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I love laver, though it's stupidly expensive on mail order.
I make do with nibbling Nori seaweed sheets instead, the ones sold for sushi, should the laver mood strike.
What fantastic meals you produced for Fish Week, KO... you WILL be missed... more fools them!
DS is over down in Lancashire at GF's, having gone last night after work. He has promised to set off earlier for work in the morning, but he would do far better to leave tonight obviously.
If I suggested it, it would upset him and frankly, it's his call. He's 29 not 9, 29 not 9 (repeat as reminder).
No snow as yet. My heating is kicking in automatically as the temperature drops, and with DS, King of Open Windows and Doors, not here, the house is really warm enough. I always dress in layers and when DS is here, I often wear a jacket indoors to keep warm - I have to remember not to get too engrossed in work (or on MSE!) and move around every so often.
We have a residential home next door - I live in a townhouse terrace - and I'm sure we benefit from their keeping the home extra-warm for vulnerable residents.
I was really pleased by my daughter's reaction when I told her that my cleaner hadn't been since a week before Christmas: "Wow, you HAVE done well in keeping clean and tidy!". Compared with what it was like before my lovely cleaner started, I have.
She got me into good habits, though housework will never be my thing. Still room for improvement, though. Decluttering must continue!
Edit for Nuttyp: Mash & peas with kievs would be fine. Though I would cook some potatoes in jackets in the micro for 10 minutes, then cut into wedges, season, and do them in the oven as the same time as the kievs. I love my hm jacket wedges.Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.0 -
Can I ask an obviously stoopid question? What is laverbread?
Have just ironed enough uniforms for the week, nothing else just uniforms as it was torture just doing that, my ironing mountain volcanoed yesterday and is now lavaing all over my bedroom floor - but as I cant pick it up it will have to wait:)
We have snow!!! Kids are so excited and racing about, although DD6 has had a collision with a door and now has a swollen toe - considering it may well be broken - oh joy!
Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to pull the handbrake on?
The driving seat is very high relative to the brake and the whole bending down to grab it and pull it on is making me scream today, DS14 has been putting it on for me but tomorrow I will drop him off and have nobody with me. Short of getting a passer by to do it I really dont have any ideas.0 -
KATE - I found a new Turkish Cook Book in a cs this week and they make Bourek, which are filo based pastries that are fried in olive oil and a couple of the recipes would lend themselves very well to using mascarpone. You can also bake them in the oven, the choice presumably is to your preference. The method is to layer up the filo 12 deep and then cut it into 12 equal parts spoon the chosen filling on to the filo and roll up like a cigarette. Then dip into beaten egg, then breadcrumbs. Seems simple. Fillings are cheese and chopped parsley, or grated courgette with cheese , parsley ,dill and a beaten egg or spinach, cheese, black pepper and an egg yolk. You could make up variants of those with anything you have to hand Laverbread and cheese perhaps? Hope that gives you some ideas. Cheers Lyn xxx.0
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Casserole steak is $12.50 a kilo (about 8 quid). And those pies cost more here because most food does :rotfl: And GQ, I'm very jealous of your greengrocers. Like 7WW I don't peel a butternut squash. We don't peel pumpkin either here if we roast it.
As regards the Pay-wave card, we've had them for a little while here. There isn't an opt-out, I inquired immediately since I also wasn't keen, but I was told by the bank that any unauthorised transactions you report will be automatically refunded without question. So I was a bit reassured by that.
Elizabunny, sorry to hear you're suffering. I bulged 2 a few years ago and couldn't move for a while from the waist down. Check out the book "Sarah Keys Back Sufferers Bible" (she was Prince Charles Physio), I've found it very useful, my back is better than it's ever been.
Unixgirl, congrats on the interview! Can you not switch your phone to silent for the tarot? I hope your OH is wrong about the work drying up and *hugs* for dealing with his attitude.
I'm sorry to hear about your OH's new job MrsVP and hope something else does turn up for him quickly.
Missrlr, hope you're feeling better soon.
Katieowl, they're a bunch of numpties at the cafe for not treating your DD and you better and knowing what they should have hung onto. But you know that anyway and are best rid.
I'm just coming round tiredness wise. Still had a good long sleep though.
