Living on next to nought - is that the key?

Ellidee

Beanie gentle hugs from me too xxx

supersaver1000

And a big hug from me too. Be kind to yourself. I'm trying to live by that too, I totally agree, make the most of each day. Defo.

DH is becoming very MSE which is great because I can feel us starting to concentrate on the important things, not the 'things we can buy'.

GP. I love your pizza tea. Last night made the Ramja Masala which I am sure you posted (Red kidney bean curry). Went down very well thank you.

Monsoonspice.com is a great website.

Well off for a run then the Summer show where the outlaws are in the comp so we will cheer on their baking and making.

Then off to Lidl and Tiddles to get me shopping in.

Have a great weekend all.:)

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

I'm just waiting for the rice to steam and then I'll be dishing up 'me tea' I suspect I may well eat and then retire to Bedfordshire

supersaver - ramja masala was indeed mentioned on this thread. So glad that you enjoyed it. Thoroughly worth getting a few easy curry recipes in your recipe portfolio. Helps to use up 'gluts' of things, they are usually pretty quick to prepare and saves £'s on the auld 'takeout' temptation

I'm thinking that Hopefuljoy should be back on these shores now - surely 2 weeks has passed? I hope so anyway - not too sure I would be wanting to be doing a channel crossing tonight or tomorrow....... Fingers crossed for safe journeys all round

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

for gifted veg - so good to cook with fresh stuff

for the entertainment of TMS - even if it isn't the same without 'Blowers'. Edinburgh, can we please have him back???

for the pleasure paint colour charts can yield.... - plotting and scheming, plotting and scheming.....

Thank you so much for popping in, reading and commenting. Mucho appreciated.

See y'all tomorrow.

Greying

supersaver1000

I even made peshwari naans again for us all last night (family dinner with DHs family) and made the tarka dhal myself too. I really enjoyed cooking and the naans went down a treat (big beaming smile) again. DD whipped up a delicious pudding, this family has really turned a corner, and I have to say the impetus and motivation has come from your thread. A great big Thank you to you GP.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

supersaver - you are very kind. I'm sure it is just your innate abilities shining through, nothing to do with me but thank you for your lovely compliment - graciously accepted on behalf of all contributors to the thread

Well, thank goodness the early night worked and I had a good night's sleep - for which I am very grateful. It does make all the difference.

As much as anything, I think I was sleeping off a HUGE dinner. We'd somehow managed to miss out on lunch along the way, so I overcompensated a little..... having said that, DP has just asked if I was thinking of making some sort of cooked brekkie. I replied, that I was 'still full, aren't you'....... guess what the reply was? :rotfl: I thought hollow-legged teenagers were a curse of the........teenage years :rotfl:

So, dinner last night was a curry plate. I used up some of the donated runner beans in a Sri Lankan Runner Bean Curry the only thing I do differently, is to use Rick Stein's sri lankan curry powder mix, rather than the spices in the recipe. I normally have a batch of Rick's curry powder mixed up, and it is a good blend. I then made The Hairy Bikers Saag Aloo recipe which used up the last of the donated potatoes and then I made some of the lentil dhal (sorry, can't find Linda's recipe online ) and a portion of basmati rice each. It is DP's plate in the foreground and he'd been working hard all day (plus the photo makes things look far bigger than they are.....)



It only struck me after we had eaten, that I had probably broken mouche's golden rule about serving beans and lentils again. Of course, I view runner beans as a vegetable, rather than a 'bean' (whereas I would see a kidney bean as a 'bean' not a vegetable, IYSWIM), so I've probably made a serving faux pas - again. I will learn, one of these days!

The beans were a lighter shade of green - I used the 'bigger' ones.... however, none of the shots that I got really captured the true colours - this was too 'blue' the other shots were too far on the orange spectrum. So apologies if it doesn't look appetising. In RL, it looked far more 'appealing', and the coconut milk was cream coloured, not grey

Anyway, due to the donated HG veg, it was a pretty cheap meal. Very filling, and tasty, and to be fair, not something that you would probably find on offer at your local take-away........ I'll leave you to judge as to whether that is a good thing..... :rotfl:

Hopefully, with a bit of luck, we will be going in the direction of South-East asia for our dinner tonight...... (theoretically, not literally I hope.... #stayawayBertha)

I'm aiming for a nsd today. Should have everything that we need

Right, well, my coffee cup is drained, so I suppose I had better get and shift a tail-feather.

Thank you for popping in, reading and leaving such positive comments. Always appreciated.

See y'all later.

Greying

beanielou

Slow down wiman

in_need_of_direction

Yeah, you consistently make the rest of us look bad!

mrsinvisible

Wow that bean curry looks gorgeous, l may have to make it as the runner beans are just about pickable now.
Today, however will be a meal made around courgettes and tomatoes, and potatoes, so l'm also in the running for an NSD. The persisting down rain is preventing me from the garden tasks, so l am altering more clothes and CS bagging others. Fruit medley for lunch, with a bit of HG mint, sounds weird, l know, but is really nice.

Greying_Pilgrim

beanielou wrote: »

Slow down wiman

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Yeah, you consistently make the rest of us look bad!

LOL - if only you both had checked out the Greying Towers webcam you would see that I have been practicing procrastination, dawdling and lolling with the zeal more normally associated with the dedication of an Olympian! :rotfl:

I have just made some shortbread (too thin) and some scones (too thick) and I'm just waiting for the tomato soup to cook up, and to probably find that I have made it too salty or summat! :rotfl:

Meanwhile, DP has been cracking on like the trooper he is, putting the house back into some sort of order, following last week's tradesperson episode. No mean feat when you're dealing with a house with no straight edges ..............

Don't feel like doing much of anything today Need some OOMPH from somewhere

Greying

maddiemay

I too need ooomph, if I find any will send some your way:D:

Made "mama's mission" Broccoli and Cheddar Soup for lunch with some "not very green" broccoli, it was yummy, but had to snatch salt pot from OH with the warning that his BP might not stand the addition of more LOL

Murphy's law is working well, I saw Elaine's (Memory Girl) recipe for Miette's Cream of Courgette Soup with Feta and it looks so good, but absolutely no-one around here seems to have an excess of courgettes for sale, might even have to go to a shop for some:(