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liltdiddylilt

Must be Italian week. This is the third diary in as many I have caught up on where someone made pizza

satchmo1

Top tip: my nearest B n M store had tinned chopped tomatoes for 15p, yours might have them at this bargainous price, too!

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Hey lovely people - keeping the thread warm :kisses3:

wishus - I handed over my 'lightly used' (or should I say, well looked after?) and all good makes (Laura A, N3xt, M&$) wardrobe declutter to the CRUK charity. I don't buy anything in there - they have it as a *boutique* with prices to match But a) this was good stuff, so they could legitimately sell it at top dollar (just not to me :rotfl:) and b) I wanted to support Cancer Research. I don't agree with how they run their retail arm, but if a slither of the earnings from the shops eventually trickles into the labs - after paying the shop manager, the marketing gurus, the rent on the CEO's office etc etc etc, you never know, it may just fund that breakthrough discovery to make this dreadful disease wholly treatable........

kem10 - well done on being brave about declining the skiing trip. It's not easy, but I think that honesty is the best policy. We had to have the 'Christmas presents for children only' chat with our in-laws many moons ago. Of course, the wider family made out we were being mean, but actually the one set of in-laws were visibly glad that we'd mentioned it, and were happy to stick to it (they won - they had kids, we didn't) but the other lot ignored us and kept on buying carp for years.... until they got credit crunched, and miraculously the spurious gift-buying stopped.....

supersaver - I wonder if you can make your own pizza mix? Ready weighed out? I suppose it wouldn't keep for eons - especially if you put the yeast in, but if you knew you had 5 mins to measure out and needed it in the next day or two......

Lilty - lovely to see you - I hope you and Jellytotster are doing OK - I know you are taking a breather, so especially kind of you to drop in on us

satchmo - our B&M has those too. I never know whether to mention b&M stuff, as I don't know how widespread they are in the UK. The tommies are 'Maxi' brand - they are 15p in b&M, 20p in h0me bargins and they are the ones that occasionally are 4 for £1 in A$da (although a$da are more likely to carry ktc brand under that promo - but I jave bought the maxi brand in A$da). Plus the problem is with b&m is that they have stuff in, then you never see it there again. I've currently got my fingers crossed for coconut powder, as I'm down to my last teaspoonful

With it being Tuesday, it is soup& day. Tonight we will be have a lovely Pea soup and then pancakes, as it is also Shrove Tuesday

Thanks everso for popping in, reading and commenting. I greatly appreciate it.

See y'all later.

Greying

mrsinvisible

pancakes.....yu...mmmm.....yyyyyy!!!!!!! now, will it be sugar and lemon, or jam, or stewed apple and custard? lordy, l am drooling at the thought. l don't often do pizza as l cant do cheese, but when l do l use a recipe l cut out of a magazine eons ago, and then it makes 2 bases, so l freeze one, is that a possibility also?

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

wishus

Thanks!!!!

supersaver1000

Thanks GP. I feel very un-MSE admitting to a pizza dough packet. But it helped us out at a busy time and made a very delicious base. I know that the pizza ingredients are simple, but it was great to throw it into the processor with water and have dough mins later. There's no yeast in the packets, so I'm guessing there's raising agent (the ingredients were a little scientific). I'm going to try Jamies cheats pizza (1.5 mugs sr flour and .5 mug of water) but I may cook it in the oven rather than the fry pan. I think my recent illness plus events have left me struggling for time and organisation, but I am getting there slowly. Lots of spuds been eaten in SS1K Towers at the moment - our fave is boulangere at the mo.

Ps. We have had pancakes already this morning - lemon and sugar or Nutella was on the menu :rotfl:

Igamogam

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

I have been darning socks I know how to live

I have not found pairs of socks that surpass the walking socks that I got from Aldee eons ago. Trouble is, I am now darning darns! Why is it so hard to get decent socks for ladies. Blokes have plenty of choice at reasonable prices. Ladies socks have no elastic, are always pink or purple and never stay up! Humpf!

Must grow bigger feet I guess

Greying

We are household of walkers, climbers, skiers and mountaineers and we love these socks Not the cheapest but the most comfortable we have ever had ( and we have gone through plenty!) Never had to use their 'lifetime guarantee' which is a testament to their quality. No darning and would not wear anything else now!! Available in UK BTW and worth the investment IOHO

Upsidedown_Bear

Smilie of the day.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

mrsinvisible - you don't know how close I was to dispatching DP round to yours - had he known you were serving up pancakes with apple and custard, he'd of definitely fired up the jalopy

Upsidedown Bear - very appropriate smiley - I hope smile had pancakes too

supersaver - don't you get getting yerself into a tizzy about using a packet mix - lawks! Remember MSE is all about perspective and everything we do is all relative. Maybe it might have been cheaper to make the pizza dough from scratch if you had all the ingredients in stock.... but your version was moneysaving against buying a pizza from a SM; your version was cheaper in comparison to having a boy on a bicycle pedal one round to your gaff.... your version saved money in comparison to going to a pizza parlour.... your version saved money compared to hiring Gennaro Contaldo to come to yer house and make pizza in your kitchen...... No more apologies - OK? And get you having pancakes in the morning :rotfl::rotfl::T How organised is that???

Igamogam - thanks for that - I'd actually come across that brand name on a forum, and had started looking into them, but found they were a US brand, but personal recommendation is all. And now I've found the UK outlets, so will look into it further. It would certainly fit in with my renewed vigour to 'buy quality, buy once'. I've always seen the sense in this, but not always been able to convince myself to put it into practice. Mind, my darned aldee socks are getting on in years - we can't be far short of 10years old...........

Well, I must admit to being a bit discombobulated at the moment, and I'm not exactly sure why. I had dismissed it being the 'Kondo' effect, on the basis that it has been going swimmingly, and I have been finding it so easy to let go of things. But that is the only thing that has 'changed' in the last wee while, so whilst outwardly I really don't feel bothered by it, and it is ticking my boxes on all *logic* *common sense* and *rational* levels, there must be something - perhaps deeply buried, that has been a little..... unsettled??? (nothing worse than that, I promise) by 'kondo-ing'. A lot of things are going through my mind at the moment - and I'm not too sure if it's the usual rubbish that you tend to ignore, or whether it is my brain tuning into happenstance, intuition and serendipity and I really should be listening. I do feel as though I'm moving - slightly weirdly floating along, not exactly directionless, but not necessarily directed by my own feet IYSWIM - a bit like being on one of those moving pavements you get in airports in the US. Perhaps I had *stopped/got stuck* and I'm just getting the sensation of moving forwards again, as we chuck ballast outta the boat or hot air-balloon...... or perhaps, perhaps...... I dunno. I don't dread where I'm headed - I don't feel a sense of fear or doom, but neither to I see any clear picture/direction. Weird.

As both DP and I are OK, in as good as health as we can hope for, with our own teeth, clean underwear and NT membership, I can only hope for the best! :rotfl:

So, if I disappear orf - it'll only be because me *pondering* has taken up all available brain-space, there's nowt wrong, and no need to worry.

Dinner this evening is bean curry from the student cookbook, and the rice should have steamed to doneness by now.

I'll love ya and leave y'all.

Keep safe and keep smiling.

Greying