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suzitiger

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

Lovely and sunny here today, we peeled 6 kilos of pickling onions and put them into a brine soak yesterday so I'll be potting them up today ready for christmas. I always make a few jars with sweet vinegar and spice them up with home grown chillis and I got asked for a couple of jars from various friends in the village so I'll make some extras to give away. I love the end product, but hate how my hands smell at the moment, and you just have to let time remove the onion pong, I've never found anything effective in getting rid of it!!! Have a good one all, Cheers Lyn xxx.

Hello MrsLurcherwalker you can try soaking ur fingers in some lemon juice after chopping onion/garlic/chilli. Also, if you wash hands in cold water rather than hot this prevents the pores opening and the scent penetrating deeper into the skin
Works for me

nitnurse-not2

Saving Queen.
The pie I think you are referring to is corned beef and potato.
You need to mash the corned beef with mashed potato. Some people add cooked onion. Salt is not always needed but a good grind of pepper makes it tasty. Served traditionally with tinned peas and gravy in my house:D:D

HTH
xx

lobbyludd

shegar wrote: »

I think there is only you and me mar that hate cooking on this thread , I love eating though........:D....

Ive just come on here since last night , and was hoping that BURTHA as posted some good news for us , sheila

no, I loathe cooking too, mum to save me from part of the massive 1000 mile round trip to all parts of the family suggested their side come to me this year for christmas - i told her I'd rather drive than cook. She then said I cook lovely meals, bless her, but that's not the point - I'm fully happy to muck in, prep, whip up a sauce whatever and do as I'm told in a kitchen, but I'm a definite sou-chef: planning a menu, tinkering with recipes, trying something new etc is just utterly draining (and not very fashionable I know!).

Positive thoughts for Burtha and all who need them.

Can't shake a low mood today, can't pin-point it (other than something prevalent on the news that I know I have to avoid because the topic affects me much more than it should). I'm avoiding finishing the loft insulation by being here: sure I'll feel better when I'm not trying to avoid it!

candlelight_2013

Nit-Nurse, that is exactly how I make mine. Passed down to me by my Mum and I always make a pastry base as well as top, and make it on one of those enamel plates with the blue rim.

Always goes down well in our family

Candlelight

Mrs_Chip

floss2 wrote: »

W My mum used to make minced beef plate pie for picnics with tinned minced beef & shortcrust. Scrummy with h/g toms & a hard boiled egg, sitting on the back seat with my brothers in a layby on the old road from Ripon to the A1

Yes , that's exactly how I remember it, we always took it to the beach or when we were on a trip. It's a really versatile sort of pie, good with gravy or sliced cold - and if you are making a big batch of filling for shepherds pies (OHs favourite, not mine), you can make one of these as well.:D.

suzitiger

Good evening everyone! :wave:

wmf wrote: »

Hi Suzi - lovely to see you again.
Search for the wind and the wellies blog - she is getting married soon - in a wood. Has some good ideas

Thanks I will give this a look

monnagran wrote: »

Suzi: Congrats on getting married next year. My DS and DIL2B are getting married in 2 weeks time and they have been as frugal as all get out. Everything seems to have been borrowed, bought from The Bay of EEEE or homemade. No wedding cake but lots of cup cakes. Originally we were going to make them but we discovered a local girl had started a small business called 'Rather Darling Cupcakes" and I was so taken with the name I ordered them from her. I couldn't have made them for the price she is charging and we've already been given samples! DIL's parents are paying for a reception in a local pub so I decided to give DIL flowers from a local florist.
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The Rev and I have spent all evening reading through the details of hundreds of churches looking for ministers, seeing if there is anything we fancy. It's a bit like looking at house details. You know that a rosy gloss has been put on everything. We have experienced this before. They tell you that there is a membership of 200+ and when you get there you find that most of them died years ago. Or there is a thriving youth club (closed in 1989). We have been reading between the lines. Very tiring.

