Living richly; simply and debt-freely

starnac

Greying as ever you are a fountain of knowledge. Thank you for the links for those books. I intend to look them up as soon as I have posted this. Changes are afoot here in the Starnac household and food needs to be one of the main priorities. I feel those books may just be perfect. Thank you

PS Hope you are okay and that whatever made you sad isn't too bad x

Greying_Pilgrim

joeyjimbles wrote: »

.....also will be so handy for DS1 who is trying to learn budget cooking ahead of NCS, and generally for life. I am trying to instill good practice regarding money, food and resources into both boys with varying degrees of success.

Ha! joeyjimbles - with Elaine Colliar and you doing such a good job 'growing men' (as opposed to 'raising boys') all the girlz will want to marry Scottish boyz when they are older :D:D :T:T:T

Yes, I loved the scenery when they went out to meet the Bedouin on the Ainsley programme. Pity they didn't elaborate a little more on how the lamb and vegetables cooked - what was the fuel? After all, I saw no evidence of trees. I'm pretty sure underground cooking is prevalent where you don't have much fuel, or you don't want to be seen (smoke) or where parasites would be a problem over the food, but they didn't elaborate on it did they? I did like the 'more mature' version of Ainsley though, I think he was less excitable this series, less 'silly'. But I do wish the producer/director would stop making it seem like (obviously) set up scenarios were *chance encounters*. But on the whole, a good series, I agree

starnac - don't forget Jack Monroe - I bet your local library will have her first cookbook and there are meat/fish recipes included too, it's not wholly veggie. Not every single recipe is a winner, but there is plenty in there that would help your budget along

Greying x

starnac

Thanks Greying I have downloaded that Joanne one. I already have some Jack recipies that I copied down from her blog. Like you said some are good, others not so much x

Upsidedown_Bear

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Hello there bear

Where have you and smilie been lurking?

Hello :hello:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=68758619&postcount=415

Actually I was talking to Smilie about this earlier and he pointed out that I was being a bit silly.
"You don't have to find more things for me to do as I do do things more than once you know".

He has a point and it is very hard to find new appropriate Smilies every day.
So I think "Smilie of the day" will be back but he might be doing the same things :cool:
If you all get bored we'll go back to lurking

satchmo1

Greying, I thought of you yesterday when I found mega-roadkill in the form of a five pound note! There was no-one around so I couldn't locate a likely owner. I did a double-take when I saw it scrunched up with a sandwich receipt. Someone had an expensive lunch.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

A very lazy start here at Greying Towers this morning I have at least written up my menu-planner against the days of August, so at least I've achieved something - oh, and looked up to see if a library book DP wants (sequel to the one just read) is available. So I can quarter polish me halo :rotfl:

Upsidedown Bear - Smilie is able to undertake the most mundane tasks wearing a smile and adopting the right attitude - a skill all of us could seek to incorporate in our day - I vote for keeping on, as life is full of repetition, but smiles and good attitudes are less abundant.........

satchmo - I love that you thought of me when you found a fiver Now, do you need my postal address????? :rotfl::rotfl:

Just joshing!! :D:D

A very expensive lunch indeed for someone. And yet the easiest thing to do to scrunch up your change with the receipt......

Dinner last night was a curry plate. But beware, the plate definitely comes under the category of *beige* food :rotfl: I made mung bean curry - a new to me recipe. Sorry Lesh, but I didn't find it very inspiring (although I'll be the first to admit to omitting the carrots and using cabbage rather than spinach - so I didn't wholly follow your recipe ) so it's not a keeper in my book I have about 600/700g of mung beans left from my haul from mrT a year or more ago. If I want to make mung bean curry again (sure I will), I will be sticking with my other curry recipe; Mugg. Served with a dollop of lentil dhal and a serving of basmati rice, let's rush back into the 1970's with our photo...........



Definitely filled us up Just a little lacking in the flavour department unfortunately. Still, if you don't try, you don't know do you?

We're on lentil burgers (Ms Monroe's) tonight, so I'd best shift a tail feather and get making 'em!

Ta for popping in and sharing your good fortune with us. Always appreciated. Always

See y'all later.

Greying x

Upsidedown_Bear

satchmo1 wrote: »

Greying, I thought of you yesterday when I found mega-roadkill in the form of a five pound note! There was no-one around so I couldn't locate a likely owner. I did a double-take when I saw it scrunched up with a sandwich receipt. Someone had an expensive lunch.

I like to think of such things as a "Littering Fine" :cool:

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

Greying_Pilgrim

I have just listened to a SUPERB episode of the Food Programme on R4 regarding a community bakery set-up in Edinburgh. BBC at it's best.

Greying x

Greying_Pilgrim

Finally got around to having a spot of lunch (still not broken into a sweat here at GTHQ ).

We had, what I suppose could be called *fusion* food Inspired by the food prog, I whipped up a batch of soda farls - made them with half rye flour and half plain. I don't routinely have buttermilk in the house, so just clabbered a bit of ordinary milk with a spot of vinegar. And whilst I don't understand the chemistry, it is amazing to see the changing texture of the milk I also shoved a bit of Sri Lankan curry powder, R Stein version, in the flour, as we were going on a savoury theme. However, as happens with these things, the curry powder is made up quite heavily of the 'sweet' spices - you know, cardamom, cinnamon, fennel etc. So the flavour of the soda farl was actually quite 'sweet', even though there was no sugar in it. Which of course, got me thinking.......... I know scones are super quick to make, but you do have to put the oven on. How much easier are sweet soda farls as an alternative? Few sultanas, raisins or cherries ........:D It reminded me of weezl and her budget recipes - she bought the spice blend garam masala, but used it for both sweet and savoury elements of her budget meal-planner

I used leftovers too!! :rotfl: I heated up the leftover dhal from last night, and made up some scrambled egg. So Farls, dhal and scrambled egg, topped off with some brown sauce Just the meal for such a carpy weather day

The soda farls could have done with a few minutes extra cooking time, but they stayed lovely and soft - putting a lid on the fry pan is definitely the way to make them

Greying x