Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...clafoutis....

*googles*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clafoutis
Never had it ... not heard of it before.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

On the tinned tomatoes front, I don't think I've ever tried to eat the tomatoes on their own, I only use them as an ingredient in something else like lasagne or....lasagne.

I always lob a can into a chilli.

PasturesNew

I like tinned tomatoes and they've become part of "what I generally have in the cupboards and eat" as historically they've been cheap. They're not cheap now though! I prefer the Lidl 30p cans. Until the other week I had never heard of tinned cherry tomatoes; until this thread I had never heard of tinned yellow tomatoes.

There's not a lot of hot food I wouldn't eat tinned tomatoes with. Typically I'd lob a can into a chilli, or serve it with any mixup of a cooked breakfast. I also have a can with macaroni cheese, just so there's more than one thing on the plate and it's a different colour. I've even been known to open a tin of tomatoes to go with a plate of oven chips when I'd run out of beans.

Years ago I remember I used to make a flan with a tin of tomatoes, onions and sweetcorn. I had that first at a friend's 18th birthday party and got the recipe from her ... made quite a few (and ate the whole things) ... then stopped and, over the years, lost the recipe, but it's just tomatoes/onions/sweetcorn so not rocket science.

They're just easy, an extra colour on the plate - and low in calories. Can't lose

lostinrates

We have loads of tinned toms. Just, not for breakfast. For meals.

Yorkie1

I have tinned tomatoes in a lot of the stews etc which I make and freeze. Not so keen on them 'neat'.

On the cooked breakfast front, I don't usually have breakfast at all before leaving the house, but on Friday our canteen at work does a 6-piece cooked breakfast (choose your own items) for £2.65, so I have baked beans, 2 poached eggs, 2 hash browns and a sausage. Not that I'm predictable at all or anything.

Mum and Dad have just set off home (Herts) after visiting for a few days. They've done sterling work in the garden, and then we had a frustrating facetime call with my brother and family this morning. Mum had said "I want you and Dad to make sure you get to talk as you don't usually have the chance", and then promptly talked over everyone. When she asked me afterwards whether I'd enjoyed it, I chose to tell the truth rather than do my usual soft soap on her - and said it would have been nice to get a word in edgeways! Of course, that upset her and she went into passive martyred mode. You just can't win!

zagubov

Yorkie1 wrote: »

I have tinned tomatoes in a lot of the stews etc which I make and freeze. Not so keen on them 'neat'.

On the cooked breakfast front, I don't usually have breakfast at all before leaving the house, but on Friday our canteen at work does a 6-piece cooked breakfast (choose your own items) for £2.65, so I have baked beans, 2 poached eggs, 2 hash browns and a sausage. Not that I'm predictable at all or anything.

I bung tinned plum peeled toms into curries chillis spag bols. Never as an item on their own. Fresh tomatoes are delis thin-sliced on pate, as are chopped pickled onions.

Our work does the same deal as yours, roughly the same price. Far too tempting. But I can barely stand it without brown sauce.:D

PasturesNew

Yorkie1 wrote: »

... on Friday our canteen at work does a 6-piece cooked breakfast (choose your own items) for £2.65, so I have baked beans, 2 poached eggs, 2 hash browns and a sausage.

mmmm...... I'd have that every Friday ..... I'd also consider getting a 2nd one, of 6 sausages, which I'd slide into a plastic box and shove in the works' fridge (if one exists) .... to take home to nuke for more cooked breakfasts and sausage sandwiches over the weekend

vivatifosi

This is a message for Gen. I know you've been feeling tired lately. I've just seen a very inspirational German female athlete win gold in the steeplechase after battling lymphatic cancer, Antje Moldner-!!!!!!!. Amazing run. I have every faith that you'll get your Ventoux strength back.

ukmaggie45

LydiaJ wrote: »

Have a selection of plain coloured jersey tops, but only one cardigan. Need more cardigans. Will have to go shopping while I'm there, I think. The jackets I generally wear to work probably would't look right. Will report back tomorrow evening on what everybody else wears.

If you're looking for cardigans you might try Pure Cashmere's Outlet shop, they don't only do cashmere. This is all cut price, if you're happy to pay a bit more just go to their home page. I really recommend their stuff - washes fine in the washing machine provided you shape it while wet after. The sleeveless sweaters I bought around 7 years ago are only just beginning to fall apart, and I do wear them often. Still saving the remnants as figure I ought to be able to do something "crafty" with them. <roll eyes smilie> Cushion maybe?

Good luck for tomorrow!

GDB2222

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

And charged me a small fortune to keep her overnight 'for observations'.

Are you saying that the vet intended to stay at his practice all night to observe the hound?

Or he was going to come in in the morning and observe either 'seems to have survived' or 'it died, serves it right'?