Living on next to nought - is that the key?

mrsinvisible

I too have a collection of vinyls. Mostly rare and collectors, me and DS2 gathered them in our (relative) youths. Can still play some of them, and I'd happily get rid, but DS2 is reluctant.
Greying, the potato cakes look gorgeous, is it just mash leek tops and flour?

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Oh Piquant yet another 'laugh out loud' moment. Thank you

Tilly, tonight's dinner will be 'mysterytometea' - am I still setting 4 extra places?? :rotfl:

Beanie - I'm so glad that you are 'back' - lovely to *see* you here :D:D

mrsinvisible - goodness, you're around early, it is usually cocalls that is about on the thread at that hour. I think that it is great that folk have vinyl - and still have the means to play it. I couldn't see why we kept something that we couldn't play.....

Love, the potato cakes were THIS recipe. To which I added the shredded leek top that I had fried up with a little onion (allowed to cool) and added a grating or two of nutmeg. It made the mixture a little damper, so they weren't quite as 'scone' like as they are when you add no 'extras', but I have to say, the taste more than made up for the appearance. I only used the top from one (quite large) leek, shredded very finely. HTH

So Wednesday already.

I think I'm going to aim to sneak a NSD today, then I can make sure I have a 'blow out' and get everything tomorrow when I have a 'known' spend occurring. There is sufficient milk remaining, as I have not got around to making yoghurt

As already stated, I have no idea what is for dinner........ :rotfl:Best get me thinking cap on, as I've 'guests' to cater for :rotfl::eek:

Snap is packed up and I think we are ready to saddle up to greet the day

Thank you for popping in, contributing, making me roar with laughter and generally being all-round good eggs. It is greatly appreciated everyday

A Wednesday wave :wave: and shout out for kissjen. In my thoughts lovely lady.

See y'all later.

Greying

Karmacat

The potato cakes look wonderful! I liberated a pot of chives from Sa1nsbo and split it into four, and already have one set growing happily - I think that would be a great use for them.

Good for you on the vinyl! I haven't had a record deck for 20 years but it was only when I moved to this house in 2010 that I got rid of the remaining ones - I bought an LP of the original Star Wars soundtrack (but French record notes :rotfl:) and always imagined it would be worth money, but no luck :rotfl: still, I got £10 for about 20 records, and gave the other ten or so to the guy anyway - an independent record shop in Brighton, he's lovely.

Enjoy your guests' visit!

And with you on thinking of kissjenn

Have a good day, Greying :kisses3:

Cheery_Daff

Excellent work on the vinyl! :j :j We have a fair bit here too :rotfl: And also no means of playing it :rotfl:

Some of ours was even 'rescued' from a skip :eek:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Sorry I'm late, been looking up the price of jukeboxes on the bayofE. Thought having one in the corner of the thread, to load up with your vinyl, might be a nice thing. We could 'shake a tail feather' and 'cut up the rug' to all manner of tunes...... although maybe not the theme tune to starwars..... :rotfl:

Karma - I kept hoping there were some 'gold' discs in DP's collection, but sadly not....... :rotfl:

Cheery - you made me laugh - why do we keep these things if we've nowt to play them on? Still, I bet your house rocks to tunes from your good self and Mr Daffs - who needs vinyl when you can gig yourself?

Today has been a NSD. But I did have a wander through the MandS foodall, at lunch - always a dangerous thing to do. However, there was nothing in my price bracket But it did strike me that dairy products seem to be mega expensive. I noticed that they wanted over £2 - nearer £3 I think - for a tub of mascarpone. What's that all about?

Dinner this evening was a last minute burst of inspiration, when it looked like the alternative might be porridge (the cereal, I didn't do anything norty that I needed to be sent to prison for )

I fell back on the old faithful; Buddha bowl. Bit of a risk to present 'leftovers' when you think guests might pop in.....
But here's what I did;



The base is fine bulghar, with lemon juice/zest, onion, carrot, celery and sweetcorn running through it. I also added some chilli flakes, unfortunately, I got distracted talking with DP and was a little heavy-handed......... I got away with it. JUST. T'was a wee bit hot I then popped some sauted leeks on top of that and topped those with some squares of veggie scrapple that I had made last weekend and frozen (actually for a different dish). I then made up some lemony white bean sauce and drizzled that over with some nigella seeds to finish off. It actually worked quite well, despite my mishap with the chilli flakes. Hopefully my attempt at presentation deflected how cheap as chips it was to make :rotfl:

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

for 'bitsa' - with a little bit of thought, it is amazing what 'bitsa' this and 'bitsa' that will yield for you

for resolve - a task that I have been putting off for days got accomplished today. It took me about 20 minutes. What was I so stymied by? :rotfl:

for George knocking a penny off beer duty :beer: :rotfl:

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

See y'all later.

