Making chicken feed of my mortgage

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Phew! Well done x

muddywhitechicken

Busy, busy, busy!

* walked into town first thing - grocery shopping & library
* popped into fat club for the first time in ages - gained 3 lbs but still within goal weight +/- 5 lbs
* 6 hours gardening
* made a bean & vegetable cottage pie from scratch :A I used a 10 bean mix rather than all black beans and cooked a couple of cloves of garlic in with the potatoes and cauliflower - delicious

I've just spoken with Mr MWC :smileyhea: - he's in San Francisco on a 10-day business trip. He was particularly impressed that I've been cooking proper meals in his absence :rotfl:

In financial news this week:

* received a dividend payment from shares in Mr MWC's previous previous previous employer
* up to £31.30 on OP
* £6.68 TT
* sold 4 boxes of eggs for £6

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

I've just spoken with Mr MWC :smileyhea: - he's in San Francisco on a 10-day business trip. He was particularly impressed that I've been cooking proper meals in his absence :rotfl:

Is he still there next Weds? We could say hello 😀.

Great stuff on the shares!

muddywhitechicken

:wave: GG

He leaves SF on the 19th, arrives back in the UK on the 20th.

MWCx

muddywhitechicken

Oops I forgot to tell you about the cookery class...

It was fun but I didn't learn as much as I thought I would, the menu changed and the vegetarian alternative to the chicken dish was lame (tinned chickens marinated in yogurt & harissa and then roasted)

We didn't make the dish I was looking forward to most (roast sweet potato with figs, feta & dill ) and I thought I'd learn how to cook couscous properly but she poured boiling water on it and left it to soak :rotfl:

The butternut squash tahini dip was delicious though and I've learnt how to make flat breads :T

Very similar dip recipe here - roast the squash, blend with oil, cinnamon, tahini, yogurt & garlic, serve drizzled with date syrup (or pomegranate molasses) and sprinkled with sesame seeds and coriander.

Greying_Pilgrim

Morning MWC :wave:

I'm sorry, but marinated chickpeas is not a veggie alternative, it is a side-dish - grrrrr Was the chicken really tasty/different? It looks very succulent - is that the cooking juices - or is something drizzled over? Looks like honey?

Thank you for including the BNS dip recipe. One to stash away

And I thought, much as in the way that the Japanese have raised tea making to an art form, there was a whole procedure to preparing cous cous, including rubbing in oil to make every grain separate. Not that I do it myself mind, I just pour hot water on and leave it........ :whistle::rotfl:

I hope you had fun at the course - and the groaning dinner table looks fab!

Greying X

misscousinitt

Sorry the cookery course wasn't quite what you expected.

All looks delicious though.

MCI

muddywhitechicken

Mr MWC is home :j

I lost 5 lbs whilst he was away :T

A busy weekend ahead - errands, housework & gardening tomorrow, NFL on Sunday

This week I've/we've eaten cavolo nero, mixed salad leaves and sage from the garden. The cavolo nero and sage were used in a keeper of a recipe: Orecchiette with Roasted Butternut Squash, Kale, and Caramelized Red Onion (without the cream to make it more diet-friendly).

In financial news, Mr MWC has claimed £215 from TCB :T (and he still has ~£200 pending) and I sold 5 boxes of eggs for £8.50.

muddywhitechicken

I've been on the go all day!

- gym
- walked into town - chub club (-1 lb), library, food shopping
- gardening - moved lots of bark, planted broad bean seeds and garlic, picked the last of the raspberries (20) and chopped back the canes, picked salad leaves and sprinkled weed & feed on the lawn
- cleaned the chicken coop
- stewed fruit (including apple, pear & rhubarb from the garden) for my breakfasts this week and prepared & cooked a roast root veg frittata for dinner as Mr MWC had dozed off!
- lots of washing up
- brisk 2.5 mile walk after dinner

Eggs IN 3
Eggs OUT 6

misscousinitt

Go you!!!

MCI