the girlies, hope they are fab

Greying

muddywhitechicken

:wave: Greying

Here's a pic of Miss Clarissa and Miss Effie sharing the nest box this morning



They are the only two happy to share - all the others demand privacy (usually very loudly) whilst doing the deed!

And here's a pic of Miss LRH for Tilly and GG

muddywhitechicken

Revised plan for today (I had been planning a shopping trip in London):

Online clothes shopping!
Make Christmas puddings
Finish sorting through the bags of clothes from the loft
Update spending diary
Sort RMS stuff for next week

Still no heating on here :T Mr MWC has been heard to say that we should try to leave it off until we come back from Canada on 25 November...

Karmacat

Love those chicken pics :happylove

And Mr MWC is really on board with mse ways, isn't he! Excellent news Hope your adapted day is still fun - sounds better than London in person if lurgified

edinburgher

Another Autoaid fan here MWC, we've only used them once (left the car lights on). Chappy came out after an hour, fixed straight away, they never even billed us. Well worth it for the peace of mind.

Your cooking has been sounding great, I have squash envy! :rotfl: