Making chicken feed of my mortgage

muddywhitechicken

I've just been down to the bottom of the garden and disturbed The Girls - it was hardly worth the effort and squelchiness for 1 little white egg

moneycurious

Any eggs today MWC?? i loved my hens, but unfortnately no time any more.... thank goodness i can always go to the parents to have a gander... excuse the pun!!

muddywhitechicken

Hello moneycurious - 2 eggs today!

I love my chickens (even though they trash my garden...). Mr MWC thinks that I am a mad chicken lady but I think that he has a soft spot for them too (only after 4.5 years though ) He is already talking about getting some more in February (although that might be because he doesn't think a couple of them will make it through the winter )

I think that this will be the last week that I sell eggs until the spring. I need to start saving them for Christmas baking and lemon curd making. On the subject of lemon curd, a colleague gave me some cooking apples today so I need to cook, puree and freeze them this week ready for making bramley lemon curd (a river cottage recipe) the week before Christmas.

Soup again for lunch - HM parsnip & ginger. Very tasty although next time I'll put a little less cardamom in - it was a bit flowery.

Mr MWC is out tonight so I've just made myself a fishfinger sandwich (wholemeal seeded bread, fishfingers, mayonnaise, pickled cucumber and spinach) :drool::drool::drool: all washed down with a nice cup of tea

muddywhitechicken

Today would have been a NSD except I just spent £80 in Sainsburys *rolls eyes*

I used all my coupons and now have £77.50 in nectar points and a coupon for 9p off/L of petrol. I also got 1.5 kg (10 packs) of blueberries for £1 instead of £25

Wine £21.48 (2 x £9.99 shiraz for £10, a bottle of my favourite albarino and a plastic bottle of basics white wine for cooking)
Toiletries/healthcare £37.60 (including enough razor blades to last Mr MWC for 6 months and enough half-price deodorant to last us into next year - actually I think we already had enough to last us to the end of the year so now we have enough to last us until February!)
Dairy £1.00
Cleaning £1.00
Groceries £4.44
(dairy/cleaning/groceries - all products I use that were on offer)
Treats for The Girls £2.80 (3 x lettuce + 10 x blueberries - they will share the blueberries with us!)
I then got bored adding up in my head and bought a bottle of single malt on offer at £20 instead of £34 to take me over the £80...

I think that it is our turn to provide the whisky this new year's eve, if not I'll use it to make blackberry whisky next autumn. I don't mind using cheap gin and vodka for fruit liquers but it really does make a difference using a good whisky for blackberry whisky... although Mr MWC, a Scot, nearly cried when he found out I'd used his bottle of glenmorangie the first year

BookWorm

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Mr MWC is out tonight so I've just made myself a fishfinger sandwich (wholemeal seeded bread, fishfingers, mayonnaise, pickled cucumber and spinach) :drool::drool::drool: all washed down with a nice cup of tea

Evening MWC

I had a fish finger sandwich for tea too! Mine was slightly less refined though as it was just bread (although wholemeal) and sauce! LOL
Nom Nom

muddywhitechicken

BookWorm wrote: »

Evening MWC

I had a fish finger sandwich for tea too! Mine was slightly less refined though as it was just bread (although wholemeal) and sauce! LOL
Nom Nom

Tommy k? I prefer red sauce on a fried egg and/or bacon sandwich and brown sauce on a sausage sandwich

BookWorm

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Tommy k? I prefer red sauce on a fried egg and/or bacon sandwich and brown sauce on a sausage sandwich

Whoops yes meant to say Tomato sauce. I'm with you on that part but it has to be brown on bacon for me though!!

misscousinitt

I might have to steal your idea for Bramley lemon curd - sounds lovely.

Brown sauce on bacon, red on sausage and tarter sauce on fish finger sandwich!:rotfl:

MCI

muddywhitechicken

misscousinitt wrote: »

I might have to steal your idea for Bramley lemon curd - sounds lovely.

I'd love to take the credit but it is Pam Corbin's recipe from the River Cottage Preserves handbook!

Miss F is poorly again This morning she couldn't walk without falling over so I took her to the vet. Her heart was fine, as was the poo she did on his floor (!), he couldn't feel any tumours and he said she was probably too young for any neurological problems (I got her in February when she was 16 weeks old). So she came home with me, I've left her in the conservatory (fingers crossed she's OK) as she wouldn't be able to climb the ladder to the coop and I didn't want her to get any more distressed at bedtime, and I have to dose her with antibiotics for the next 5 days.

misscousinitt

Sorry to hear Miss F is poorly, fingers crossed for a speedy recovery.

Thanks for letting me know where to find the recipe - have found a copy on the internet and printed it out - this would go down well at one of our charity sales me thinks.

MCI