Living richly; simply and debt-freely

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Pippi - food waste in sm's is a terrible thing, but I don't think that the recycling of an avocado into eggs is a bad trade at all

mrsinvisible- Helloooooo :wave: How's your *homework* going - 10/10 for spelling? 5/5 for your sums?

Upsidedown Bear - are you a mind reader? I was in need of 'colour' today - too many pouts and frowns on folk's faces. So I decided I needed 'colour' in me tea to cheer myself up

I actually got a NSD today. I know that I am not counting them at the moment, but it's nice to snag 'em if you can.

Dinner this evening was a Buddha bowl. If you're new to the thread, a Buddha bowl is just a bowl of food, that usually comprises; a 'grain' (or starch), a vegetable, a protein and a sauce. It is said to emanate from the bowls that buddist monks have that are filled with food by well-wishers - which, by their nature will be 'a bit of this' and 'a bit of that'. You could also call them bowls of 'leftovers' :rotfl:

I have made this particular bowl before - based on Leanne Brown's Deconstructed Cabbage Rolls (pg 109), but tonight I deconstructed it a little further, to put my own spin on it. I had some leftover red cabbage in the freezer from our solstice meal, and I deliberately cooked 150g (dry weight) of rice last night, so that it would do 4 meals. I then shredded some white cabbage in the processor; julienned some carrots and made a quick tomato and red pepper sauce. I topped all this with one veggie sausage per person. The veg was steamed/cooked/reheated in the microwave and the rice re-heated (safely). Picture here;



I ran some caraway seed through the white cabbage (I think that the red already had some in it).

The taste was lovely - there was 'lots' but most of it was vegetable matter The rice portion wasn't actually that big - but I think that I was pleased by the cheerfulness of the colours most of all. Not bad for a January tea, I don't think

Perhaps I'm looking out for colour, there is a RW DVD on the desk in front of me, and the light is falling on it to form the colours of the rainbow - very pretty.

Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

that DP and I are healthy and happy - can't ask for more than that.

that there's leftover crumble for 'afters' - well, you don't think I'm a veg munching saint all the time do you? :rotfl::p:D

that my purse remained shut, and we've still sufficient

Thank you so much for dropping in, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

beanielou

Being happy & healthy is awesome

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

Firewalker

Greg is your man - he popularised essentialism (it's been around as a philosophical and methodological platform for along time). What I find most inspiring about 'essentialism' is that it means that you can't have it all; but you don't need it all either. For success in anything (and great quality of life) we have to be very selective.

Thing is, in some areas of my life I've always done it. Remember the old discussions about whether it is better to have a glass of very high quality wine or a bottle of low quality? And that I always argued for the glass? There you go.

Since then, I've become essentialist in my clothes - I have only very high quality clothes and shoes but very few items (down from 45 pairs of shody shoes to five pairs of great ones). One area I fail the essentialist platform is opportunities: apparently we shouldn't take more that 5% of the opportunities that come our way.

This is the basics; the rest is up to you, guys .

Firewalker

in_need_of_direction

Hello there bear (of the upside down variety) that should be a bogof Tuesday smilie!

Ellidee

GP was blog hopping just now and came upon this and thought of you

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2015/01/the-no-1-way-to-simplify-any-recipe/

Upsidedown_Bear

in_need_of_direction wrote: »

Hello there bear (of the upside down variety) that should be a bogof Tuesday smilie!

Hello

wishus

Hello everybody! I'm sitting here typing with one of my cats purring away on the laptop bag.


This is the week we are setting wheels in motion to buy our friend out of the house. So cross fingers!


But oh, dearie! My happy, purring cat is getting over a cold. OH took her to the vets not long back for antibiotics. But he only told me a couple of days ago that the vet had said she'd lost her lower canines and I've been worried sick since. How come I didn't notice?! Her heart's good and she's not lost weight, so it's just her gums. Poor thing!


