Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

You don't need a freezer to make them. It's only jelly .... maybe the alcohol needs a freezer, but jelly wouldn't.

Nice to look at and dream about, but, realistically: where/how are you going to get that many lemons from....... to have enough for all the jelly ...... and then who'd eat them .... except YOU. So ... I'd like to make them... never will.

Oh yeah (its been a while since I made jelly... probably the last time I needed something see through to eat).
It does sound extra nice with the alcohol, mind you! And I rarely have free fridge space either.

I have a bag of lemon and lime wedges in the freezer - all bought when they were super cheap (i.e. 20p for a net).

PasturesNew

This week I've, for the first time ever, lobbed some halved vine cherry tomatoes into a dish with a splash of oil and sprinkle of salt and roasted them until soft (not black) .... and they're so nice I think I'm obsessed. Yesterday I did it, with a sprinkle of herbes de provence lobbed in too, in order to add them as a pizza topping.... and it was the loveliest pizza I'd ever made. I'd normally bung them on raw..... no idea why I roasted some .... but I've done it twice now.

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Oh yeah (its been a while since I made jelly... probably the last time I needed something see through to eat).
It does sound extra nice with the alcohol, mind you! And I rarely have free fridge space either.

I have a bag of lemon and lime wedges in the freezer - all bought when they were super cheap (i.e. 20p for a net).

I've bought a couple of lemons, optimistically, in past years. Never actually used one yet though. I think I probably bought a lemon for Xmas Day dinners, in case my sibling didn't remember .... and then she'd turn up with a net of them.

PasturesNew

Got to work out what I've got to use up - and what I can do with that for tea. Got some vine tomatoes and spuds that need using up. Might end up roasting the tomatoes, with some stuffing balls .... and serving that with some mash and peas.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Got to work out what I've got to use up - and what I can do with that for tea. Got some vine tomatoes and spuds that need using up. Might end up roasting the tomatoes, with some stuffing balls .... and serving that with some mash and peas.

On either your meal planning is getting yuimmier or I am hungrier than I realise. Even stuffing balls sound good to me ATM. And I don't actually feel hungry yet.

PasturesNew

I've had my laptop running alongside the PC all day, uploading images. Flickr's SOOO slow (or is it my connection?).

Just uploaded those lovely cake photos from LIR's gardenfest of July 2012.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

On either your meal planning is getting yuimmier or I am hungrier than I realise. Even stuffing balls sound good to me ATM. And I don't actually feel hungry yet.

I can't decide if the tin of peas should be microwaved.... or lobbed into the dish with tomatoes and stuffing balls.... Tomatoes first, then lob in the balls and peas when I turn the tomatoes. Meanwhile nuke the spuds and mash. .... sounds doable.

The stuffing balls were because I randomly bought a cheapo packet of Sage & Onion stuffing some months back ... not sure why, never bothered making stuffing before except at home/Xmas Dinner... and I don't eat sage/onion (Paxo) as it's never been great.

Anyway - it was lurking in the cupboard and the other week I thought "I'll never eat that, I'll lob it in with these sausages I've got ...." and when I tasted it, it was surprisingly lovely. So maybe I just always disliked paxo s/o stuffing and not s/o stuffing itself.

I think the packs about 15p, Mr S basics I think (threw packet out 2 weeks ago, kept contents) and it'll have made two meals.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think the packs about 15p, Mr S basics I think (threw packet out 2 weeks ago, kept contents) and it'll have made two meals.

I bought that to experiment with. It was actually pretty nice. Well worth 15p.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

I bought that to experiment with. It was actually pretty nice. Well worth 15p.

Ooh - 2 NP recommendations... I'll have to try to remember to pick some up next time I'm in there

PasturesNew

Right, put the oven on, put oil/herbes de provence into the dish .... halved about 6 big cherry tomatoes, lobbed dish into the oven. Peeled/sliced spuds and put those in the nuker .... turned tomatoes and added half a tin of peas and 3 stuffing balls on top (made 5 balls, but only room for 3 on top of dish unless I squished them in as the balls were a bit big really......

So .... another 20 minutes or so, might have din dins