Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

I've had a good day - it turned out well, and the good news is that there is a lot less stress at Greying Towers than there was this time yesterday evening :j

I can claim a NSD. I was hoping to go to the weekend but I realised that the XXL event is on at L*dl from tomorrow, and I've me eye on a 5kg sack of onions for £1.79. Mmm, getting them home will be an adventure - may have to think that one through a bit better......

I have tried to upload pictures of dinner, but for some reason, P bucket is having absolutely none of it. I've no idea why, I haven't set the camera any differently and it wouldn't work on a number of versions of the shots I took tonight. So you'll have to believe me that *me tea were yum * :rotfl:

EH I love the tomato bread. Haven't done it in an age, but you made me think and the bread that I toasted up for Pippi the other day is just the perfect foil for that recipe. I'll make some more bread and we'll do just that - thanks for the inspiration And Patas Bravas - YUM

little_sweetie - glad to hear that the boiler work is starting - probably be worse before it gets better..... but once it's up and working :j

Well, I think things are catching up with me, and it would be wise to have an early night. Sorry this hasn't been the best of posts.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

for a roof over my head

food in my stomach

an internet connection, that takes me straight to the heart of a fantastic community.

Thank you.

Greying

brizzledfw

Have a good eve GP and belatedly popping in to agree thank goodness for emergency funds

beanielou

This is a fantastic community indeed.
I salute you all

Cheery_Daff

Thought of you Greying this evening when I popped into the shop on the way home for milk, fruit etc - the nice woman behind the counter packed my bag in such a neat order, keeping the bananas and bread til last, and asking me if I wanted the freddo separately I thought 'that's exactly the kind of thing Greying would put on her list of things to be grateful for'

I did tell her how much I appreciated it!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Ay up brizzle - oh, I tell you, it gave me so much relief to know that we now have that fund - especially when *worst case* figures start getting bandied about :eek: But it'll be fine - we have the tools to deal with this at our disposal (well, not literally you understand - not too sure my wilko grade pliers would be up to open 'art surgery on a car engine :rotfl:)

beanie - we salute you too. You're a star of this community

Cheery - got it in one! That's exactly the type of instance that I appreciate - well done thoughtful shop assistant :T

Well, I'm having some colourful dreams again at the moment. Hope it is disgorging all the crap out of my head, and then we can get on with the important stuff! The dreams are certainly making no sense - particularly when they feature folk I have not seen for nearly 30 yrs! And how come you nor they age in dreams? :rotfl:

So onto today. Which I must remind myself is THURSDAY

I'm not sure about a NSD - depends on whether I go for the deal on onions. But I'm not sure I've time to make that work today. We'll see.

Dinner this evening will be lentil balloons, cous cous, mixed veg and some sort of sauce. Not sure whether to go down the spicy tomato or creamy bean sauce route.

Thank you so much for popping in, reading and joining in. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.


Greying

starnac

You were up early Greying

What are lentil balloons??? I'll look forward to seeing those! ETA never mind I've just got it :rotfl:

Can I ask a silly question please? If I wanted to make a loaf cake do I just make it in the loaf tin I use for my bread? Or do I need a special loaf cake tin?? I feel really silly asking but I've only got enough eggs to make one cake so I don't want to spoil it if it doesn't cook properly.

mrsinvisible

I use the same tin for bread cake and meatloaf, (not at the same time, you understand, so it should be fine!)Starnac.
Lentil balloons sound yummy, and so do both the sauces.
Tea at Chez Invis tonight is a small pork steak, (ys'd naturally) so I think I might make it into a Sunday type dinner. (seems a waste to do anything else with proper joined up meat!)

EssexHebridean

Definitely spicy tomato I reckon Greying - sounds like it will be the perfect foil to that dish! I should have known you'd love that tapas type food too - in fact, you've now got ME thinking I might do just that for a meal one night next week! In fact, I could even do it for tomorrow...now there's a thought! :T

Saluting ALL stars of this community, and the lurkers of it as well! :A

Cake/bread tins - same should work just fine Starnac, although you'll either need a paper liner OR to grease it REALLY well for cake I should think. Oh, and note for anyone who was wondering, DON'T make bread in one of those paper liners.....I promise you it's not a good plan! (Unless you enjoy eating paper?) :rotfl:

MrsInvisible mini roast dinner sounds just perfect! :T

Food in the EH household tonight is going to be baked tatties with beans and cheese, and whatever salad is left over. I've got a salad for lunch today as well as the bread was getting on a bit and there was only really enough for one anyway - so MrEH has a sandwich and I have a salad. (which MIGHT mean there's none left over - we'll see!)

