The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

milasavesmoney

Thank you Nuatha and Softstuff. I will definitely be making clotted cream (I've bookmarked the link ) and scones but will substitute soft HM peach jam...as soon as I loose some more weight. I'm afraid I would undo all the good work I've done so far otherwise.::p

Softstuff

milasavesmoney wrote: »

Thank you Nuatha and Softstuff. I will definitely be making clotted cream (I've bookmarked the link ) and scones but will substitute soft HM peach jam...as soon as I loose some more weight. I'm afraid I would undo all the good work I've done so far otherwise.::p

No need to worry Mila. Clotting cream removes all the pesky calories. Right?

moneyistooshorttomention

Softstuff wrote: »

No need to worry Mila. Clotting cream removes all the pesky calories. Right?

If only.....Softstuff...:rotfl:

I'm very partial to clotted cream - on any and every excuse.

I suppose I should be grateful I can never find organic clotted cream here - as that means I rarely eat it these days (as I like my milk and products thereof to be organic). So I land up making do with half fat creme fraiche (being the only organic "plonk on top of a pudding" thing I can find here).

That reminds me - I know I like cashew cream as well - and I've never yet tried making it and the recipes for it look easy....

Hard_Up_Hester

Being brought up by a mother with ideas above her station and when she was working, a peasant grandmother and also having spent a peripatetic childhood. I have never worked out which meal was which, especially since my mother didn't see any need to provide proper meals.

She considered half a tin of condensed milk an adequate meal, at any time she could be bothered.

Breakfast was a meal not given to children as it consisted of a strong coffee and a fag (cigarette).

School dinners were the only consistent meal in my childhood, they stood me in good stead. I will now eat almost anything put in front of me including stuff I don't like.

FurryBeastOz

Islandmaid wrote: »

my first husband was a boat builder, went on to be a shipwright, my current husband was one too

Wow. My family were boat builders. Old Thames barges. My father is a shipwrights, although of the steel and massive engine coastal oil tanker variety. Still, the sea is inbred. I just like being under it:D

milasavesmoney

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Being brought up by a mother with ideas above her station and when she was working, a peasant grandmother and also having spent a peripatetic childhood. I have never worked out which meal was which, especially since my mother didn't see any need to provide proper meals.

She considered half a tin of condensed milk an adequate meal, at any time she could be bothered.

Breakfast was a meal not given to children as it consisted of a strong coffee and a fag (cigarette).

School dinners were the only consistent meal in my childhood, they stood me in good stead. I will now eat almost anything put in front of me including stuff I don't like.

Then you have turned a sour appalling beginning in life into a positive constructive attribute...you are uplifting, funny, wise and greatly to be admired.

mardatha

My family were on the Fife fishing boats FurryBeastOz, grandad had a boat out of Anstruther. They all lived on fish and rabbit and they all lived into their late 80s. I cannot abide the sight, taste, or smell of fish - but I do love going out in any size of boat and could happliy live on the Mull ferry
Mila clotted cream is the goo-iest yummy-est amazing-est stuff I have ever tasted! Costco sells it.... am just sayin
Was thinking of American friends yesterday - was on phone to the daughter and I said "God I could murder a cake" - and she said "I could murder a fag".... I imagined the reaction if we had said that in America

mardatha

That's 3 smilies in 3 paragraphs... wow I must be in a good mood this morning!

Softstuff

mardatha wrote: »

That's 3 smilies in 3 paragraphs... wow I must be in a good mood this morning!

Clotted cream Mardatha, does it every time

Jazee

Doesn't anyone feel hard done by though when they have to put up with creme fraiche, and half fat at that, instead of cream, just because they're trying to be good?

I have purchased two chocolate cakes today. One is in the freezer, the other is calling out for me to cut a slice.