Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

...sprite has been easier for me to drink than water.

About 4-5 weeks ago Sprite was tested, along with other drinks, as a hangover cure and it came out best.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Having dropped Isaac at school, and finished a fairly urgent bit of work, there are several things I could / should be doing, but in fact, I'm going to make some peppermint tea and curl up on the sofa with a blanket and a book. A bit of laziness is sometimes a very good idea (-:

Don't blame you. It is a miserable day out. Indoors and in a warm environment sounds much nicer than the heavy rain currently outside.

ETA: just checked. It isn't heavy rain, but heavy hail. Brrrr..

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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

I was flashed once. I was sitting in my car one evening under a canopy of a car showroom, right on a main road. My window was open and I became aware of somebody out of the corner of my eye and about 6' away. I turned to look and there was a mid-20s blond guy with his tackle out. I shouted at him and he ran away.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

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.

He probably had spotters of some sort.....

PasturesNew

I've never been a fan of pasta. I've nothing against it and I eat it, but I've always had a strange feeling of "being cheated" when it's presented as a meal. I have a special feeling of disgust when menus offer pasta as a meal at £7-9.

For me it just feels like a cheap filler meal.....

I have eaten lasagne in works' canteens and chilled meals for one. I had a friend cook a particularly disgusting one using veggie mince once too. I've never had a "good" lasagne experience, just "it was food, it was warm".

I do remember, years ago, having some fab slabs of moussaka in a works' canteen..... although I dislike aubergine as it looks so nasty.

I'd rather make a moussaka than a lasagne, with a hefty layer of meat that stays together when you slice it.

Lasagne's always so slimy, thin and uninteresting looking.

PasturesNew

Given mince I'd prefer to make a kebab, some lamb/mint burgers, a Cumberland pie and some meatballs in sauce.

PasturesNew

Anyway, off the top of my head, Lasagne for 2 (or 1 fattie). Just guessing at quantities required. No idea how much it'd make up in the end:

Find a place that sells mince by weight. But let's say it's £6.50/Kg like michaels gets... but I need just 200g.

£1.30 - mince
£0.10 - onion
£0.31 - tomatoes (smartprice/basics)
£0.02 - stock cube (using michaels' price)
£0.05 - random herbs
£0.20 - cheapo pasta sheets
£0.10 - marg
£0.10 - flour
£0.20 - milk
£0.40 - cheddar cheese
£2.78

Lob mince into oven dish for 20 minutes. Drain, add onions, stock cube and herbs, cook for 10 minutes. Take out and mix with tomatoes.

Get pasta sheets out and pour boiling water on them to soften them for 1-2 minutes.

Nuke a cheese sauce - guessing quantities/costs.

Layer pasta sheets, mince/onion/tomato mix, into dish. Top with cheese sauce and cheese. Bake.

I can't help feeling that that'd be quite wishy washy and grim....

lostinrates

Lydia.....

How long do you take to eat the meal before pudding? Sainsburies have a chocolate and clementine pudding recipe card ATM. Serves eight (so I would double recipe into two basins.....people will want left overs or seconds).

Cost works out as 44p per portion, prep twenty mins! (But.........cooking is one hour forty five minutes)


If it were me, I'd still do it, and if you don't spend that long chatting and eating the meal at the other house then cook at home and reheat there.

Its probably on the website.

LydiaJ

Thanks lir. That looks just the sort of thing I was after. Meanwhile, I have just found this on the Cadbury website. So now I am sorted for this evening and for the next time, which will be in a month or so.

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks lir. That looks just the sort of thing I was after. Meanwhile, I have just found this on the Cadbury website. So now I am sorted for this evening and for the next time, which will be in a month or so.

Both good chocolates choices. I like white chocolate and red berries around this time of year....like snow and holly berries.

My holly berries are superb on one bush I planted behind the dog house that's there for the hedgehogs/cats and now probably rats.