The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

mardatha

Oh my god maggie, I'll swap you any and all Turkish Delight you get, for the sewage stuff ! Let me just get a crate..

greent

karcher wrote: »

Forgive me for asking but what is/are L&M?

It's Hester's name for her husband

nursemaggie

Mar I don't buy it and no one buys it for me. If anyone ever does I will send it straight to you.

I cannot understand anyone eating it it tastes worse than the most vile medicine I ever had as a child. They did not put them in sugar syrups then.

Hard_Up_Hester

Love, love, love Turkish Delight, especially the one not in chocolate.
My L&M stands for Lord & Master!!

ivyleaf

I've never eaten fennel but I've had fennel tea, which tastes similar to aniseed and is good for the digestion - in Germany (and I think France as well) they routinely give it to babies to help with wind and colic. I think you can buy the baby version here now, I've an idea I bought some when DS was a baby. (granules which dissolve in water.)

Floss

When the DS's were babies (1986/88) you could buy a fennel drink made by Milupa, which was granules. We often eat fennel raw in a salad with orange & radish, roasted in with other veg like onions, peppers, aubergine & courgettes, or DH likes it braised (but then I think its too much like soggy aniseed balls!)

mardatha

Hester, you mean the huge gorgeous delicious yellow and pink lumps of it... drenched in icing sugar and melt in the mouth fabulousness... o god I'm going to cry

Hard_Up_Hester

Oh yes Mar, someone gave me a box for Christmas, it didn't last long, it was delicious.
Mind you, I like kale too, but I don't like sweet potato or butternut squash.
And I like fennel because I like Pernod over ice, mmmm.

Hard_Up_Hester

My husband is almost a foot taller than me, generously covered in jailhouse tattoos (as in amateur, not professionally done) , he has a very lived in face with some scarring. People who know us think it's funny because despite how he looks I'm seen as the boss in the relationship. Hence I call him my L&M.

westcoastscot

love turkish delight - well love almost any sweet thing actually, but particularly that - the dusty stuff - yum!
We're mostly over to frozen or tinned veg - just cannot get enough fresh stuff here, or much fruit - am at the point where I'd kill for a good banana - not one that's gone over, or a green one that ripens to mush. Missing nice red apples also. Going to try and grow a bit more veg in my wee garden this year.

Ginny, lovely to "see" you again.