Five OS Pleasures in your day today

freyasmum

So far today mine are:

Removing a batch of mini sponges from the oven (at silly o clock in the morning, too!) and injecting them with lemon curd (like do'nuts! lol) and icing them...

... Eating said sponges, and mightily nice they were too

I guess my first one includes being up so early that I got to enjoy the peace of the morning (even, though I'm more of a night time person)

and currently, I am enjoying a steaming bowl of split pea soup and bread. Hm, of course.

Hmm, I'll see what else I do later... definately more baking, though

Lx

Sarahsaver

1. having homemade marrow :eek: and ginger jam on ...
2. homemade muesli bread for breakfast
3. detox courtesy of eating too many windfalls from freecycle :eek: I know TMI
4. HM leftover crumble for lunch with more of the windfalls
5. DS thinking I am super clever because we will not have to buy any jam for a whole year!

thriftlady_2

Sarahsaver wrote: »

3. detox courtesy of eating too many windfalls from freecycle :eek: I know TMI
!

:rotfl:

1) 3 bottles' worth of damson gin are now sitting in my garage waiting for Christmas.

2) The delicious smell of yesterday's roast chicken being turned into stock.

3) The knowledge that the remaining meat from the chicken are waiting to be turned into chicken and lentil curry for tea tonight.

4) 2 batches of muffins (choconana and blackberry& apple) are in the cake tin -that'll keep my kids and my friend's kids who are here today and tomorrow happy.

5) Just picked even more blackberries -it's a bumper crop this year (makes up for last year).

Penelope_Penguin

• Rubber chicken - roast, supreme, and minestrone soup made with the stock
• Filling the freezer with HG sweetcorn, beans, tomatoes (including green for chutney), courgette, peas, aubergines, carrots; and storing potatoes, onions, and shallots
• Thriftlady's freeform bread
• Corned beef hash for tea - all HG veg, and a tin of corned beef forgotten at the back of the cupboard
• Clean sheets, which smell delicious after drying on the line

Penny. x

morganb

Watching DS1 playing 'potato and spoon' races out the front with a friend.
The smell of weetabix brownies baking
Yummy carrot and potato soup at lunchtime
The thought of leftover toad in the hole with onion gravy for tea ...

newlywed

Knowing I kept to our food shop budget on holiday (we found Aldi's)
HM chicken soup sat in the freezer for tomorrow's lunch
Buying lentils in the supermarket and actually knowing what to do with them
Planning a big batch of chilli later in the week to go in the freezer so I get a day off cooking
Knowing that with OS cooking - cooking low fat healthy meals is easier

Hardup_Hester

After a very none os weekend, which included paying for a night in a B&B & not staying there, today has been better.

1) Free breakfast at work, croissants
2) Given 6 large cake tins, ideal for storage
3) Had a cuddle with friends 8 week old puppy
4) Found 3 left over croissants & bought them home to freeze
5) Made a huge pot of soup from chicken carcass

p-pincher

Hi everyone

my 5 OS pleasure are
1-Using my HM chicken stock and sunday leftover chicken to make chicken noodle soup for tonights dinner, and even better should last 2 days
2- Picking a couple more free bowls of blackberries off the neighbours bushes and working out that if i use the carefully i should have enough to last to november and thats not counting any more that i pick
3-Maikng 2 batches of HM shortbread that worked to approx 70p to make, and my three yr old telling me 'Mummy these are the best biscuits ever' -makes it all worth while
4-Cutting up my veg that was in the fridge that was in danger of going off and freezing them in batches ready to use.
5-Getting a text from my sister to say thank you for thr HM birthday cake me and the 3 yr old made for her birthday on Saturday, i always try to think of a personal present form the kids to close family. it was a HFW recipe for victoria sandwhich and it was so easy, nice and cheap and delicious. But now ive already had my nephew and other sister requesting one for there birthdays in a couple of weeks.

freyasmum

I don't know if I can think of five... I'm a bit like that, always forgetting, lol. But here I go...

1) Making and icing a gingerbread.
2) Making soup - chicken(less) noodle. Chicken stock, noodles (farm foods, 3 packs for £1, use one and a half per pot - I use a huge catering pot), 2 onions (I get these delivered from my local wholesaler and they are also huge), 500g carrots (washed, grated and frozen, all ready for soup). From this I get around 16 very decent portions. You could add more water and thin it down a bit as it could stand it - I just like it a bit thicker. You could also add some rice as well.
3) Playing and cooking with my daughter - letting her watch me cook and talking to her whilst I'm doing it - telling her what I'm doing and why. Even though she's only 14 months, she is taking everything in and watches everything.

p-pincher, that's great, but I hope you enjoy baking a lot, lol. I have to bake every day, lol.

Lx

vixtress

making 2 huge pasta bakes in about 20 minutes after reading the 'pasta bake thread'

the fanastic plum crumble made from free plums that miraculously fell into our garden from next doors tree

getting loads of 'chores' done, sorted out dd's clothes, recycled 2 bin bags to a friends little girl, ebay parcel sent, prescriptions get etc, etc

planning meals so i should only need to nip to local shop not supermarket

MY GORGOUS BOY'S FIRST DAY AT BIG SCHOOL and his teacher saying 'goodness me, he loves his food!)