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Cheery_Daff

Evening GP and all and Piq! Lovely to see you lass :kisses3: Hope you're good xx

I do love looking at your tea GP Most cheerful Mine is often not so picturesque - a dollop of something with a dollop of something else :rotfl: Quite tasty tonight but not really much to look at

Must work on my photography skills... :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Cheery - you are ways too kind with your praise I splodge, dollop and heap for Great Britain :D I mean, how can you arrange lettuce attractively?? It's a might easier to get it on the plate if it's a little one, but other that that.......... :rotfl:No wonder the food in photoshoots is stone cold with all their faffing Nah love, we must carry on 'dolloping' together, as it is - as you point out - the taste of the food that matters

Looks like it is going to be another nice day But I'm all out of lettuce now, so I've no idea what to make for us tea that won't lead to us warming up like a furnace. You can tell that my intention to meal plan for June didn't gain wings, *sigh*

We've appointments to attend today and bits and bobs to achieve. I think it will be a bitty day, but fly very fast...... again.

Right, I must carry on with my sorting out and tidying up. See if i can't repatriate more carp to it's rightful position in life

See you later.

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Yay for a good dollop :j :j :rotfl: :rotfl:

I've got a great system of leftovers going for work lunches these days Could never be bothered with sandwiches etc so this is perfect. Especially as Mr Cheery usually cooks tea, which means that by default he cooks my dinner too :rotfl: :rotfl:

Today (and last night) is turmeric rice (nice and yellow) with red onion, brocolli, sprouts :rotfl: and smoked tofu Colourful if nowt else!

Have a cheery day Greying and all :hello:

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

Today (and last night) is turmeric rice (nice and yellow) with red onion, brocolli, sprouts :rotfl: and smoked tofu Colourful if nowt else!

That sounds smashing Cheery - colourful and full of flavour. I must admit, i have never eaten the smoked tofu - is it very smoky? Oh, and is it 'pieces' - rather than a block? I'm just thinking about what I would use it in. Your turmeric rice reminds me of the Jamaican dish of 'rice and peas'. I use red kidney beans, but alot of different beans would work; aduki, mung, black-eyed, turtle etc. My version - I can't remember now where i got it from, uses turmeric, but I'm not sure that it is authentic, but as you say, it lends good colour and there are health benefits to using turmeric too.

Greying X

Eager_Elephant

Thank you Eager_Elephant for making contact with Piq - so totally appreciated

I would like to apologise for the delay in sending the card - I purchased it on the Saturday, a few days after I would send a card and did not get round to sending it until Tuesday but then my home IP address got banned :eek: and I could not access my PM's so I had to wait until Friday before I could log in and get the address.
It was all a nightmare but I am so glad Piq has returned to the fold:T

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Eager_Elephant - it WORKED no apology needed, we're all :j because of your efforts

I hope you are all safe - I have just been reading about the weather in parts of the UK Dire.

We had a mixed day of out and about and at home. Nice mix really and I spent some time preparing tea this afternoon, whilst DH kept an eye on BG. Some chores around the Towers also got completed

We happened to be in the vicinity of a MrS today, so I popped in to get some bananas - they were all green I was persuing in the veggie chilled foods looking for the smoked tofu that Cheery mentioned, when I spied some L!nda Muc-cart-knee Ooooh, think I've invented a new rural medical condition there, but I digress........meat-free meatballs. Anyway, they were some imaginative price....... but it gave me an idea for 'us tea'. I was going to do *something* with yellow rice and peas in a buddha bowl, after talking about it this morning, but I decided that I would make some red lentil koftas instead, and as I made them, i decided that i would use brown rice instead, with accompanying salads. So I ended up making mushroom, hazelnut and lentil koftas, with pugilese beetroot salad (a Dean & DeLuca recipe), morrocan carrot & orange salad - can't find it on the internet, I know I've tried before - brown rice and a couple of pieces of tomato and a drizzle of yoghurt to top it off;



Sorry for the slightly dark photo, it went all murky around tea-time. although we were lucky and didn't really have a storm - bit of rain and a rumble or two of thunder.

Although the koftas are a bit of a faff, it is a while since i have made them, and they do taste so nice, considering that there isn't alot to them. I always cook mine, but I know that in Turkey they are served uncooked (well, apart from the initial cooking of the lentils, obvs!) I think R1ck S.tein did a recipe for them in his 'Venice to Istanbul' series/book. I just made these up from what i had. I bought the mushrooms in mrS today, (only used a few) but had the hazelnuts in the cupboard.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

- NHS staff, most especially the nice ones, with the terrific sense of humour as they go about helping and supporting us (no emergency, just everyday healthcare in action.....)

- Cheery Daff's inspiration - as we had an interesting tea and I still get to try smoked tofu on another day .....

- The offer of some more items for Baby Greying - so useful and saving us money which is just as well...................

Thank you for popping in, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it. As ever.

Greying X

Piquant_2

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

I would like to apologise for the delay in sending the card - I purchased it on the Saturday, a few days after I would send a card and did not get round to sending it until Tuesday but then my home IP address got banned :eek: and I could not access my PM's so I had to wait until Friday before I could log in and get the address.
It was all a nightmare but I am so glad Piq has returned to the fold:T

Yes indeed. Well and truly folded. Thank you

I see, dear greying that all the dinners looks delicious. BG has not stopped the amazing meals at all. I must have been a terribly disorganised mum, I couldn't get a meal on the table for at least a year. I think it took another year to prise the baby off my hip.

Greying_Pilgrim

Piquant wrote: »

I must have been a terribly disorganised mum, I couldn't get a meal on the table for at least a year. I think it took another year to prise the baby off my hip.

Ach no, the only reason why the meals are a little more like *normal* at the minute, is because DH is here to help. 4 hands make it all easier I'm neglecting vast swathes of other areas of life. I mean, the house looks like a laundry on a Monday....... You can write your name in the dust on the top of the tv........ I've paperwork piles that make the leaning tower of Pisa look amateur...... Need i go on? :D:D And I really, really thought at one point the maternity fairies had been in and welded Baby Greying to my arms, as nothing would work in detaching them from *Mater dearest*........... :rotfl:

Greying X

beanielou

I remember it well.
That was long before instant access to the internet.
It gets better.........................eventually :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Ooh Greying, I'm honoured that I've inspired you to an interesting tea :j

We don't have tofu very often as it doesn't feel very cheap but occasionally we are tempted i don't normally bother with the white wobbly stuff that comes floating in watery stuff in a plastic container - bit too soft and nondescript for my liking, unless we get it cheap in the Chinese supermarket, then I'll marinade it as a novelty

We usually only ever buy the really firm, vaccuum packed stuff that comes in the chill cabinet at the fruit and veg stuff. It's pretty smoked and comes in one big block that we chop into pieces. They do a hazlenut one too which is pretty tasty :j

Hope you find some! Not sure I've ever seen any in a supermarket - only health food places and bizarrely our local fruit and veg place. About £2 a packet I think

Not even sure what I had for tea tonight came home early as I was right peckish, but because I was early Mr Cheery hadn't made tea so I ordered him out of the way and had a bizarre combination of rice noodles, leftover bottom of fridge veg, black eyed beans, cheese triangles and peanut butter :rotfl: :rotfl: Did the trick though!