I'll definitely give a nod to thoughtful shop assistants too - although in my case I'll go for the one the other day who spotted that I had my own bags in the trolley and DIDN'T clutter the packing space up with lots of their own bags to get in my way! :cool:

Hope the dreams abate soon, and that you either manage a NSD, or onions, whichever seems the most important!

mothernerd

Hi popping in again, I read but don't say much - sometimes wonder if i sound like I am being a 'know-all'.

I often make cakes in bread 'tins' - I bought 3 of the silicone ones when they were on offer at £1. A lot easier to clean and makes nice flat cakes that are easier to divide fairly.

I inherited my grandmother's cake tins and bakeware (mum was trained as a confectioner, made all the family wedding cakes until recently and had lots of tins) but successive plumbing failures ruined them. I kept them in the cupboard under the sink because they were harmless if the boys pulled them out to play with, when they were at the crawling round my feet stage. All the traditional 'under-sink cleaning stuff' (usually highly toxic) was kept on a shelf above the kitchen door.

Good wishes to all Greying merry band.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, what a lovely vibe going on, on this ere little thread Love it - shame I missed to join in

starnac - thank you for posing that question and I'm so glad that folks pitched in to answer for you. I assume that the cake has been made? Will pop over to yours for a look just now And I'm afraid I'm a firm advocate of 'no such thing as a silly question', so never worry about asking questions - ask, ask, ask - it's how we all learn. And even an old fossil like me is still able to learn new things, so ask!

Now, did you really think that I was gonna go all Hestin Bloomineck on you, and make lentil balloons did you?

Oh, and just for the record, I have 2 loaf pans and 4 mini loaf pans, they are interchangeable for cooking cake or bread or whatever, but I do do like EH and use liners or greaseproof/baking parchment if I am making cake - bread doesn't seem to stick, cake will.

Hi mrsinvisible - I hope your 'roast' has hit the spot - especially if you have had weather anything like ours today

EH - I've now audience participation in choosing 'me tea' :rotfl:Is this life imitating art? Wasn't there a film about a 24/7 reality show? Anyway, as it happened, of my own free will, I went for the spicy tomato, as I had some passata that needed using up, but had no lemon for the white bean sauce.

And you're right to remember the 'lurkers' too - yes, because sometimes they stop lurking and come out and introduce themselves

mothernerd - come on in, sit down, join in. Conversation is a two-way street And actually, that is a jolly good suggestion to put chemicals out of harms way. I wonder where the 'under the sink' tradition started?

So, today was OK. I can claim a NSD - it wasn't important to 'get' it as such, but it was pouring with rain at lunchtime, and lugging 5kgs of onions about is no fun - lugging them about in the rain.... even less so.

I've been giving a lot of thought to how I can make sure that the emergency fund is topped back up quickly enough. I am laughing though, because I literally am right back where I started with this diary Never mind

Dinner this evening was - pretty pedestrian and mundane - it was not prepared by a stellar celebrity chef, and you did not need to wear evening attire to eat it. Although, given EH's recent revelations and little_sweetie's admission to eating in her dressing gown, I think it only appropriate to point out that Team Greying was properly attired - white gloves were worn by yours truly and collar, braces and armee&Navey tie by DP Standards people, standards :rotfl:

We had this;



The 'cous cous' is actually fine bulghar week - AF of course. The carrots were out of the mrS basiks bag - and there were rather more than I thought The broad beans were frozen and ones that I didn't use in the KuKu dish from the other evening, they were dressed with oil, vinegar and fresh mint. The lentil spheres were a recipe that I found on the internet years ago after seeing similar on a Turkish stall at a Farmers Market. However, you may remember me mentioning that the recipe for Jack Monroe's Smoky Lentil Burgers was virtually identical. And yes, I know that there isn't a lot of sauce in the pic - but it is one of those occasions where more sauce would have obscured the other food, so it is there, and we put more on before we ate A little parsley (dried) and sumac was sprinkled on for poncy effect - I think it's an idea HB may yet assimilate into his food presentation........ :rotfl:

It was a very low cost meal. I like the lentil balloons, very much. Plus I can tick off having used one of my 'ready meals' as they were prepared in advance, making this a very quick meal to prepare

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

my health

for the free-flow of information betwixt MSE forum users

that we're still able to come up with a plan b..... - all is definitely not lost


Thank you so much for popping in, reading and joining in. I surely do appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying