Five OS Pleasures in your day today

Rummer

Good Evening Everyone!

Today was such a beautiful day! So I took advantage of it, my pleasures today included:

• Kicking the autumn leaves
• Walking in the sunshine with my family
• Watching TV from under a snuggly blanket
• My DD arriving home from holiday
• Hanging out with the cats
• A trip to the library
• Seeing my parents
• A delicious home cooked meal made by my OH

Acey did you make your brownies today?

Frith

No, might do them tomorrow!

Just now I boiled a massive saucepan of chestnuts and sat peeling them whilst watching Piers Morgan's interview of Boris Becker! So I've 2 bags of chestnuts in the freezer and loads left for roasting tomorrow.

L

bunny_too

Morning everyone, my five today are,:j

1. Leave wash basket empty

2. Bake lunch box treats for the week

3. Hopefully iron what has been wash

4. Clean hall, stairs and landing

5. make nice coffee about one, and spend time having wee read of forum, great os hobby this.:money:

Have a great os day everyone.:j

Olliebeak the very very yummy chocolate ginger slice recipe

Taken from the Radio Times step by step all-colour cookbook by John Tovey serves 12

Crumb base
1x 8oz packet choc. digestive biscuits
2oz butter,melted, plus extra for greasing

Filling
2oz caster sugar
1 tablespoon syrup from the perserved ginger jar
21/2 fl oz water
21/2 Chinese preserved stem ginger ( about 5 nuggets), very finley chopped
1lb best-quality plain dark chocolate
4 tablespoons brandy
15fl oz double cream

Garnish
sifted cocoa powder or whippwd cream and slivers of preserved stem ginger

Pre-heat oven 180 oc
Grease a 10in round loose- bottom cake tin.
To make the base, crumb the biscuits, add melted butter, line the base of the prepared tin, bake for20mins.

To make the filling put the caster sugar,syrup,water and stem ginger dice into a small saucepan, and bring gently to the boil,allowing the sugar to dissolve. Put to one side.
Melt the chocolate and brandy together, fold the cooled sugar and syrup mix into the chocolate and leave to the side.
Whip the cream gently until it forms high peaks and combine with the chocolate mixture.Pour into the biscuit based lined tin. Cover with cling film and leave in the fridge for at least 12 hours, over night is best i find.

Decorate dish as desired.
Happy cooking

DitaBombita

ACEY wrote: »

No, might do them tomorrow!

Just now I boiled a massive saucepan of chestnuts and sat peeling them whilst watching Piers Morgan's interview of Boris Becker! So I've 2 bags of chestnuts in the freezer and loads left for roasting tomorrow.

L

Acey - Did you buy or find your chestnuts? Im off for a wander/forrage this afternoon and only ever see horse chestnuts - not the sweet variety.

OS pleasures for today -

1. Making some Xmas pressies
2. Going to farmers market
3. Home made jam on something for breakfast
4. Bit of a walk and forrage this afternoon
5. hopefully buying (maybe not so OS) the river cotage Mushroom book - will buy locally from indep. shop and go halves with OH on it so not too bad!

ampersand

I hope I may say I'm back and will try to put up 5 pleasures this evening[computer willing].
I've had major Broadband/communication problems since returning - and other things- so some reading here from a few days back has felt like a wonderful, secret, to-be-rationed treat.
It's wonderful to see new peeps and stalwarts and I am glad to quickly see the ginger recipe given - thankyou bunny for providing and Ollie for asking[great minds etc.etc.].
I have major things to decide in what is now the last section of my Life and I want to try and do some making right, making worthwhile, venturing further, being fulfilled and maybe finding other happiness.
This may require something very difficult.

I'm thinking of you all today - beautiful as this time of year is, melancholic is not; it's a killer for me. That's where we now are, mellow fruitfulness(and a fair amount achieved therefrom]notwithstanding.

I must move, if not 'on', differently, now.

I wish you all a loving, satisfying Sunday.
See you ce soir.

billy858

Mine for the weekend,
1. DD2 came home from school with her shoe strapped snapped off. My first reaction was that she needed new ones, then thought I should try and get them repaired.Only £1.50 to have them re-stitched at the cobblers. I was really chuffed!
2. Walking the dog in the autumn leaves with my dotty wellies on.
3. Chicken pie filling for tea in the slow cooker.
4. Home made leek and potato soup for lunch.
5. Swimming with DD2.
Love to all. X

grandmasam

Hi everyone,
Been mia for some time as away dog sitting [with no broadband access!] then a nasty dose of swine flu so recovering from that.
Ampersand...I am on that journey myself,my sig is my mantra to remind me to have some fun as well,grab my hand and we'll have a bit of fun today!