Thanks Softstuff for the info about the book.:T It looks good! I need to do something, as this back thing is getting the better of me at the moment. I have had lots of problems for 20 years, but this last few weeks it has really got to me. I seem to be going one day forward and two back all the time:(
Thanks to all you other lovely people who have sent me well wishes and tips. I went out for the first time properly since Christmas, yesterday. Only in the car but it was lovely to get out of the house for a bit. Couldn't stay out too long though as even sitting has it's problems at the moment and oooooooooooh those bumpy pot holey bits in the road. DH was very careful though.Sealed Pot Challenge 7 Member 022 :staradmin:staradmin:staradmin
5:2 Diet started 28/1/2013 only 13lbs lost due to Xmas 2013 blip.0 -
Can I ask an obviously stoopid question? What is laverbread?
It's a native British seaweed, but it's the same family, closely related to the Japanese Nori that they use to wrap sushi in.
It's the one that looks like oily rocks. We boil it and make a thick paste out of it...laverbread. The Japanese boil it then spread it to dry like hand made paper, on mesh sheets.
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Can I ask an obviously stoopid question? What is laverbread?
It's a native British seaweed, but it's the same family, closely related to the Japanese Nori that they use to wrap sushi in.
It's the one that looks like oily rocks. We boil it and make a thick paste out of it...laverbread. The Japanese boil it then spread it to dry like hand made paper, on mesh sheets.
Kate
Thank youmy food education is so poorly lacking.
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Mrs VP thanks for mentioning how you weren't scarred by cold runs to school. I dare say you didn't have technical fibres in ski jackets either then. They're up for it, they have salopettes too if too bad. They want to feed the ducks under the bridge because they're worried about them being cold but I'm sure you alltd me not to feed ducks bread. Do I remember correctly?
Meme, I know I had thought I that. I'm used to tuning in into good old metro for school closures but being further down the country that has changed. I text kezlou this morning and she has kindly told me ewhat to listen to. DH is going to keep an eye on web for closures too.
Kidcat, DH has been trying to get us picked up at 3.30 if he's around but the morning are just so busy. I'm not insured to drive his works car (a button for a handbrake that scares the wotsits out of me, nowt wrong with a lever!)
Thank you so much for the driving hints. When it comes to it I have my route. Ill keep on the main roads and park in tesco car park the. Walk through the estate to drop the girls off. No where near as long or dangerous a walk and ensures that the car stays away from hills and back streets.
In some ways the prospect of waking up to snog tomorrow makes it that but more fun and adventurous... Beats the boring and arduous walk of normality huh? I just hope the crossing the road part isn't any more dangerous because of snow - hopefully the flow of traffic will be slower and give me more of a chance.
country file forecast seemed to have snow showers there or about l week really. I think once there's a covering it'll be here for a while around the north east at least.0 -
Can I ask an obviously stoopid question? What is laverbread?
Laverbread is a native seaweed, its a purple frond type, which cooks to a very dark green, and is the same type used as nori for sushi.
Does anyone have any bright ideas for how to pull the handbrake on?
The driving seat is very high relative to the brake and the whole bending down to grab it and pull it on is making me scream today, DS14 has been putting it on for me but tomorrow I will drop him off and have nobody with me. Short of getting a passer by to do it I really dont have any ideas.
Park in gear and you won't need the handbrake.
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Popperwell wrote: »You may be interested in following on Amazon if they are still free(e-books)they were in the early hours of this morning...
They all start this way PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD USES OF. Then they are all followed by either Bicarbonate of Soda, Vinegar, Salt or Honey.
Popperwell Thanks so much for this:j:j:T I have just ordered/downloaded the 5 books. I am thrilled:DSealed Pot Challenge 7 Member 022 :staradmin:staradmin:staradmin
5:2 Diet started 28/1/2013 only 13lbs lost due to Xmas 2013 blip.0 -
In some ways the prospect of waking up to snog tomorrow makes it that but more fun and adventurous... Beats the boring and arduous walk of normality huh? I just hope the crossing the road part isn't any more dangerous because of snow - hopefully the flow of traffic will be slower and give me more of a chance.
country file forecast seemed to have snow showers there or about l week really. I think once there's a covering it'll be here for a while around the north east at least.Snogging always goes better if you're awake, IMO.
Gawd, I love that phone's merry mistakes soooo much!Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin
Veni, vidi, eradici
(I came, I saw, I kondo'd)
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