Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

neverdespairgirl

Nikkster wrote: »

Either that or too much cheesecake...

Not a sniff of cheesecake chez NDG today.

I'm feeling smug though - over the last week I've made 9lb of damson jam, turned 20kg of tomatoes into very concentrated roasted tom, onion, garlic and herb puree, made 3 litres of sloe gin, and 8 x 1/2lb jars of damson jelly and sloe-and-apple jelly.

Edited to add - that's probably why I've been a bit quiet this week - my "talking rubbish on the NP thread" time has become "cooking with Isaac" time instead. He loves it.

SingleSue

Middle son has two cover this weeks....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsRPZPkIDiE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7dDUE4r_vA

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not sure I've ever eaten wheatabix - we didn't really do breakfast cereals at home when I was a child.

Isaac eats either bran flakes or rice crispies, both without milk. Which seems pretty revolting to me, but it's his breakfast, I suppose <shrug>

He eats lots of things most 8 year olds wouldn't - olives, gherkins, curry, anchovies, mushrooms, sushi, seaweed; I reckon we're all allowed the odd dietry foible.

There was a documentary some time ago about a tribe in the Himalayas who only ate one food some kind of barley cakes cooked with yak butter. When they had a feast they just ate more of the food than they had to.

I couldn't live like that and I'm sure Chewie couldn't either.:rotfl:

Isaac sounds like he has a good range of food.

As regards leftovers, having a small dog (with its carbon footprint equivalent to a VW Golf) means we don't chuck out leftovers anyway.

zagubov

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Is that, "great minds think alike", or, "fools seldom differ".......?

I have a weird queasy feeling that I'm putting down to Zag and Chewy's descriptions of eating the same food for several days at a time, including "fermentation".

IIRC both me and Chewie studied Biotechnology and I'm not sure we'd be worried about fermentations.

Weetabix isn't bad but it feels like it's some kind of a wartime food.

As if you could live forever on it and even if you didn't it would feel like forever while you ate it. :eek:

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

There was a documentary some time ago about a tribe in the Himalayas who only ate one food some kind of barley cakes cooked with yak butter. When they had a feast they just ate more of the food than they had to.

I couldn't live like that and I'm sure Chewie couldn't either.:rotfl

I could as long as you replaced the yak butter cakes with mars ice creams.

lostinrates

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not sure I've ever eaten wheatabix - we didn't really do breakfast cereals at home when I was a child.

Isaac eats either bran flakes or rice crispies, both without milk. Which seems pretty revolting to me, but it's his breakfast, I suppose <shrug>

He eats lots of things most 8 year olds wouldn't - olives, gherkins, curry, anchovies, mushrooms, sushi, seaweed; I reckon we're all allowed the odd dietry foible.

My nieces liked all of that stuff too. ( apart from cereal without milk.....they liked toast or cooked breakfasts) . They had no idea any of it was possibly ' uncool' until they went to school.


Edit: I have a red light on not a green one though I'm quite clearly 'here'. Anyway . On weetabix. It reminds me of weaning puppies . I quite like weetabix, but it does smell of wee to me. Is there a word for words that are reminiscent of smell not sound (like onomatopoeia). That's what I thought weetabix was when I was younger.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

There was a documentary some time ago about a tribe in the Himalayas who only ate one food some kind of barley cakes cooked with yak butter. When they had a feast they just ate more of the food than they had to.

I couldn't live like that and I'm sure Chewie couldn't either.:rotfl:

Isaac sounds like he has a good range of food.

As regards leftovers, having a small dog (with its carbon footprint equivalent to a VW Golf) means we don't chuck out leftovers anyway.

Dogs are a pita with LOs IMO. Too much in the food that's potentially bad or them.. Garlic, onions in so much savoury food for example.

We use what we can for meals. LOs here work that they get them after big gatherings when there is too much to clear on the day or dog safe plate scrapings.

Also, I will give questionable safety scrapings to old dog. ( or any old dogs, but old dog is now in the ' I'm allowed a bit of onions' territory in our house. I'm not going to feed her onion soup or anything, but the odd bit of onion is now IMO ok, because she's now declining and anything that shortens her life is ok if its making it better. If she were a human I'd be letting her have a tot of gin each night and seconds of pudding.

SingleSue

Rise Krispies or cornflakes, coco pops etc are all great without milk....I have it like that all the time and not just as a meal for breakfast, it's also great as a substitute for another meal (a trick I learnt dieting)

I like Weetabix too but only once in a blue moon, they trigger my IBS like symptoms.

Anyway, today is the day! James is off to university and I am both excited and a little scared...my first born is going on the next step of the journey of his life!

I am so so proud of him (sorry for the twee post), but just prior to his GCSEs, actually even in his first year of GCSEs, it was not looking very likely at all and now he is a man with a plan...he wants to be a teacher of philosophy as a back up plan if his main career aim fails.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks! It failed as a tease, too, I'm afraid. I was enjoying looking at it and wishing I could be bothered to make something so yummy-looking, and didn't even realise it was referring to my previous comments until I saw my name!



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Well, that's even better.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/blackberry-tart-torta-di-more

The sunshine kid could do this btw, you could just do the pastry case for her (or even buy one) and it took less than ten minutes actual cooking time. You could do it with ready made pastry.

Personally I'd up the fruit and lower the mascarpone for a family meal. Much less unhealthy with less of the creamy stuff and more fruit. and frankly, less rich and probably more tasty with other family adaptation; it has grappa or vin santo in it, which I know not every one likes children having. . It would be fine (if pink) with a little syrop des mures or cassis instead. Or just a little more vanilla.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

We never had breakfast, but I dc remember cereals being in the house and me eating them, I know the school called my parents in once as I wasn't having breakfast and the school told them I should. They'd said at the time that I wouldn't eat it.

It wasn't until recently that my sibling said to me "she was a bad mother - think about it - would you really refuse to eat food if you were given it?" and I had to admit, no, I was always a hungry/greedy child (and adult). See food, eat it. My sibling said that she'd never got out of bed in the mornings, or got us ready for school - stuff I hadn't really remembered.

I do remember desperately waiting for school dinners, as I was starving. I loved school dinners. Usually had it and then always had leftovers/seconds when available.

Maybe the cereals were a common lunch meal during holidays/Saturdays.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I do remember mum used to work about a mile up the road and I remember one school holidays (older sibling must have been looking after us) mum popping home to give us outr lunch, which was a caramel wafer, a chelsea bun and a packet of crisps.

She worked in a works' canteen serving food at the time. I also remember that being the "usual lunch" that summer holidays.

She did manage to work, so she wasn't the lazy mother that stayed in bed all day and watched daytime TV.