Living on next to nought - is that the key?

7_week_wonder

Good morning all,

I'm glad things are looking slightly less grim with a new day. Good luck with operation saveage washing machine.

All this talk of turnips reminded me: we used to get a veg box and over the autumn and winter we got swede after swede after swede (I'm up in Scotland and I get very confused - I think what we call swede south of the border calls turnip). Anyway I was working my way though various recipes (not quite as imaginative as BoB's!) when I came across a recipe for swede fritters: which I duly made. My husband has always had a "good appetite" and loves everything I cook - but that was the only time he ever said the words "Please don't ever make that again!":rotfl:

I'm take a day's holiday today: I've got an interview for the big scary job tomorrow :eek:, so I am doing a bit of prep and a lot of faffing!

Have a good day everyone.

miss_empty_piggy

Good luck for your interview tomorrow 7WW

and good luck Greying Pilgrim on the washing machine quest x

boredofbeingathome

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

BoB - how very kind of you - I think :think: The concept is fine, but given that pedal bins last for all of 2 seconds flat - do you think that that may be the weak point?? Plus, at a capacity of 2 pairs of pants and a sock - it may well prove vital to give up all other forms of work in order to wash clothes each week :rotfl:

As for the turnip recipes - what can I say? No, really what can I say???:rotfl::rotfl:Actually, I found a turnip recipe in a book of international vegetarian cuisine the other day. It is called 'Turnip Treat' (I kid you not) remind me to try it one day, so that I can share the recipe here
Greying

I love a good Turnip recipe-In fact i am having some tonight..all that turnip talk made me hungry:D:rotfl:

Ah-well, i have used a similar one ( camp washing machine) in the past and it was hilarious..i can't say much for the kitchen floor but the field was a bit wet:o:eek: I think you may be wise to use the parental washing machine..plus it saves you dosh:money::money::D:rotfl:

boredofbeingathome

7_week_wonder wrote: »

Good morning all,

I'm glad things are looking slightly less grim with a new day. Good luck with operation saveage washing machine.

All this talk of turnips reminded me: we used to get a veg box and over the autumn and winter we got swede after swede after swede (I'm up in Scotland and I get very confused - I think what we call swede south of the border calls turnip). Anyway I was working my way though various recipes (not quite as imaginative as BoB's!) when I came across a recipe for swede fritters: which I duly made. My husband has always had a "good appetite" and loves everything I cook - but that was the only time he ever said the words "Please don't ever make that again!":rotfl:

I'm take a day's holiday today: I've got an interview for the big scary job tomorrow :eek:, so I am doing a bit of prep and a lot of faffing!

Have a good day everyone.

Ooh good luck for tomorrow:D:beer:

And stores swede related recipe for future use. I was thinking how to incorporate the odd turnip into a chinese style meal..not sure how it will work ( i have had it in a curry):D

I am thinking sweet and sour turnip surprise:j

Hope you feel better soon Beanie, i worry about all of this falling you are sounding as bad as me with my vertigo at the mo..although i tend not to shift if i can help it and make the offspring sort things out. x

Scuttles off

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, what a wonderful day - I've had visitors and I've just been on Pippi's thread where good news has been shared. Fab.u.lous

7 Week Wonder - now you just be yourself tomorrow, we've every faith in you, so you have faith in your ability to undertake the role and go and get it for yourself. I'll certainly be thinking of you tomorrow and wishing all fantastic things for you.

mmm, 'please don't ever make that again', is a little deflating to hear isn't it? :rotfl:#hearditmeself

miss empty piggy - I'm afraid I did have to laugh - I've not even been here a month yet, and I've been on adventures with yoghurt and now I'm hurtling off on a washing machine quest - exhausted I tell ya, exhausted :rotfl:

BoB - I really didn't know that you were such a turnip officionado - but actually, you have now made me think where I saw another turnip recipe recently. It was for a white turnip, not a Swedish turnip (see, I do pay attention when Pippi gives us plant biology lessons over at the stripey salon ), and it was for a salad - the turnip was cut up in matchsticks - the photo was quite striking. Mmmm, leave that one with me, I may yet remember the source.

Yes, I have not long returned from the parentals with socks duly spinned and the *ahem* items used for mopping up sessions (DP improvised, what can I say??) washed and spun out. The socks even had a bit of a chance to dry out on the line whilst the other items were washed, and I put myself outside of a cup of tea and an orange kitk*t. Does your camp washing machine provide such a comprehensive service? :rotfl:

Right I'm getting evicted from the keyboard as DP wants to go surfing - muttering something about washing machine repair videos on youthtoob..........

Thank you for stopping by, reading and leaving lovely comments on such a diverse range of subjects.

See y'all later.

Greying

Pippilongstocking

7_week_wonder wrote: »

Good morning all,

I'm glad things are looking slightly less grim with a new day. Good luck with operation saveage washing machine.

:j good luck from me too :j
All this talk of turnips reminded me: we used to get a veg box and over the autumn and winter we got swede after swede after swede (I'm up in Scotland and I get very confused - I think what we call swede south of the border calls turnip).

