Living on next to nought - is that the key?

supersaver1000

Maryland_Cookie wrote: »

Wow GP that looks amazing, I'll add that to my list to try as well as the meatballs x

I agree. Yummy yummy.

We had cheese omelette tonight, but I bet GP would have put some extras in. We did spice up our carrot salad though with raisins, coconut, onion, chilli, lemon juice and coriander. Non nom indeed.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Maryland Cookie - how kind, thank you Lovely to *see* you

supersaver - wot the h3ck y'all doing up at 4.30am??? Hey - missus *pimp my carrot salad* - seems like you are doing some culinary wizardry of your own :D:D:rotfl: Lovely to *see* you too, although I hope all is well?

Right, I'm a bit behind myself this morning, my eyelids got all droopy, just at the strategic point of getting up...... :rotfl:

I shall aim for a nsd today, we're very low on milk, but it would be useful if we could spin that out until tomorrow, not least because i'd have to get it from the corner shop, or somewhere equally expensive, so the [STRIKE]tightwad[/STRIKE] frugalista in me is looking to save a bob or two

Dinner this evening is Soup/sandwich. Although I'm immediately *shaking things up* and we'll have soup and a pud instead. The last of the YS'd plums are starting to look sorry rather than perky, so I want to use them all up - no waste on my watch! I was a little annoyed with myself yesterday, as when I came to use the last avocado, I had left it too long, and was only able to use about half of it - grr to myself

Oh, and I was thinking some more about what HopefulJoy said, and I have to freely admit how good this diary is for me, and how my (silly) little challenges to myself are helping keep our food interesting. I am quite sure that if I didn't have the structure of a place to report in, 'wot we 'ad fer us tea' and 'ain't Leanne Brown/Jack Monroe/any other food blogger wonderful' then we would have a lot more pasta and tomato sauce in our diet. A LOT more I feel I would let you down if I didn't try to make our meals interesting - daft I know, because Y'ALL have set no expectations of me, but it is certainly a (good) extrinsic motivator So THANK YOU for making my meal times interesting and (inadvertently) challenging me to do better. I was thinking too, Hopefuljoy if you are going back through the thread, you may see that the photography has improved a little (although shooting in artificial light is always hard and the food never looks as good ), but Upsidedown Bear encouraged me to get better with my pics, so you can see how the thread improves our lives, here at Greying Towers

Anyway, I'm outta here.

Thanks for popping by, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it. Even if I was in the land of nod at the time......

See y'all later.

Greying

Pippilongstocking

I lost half an end of courgette the other day.

The shame I felt knowing you'd probably have noticed it.

Even the chooks wouldn't touch it so I left it for the slugs who (given the appearance of the bowl I put out for them) scoffed it. So if I can eventually recycle those to the chooks, I might have saved some face.

Pesky turning veg.

Waves to all. I'm up to me oxters in apples.

Any good recipes chaps.

Cos of course this is the place to ask.



Happy Thursday.

Shortie

Afternoon all

I'm having major phone issues at the moment and it's crashing/freezing/not coming back to life quite a bit while it's not plugged in. I tend to look at MSE on my way in and out of work on the train so I haven't really been able to keep up properly

I have another handset at home that Mr Shortie is charging up for me but I recon it'll be like going back from Windows 8 to Windows 3.1 :rotfl::rotfl: I need to just grow up and put up with it. My current phone isn't insured and I don't want to fork out for a new handset if I can help it :eek:

Busymumofthreeplusdog

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I lost half an end of courgette the other day.

The shame I felt knowing you'd probably have noticed it.

Even the chooks wouldn't touch it so I left it for the slugs who (given the appearance of the bowl I put out for them) scoffed it. So if I can eventually recycle those to the chooks, I might have saved some face.

Pesky turning veg.

Waves to all. I'm up to me oxters in apples.

Any good recipes chaps.

Cos of course this is the place to ask.



Happy Thursday.

Chutney!! Cider???:rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Waves to all. I'm up to me oxters in apples.

Any good recipes chaps.

Cos of course this is the place to ask.

