Living on next to nought - is that the key?

kem10

How far can you throw them? Yummy!

muddywhitechicken

Good evening Greying

Glad you liked the Afghan carrot hotpot recipe

MWCx

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Ha! Sorry Beanie :D Lovely to *see* ya

Shortie - how lovely to *see* you on my diary - you do realise you get a *namecheck* somewhere in here? Reading your diary, it dawned on me that we could get this house like a palace - and still hate the area in which we live. We're moving house because of you! :rotfl::rotfl: Well, not quite dear thing, but your good self, ninjasavingkat and Piquant led me to have a 'lightbulb' moment last November

kem10 - as far as you want, but just mind they don't hit you - I won't be responsible for the subsequent damage to body parts :rotfl:

muddywhitechicken - hello and thank you - you've inspired me to try two recipes - both of which are keepers That's probably a better percentage than the average new cookery book :D

Wednesday already :eek: Football tonight, England v Denmark.

I'm going to re-start the NSD's hopefully I can gain 4 in a row now - fingers crossed

Dinner tonight is bobotie (mix, not the whole thing) with baked potatoes. I shall be starting the last bag of lentilles verte from AF, got for 30p or whatever Those were the days my friends......

Right, snap bags to pack up.

Best get up and at 'em.

Thank you for popping by, reading and commenting. I continue to appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

mrsinvisible

Good morning, thanks GP. Yesterday I went on a free 2 hour course at my local community centre. 'Grow and cook' what fun, Made apple crumble, talked about apple trees and storing apples for the winter, made pancakes and sauce, with bananas and raspberries and blueberries, talked about growing soft fruit, and fairtrade buying, and, at the end was given a lovely blackcurrant bush, for my garden.
Free food for today, and fresh fruit for the future. I am grateful, and awed.

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

muddywhitechicken - hello and thank you - you've inspired me to try two recipes - both of which are keepers That's probably a better percentage than the average new cookery book :D

The pressure's on for my next recipe recommendation then...:eek::rotfl:

MWCx

Pippilongstocking

I'm' sweating for you MWC - I retired after the porridge cake, seemed safest

Unlike me who drools alot at recipes - Greying actually follows through!

Shortie

Hiya Greying. ohmygoodness..... I didn't realise anyone would learn a lesson from my mistake, lol But glad it did make someone rethink. It was an expensive one on my part but we live and we learn

So I'm so far up to about page 11, and avidly reading about the yoghurt adventures. I'm very inspired as I love natural yoghurt but it's seen as a bit of a luxury at the moment while we're trying to cut our budgets down, so a cheap way to make our own would be fab. I am working a night shift tonight and Mr Shortie suggested popping to see my folks today as my Dad was also off work.... I mentioned to him that I was making a chicken & sweetcorn soup from the leftover bones he gave us (to strip for the pets) Queue an MMmmmm from him, so if I get it finished in time I'll drop some off tonight as a treat. But I also mentioned that I was thinking of making my own yoghurt. My Dad is the kind to think most 'make your owns' can be faddy (though he used to brew his own, he's totally against the idea of self sufficiency) and he surprised me to say that they used to have an electric yoghurt maker back when I was little and it was fab. (Mr Shortie had to pick me up off the floor as I was in shock lol)

So, I've done some googling and found some recipes but am really confusing myself now - I can use UHT but don't boil it (do I still need to get it to a certain temperature I wonder?) And I *think* some people leave the mix in a thermos flask overnight instead of a double boiler thingie - or have I got that totally wrong?

Off to carry on reading your diary (and stealing the yummy, cheap veggie recipes...) xx

Shortie

Ok so it would appear that I fibbed. I was on page 5 and then promptly found your fab i structions soon after - sorry!

Loving the fact I can use a thermos, now just to twig the change to the recipe if I were to use UHT

xx

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Well, I'd like to say that the football was so interesting last night, that following the win, I was dancing and partying in the street until dawn....... However, DP fell asleep and I clicked over to FN and found that DDD has new episodes

I did pop on at half-time, as I remembered I hadn't updated my CU figs to include March's payment and some of the water/council tax payment, so that is now updated. Also I snagged a NSD yesterday, so I'm up to date there.

mrsinvisible - those courses sound really good. Exactly the sort of thing our Pipster should be teaching when back on the mainland Pity you are a hop, skip and a jump too far, otherwise I would recommend a stunningly qualified tutor for you

MWC - don't put yourself under any pressure dear thing I've hit a purple patch of cook books from the library and have a good few 'nubes' to keep me out of mischief for a little while But I'm always ears for a new recipe

Pippi - :rotfl:

shortie - does your Dad really think MYO/DIY is faddy? The gardening parental was really into this way of life big style, but a) the non-gardening parental wasn't :rotfl:and b) after a while, 'society' changed, and folk talked less and less about what they made themselves, the emphasis was on 'buying' - and the gardening parental definitely went very quiet on the MYO/DIY front. Well, apart from the 'normal' gardening. But brewing got the axe, as did bread making attempts (thank heavens!) bulk buying, pickling etc etc. I wish CUL8R or 7 week wonder were still around for you to ask - they both made yoghurt with UHT. I've never done it, so don't feel safe to advise, although I think I know what you do.

So, today I am going for another NSD.

Dinner this evening is going to be a new soup (Maria Elias) and I've got to think of something to accompany it.

Dinner last night was bobotie and I ended up doing rice. The potato pile is dwindling fast, and there's HM wedges to make this month yet.

Right, I'd best go and pack snap bags. With some wee pieces

Thank you so much for popping in, reading and commenting. You know how much I appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

Shortie

No, to be fair he's not adverse to the odd MYO/GYO/etc but he's usually very certain about the electrical ways of doing things that he thinks are faddy. So him saying they uaed to have one AND advocating them was a shocker, lol

Thanks for replying on the UHT btw, I'll keep looking, it must be written on the interwebby *somewhere* lol.. I just keep finding vague references to UHT milk and then the full on fresh milk recipe


Am feeling a tad embarrassed when I read that you'd been up and sorted your lunchboxes. I worked a late shift last night (from home) and didn't sort anything. And I was so wrecked this morning that I bearly got up in time to catch the train whoops. So lunch for me today is a not so healthy or balanced porridge, a mug shot and two twinks. Anything to try and not spend!