Carrot cake in the oven

supersaver1000

That's a great idea. One for the slow cooker maybe?

liltdiddylilt

Purplepenguin you can stay! Number one your name rocks! Number two your potatoes recipe sounds amazing! How much stock?! And how long?!?

Tonight I had dinner made by Him armed with a laptop. I asked for salmon fillets pan fried, with salad and a jacket potato. I got 'dry dauphinoise' so sliced par boiled potatoes, cooked until slightly crispy in a pan with lots of herbs, butter and salt and pepper, pan fried salmon and salad with a balsamic dressing. Gorgeous. Very exciting to have such lovely food that I didn't cook! he can't cook so usually resorts to chicken curry with the sauce from a jar :rotfl:

Hugs all round! xx

Purplepenguin88

Bbc good food is tried and tested by me, never tried it in a slow cooker, but in any kind of openable dish you have delicious potatoes in 90mins.

Their quantities are:
2 onions, thinly sliced
few thyme sprigs
2 tbsp olive oil
1½ kg floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper or Desir!e, peeled and sliced thinly, by hand or using a food processor
425ml vegetable stock

You basically chop and fry the onions and then layer onions and potatoes in a dish and pour over the stock and bake for an hour til it's gone all yummy and the potatoes are cooked.

Very easy and very impressive (trust me). I believe it originated from France when people would cook their roast meat over these potatoes in the baker's oven in the afternoon and the fat from the meat dripped down to the potatoes as it cooked to cook them too!? (Or my DM was fibbing)

supersaver1000

That's fabby dabby doo. How MSE are you. Especially as my 25kg bag of potatoes is only £5. Definitely one for the winter. Yum

supersaver1000

My overpayments have halted for the time being whilst we get past Xmas and the work situation sorts itself out. Just popped into Shelbys which remained me of £7+odd Quidco. I've also got £6+odd Nectar points and Tesco points of £40 so hopefully can eke the money out for the month. 😄

liltdiddylilt

Hey guys

Thanks for the recipe. Definitely going in the new recipe book.

Smart to stop overpayments. I am cutting everything down to the bone and just trying to keep my money if I can. Christmas presents already bought or I would be throwing a wee wobbler.

Hugs SS> We can do this! xx

supersaver1000

Thanks Liltdiddy, I really want to see my total debt balance under £9k. It will be this month if I can hold it together, but will definitely be the year end.

SS1K

ps. To see the CCs in the £13ks will definitely be year end and will be a major achievement for us. We've only ever done this by remortgaging before.

supersaver1000

Oh blow. Totally messed up my estimates and had another look. I am forecasting too far ahead. My figure owed after my November payments is £14,787.68. So its going to be February before into the £13ks. I thought I'd done well. Not :eek: Still that means I am at a balance debt/savings of £9,517.68 this month end and £9,285.26 at end of December, then sub-£9k in Feb. My new target is to get that figure under £9k asap. That means either boosting the savings or paying some off the ccs. Either way it has to be done. Not sure how Christmas figures in that. Maybe the rates relief months will buy the Xmas pressies which will mean about £250. It may be that 10 months has a bonus for me this year, although I think it's going to be over 12 months next year. Anything not spent for Xmas will go to the CCs. Ccyfcfffgygggg

Whoops just leant on the key board :rotfl:

Wish me luck getting more work peeps. I really need it.

Ooh must forget the Tesco points and of course the Sainsbugs nectar points. I may need those. Ooh and quidco are sending me seven.squid.

supersaver1000

Just found this lovely recipe for impossible quiche on another thread.

ImpossibleQuiche

Whitefeather8

Thanks Supersaver, making the base for a quiche is such a faff, and adds a shed load of calories to them. That recipe looks so easy!!