Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

bugslet

lostinrates wrote: »

So pretty, but wouldn't you hate to get the duff side of the bed? Why no floor plan? Its so stupid.

heck you'd need to be short. It's very pretty though.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I love pasta.

It IS a cheap carby food, like Yorkshire pudding, its role historically was the same, to fill up on a cheaper ingredient. You might have a small portion as a starter or even after a starter but before a small main course. Or a big serving as a meal alone or a main course.


It makes expensive ingredients go further...just like with Yorkshire pudding we need only some thin slivers of beef and gravy with pasta one needs less of the key proteins. Expensive seafood, beef, othe meat....a shaving of ( my personal yuck) truffle....


I am not really a spicy pasta person, but I do love that starchy comfort of give like lover's skin to my teeth and that warm satisfied feeling of satiation from pasta.


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I'm a pasta fan too. Love pasta bakes, & also it is great for taking on picnics.
On which theme, I found a lovely wicker picnic basket that someone else had dumped at our house a week or so ago. I'd noticed it assuming it was a sewing box or similar, but opened it whilst tidying up & love it! 4 cups, plates & plastic knives/forks/spoons all strapped in! Glorious! Just need some nice weather now...

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother lies in the bath and is shorter than you, I seem to remember having had this conversation before?


Laying I. The bath is important I agree, its much better read laying in the hot, scented water. Its the main reason we're not seriously looking at a beautiful copper bath ( I like the ones on that Mexican site actually) because they are all sitty- up type baths.

* must remember this is the NP thread.....*

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

never worked out how to transfer pics from digital camera/phone to a forum ( or anywhere for a matter of fact:o).

Go to photobucket, sign up, free account.
Log in. Click button "UPLOAD"
Find the image on your PC and drag the image across to the Photobucket page and let go - it'll upload
Once uploaded, immediately on the right there's a choice of links, click on "Direct link" and it automatically copies it to your clipboard.
Come here and paste that link.

NOTE: At this point your album is public - and people can browse through every photo.

MAKE IT PRIVATE:
Find the "Create an album" option, create an album.
Change the settings to say Private
Any photos in that album are now private

You can transfer images into/out of that album easily enough.

To use any image in any album, find the image - and the links will, again, be to the right.

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Random house for sale, posted for no reason whatsoever except it's different.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41130896.html

I'm still looking for hobbits in the gallery there...

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

So pretty, but wouldn't you hate to get the duff side of the bed? Why no floor plan? Its so stupid.

No floor plan due to cost/hassle.

I bet for many houses they've got a set of stock images.... that one would need to be done from scratch.

Having said that, they could have drawn it on a bit of paper and photographed it ... but it's Cornwall... so they won't

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

My delivery was from space nk, not amazon :rotfl:

And yes, its been delivered again.


I'think I might just tell them I'll pay for it and keep it.

Picadilly are a little independent record shop.

I was trying (badly) to highlight how the large conglomerates care little for customer service, whereas the small indies go the extra yard.:o

I've ordered loads from amazon & many other "big" online retailers in the past. Definitely prefer the customer service from the indies though.:)

bugslet

I do have a photobucket account....somehow I have in the past uploaded, it took forever I seem to recollect, down entirely to my numptiness.

You also lost me at clipboard - I have no idea where that is.....ha, now I'm making you cry.

And to make you cry more, I did have a pic of the mutts up, but could not work out how to get the private settings.....

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Maybe I should try more pasta, for quick meals..... never thought about it. Could quickly roast some tomatoes/onions with some herby stuff ... and bung it onto a bowl of pasta. Never thought of it, always only ever experienced bland pasta sauces.... might do that.... right now I've a whole loaf to plough through in the next week.... and a dozen eggs. Both of which have a finite lifespan... and I've some spuds that I bought over 2 weeks ago that are sprouting, so need to use those up too.

I think that's why I get stuck in my rut. When you start by buying 2-3 ingredients that have a 2-3 week lifespan you end up eating just those to get through them.

1.5Kg spuds, 1 loaf of bread, 15 eggs..... starts to suck you into a vortex of "the same quick meals every day".
Same when I buy a punnet of tomatoes... gotta use them up. Even a £1 bag of onions can lurk for 2-3 months and keep calling your name, but with a potato/bread/egg base it's hard to fit those in.

So it usually ends up as: cheese/potato mash and scrambled eggs on toast a lot.

You could make gnocchi with your potatoes?


I love eggs because they are amazingly versatile. I used to make souffl!s A LOT, got out of the habit last year. Almost store cupboard soufllee is tuna, spring onion (that's the not store cupboard bit) and a bit of soy sauce. Could omit soy and use Worcester.

Could make a cheese souflle, or cheese and onion one. Could, theoretically make a 'breakfast' souflle, with some bacon. And even some baked beans if you need to use them up, and some cheese. I never have done, and the idea doesn't appeal, but ......I'd have a go.



Almost or totally store cupboard pasta dishes here are various tomato based ones..carbonara (pancetta or bacon in my freezer....sorry!). Tbh, scrappy leftovers get served up as various pasta sauces. Over Christmas I made some left over sausage meat and dried fruit or mince meat or something into a pasta sauce. (Cannot quite remember what). Garlic, olive oil and chilli flakes (aglio olio e peperoncino) is the classic Italian store cupboard pasta.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Picadilly are a little independent record shop.

I was trying (badly) to highlight how the large conglomerates care little for customer service, whereas the small indies go the extra yard.:o

I've ordered loads from amazon & many other "big" online retailers in the past. Definitely prefer the customer service from the indies though.:)

I should perhaps give the back story....I called space nk originally to say I hadn't been given a delivery time, and they said 'omg it hasn't been sent out, we'll send it out, we're so sorry, we are so so, sorry, and I laughed and said it didn't matter' it arrived next day, Its now arrived again.

Customer service was great. . Just.....they went twice as far as they should have done!

lemonjelly

It is still (imo) unseasonally mild.
When do people think we may get snow, if at all?