# skyping the family in germany, it's lovely to see and speak to them every week
# the pots of jams and chutneys on the pantry shelf and knowing they have been made by me!!
# the mass of small spray pink chrysanthemums in the bed outside the front door ,they have been flowering for the last month and look beautiful when i go out and come in ,and i love the spicy smell!
# cleared the spare [junk!] room so i can walk in without having to climb over 'stuff' so satisfying.
# a new mattress for my bed, saved and paid for,[thanks mse] and no pain in my back and hip when i get up in the morning

have a good day all
caz

NJW69

Todays 5

1) Rest of washing done, baskets empty and all out on line

2) Ate rest of HM loaf as cheese on toast for brunch

3) Trying a new kind of loaf in the BM (French bread) today so will see what thats like. Smells good so far.

4) I've got chicken, sauteed with onion, celery, carrot, homegrown chilli pepper, green pepper, tomatoes (using up the shrivelled HG ones from the fridge. Still got a few to harvest yet), tomato puree, garlic and vegetable stock bubbling away in the slow cooker.

5) Will serve with some rice and peas that I have found in the freezer when defrosted yesterday and steamed carrots (from the humungous bag I bought in Morrisons for 40p) and some savoy cabbage (again a Morrisons bargain at 27p for a full one).

6) Going to use up some pasta from the lots of open bags I have with some tuna and sweetcorn for son to take to college tomorrow for a change.

Does anyone have a recipe for fish pie as I have also discovered some scallops, king prawns, normal prawns and white fish in the freezer? I've never made one as we don't eat much fish.

Reverbe

Got a lot of catching up to do.

Sunday

1. Carry On Cabbie

2 _ Tescos - reduced figs, YS - king prawns, haddock,scampi, mangetout & sugarsnap peas and potato croquettes:T

3. mugs of tea and the papers

4. YS king prawns chopped & fried with LO spring onions, red and green pepper followed by figs for brunch

5. Reading Leslie Philips autobiography

6 snack of porridge with coconut and dried blueberries

7. Doc Martin and Pixar on tv

8 dinner - YS haddock and croquettes and LO peas

Monday

1. Starbucks vanilla latte for £1.99 instead of £2.70 and free ginger muffin for Fairtrade day

2. Lovefilm - Make Me A Million with Sid James and L Word series 5 disc 2.

3. full size Johnsons Dreamy skin nighttime bath to trial

4. LO haddock for lunch

5. reading Dorian Gray for one of my book clubs

6. YS scampi and YS mangetout & sugarsnap peas

7. Flashforward and Small Engine Repair on tv.

Tuesday

1. surveys for cash online

2. Frost Nixon from Lovefilm

3. Tibetan silver earrings from ebay - tree of life, little owl and wise owl

4. Local promo fair - free chocolate, 2 rock sweets,I eco lightbulb and postcards

5. Posted another book for Green Metropolis

6. sunshine and duck feeding

7. Cottage pie and YS kale for dinner

8. Farmville

Wednesday

1. 10p on the street

2. Book club - with free food as someone ordered a side dish they didnt like

3. True Blood

4. eating my starbucks free muffin from Monday on the tube home

5 free papers on train - Standard, london lite and a free Stylist magazine

NJW69

Reverbe wrote: »

Got a lot of catching up to do.

Sunday

1. Carry On Cabbie

2 _ Tescos - reduced figs, YS Whats YS? - king prawns, haddock,scampi, mangetout & sugarsnap peas and potato croquettes:T

3. mugs of tea and the papers

4. YS king prawns chopped & fried with LO Whats LO? spring onions, red and green pepper followed by figs for brunch

5. Reading Leslie Philips autobiography

6 snack of porridge with coconut and dried blueberries

7. Doc Martin and Pixar on tv

8 dinner - YS haddock and croquettes and LO peas

Monday

1. Starbucks vanilla latte for £1.99 instead of £2.70 and free ginger muffin for Fairtrade day

2. Lovefilm - Make Me A Million with Sid James and L Word series 5 disc 2.

3. full size Johnsons Dreamy skin nighttime bath to trial

4. LO haddock for lunch

5. reading Dorian Gray for one of my book clubs

6. YS scampi and YS mangetout & sugarsnap peas

7. Flashforward and Small Engine Repair on tv.

Tuesday

1. surveys for cash online

2. Frost Nixon from Lovefilm

3. Tibetan silver earrings from ebay - tree of life, little owl and wise owl

4. Local promo fair - free chocolate, 2 rock sweets,I eco lightbulb and postcards

5. Posted another book for Green Metropolis

6. sunshine and duck feeding

7. Cottage pie and YS kale for dinner

8. Farmville

Wednesday

1. 10p on the street

2. Book club - with free food as someone ordered a side dish they didnt like

3. True Blood

4. eating my starbucks free muffin from Monday on the tube home

5 free papers on train - Standard, london lite and a free Stylist magazine

Presume they are some kind of reduction.