Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

Love the quote Bralla and such good advice :T

Anyone been watching Person of Interest? It was the last one last night but will continue later in the year. I enjoyed that series.

The healthy eating diet is going well (BMI 22.5) and I agree that it is far easier for us blokes Had lovely veg and noodle soup with cooked salmon on top the other day, best soup ever!
Feeling much better now than I did when I had whooping cough for the last 3 months+ of last year. That was a tough horrible thing to go through

Can't get this< damn song out of my head since watching Bend it like Beckham last week

Top tune though :A

Maine of my favourite suppers is watercress or spinach soup with pan fried salmon in it. I call it fish in a dirty pond soup. It is so very quick to cook and delicious and healthy.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

michaels's need more good thoughts at the moment

Special NP good thoughts on their way to you.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Maine of my favourite suppers is watercress or spinach soup with pan fried salmon in it. I call it fish in a dirty pond soup. It is so very quick to cook and delicious and healthy.

And a tad posher than the soup I had yesterday, which was a 5p sachet of Sainsburys Basics Leek/Potato Soup.... which, actually, I can HIGHLY recommend! I bought a pack of them to try and was amazed how good they were, completely out of sync with their price. I actually prefer this soup to any other sachets I've tried!

Generali

My favourite cheap 'n' quick dinner is fresh pasta with garlic, olive oil and Parmesan. It takes about 6 minutes to cook including boiling the water.

sss555s

Generali wrote: »

Oh I burned out years ago. Working for the hedge fund did that to me. 6am-10pm plus weekend catch ups. I filled in the answers as they would have been in 2008 and I got 72. I've not been the same since that job.

Sounds a nightmare of a situation to be in. Lessons learned and all that.

The up side of that is you could easily be living and coming into the best stage in your lifetime off the back of that negative.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

And a tad posher than the soup I had yesterday, which was a 5p sachet of Sainsburys Basics Leek/Potato Soup.... which, actually, I can HIGHLY recommend! I bought a pack of them to try and was amazed how good they were, completely out of sync with their price. I actually prefer this soup to any other sachets I've tried!

My leek and potato soup is distinctly not posh. I use leek trimmings ands potato peelings. Very old style. I very rarely have it, because we don't eat potato that often, but in winter a hearty soup is just perfect. More often I just have leek soup. For some reason I tend to make leek soup after we have mussels wit the left over mussel 'juice' as the stock.

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

Maine of my favourite suppers is watercress or spinach soup with pan fried salmon in it. I call it fish in a dirty pond soup. It is so very quick to cook and delicious and healthy.

Similar, except mine had Chili, red pepper, spring onion, sweet corn. Peas, celery, carrots and noodles. Quick, delicious and very fresh tasting

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

My favourite cheap 'n' quick dinner is fresh pasta with garlic, olive oil and Parmesan. It takes about 6 minutes to cook including boiling the water.

Yep, but a quick very basic tomato sauce also only takes as long as pasta does to boil. Or pasta with broccoli, an Italian basic sort of student meal.

Another of my quick cheap favourites we call the charming name cat sick. It's not healthy unless its the only vehicle for oily fish (its sardine based) but it IS delicious. Ip despite its name.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Maine of my favourite suppers is watercress or spinach soup with pan fried salmon in it. I call it fish in a dirty pond soup. It is so very quick to cook and delicious and healthy.

I've never tried putting fish on top of soup.

The kids don't like chicken particularly, so I often flavour it by throwing a packet soup over it before bunging it in the oven. Onion soup works well.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

I was thinking the other day whether we (the NP) should take steps to increase the social and racial diversity of the thread

Interesting thought. Why? I think it would be nice to increase the numbers slightly, don't mind what social or racial background particularly.

There is another thread which I keep an eye on, yesterday it got through 60 pages, so I have now decided I am not reading every page in Summer.

A couple of people over there did say they were going to pop in here, but never appeared.

Started planting bedding plants, even though my green fingered friend says I should wait 3 weeks. I figure the beds are raised and flanked by stone, so should be a couple of degrees warmer.

Overheard in the garden centre yesterday, "does "bee-friendly" mean the plants keep bees away?"