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Cheery_Daff

:rotfl: you lot - what an image to go to sleep on!!! :rotfl:

i confess to being another (relatively) young'un who can't recognise pop music from her own era... although I was actually born *in* 1980 itself so young starnac keeps the youngest title for now...

incidentally, one thing I'm forever grateful for is that I was 20 in the year 2000 which means it's always easy to work out how old I'll be in any given year :rotfl: simple pleasures... :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Stood by the radio just now, prepping snap, and quite honestly, if you listen to the news headlines too closely, then you'll be Funnily enough, a pop song came on next Star Sailor - Good Souls which had the following as part of the chorus;

As I turn to you and I say,
thank goodness for the good souls
That make life better.........

Indeed. In today's world, which you'd be forgiven for thinking, had, indeed, gone mad. Thank goodness for Good Souls. Many of whom appear to have - for which I am grateful - gravitated towards this thread

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

incidentally, one thing I'm forever grateful for is that I was 20 in the year 2000 which means it's always easy to work out how old I'll be in any given year :rotfl: simple pleasures... :rotfl:

Cheery - that's my line! Except it's 1915 and ooooooh that makes me, let me see......:think: I'm 100! :j :rotfl:(or is it just I feel 100 some days???? :think::rotfl:)

Dinner is mostly prepped for tonight, so that'll just require a bit of finishing off and a dollop of rice to be made up.

Only spend today should be for the TV listing mag - so 50p.

I was lying in bed last night, thinking about how much of a larf we had had, last evening. Thank you so much for that. Smiles and laughter should never be on ration.

Ta for popping in, making me feel old, but for being all-round good eggs.

I'm going to try to wear my bestest 'Good Soul' T-shirt - with pride - today. How about you

See y'all later.

Greying x

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

starnac

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

I have 3 things to say to you starnac;

1) Naw! Goggle translate! :rotfl:

2) TRANSIT TIMES! :rotfl:

3) Ooooh, toughie - my favourite is usually what ever I've cooked at that moment in time. Um, I do like the more coconutty/thai curries I think on balance, but it depends. The only thing you have to do is sent DH down the chipper so that you've got half&half - muy authentico! If you lob some *wot you have* ingredient suggestions to us, maybe we could come up with a curry suggestion? Surely you'll want a meat one?

Greying x

No 2 (in the voice of the car insurance dog) Oh Yes! :rotfl:

No 3) I like a coconutty/thai curry too so that's great. No not necessarily meat. I'm a lapsed veggie that can't really eat much meat (plus there's a lot I don't like) so my lot regularly have meals sans meat.

PS I loved Star sailor a few years ago. I wonder where I put their album????

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Well, you'll be pleased to learn that I achieved a NSD today :j 'How so Greying?' I hear you cry, 'you were going to purchase a copy of the TV guide....' Well, truth to tell, I forgot to put my purse in the bag...... Ho hum :rotfl: I expect that there will still be copies available in the shop tomorrow

I did manage to return the library books - unaided and without the need for guidance......

And I stopped someone from looking bewildered and lost by directing them to the big 'DUBBYA' book shop They did ask - I didn't just go up to a random stranger and announce;

'You look lost and bewildered; here, let me offer you salvation in the arms of stonewaters books.......' :rotfl:

DP was in a grump, but isn't now. For that I am grateful Work is apt to try to take over our lives isn't it? Doesn't stick to 8 - 6 or 9 - 5 does it? Anyway, he was galvanised into sorting out some life admin with me over tea, so that's good

Speaking of which, we had that summer favourite...... Gumbo inspired veggie stew, which is one of Leanne's recipes from her 'From Scratch' PDF (pg 78). I made the roux and sauce last night, fried up the (veggie) sausages tonight and added them in after chopping them up. I added in the green beans at the last minute and served with steamed cauliflower (last of the frozen bargain 65p bag from heron f00ds) and a portion of brown rice. Nice and tasty and very filling. It is interesting how 'meaty' the roux smells, considering that it is nothing but fat and flour. DP asked me last night had I been frying sausages, as the aroma took him right back to his favourite aunty's kitchen as a little lad visiting and them all scootching up around the kitchen table (formica, natch ) and scoffing big fry ups of bacon, egg, sausage etc etc.



Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

that DP is such a fantastic life co-pilot

that I could help with simple directions

that tea was really quick to make and we had time to chat and sort other issues out

Thanks for popping in and chatting with me Always appreciated

Greying x

Cheery_Daff

Well done on your NSD lass! :j :j

You can have this TV guide I just noticed down the side of my sofa - it's, er, from Christmas week :rotfl: :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery - what are you like? :rotfl: Mind, it's all repeats on TV anyway, and the TV guide we buy focusses heavily on the soaps - which we don't watch, it seems a bit of a waste all in all!

starnac - I've listed the recipes in order of my preference of eating/making them. Don't worry if they don't float your boat, it's been nice flicking through and having a think about it all ;

Cambodian Aubergine Curry - you have to make a paste for this one, which is called 'Kroeung', but her recipe includes it (I think I got one v v similar somewhere else off the net, but it's close to hers - but I obviously omit the shrimp paste)

Massaman Potato Curry - although you think, mmm 'tatties, bit ordinary' this curry never ceases to amaze me in how simple and tasty it is. I got the recipe originally from my veggie student cookbook, but the recipe on f00d.com is exactly as per the recipe I use........

Kodova Mushroom Curry - this is a recipe that I tried relatively recently when I got Madhur Jaffrey's curry Easy vegetarian from the library. the recipe is in the link, but google books aren't playing ball. The link takes you to the index page, but if you look at the page, you will see that there is the yellow box that says showing result 2 of 4 in this book....... click on 'next' (blue text) to bring you result 3 - which is the tale end of the recipe - gently scroll back to the start of the recipe (shout up if that's not clear)

Curried Coconut Lentils - not the most exacting recipe - but cheap and cheerful, so I thought it deserved a mention

And finally, if you really want to go a bit left-field......... how about;

Pineapple curry - I make the Leon version, but can't find a link on the net, the version that I have linked to is very similar. I use tinned pineapple chunks (I'm not proud) if they are in juice, I sometimes throw in a little of the juice at the end, if they are in syrup, I drain them and rinse them before putting them in the curry, and dispose of the syrup or use it in something else.

Hope that gives you ideas..............

Greying x

joeyjimbles

I second the Kodova Mushroom Curry - a favourite in this house. I love the thai inspired curries too, and sri lankan ones though am struggling to find rampe leaf up here. Amaz00n seems to be my only possibility as the local or Newcastle asian stores do not seem to stock it.

Red wine - tombola win, yay - and stew in this house tonight - it felt like Autumn so the food matched.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

joeyjimbles wrote: »

I love the thai inspired curries too, and sri lankan ones ........

Do you make Rick Stein's cashew nut curry? The link isn't quite the same as how it appeared in his book Far Eastern Odyssey, I think he had double the nuts and no potatoes, but it does make if more affordable cutting the nut quotient down. It is our 'luxury' treat for NYE - had it for 4 or 5 years now I usually have a batch of the spice mix made up too, as it's quite a nice general curry powder - better than store bought.

I had to look up rampe - but we're back to pandan again - isn't that where you came in joeyjimbles? No, we wouldn't have any round here either

Well, 'salads' are on the planner today - is the weather going to play ball do you think? I don't know as it's the first day of the third test in the cricket, so the weather could be pants I hope England start playing and don't rely on the weather to help them out of an embarrassing hole!

Thanks for popping in Much appreciated.

See y'all later.

Greying x

Pippilongstocking

salads can be warm too just saying.

Scribbles down the curry links like a good girl I'm thinking curry for breakfast wouldn't be so bad!

We had a friend come and stay and make a proper 'i learnt it in thialand curry' man it was so expensive. But I guess like you say the less extravagent versions of things are a bit of a lateral juggle away.

Hope today indeed performs as a salad day.

I'm really not a fan of this weather. Although my garden watering duties are vastly abiated.