Greying

Karmacat

So many flavours and subtleties in that dish! Lovely And as for something we delay, and then accomplish in 20 minutes - yep! I recognise that :rotfl:

Sleep well!

mcculloch29

I also recognise procrastination taken to a fine art... my speciality sometimes. Not today, though.
Thank you for the tip on the Piadina, from Jamie's book, Greying. I tried the variation on toad in the hole, which was rather 'hmm, ok...' and then tonight, the salmon filo pie which was wonderful. Courgettes were replaced with red onions, making it more quiche-like.

However, it was worth trying for the tips on the assembly method with filo, draping the sheets at various angles over my new frying pan with the removeable handle. The sheets then folded over the top of the pie, and a scatter of Aldi's best grated parmesan finished it off.

This went into the oven and the pan made a brilliant pie tin, no more scratching with knives, it slid out on to a plate and the pastry cooked perfectly. Blooming expensive pie tin, but as you can probably guess, it was an Am@zon freebie.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Mcculloch - to be fair, Jaymee has included a lot more tips in his recent books and I agree, there is often a gem or two in each book. That is the only downside of looking at all cookery books through veggie goggles, I tend to disregard meat/fish recipes, so don't know if they are useful/new/inventive or not. However, I do often skim read them, sometimes a combination of ingredients stands out as useful for a veggie version too Go you with your freebie :D

So spendy day today - not millions, I'll admit but, spends none-the-less. And according to the weather forecast, it is downhill into the weekend Is March gonna go out like a lion?

Dinner this evening is 'soup & sandwich' (or version of). Not terribly exciting, so I hope no one drops in for sustenance :rotfl:

So there is already an argument over the pension announcement in the budget. Wonder if the upcoming months it will slowly but surely get buried and forgotten about...... I can see why people are taking the view to not bother saving for a pension, if you can have no control over the cash at the end of the term. Might as well have pie, mash and champagne every Friday night for your working life, as expect oysters in retirement.

Right, I've an earlier start, so I'm away to get [STRIKE]blown about by the wind[/STRIKE] up and at 'em

Thanks so much for popping in, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

mrsinvisible

Good morning, this wind outside is out of control. I have had to rescue 5 pots of shrubs already. Thanks for the tatie scone recipe, GP, now, tell me, what is corn meal? (I looked at the veg. scrappie recipe and thought it looked nice) but it is the one ingredient I don't have.
Odd that I get to my advanced years without ever using cornmeal in a recipe.
Agree with you over the pension thing, but I don't suppose old etonians think champagne on a Friday is a luxury at all.

little_sweetie

Good morning Greying & friends,

re the Budget: I see the sense in allowing people to make their own plans for their hard earned cash in their pension pots. DH and I saved for years in personal pension funds (me out of part time earnings) only to get returns of just £84 & £127 respectively per annum. It would have been so much nicer to have been able to draw the cash to invest elsewhere on retirement. At least we would have had some emergency funds if needed. I think we just need to live to about 120 to get all our money back :rotfl::rotfl:

re the Gu1nness stew: Greying, we ate the other half of it the next day and it was still yummy. I didn't have Dijon mustard so just used bog-standard-ready-made English and I did use tomato puree. I happened to have a tube of Sainsbobs Taste The Difference stuff which had been reduced to 35p (still well in date) It seems the choice of mustard was the key to the change in taste then :think:

mculloch , WOW! LOVE the pan! I got Jamie's book from the library and looked at that recipe but didn't know what pan to use to make it in. Well done on the freebie :T

re BT: :mad: grrrr when we received our last bill in January we decided to pay a year upfront to save money. Normally we pay quarterly on receipt of the bill but the payment charges have shot up so [STRIKE]we[/STRIKE] erm... I reviewed the situation and decided to pay a year in advance. After a lengthy wait in the phone queue the deed was done and a DD set up, £141 was then taken followed by the original bill amount of £115.43! I wasn't warned that this would happen and it was pure luck that the account contained enough money to cover it. After yet another lengthy call I was informed that a refund would be processed in APRIL :mad:

Don't ya get frustrated by it all.........

Have a lovely day all (windy here too but OH is quietly mowing the grass ...)