C R U M B L E............ you knew I was going to say that didn't you? :rotfl:

Sorry Pips I'm not much good on the preserving side of things, I tend to just freeze and then use in the ^ afore-mentioned......:D

shortie - 'tis lovely to *see* you - sorry that you are having problems with your phone - which makes it even more special that you thought to drop in to see us - THANK YOU

Busymumofthreeeplusdog - my vote would be to see Pippi make homebrew scrumpy with her windfall - wadda ya think? It'd be perfect for any first wellifest anniversary woodland gathering parties I think.........

How went the day for you Dear Reader? Mine went rather splendidly I think that I am going to stop saying that I'm going to snag a NSD though, as I seem to spend on those days However, I got some YS'd goodies - totes amazebAlls at lunchtime reductions :eek: (3 sweet peppers for 25p and 950g of bananas for 20p :j) And I also picked up some milk, as mrW now sells 4 pints for £1 - since when??? Last I heard, you could get it for a quid with a waitflower customer incentive card. The 'colleague' or partner or whatever they call themselves seemed to think it was a special offer and wouldn't last........oh, and I may have bought a secondhand bike...... Pity I found the 25p peppers after I had bought 4 romano peppers for £1 from the grocers, but they were yellow, and you don't often see yellow romano peppers and I need them for a dish that I'm making at the weekend.

Dinner this evening was courtesy of Leanne Brown's Good and Cheap and I went for the French Onion Soup (pg 39). Do you know Dear Reader, in the 907 yrs that I have been on this planet, I have never actually made FOS. I've made an onion soup that was actually a sour soup and you blended it (middle-eastern recipe) but this one was a 'new' one on me. Now, of course, purists will say that I made no such thing, as there is no beef stock nor red wine in it, but I was pleasantly surprised at how..... robust? the flavour was. I used a mix of red and yellow onions, as that was what I had. So the onions were a little darker from the start as the red onions gave up their colour, but I also used balsamic vinegar (only cheap stuff) to deglaze the saucepan once the onions had caramelised.

I used one of the bread rolls that I had made for the cemitas, to make some 'cheesy toast' to top the soup. As you know, 'brioche' style bread - whether it contains milk or butter, is an excellent toasting bread, so this worked really well. What I hadn't factored in, was how quickly the bread would soak up the soup broth whilst I was trying to take a pic! :rotfl: You can, though, perhaps just see in the pic, how airy the bread was - I was really pleased with how it turned out in the end - just not how gloopy it was to make! Must have another look at that recipe to see what can be changed.

Anyhoo, tonight's study in brown pic here;



I would make this soup again mrA currently have 1kg of onions for 39p in their 'Super 6' if you would like to make the soup - i'm sure if you live near to an Asian supermarket or decent farm shop, you could probably get onions cheaper than that too......

Tonight I am grateful for these 3 things;

that I dropped super-lucky again with some YS bargains of items that we need - :j

for independent cycle shops who still sell good, secondhand bikes at very reasonable prices - a saving pot covered the balance, so I can adventurise *freely* without a credit hangover

for a supportive DP who has agreed that we *must* test-drive the bike on the weekend - just pack me a picnic and point me to the start of the trail! :rotfl:

Thank you so much for popping in, reading and commenting. All good

I'm away to heat up some pud and maybe make some custard. DP has expectantly put the bowls ready on the counter...... :rotfl: Simple pleasures and all that........ :rotfl:

See y'all later.

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Keeping on the Gallic theme...... *Yves Pudding* - red plums with a smidge of orange zest added, topped with a 4oz/100g Victoria sponge mix with a little mixed spice added. (and yes, that is the recipe for *Eves Pudding* - usually made with apples - spicing optional ) HM custard; milk, pinch of turmeric, sugar, cornflour and a splash of vanilla



Greying

in_need_of_direction

I love custard and your sounds amazing.

supersaver1000

*pimp my carrot salad* :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

All well thank you. I do pop in all the time and it's lovely to read this thread.

Busymumofthreeplusdog

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Good Evening :hello:



........oh, and I may have bought a secondhand bike......


Greying

Lol, may?? I think maybe you did! So where's the piccy of the new wheels?

Ps I love FOS, haven't made it for ages! Guess what's going on our menu plan next week?
Yum!