Great, same! This is what I have been doing. Dress is from fleabay, bridesmaid dresses are being made by local dressmaker for bargain price (she usually does Indian weddijng outfits ) Mum making cake, Mum doing flowers although some will be done by florist.
Invites from Etsy, I made all the save the dates myself
Ummm....friends doing the ceilidh. But we have 150 guests for wedding breakfast so that will be catered, thankfully not picking up the bill for this as OH and I have HUGE families. Caterers and venue are helping us get set up all week and we have on site camping uif guests want to camp. We are thinking of doing this for our wedding night, glamping it anyway :-D
I've got friends doing my hair, make up and photography and collecting bits and bobs from charity shops to do the table decorating with.
Mum is having a make-it party with her friends to make us some bunting so.....So far, so good
OOOh and we want to do a sweetie buffet but we are also doing this ourselves with a trip to the cash and carry nearer the time :j

In regards to the new minister job, if you see Kintbury come up it is a lovely church and village with a good local parish. We know that the Rev there is leaving as she won't be marrying us

stiltwalker wrote: »

Suzi - welcome back - we married last November for about £1500 and really didn't feel we had stinted on anything - I made mine and DD's dresses and we had our do in the village hall with a ceilidh band and pie and peas for supper (I made the pies the day before and guests from the village nipped off and put them in their ovens at the appropriate moment. It was a wonderful day and I'm sure yours will be too, it's our 1st anniversary in just under 3 weeks and we are going back to the restaurant we had our meal in for dinner.

This sounds fab, I hope you had a lovely day. What a great idea with the pies. My auntie had ther local curry house bring veggie curry for her wedding breakfast and we loved it!
Congratulations on your upcoming anniversary. I am so excited to get married, I'm a soppy ol' thing

silvasava

I like cooking when I have time. I hate having to get meals ready in a hurry & although DH will always lend a hand with the veg WHY does he always say when I ask him what he'd like he says 'whatever you feel like doing' I feel like saying bu**er all sometimes!!!
I'm not great at meal planning although I have a general idea what I'm going to do at various times - as my old reports used to say 'could do better' haha

bluebag

I don't mind cooking, but it does get boring having to do it all the flippin' time.

kidcat

Burtha if you are reading am sending you positive thoughts

Monnagran - I have lived in vicarages for many many years and visited many more and I can honestly say I have never seen a particularly tidy one ever, to be honest if its clean I consider it a blessing. In our diocese they are not particularly well maintained and as such vicars seem to not really pay them any attention at all.
Your place is full of things that are more important than tidiness, its full of grace, and nothing can be worth more than that. Any likely candidate that doesnt understand that isnt going to be the right one anyway.

Its been the usual rush all day today, little car refused to start again and OH had to call work and say he wouldnt be in, there followed a variety of theories until it was diagnosed as being fuel pump. Relatively easy to fit, however as car is so old the part will take two days, rendering OH unable to get to work. He contacted work, and they have allowed him to collect a work van to use while its fixed thankfully.

I am still feeling awful and my chest is getting more painful, I am beginning to worry the pneumonia is back. I have been promising myself for two days that as soon as I have done school runs tomorrow I was going back to bed, however I had forgotten I had an asthma clinic appointment in the morning, now ordinarily I would have rescheduled it as I really need the sleep, but with my chest playing up I am going to keep the appointment and hope she is willing to actually listen to my chest rather than simply take my height weight and peak flow.

nuttyp

hi everyone, I made the mistake of watching the programme on ch5 that was on last night about being on benefits and proud. The couple in Liverpool said they would only get a job if after paying all their bills they were left with £500 a week!! She was one strange person, I don't know anyone who has that much spare a week, let alone a month.

Then there was the single mother with 11 kids, the father of the youngest 6 wouldn't appear on the show, but she was happy to say she bought shop lifted goods. But as they don't work, and they have spare cash each week - how come both the houses was untidy and at times it looked quite dirty. Oh and her healthy cooking was mash instead of chips!!

Sorry it just annoyed me.

OH has footy on, everytime they miss a goarl he scares me to death with his shouts.

take care x