I am going to ring the vet tomorrow to see if I can get her sorted. Most likely she'll need a clean under anaesthetic from what I've read. Pricey, but we have been saving so hard... thank goodness. Not ideal timing. But 13 is a bit too young to be a toothless old mog.


Big hugs to everyone x

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

How lovely to come in to all your lovely posts. What with events in the news and this blessed storm, it's all a bit fractious at the mo.

beanie - it is indeed, it is indeed

Upsidedown Bear - *snort*. Spot on, Pizza and baked wedges for dinner last night And irony of irony, THAT pizza co's leaflet was through the door with the post yesterday - despite my 'no junk mail - ta' sign Their leafleting budget must be immense, we get one most weeks, and although people here do order from them, it's not like they're getting an order or two per household from it - they've never crossed my threshold. And whilst I've an ounce of pep and a pinch of spirit in me bones, nor are they likely to :rotfl:

INOD - :wave:

Ellidee - I've just had a quick look at that blogpost - and I'll go back to it - but it certainly seems like she's a gal after my own heart Mind, it is easy to pair down Mr O's recipes, he does get a bit enthusiastic with his ingredient lists at times......:D But ta for posting. Was that off Rhonda's w/e reading list? seems familiar..... But also, stone soup is where I got a fab avocado recipe idea, so a good blog to return to. Thanks again

wishus - nervous times re the mortgage buy-out, but exciting none-the-less. You'll be soley in charge of your own destiny, and your own hard work will get you your own home. A degree of security eh? Aw, poor puddy tat Does your vet make reasonable charges, or do they assume everyone is one insurance/plans for their pets?

Firewalker - that is all very well, but I'm currently reading up on Stoicism. Will that make me a stoic essentialist? Can you imagine how miniscule my circle of influence/worry/focus would be? I'd become like one of those surfer dudes, my life would revolve around; 'Hey dude, surf up?' and, 'Hey dude, is there beer in the cooler?'............Come to think of it...... that's not a half bad way to be...... I could grown my hair long and tie it back with a bit of auld bicycle inner toob, coz I was 'rad'. I could wear the same clothes all the time, and wash 'em in the sea....... and wear [STRIKE]thongs [/STRIKE] flip-flops until they were threadbare, and then repair them with a tractor tyre...... My evenings would be spent on the beach, meditating at sunset; my mornings meditating on the beach at sunrise......mmmmmm, hey, this 'Stoic Essentialism' has something going for it..... Apart from the fact I may be a teensy-weensy bit impossible to live with...... Poor DP :rotfl:

Actually Firewalker - although I'm being a teeny bit flippant , there is much in these sort of ideas - and the very fact that they've been discovered/studied aeons ago, to me, speaks volumes. Us modern humans just ain't listening, as we're too busy 'doing'. I now wish I had listened more to a headteacher I met some years since, who was always quoting Marcus Aurelius at me

So dinner last night was pizza and baked wedges. I purposely made the wedges chunky - as these wilja potatoes we have are quite long and thin. The pizza was cheese and tomato - the cheese being some of the £1.19/350g mature cheddar haul I got from l*dl t'other week. So, simple but tasty. I used Leanne Brown's 'fast' pizza dough recipe again - and again, it worked wonderfully, proved really well and made plenty of pizza considering there is only 300g of flour in the mix. 8 generous portions, as usual (not that we ate them all!!! - it was shoved in the freezer for another day )



There's a strong possibility that today will be a nsd, as if I can avoid going out of the house, I'm gonna! The wind here is no where near as strong as it has been/is in Scotland, but the gusts are still strong enough to be worrying.

Dinner this evening will be veggie scrapple, which I made last night, to cook with the pizza. It'll get the second cooking tonight.

Right, I'd better go and do something constructive. I've more tidying/decluttering in my sights for today. Although I think I may pop over to the stone soup blog first.......

Thanks ever so for popping in, reading commenting and discussing schools of philosophical thought with me. Always appreciated. Always

Greying x

gallygirl

Had never heard of scrapple, good old Prof. google. So, you're basically having meatloaf-without-the-meat, so loaf .