Living richly; simply and debt-freely

greenbee

I have soup most lunchtimes Pippi. Currently stocks in the freezer include: Courgette; Sweet potato and red pepper; Beetroot; split pea and ham; Butternut Squash. I'm about to make carrot and coriander to add some variety. Not that the freezer needs more adding to it...

MFi3 has lots of soup recipes, as Elaine did a 30 day soup challenge in September one year... (you can search the archive as soup is one of the categories she tags).

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

wishus

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Aw, sorry wishus - but I laughed too Actually though, are reindeer commercially farmed? I thought that they were still 'relatively' wildly farmed. I would have thought that the reindeer would have been well looked after and honoured in it's place as a livestock animal. Might as well honour its good life and eat the pate I see mrL were stocking reindeer meat before Christmas - I did wonder what any passing children may ask of their parents if they saw it. But it's all perfectly natural. If I ate meat, I don't think I would have any qualms about trying the pate.

Yes, it would have been commercially farmed in Finland, which is where my brother got it from as he and his brood have recently been to see the Moomins.

.... could have been worse.

Snorkmaiden pate, for example.

wishus

Also, when I was first veggie in the 80s, I ate loads of red dragon pie! It was my favourite!

mothernerd

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Good Morning :hello:


mothernerd - I totally forgot to mention, that reading your posts inspired me to do two things over the weekend. Reading about salad - I had picked up a YS'd 9p bag of mixed leaf salad in mrM on NYE. It looked really fresh, so I hoped it would keep until the w/e so that we could have some in sangers if we went out adventurising. Anyway, the adventurising didn't happen, but we still had the HM bread rolls, with the salad leaves in - they'd kept beautifully. And I loved the 'fresh' taste of the leaves (helped that there was rocket in the mix), in contrast to the more stodgy fare of late. Then the second thing was that I made coleslaw to use up 1/2 a white cabbage. As there was quite a bit of vegetable matter, the remains of the mayo in the jar weren't *quite* enough (even though I don't like a 'gloopy' coleslaw) so I did what I've done before - but you writing about it jogged my memory - and added a spoonful of yoghurt to the mix

Right, best get on and shift a tail-feather

Ta everso for popping in, reading and commenting. All good

See y'all later.

Greying

My mayo's getting low (usually make one or two jars last a year) but I had tartare so used that a couple of times this week - lovely dip it made. I presume you know to put some of the raw coleslaw inside the nearly empty jar and scrape it round to pick up every last bit, then after that I sometimes add lemon juice, shake it around and save to add to the next thing I make that would benefit from it. Added water to the last of the tomato sauce bottle and swished it round. it's staying in the fridge until I make something tomatoey (might be minestrone as DS3 didn't want all the sweetcorn and left a spoonful of green beans as well).

phoebe1989seb

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

By now am regarding presence of local Waitrose as litmus test for "My sorta area....but I cant afford it".....

Money - we used *exactly* that criteria when searching for our current house last Autumn The local area had to have either a Waitrose (or an M&S simply food store as a second best!) and preferably within walking distance.....as I don't drive.

Where we lived as a family before DS went to uni (Southsea, Hants) we had a Waitrose within five minutes walk, which was ideal, but our last two houses have been a long drive to Waitrose in the nearest town or small city. We were however spoilt with one of the branches within driving distance of our last house as it was the Salisbury branch which has just undergone a huge renovation and now boasts a juice/smoothie bar, wine bar and cookery school :j

Anyhoo, our preferred locations - Marlborough and Farnham, Surrey - had nothing suitable in our price bracket so we widened the net, armed with a list of all Waitrose branches whilst surfing RM, lol!

It didn't help that - as always - we had incredibly strict criteria as to what the house itself should be like!

Our new (old) house is on the edge of a city with a huge Waitrose, but the house's location is a popular village with some good local shops (deli, artisan baker etc) within walking distance.....Waitrose is an eight minute drive, but its position makes it harder to walk to than is really ideal......on a bus route though

Firewalker

Happy New Year, GP and hope it brings you much joy, happiness and contentment.

Love the recipes; fancy writing some of them up for guesting over on TMP?

Firewalker

maddiemay

Hi Greying and chums
We are on a soup and pud night tonight, I try for one most weeks, but not on any particular day, generally when I can put bits and bobs and fridge bottom items to best use, today's offering was Muddy White Chicken recipe for Uncle Tony's bean and pasta soup as kindly trialled by GP, for once I did not deviate much from the recipe except to use up 3 rashers of streaky bacon and about 200g of cold roast gammon, and cooked in pressure cooker, celery leaves here too as no parsley. Absolutely delish. Apple Blackberry & Blueberry crumble for pud with some of the double cream mountain/lake, someone kindly brought us some when they visited and we already had a generous amount, still no dieting needed here so will just enjoy:D

muddywhitechicken

maddiemay wrote: »

...today's offering was Muddy White Chicken recipe for Uncle Tony's bean and pasta soup as kindly trialled by GP, for once I did not deviate much from the recipe except to use up 3 rashers of streaky bacon and about 200g of cold roast gammon, and cooked in pressure cooker, celery leaves here too as no parsley. Absolutely delish.

So proud!

liltdiddylilt

Lovely lovely people. You remind me today how much I have failed in my quest to cook... I am currently sniffing at a chinese takeaway ready to eat. I am on my sheeny shiny new toy, and earlier I burnt the sausages in the oven that were supposed to go into a stew which I then remembered needs half a pint of cider, which I don't have. Gave up and was treated to a chinese instead. So bad for me. Kick me. Lol.

I have a million soups and stews in the freezer! I could have defrosted but I was tempted too easily. Back to the drawing board for me.

Have a good evening all. First day back at work for me tomorrow!