Living richly; simply and debt-freely

Greying_Pilgrim

nowpanicking wrote: »

Ooh soup looks awesome... can you post a link to the recipe please GP?

maddiemay wrote: »

MWC, I love coincidences, I had just finished copying the recipe into a file and clicked on Greying's thread and there you were:D

nowpanicking - the link to Uncle Tony's original recipe is HERE If it is any help at all, I used 200g (dry weight) of white beans - haricot or cannellini would be grand (I got cannellini), 75g (dry weight) of ditalini pasta. For my soffrito, I used 3 small carrots, 1 onion and 2 sticks of celery - whizzed in the processor and cooked off in a little oil. I used one tin of chopped tomatoes drained of their juice (use in another soup). I'm sure for Uncle Tony's version, you should also add - 1 ham hock, the size you have..... it'll be good and it'll work My version made 3 HUGE portions, so scale up or down as appropriate

And I must add - and y'all know this anyway, that Zuppa di Zio Antonio tastes even more fabulous the day after

HTH

Greying

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon :hello:

Well, today has veered between 'how brilliant' and 'Bl0ddy H3ll'. For clarification, everyone on MSE has been responsible for the former, and folks in RL have been responsible for the latter. Ho hum.....

As I'm sat here, counting my blessings and reading all your wonderfully supportive, cheerful and kind messages to me and to each other, I'm thinking about how far I've come in a very short space of time. How much I've achieved and, perhaps, how much I've grown... (UP??????? - nah, that's optional )

Things that mattered at the start of the original diary, don't even flicker on the radar now. And even DP remarked just now, that whilst we've got rid of a lot of stuff this year, there is still plenty that we can divest - and we'd still lead a comfortable life.

And whilst, if I'm truly honest, I'm feeling slightly weighed down by one or two things that have gone on today in RL, I am really looking forward to 2015 - and a large part of that is having a slightly different focus to this diary. The 'simplicity' element is becoming increasingly important to me - from 'it' I think that the 'richness' and the 'debt-freeness' flow. Well, that is what I think - I'm happy to have a go at proving myself RIGHT :rotfl: So thank you to YOU and thank you to MSE for giving me the space to articulate my thoughts, feelings, ideas and, and ....... recipes..... :rotfl:

Several of you have been kind enough to compliment me for various things, perhaps a recipe, perhaps an idea, or news of some supermercado offer. The thing is, I'm just being me. I'd like to be like this more in RL too, but I live in a funny auld town, where folks are very....... mmmmm, how can I say? Well, let's just say, 'keeping up with the Jones' is rife and anyone who tries to tread a different path............

But here, in this diary, I can be me. I can be Greying, with my brilliantly supportive DP and with my crazy ideas about living a rich life..... on the cheap

I look forward to [STRIKE]writing incite filled; lazer-honed, articulatory piquant, doctoral thesis
length posts[/STRIKE] wittering on a bit more in 2015

Thank you so very much for popping in, reading, commenting and, above all, joining in. I appreciate it so much more than you will ever know

HAPPY NEW YEAR let's make 2015 a GREAT one!

Greying x

liltdiddylilt

Hello lovely lovely Pilgrimers and our dear leader Greying...

Have been trying to keep up but you all type quicker than I read today!

MARSHMALLOWS - these be in a light beige packet, hopping between the milk aisle in wee stacks centre aisle, obviously with the theme of hot chocolate, they also appear in the aisle near to the hot chocolate itself... and also in baking. I have to be honest and say that they seem to come and go. A few weeks ago they were everywhere, then all gone, now back again... maybe something to do with room and stock.. who knows.

Have just asked Jellytot whether she is staying up for New Year (she goes to bed at about 10 to 6, 6 on a late night... ) and she solemnly nodded, before saying 'I'm tiyud' :rotfl:

Hopefuljoy your post fills me up with bubbles of happiness for both you and I. It has been a healing and transformative year for us both I know and it makes me feel excited to be capping it off with such a great end. I may be in some discomfort now but soon I shall be bounding around in the gym, doing pilates and scratching behind my ears with my feet like lovely Pirin... well maybe not quite but I hope to be a bit more flexible

To all who frequent this fantastic thread... thank you so much for everything you all bring to it. I would come back to talk to GP all on her lovely ownsome, but adding you all in to the mix makes this one of the very best of threads

I've just spent an eyewatering amount on a much needed item which will allow me links to the forums far better, a source of storage for my thousands of pictures and video calling for my parents to see Jelly. I don't feel good about spending it, even though most of it was saved beforehand and the rest has come out of further savings.. I still feel I need to make it back so I need all your expertise on making something out of nothing GP. I will live simply to pay for my one rich thing

Much love to all of you...

