Living on next to nought - is that the key?

supersaver1000

Another night owl. Defo sleep time.

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

moneyistooshorttomention

Upsidedown_Bear wrote: »

Any good?

I think that's my one...:rotfl:. My googling these days often goes "Gulp! Huh! Wazzat? Eureka".

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Ha ha - what are you all like? - you're keeping my thread warm from way past midnight, and then starting all over again first thing For the first time in ages, I slept from the moment my head touched the pillow last night, to when DP got up this morning. Heaven

Upsidedown Bear - I hope the tumbleweed is a reference to the contents of my purse and not the contents of my posts :rotfl: I actually heard a factoid about tumbleweed at the weekend - I hope it is true. Apparently it is not native to the US, but is an import from Russia? Rich Hall was on a radio programme and mentioned it.

rtandon - I was pleasantly surprised at the curry, with its simplicity. I think coconut will only add to it, but as I say, I've more curries with it in to make this month, so left it out. But it's not bad when you can leave out an ingredient and still have a good dish, eh?

supersaver - I hope you got some sleep......

mcculloch - you are so right about the standard of cooking - actually not so long ago. And the ingredients available. I have an early edition (sadly, not a 'first' ) of Rose Elliot's bean book, and it is hilarious, that what is regarded as a seminal tome by the doyenne of Veggism, is so........ 'ordinary' now. I absolutely hear you on the 'curry powder', not cumin and coriander, turmeric or chilli. And as for fenugreek........ :rotfl:Mind, that just means that I have to count my blessings more, that I have these things easily available to me, and I can have such fun trying things out. Oh, and as for pristine condition of cookery books, see them in the oxford famine bookshop all the time.........

Lilty - there are various ways to buy from stores - there is the 'second purse' system on the groceries board for example. However, the way I do it is like this; Say I originally bought a 5kg bag of rice (I will have had to use money other than grocery money to buy it probably). I put this in my store cupboard, and I am 'down' £5, but I have a bag of rice. I write my meal-planner for October, and decide that I will have 6 meals that have rice x 2 in the household = 900g of rice. So with my October grocery money, I put 90p in the 'stores pot', remove 900g of rice from the bag and put it in the jar in the kitchen. I repeat this each month, working out how much rice I will need. I also do it for lentils, oats, flour etc. The trick is to try to make sure you don't run out of everything at the same time - that way, the 'stores pot' should always have enough in it to buy new supplies, of rice, lentils chickpeas, whatever. My 'biggie' is always the purchase of oats from the food co-operative, which is a quarterly event and a big amount (compared to a bag of lentils ) Also, you have to be able to have some money to 'prime' your system at the start. I'd be the first to say that this is difficult if you are on a squeaky tight budget and spend every penny you have - every week/month or however long your budget period is. It is not easy, but it does get easier once the system is up and running. I currently have about £20 in my 'stores' pot - but I am very low on chickpeas and rice, and will need to stock up, using some of the £20. HTH

I could nab a NSD today. It is TV guide day, I'm pretty sure I need nowt else, so may go purseless for the day

Dinner this evening will be a 'treat' for turnip (Swedish) lovers everywhere........ :rotfl:

Thank you so much for popping in, reading and joining in - I greatly appreciate all of you taking so much time and trouble to be here

See y'all later.

Greying

Upsidedown_Bear

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Upsidedown Bear - I hope the tumbleweed is a reference to the contents of my purse and not the contents of my posts :rotfl:

I have found a purse for you :money:

liltdiddylilt

Aha GP that makes perfect sense thank you! I do do a similar thing, in that some months my grocery budget is higher than others to fill up the stores. I let it even itself out but this month, no excuses. I shall stick to it. As I said, it is self imposed. I have healthy credits in a few accounts which I am overwhelmingly grateful for, but overall I spend too much and need to nail it down! My purse has moths in... and underused vouchers from supermarkets for items they assume I want.. :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Can I first of all say, if there are any Top Turnip Officianados, waiting in the wings, to see what I did with their favourite orb 'fer 'us tea', I'm afraid, I'm going to disappoint. I came home feeling like death warmed up, so opted to make a Buddha bowl instead. I apologise for misleading, please tune in again on Thursday, unless I do go down with the lurgy - and then all bets are off as to when I'll make the turnip dish

Upsidedown Bear - ain't no 'maybe' about it - the moths have moved in - nailed another NSD today :j:D

Lilty - easy done, take your eye off the ball and the moths go on a spending spree! Hence why I'm reigning in for November too

Urgh. Felt bad when I came in. Rallied a little to make dinner - which I'm glad about, at least my cooking mojo ain't aching...... :rotfl: And now I'm beginning to feel rotten again. Next stop, me bed and a hottie I think.....

I am however, pleased with what we had for tea. I had pencilled in Thursdays to be the Buddha bowl days for November, but needs must, and, as it happens, it is no bad thing, as the YS'd sprouts were better used sooner rather than later..... Also, I made paneer on Sunday, and although it keeps in the fridge, it is better to use it I think. So, this evening, Dear Reader, we had Brussels Sprout Buddha Bowl...... I'll just let that hang there a moment......... Pic here;



So, I put my new found knowledge into practice and cooked 150g of basmati rice in 300ml of hot water - bringing it to the boil, then lowering to a simmer, and then turning the heat off when the water had disappeared out of the dimples. Shoved a tea towel over the pan and forgot about it for 10 mins whilst I; fried up some red onion with some mustard seeds and chilli flakes. I also cut up the paneer (after draining it and patting it dry) and put that into a frying pan with some oil and fried it both sides for about 7 mins, until the surface was nice and golden. I popped the shredded Brussels sprouts into the onion mixture and stir-fried them for about 4 mins. Put it all together in a bowl, topped with a sauce, that I made up (can't give specifics, as GP sauce may yet make me my mi££ion...... :rotfl:) and topped off with toasted sesame and onion seeds.

I'm so glad that I had another go at paneer. Whilst I am still left with as much whey........ I followed a different recipe, and got a much better result. Mouche, bless her, is absolutely right, HM is completely different to the shop-bought stuff, I'm really glad I persevered. I followed the recipe and instructions from a different blog this time, but I used 4 pints of milk and the juice of 11/2 lemons. This cost a grand total of 85p, as I hit the motherload of milk reductions in mrW on Saturday - 4 pints of milk, 25p :j How I wish I had a chest freezer, we would have had paneer until the middle of next year...... If you'd like a go at the paneer recipe, you can find the one I used HERE, although you don't get much paneer, so I'm not sure that I would go to the trouble of making it with less than 2L of milk.......... but that's me.

Christmas in a bowl, and a use for YS'd sprouts and milk - what more can you ask for? Even DP said he would have that again, even for Christmas Dinner

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

learning new techniques and going on to improve with experience

for a beautiful and colourful show of cosmos in a garden - a natural 'firework display' on the 4th November no less!!

that again, today, I have *enough*

Thank you so much for popping in, reading and commenting. I am grateful. Always.

See y'all later, I've a hot date with my pillow and HW-B

Greying

rtandon27

?strange? - my quick links say GP posted - but nought to be seen!

edit - I hit post & there it was! - you did indeed post GP & a beautiful dinner it is too - looks like a very posh japanese dinner!

Upsidedown_Bear

rtandon27 wrote: »

?strange? - my quick links say GP posted - but nought to be seen!

edit - I hit post & there it was! - you did indeed post GP

Weird - happened to me too :think:

Evening everyone :j

Greying_Pilgrim

+ me too! Very confusing :think:

Greying