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PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Haddock with capers, lemon and beurre noisette and some saut! potatoes.

Fish and chips then

lostinrates wrote: »

... pink whistley stole all the poppadoms.

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GDB2222

I don't cook much, but fish with caper and lemon sauce is on the repertoire. Plus fine green beans.

Pasta can be any sensible shape. Spaghetti does not count as sensible. Must be whole meal, and al dente. Is there much difference between fresh pasta and dried? We normally have dried. Tinned seems all wrong to me, as it is bound to be waterlogged and overcooked.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fish and chips then
yes. With chard or silver beet instead if peas though, and capers for pickles...

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I've only ever had pickled beetroot, from a jar. I'd use beetroot more often, possibly even cooking it, if it weren't for the muck, stain/disaster potential it presents. I do remember mum'd cooked some when I was a child - and the pressure cooker was stained all red inside as it'd boiled.

Pinky loves poppadoms. And prawn crackers. And a prawn ball or two should any one order one of those . In fact, she has very junky taste in food. She steals crisps too. And once stole half a loaf of white sliced bread...that was when we were taking her off biscuits on to a 'pure' meat diets and she was going crazy for any carbs any where. She used to steal pasta then too.

We're less strict now, but there is is notable impact on her when she eats a carb heavy diet.


Both our cats are weird eaters, ( weirdly they both like citrus, mauve will roll away and orange if the peel has been grated to lick the remaining oil off) but pink the funniest. Melon used to be a favourite treat.


But poppadoms......an enduring favourite. Because I was really rough last night fir made me a tray and said, ' I'll put the poppadoms at the top of the icecream cabinet in case its not enough food ( it was plenty of food) . Its quite a high thing....a sort of dresser thing possibly Edwardian , poorly painted on a wet day and I go back to it every now and then to touch up bits. Its job it to carry clutch bags, perfumes, aftershaves, deodorants, a big glass bowl over ful of testers and hotel soaps and shower caps etc

Stuff like that.

The poppadoms were on the top shelf with clutch bags that I don't need to reach.

Pinky hopped up while we weren't paying attention, got a leg up from the over ful glass bowl, then, climbed up, one foot on a decorative glass hurrican lamp shelf, too tearing over aftershaves, reaching up behind a candle she brought down the poppadoms with out knocking anything else down and set to munching.

Her deftness was astounding. Sadly her satisfaction was short lived. I might be less strict but death by poppadom is not a way I plan to lose her. I let her keep a little corner though.


beetroot

We eat quite a bit of beetroot really I think, not obsessive amounts. I quite like it raw and crunchy the best, but grating it is probably the messiest thing to do with a beet.

Roasting them isn't so bad, but I wouldn't want to try eating them on my lap rather than at a table.

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

Right now my phone won't connect to the Internet.

My phone wouldn't connect to the phone network at all earlier - I turned if off and back on again and that seems to have cured whatever the problem was

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Pinky loves poppadoms. And prawn crackers. And a prawn ball or two should any one order one of those . In fact, she has very junky taste in food. She steals crisps too. And once stole half a loaf of white sliced bread...that was when we were taking her off biscuits on to a 'pure' meat diets and she was going crazy for any carbs any where. She used to steal pasta then too.

We're less strict now, but there is is notable impact on her when she eats a carb heavy diet.


Both our cats are weird eaters, ( weirdly they both like citrus, mauve will roll away and orange if the peel has been grated to lick the remaining oil off) but pink the funniest. Melon used to be a favourite treat.


But poppadoms......an enduring favourite. Because I was really rough last night fir made me a tray and said, ' I'll put the poppadoms at the top of the icecream cabinet in case its not enough food ( it was plenty of food) . Its quite a high thing....a sort of dresser thing possibly Edwardian , poorly painted on a wet day and I go back to it every now and then to touch up bits. Its job it to carry clutch bags, perfumes, aftershaves, deodorants, a big glass bowl over ful of testers and hotel soaps and shower caps etc

Stuff like that.

The poppadoms were on the top shelf with clutch bags that I don't need to reach.

Pinky hopped up while we weren't paying attention, got a leg up from the over ful glass bowl, then, climbed up, one foot on a decorative glass hurrican lamp shelf, too tearing over aftershaves, reaching up behind a candle she brought down the poppadoms with out knocking anything else down and set to munching.

Her deftness was astounding. Sadly her satisfaction was short lived. I might be less strict but death by poppadom is not a way I plan to lose her. I let her keep a little corner though.


beetroot

We eat quite a bit of beetroot really I think, not obsessive amounts. I quite like it raw and crunchy the best, but grating it is probably the messiest thing to do with a beet.

Roasting them isn't so bad, but I wouldn't want to try eating them on my lap rather than at a table.

I expect that diabetes can strike cats too. Is that right?

Beet root just goes in the shredder, along with an equal amount of carrot, both peeled but raw. For lunch today we had that, as well as a delicious celeriac salad, hard boiled eggs, smoked salmon, and challah bread. I think it would be a lot of work to grate beet root by hand. Why would you do that?