Happy New Year xx

Hopefuljoy

Happy New year everyone!!! Have just got home to three snuggly cats and a sleepy Pirin. DD is downstairs with them all while I catch up with you all on me kindle. Don't worry about the expenditure Lilty..... you saved specifically for it and it'll last ten years if what I've heard about them is true. After what you've coped with last year it's really well earned!

Thank you for your kind comments earlier. I really hope you are not being leapt on and your poor back hurt tonight. I'm sure Jelly will be very kind once she understands it hurts her mummy.

Good morning/night all and catch up tomorrow!

Hopefuljoy

Happy New year one and all!!

supersaver1000

Hopefuljoy wrote: »

Happy New year one and all!!

And from me!

GP keep wittering away, we all love it. You echo our thoughts and it's lovely that we are growing in strength so that our worries are evolving.

I read my Alan Carr no more worrying book again in the bath before I went out. It's a gem of a book - just a few pages, but oh how different I feel and can see I've grown in strength since April. Still lots to learn though so I will be here, a little quieter maybe, but here

Happy New Year :T

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Well, 2015 has started with a bang I was just about able to realise that it was midnight, as the neighbourhood decided to let off their fireworks, so I figured it was summat *important* that was making them do that - I really was toasty warm and half in a deep sleep. I drifted off to sleep again, only to wake a little while later when the resident numpty, who seems to find it necessary to mark New Year according to Central Mid Atlantic time, or NY in the Azores or something started letting off their fireworks Still, they must be on a budget too, as they didn't last long, so off I snoozed.

This morning, I have just read something on Tilly's thread that has made my brain-cell go *ping*. Tilly was talking about running down stores prior to moving house. I had been looking at my stores and thinking that January should include more of them in the menu-plan, as things are getting dated. But of course, the connection to *de-clutter* in preparation for an impending move is genius! Anyone who does goal setting (and if you need a hand Memorygirl is focussing on it on her blog at the mo.) will know that a large part of success is clearing out the *deadwood* to bring on the new growth that you are seeking. I have a goal to move house, but now I am strengthening that goal by lightening the load that I have to move, when it is time to make the leap :j So *boom* we're starting 2015 with a positive thought, which, in turn, will be put into positive action :j And I've already taken the monumental (for me) step of throwing out one food stuff. It is actually out of date I'm not 'fessing by how much It is probably perfectly edible, but the very fact that we've not used it (and have more in the kitchen anyway) means that we're obviously not keen on it. So, I'm taking the hit and getting rid. Mindful shopping in 2015 should mean I don't make that mistake again.

We had a quiet NYE. Watching TV. We taped 'The Help' to watch at another juncture.

Dinner was Rick Stein's Cashew nut curry - but there is no potato in Rick's original version (the one I linked to, has). Served with basmati and coconut and coriander naans. I only had shredded coconut, no dessicated, so I whizzed up the shredded in my mini-chopper. I do wish that I had toasted it first before adding it to the dough - but as it worked OK, one to remember for next time. And funnily enough, I saw a clip of Delia on FN last night, using her mini-chopper - her's does squeal too! :rotfl: Pic of dinner here;



Sorry you can't actually see much of the curry, as it is obscured by coriander & chopped, toasted cashews

Right, we're off for a bracing walk

Thanks everso for popping in, reading, commenting and making such great posts. I greatly appreciate it - even if I am finding it hard to respond to each post, due to time constraints

See y'all later.

Greying

Busymumofthreeplusdog

Happy New Year to Greying and Co. Wishing you all a wonderful, peaceful, healthy, MSE 2015!��
As we say in these parts "Lang may yer lum reek!"

Busy xxxx

Busymumofthreeplusdog

Is it just me or did the thanks button just disappeared at the bong of the bells....?

in_need_of_direction

Just you I guess.