Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

dryhat

Have a listen to this if you want a laugh...

http://95rockfm.com/best-voicemail-giving-play-by-play-of-car-accident/

lostinrates

Well, also in lighter news I'm having a good day.

Can you bear with me while I sound nuts?

I'm having another day where I look like 'me'. The difference is clear to me, just like when DH commented the other day. S much so that for the first time in well over a year I have put 'me' make up on (parrot green and cobolt blue) and it Los no more ridiculous than coloured eyeshadow might intrinsically look, so it wasn't that I was getting old or too fat to wear it, it was actually something odd to do with my face, or skin tone or something.

I feel made up like me if not dressed like me But, sort of like a fat me, and I feel closer to accepting this as something I could be comfortable with going forward. Not happy about no, but , if I can me 'me' not someone lost in this, then its not so bad.

Its the sort of thing I know that if one says to a consultant one sounds barking mad ...but its as if the muscles under my skin is actually holding my skin differently.

I know that all sounds super odd.

I also dreamt about the rude fur coat. It was warm and soft and I was wearing it on the tube with a really nice pair of boots and I got the hem of it caught in the escalator. I would never buy fur, even if I could afford to. I think I am feeling guilty for liking it.

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just watching HUTH. the 3 bed semi that just sold in Kent is almost identical to my brother's in Hertfordshire and in a similar state. Just goes to show how different the markets are, my brother's cost more than double that. Once done up they are lovely though and the fact that he's a very competent builder helped.

There is always Hatfield if you want a cheap 3 bed in Herfordshire

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

I also dreamt about the rude fur coat. It was warm and soft and I was wearing it on the tube with a really nice pair of boots and I got the hem of it caught in the escalator. I would never buy fur, even if I could afford to. I think I am feeling guilty for liking it.

Embarassing when you were only wearing the coat and boots....

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just watching Rude Tube - a clip of somebody skiing down the Angel tube escalator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqQOlYE4EE

What a prat! He had no way of knowing whether someone was travelling up that escalator whilst he was skiing down. He got away with it, but not something to be proud of.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Embarassing when you were only wearing the coat and boots....

I look better naked than dressed, the boobs distract attention from anywhere else really.

I cannot remember what else I was wearing, but for the coat and the boots, But I wasn't naked, I think it was very tight trousers and a sequinned top, only because I had a hankering to wear a sequinned top this morning but decided not too and they are all sleevless. Obviously in the dream I was at my 'fighting weight'!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

These terms meant something completely different in my day!

Our local paper had a report of a flasher. The description said that he had 'short, dark, curly hair'.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

ON a lighter topic I read this and despaired:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/24927151

When cooking lasagne has become 'adventurous' and people have no idea how much it costs compared to ready meals is there much hope.....

We cook mince every few weeks, each time we make enough for 2 meals for 5 (sorry PN) - it costs 6.50 for 1kg of low fat mince (or £5 if we do 50% mince 50% quorn), 20p for a tin of tomatoes, £1 for a jar of red sauce, 2p for a beef stock cube, 30p for 3 onoins, 40p for 4 large carrots and a sprinkle of herbs. One meal is likely to be spag bol, so 40p for dried pasta, the other might be cottage pie (50p of spuds), lasagne (30p of dried pasta and another £1 jar of white sauce) of sometime just add hot sauce on the plate (different doses for different family members) and have with fusilli or similar (30p)

A big issue I think is the bulk. I wouldn't be cooking for five and don't have the freezer space for masses of lasagne. I do cook a lot of pasta though and almost always make my own sauces. I think for smaller quantities, stove top rather than all forno recipes are the way forward.

A more practical starter meal for absolute beginners would be a spaghetti. Possibly a Bolognese, or for a veggie like me I like al arabiatta. Plonk pasta in boiling water. Make sauce from passata, chilli, herbs, olive oil, bit of garlic, poss a splash of vodka. Jobs a good un.

Plus rest of mince for Bolognese could be used for cottage pie, another of the easiest to cook meals in the whole world.

ETA.. reading this back, spell check appears to have had its wicked way with me again. GRRRRR...

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

I like al arabiatta

Apparently pasta al arrabiatta is the Indian version of chicken tikka masala. When Indians go for a 'European' (Italian?) that's the dish on every menu and it's every bit as Italian as a masala sauce too!

I think the trick to a really good arrabiatta sauce is to cook it in a Pyrex in the oven really slowly to get a smoky flavour or to do it very, very fast on the stove top to make it super fresh.

When I'm training properly on the bike I'll eat pasta arrabiatta twice a week.

The first dish I really taught myself to cook was a ragu sauce. I picked up one of those cook in sauces in the supermarket and bought all the ingredients on the label that weren't chemicals before returning the jar to the shelf. It tasted ok and I refined it from there.

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

Embarassing when you were only wearing the coat and boots....

And glow-in-the-dark pants, don't forget those!