Beet root is great roasted, with goats cheese. NOM NOM.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm out of bread, toasted two bits earlier and then checked the bag to see the date and it says the 10th.

I'm also out of milk (13th).

The two items come from different shops .... so I have to choose one or the other and miss out on the 2nd item. That means that, for ease, Lidl's the sensible choice - to get milk. However, they might be out of it ... and if I'm in there I'll greedily get 3 mini cheesecakes

So, torn between making the effort to get dressed and go out to Lidl, to try to achieve milk (and probably fail), knowing I'd come away with three unneeded cheesecakes that I'd then scoff ... and I'd probably get 6 packs of Walkers crisps just because they're there.... the alternative is to remain here and not try to go out to buy anything.

I don't need bread, just not got any. I don't need milk, just not got any. Wouldn't it be great if one could shop in one shop, that never had empty shelves - and that shop were open 24/7 and if that shop were just 200 yards away

We buy sliced bread, so can freeze it and just take out what we need. Lidl do nice bread, baked on the premises, well they do in the stores I go to.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

[kitchen extractor hob light]

If the light hasn't been on for a while, it may be dusty. In a kitchen, the dust will be mingled with grease particles from cooking fumes. When the light is switched on, it will get hot. This may make a smell of hot dust/grease until it's been hot for a while and the dust/grease has gone away. It is perfectly normal.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm out of bread, toasted two bits earlier and then checked the bag to see the date and it says the 10th.

I'm also out of milk (13th).

The two items come from different shops .... so I have to choose one or the other and miss out on the 2nd item. That means that, for ease, Lidl's the sensible choice - to get milk. However, they might be out of it ... and if I'm in there I'll greedily get 3 mini cheesecakes

So, torn between making the effort to get dressed and go out to Lidl, to try to achieve milk (and probably fail), knowing I'd come away with three unneeded cheesecakes that I'd then scoff ... and I'd probably get 6 packs of Walkers crisps just because they're there.... the alternative is to remain here and not try to go out to buy anything.

I don't need bread, just not got any. I don't need milk, just not got any. Wouldn't it be great if one could shop in one shop, that never had empty shelves - and that shop were open 24/7 and if that shop were just 200 yards away

I'm puzzled. Shops near here sell both milk and bread. Don't they do that near you? Or do you need some particular kind of bread that only comes from one shop and some particular kind of milk that comes from some other shop?

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I expect that diabetes can strike cats too. Is that right?

Beet root just goes in the shredder, along with an equal amount of carrot, both peeled but raw. For lunch today we had that, as well as a delicious celeriac salad, hard boiled eggs, smoked salmon, and challah bread. I think it would be a lot of work to grate beet root by hand. Why would you do that?

Beet root is great roasted, with goats cheese. NOM NOM.

Yes, cats can get diabetes.

More to the point they are obligate carnivores.

Pink has a grain allergy, its not terrible...she gets itchy feet , literally, her nail beds, when she eats more carbs. We tried excluding certain carbs....some cats for example cope with rice but not wheat, giving more choice of cat foods.


Its not world ending, many pets have similar problems that go unnoticed or bothered about so its not a major problem, just something I'd rather avoid being an issue for her as much as I can.

Beetroot is great many ways.

I grate it by hand because I don't have a food processor and its easier to grate it than chop it when you want it for many salads.

I love cleariac too......that gets grated for salads here too rather than julienned though.

I miss challah. I should try baking some.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I need to elevate myself to that level of skill: be somewhere, take a photo, get it online and post it somewhere.

Right now my phone won't connect to the Internet. Last time that happened the little man in Tesco faffed with it for 10 minutes, then ended up removing the SIM card and putting it back in and it worked. I think I need to do that again.... unfortunately, I've got a phone case/cover and can't for the life of me remember how the phone got into it, so have had a few attempts to remove the phone from the cover, but scared of tugging hard in any direction in case I should be tugging the other way and I break it.

... and even if I get the phone out I've still to discover where the SIM is and how to get it out

I'd be amazed if there weren't a range of youtube videos showing how to do all these tasks on your phone.

lostinrates wrote: »

beetroot

We eat quite a bit of beetroot really I think, not obsessive amounts. I quite like it raw and crunchy the best, but grating it is probably the messiest thing to do with a beet.

Roasting them isn't so bad, but I wouldn't want to try eating them on my lap rather than at a table.

Some friends made us some beet borscht once. Sounds horrible, tastes divine!

GDB2222 wrote: »

I don't cook much, but fish with caper and lemon sauce is on the repertoire. Plus fine green beans.

Pasta can be any sensible shape. Spaghetti does not count as sensible. Must be whole meal, and al dente. Is there much difference between fresh pasta and dried? We normally have dried. Tinned seems all wrong to me, as it is bound to be waterlogged and overcooked.

That TV series trust me I'm a doctor seemed to be claiming that cooked, cooled then reheated pasta is pretty benign stuff as it's hardly digested and absorbed. Pretty filling and satisfying stuff as well.:)