I'm resisting my normal swede v turnip botany lesson I promise. And, you're right.:T:T

Anyway I was working my way though various recipes (not quite as imaginative as BoB's!) when I came across a recipe for swede fritters: which I duly made. My husband has always had a "good appetite" and loves everything I cook - but that was the only time he ever said the words "Please don't ever make that again!":rotfl:

I'm take a day's holiday today: I've got an interview for the big scary job tomorrow :eek:, so I am doing a bit of prep and a lot of faffing!

Have a good day everyone.

Now I had a similar experience with my 'surprise buns'

The surprise was neep (yellow swede to them folks sooth of Scotland) - now, they munched them happily until I confessed the secret ingredient.

With a pinch of cinnamon and sugar who would have known a neep bun could be so lovely.

And I've also been told never to make them again.

Didn't stop them scoffing them before they knew.

Well they makes cakes out of carrots, neeps are far more enormous and easy to get hold of.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'll stop all this neep chat now. But I did like the sound of the 'turnip' recipe that GP mentioned.:T

Greying thank you for the lovely virtual hugs regarding DD - its really appreciated.

Goodluck for your squire in residence and his U-toobing.

Shovel_Lad

for tomorrow's interview

Hope DP finds something useful on yootube.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening (again) :hello:

Thanks chums - you've solved my financial problems in one fell swoop. I have decided to approach the 'Turnip Council of Grater Britain and all Islands' for sponsorship of this thread - what d'ya think - opening gambit of £25k retainer and a £6k annual fee??:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

BoB - you've been hiding your light under a bushel - I didn't know that you had your very own turnip worship website . How inventive, and who would of thought.

Well, whilst DP has been pouring over the collective knowledge of the web, I have been orf and made yoghurt. I've made a double batch, partly because the milk has been hanging around due to me messing up getting more starter, and partly because I want to make ricotta or a version of cream cheese (whichever is the easier frankly - prob cc) to make a Jamie recipe for dinner later in the week.

Dinner this evening was kedgeree delayed from last night. Just as well, as I returned from the gardening parentals with a bag of onions, shallots and French beans. So the French beans were sliced up and added to the spice base for the kedgeree, along with some (frozen) spinach. I also used my egg 'guillotine' again and I'm getting really adventurous with it now, as I sliced the egg first one way, then carefully picked it up, turned it on it's bottom and sliced it......the other way. This produced what Nigella would term as 'shards' of egg which were then mixed into the rice mixture :rotfl: (you're a poncy bloomin' watnot Greying .....:rotfl:) We also had coriander from our herb pots mixed in it too. Delish and fairly frugal methinks :money:

I managed to get the TV listing guide for 38p - different actors on the front today - from a different soap - very good as less confusing

Oh, I meant to confess yesterday to an impulse purchase (but forgot with all that went on). I bought a reduced loaf of K*ngsmill wholemeal for 40p from Wilks. Fortuitous as it turns out as I wouldn't of been able to put together some sarnies for us after all the shenanigans with the WM. Phew, feel better for that

Tomorrow should be a NSD I think, but I'll double check in the morning.

Well folks, I have just had a super day, I hope you all have too - Beanie I hope you are OK and the bruises are healing. Mind you, it discombobulates you falling doesn't it? I wish you well anyway.

The 3 things for which I am grateful today;

Bees and pollen - I spent ages watching bumble bees go mad for pollen on some wonderful flowers* in the parentals' garden. The bees were all dusty yellow/orange from the pollen, and as I took a t-shirt off the clothes line, a single speck of pollen had fallen onto it - priceless.

Family - who help you out of your fix, even when things aren't necessarily going swimmingly for them.

Good News and sharing - it is easy to let yourself be uplifted on hearing good news. So thank you to everyone who makes the effort to share good news with us all.

Thank you so much for dropping in, reading, commenting and joining in. It is very much appreciated by me. Thank you.

See y'all later.

Greying


* Pippi would recognise the flowers in an instant, but I would say they are 'heli' something. They looked a little like v. small Echinacea, but were lovely orangey/red/burnt umber colours and the petals were more rounded.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Right, first things first;

7 Week Wonder - Go for it. All good wishes for your day

Today should be a no-spend day :j

DP casually announced over breakfast that 'open arterial investigative surgery' will commence on the WM tonight, so could dinner be a simple and quickly cleared away affair........:rotfl: Wished I'd had the foresight to grab a load of newspapers from the parentals recycling stack yesterday now What's the betting there will still be a load of residual water left in the machine - as they are so easy to drain.........not

The yoghurt turned out well. Which I'm grateful for, as I did wonder with 'doubling up' the recipe whether things would go wrong and it would be an awful waste of raw ingredients if it did. I'm also grateful that I can now use 2 food flasks that both have been under threat of eviction to a rummage sale/charity shop. I think that they are more use to me than they would of ever raised in funds - folk would of taken one look at the stained interior and shied away from them - despite the fact it in no way affects the warmth keeping quality of the flask.

Right, I had better toddle off and get organised.

Dinner will have to be re-jigged, so I need to give that some thought.

Have a great day, one and all.

Thank you for popping by - it is appreciated by me

See y'all later.

Greying

pixiedust09

Greetings Greying and other folks, Will subscribe in a min, but just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed reading your diary. I've achieved nothing today so far as I've read it from start to finish . The Buddha butter dish conversation had me in fits of laughter. You've inspired me to be more creative in the kitchen and try more veggie dishes.

I hope the open heart surgery on the WM goes well this evening. Well done on such a great Diary. :T