The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

You missed nowt, Verbatim, someone had just learnt how to use 'copy & paste' and had put the same ad on lots of threads. *Yawn*

Well, we ate last night, but late I did do the dish that I set out to so, but it was from 'Economy Gastronomy' and as you all know, they use base mixes to make several dishes. So I made all the dishes, but working in a tiny kitchen is not conducive to doing multiple dishes, or baking several cakes to fill an oven. So by the time you've done the washing up 57 times to leave space to roll things out, or mix, time has been munched

I made the chickpea base mix, to make; Othello's chickpea comfort pie, Everyday chickpea savoury loaf and red pepper hummus. The hummus was OK, not necessarily any better than my tried and trusted hummus recipe. The chickpea loaf..... mmm, I don't think 300g of base mix makes anything like the picture in the book - I could barely fill a 1lb loaf tin with my mix, and I had added in some oats for 'heft'. We'll see what it tastes like (i put it in the freezer), but I remain unconvinced about the fresh coriander in it.... but maybe that's just me. I did only put 1 egg in it too - and blitzed part of the mix instead. It's supposed to be 'economy' gastronomy after all, and eggs are expensive. Then I made the Othello's Chickpea Comfort Pie. Far to frou frou for a school night. The filling flavours were nice, and the coourgette was gifted in mine. The filo pastry was a box of the 3 for £1 from h3ron, which is just as well, as I wasted half of it in my rush to get it done I topped my pie with sesame seeds too, as I had some. I think I'd make the filling again, not convinced about the need for filo - think puff would work just as well as a pithiver or even use as a calzone filling. Picture here;



The rice was a bit of brown basmati (love that stuff ) out of the freezer, defrosted and put in a mould to look poncy..... The dish would have benefitted from some sort of light sauce/vinagrette, but I ran out of time

Tea tonight will be Vichysoisse....... Leek & tattie soup

Right, best go. Snap to prep - and yet only half a cup of coffee drunk :eek:

Ta for popping by. Appreciated.

Greying X

Pippilongstocking

Oh dear to spam and bless them for being able to cut and paste - as annoying as it would have been. They do have a new skill.

Looked at the chickpea recipe in said book it did look good - as it does with you. Loving the poncy rice also. Nowt wrong with a bit of presentation.

Last night we had reduced burgers and wedges (part of the £5 frozen deal in coop.) often nothing there I fancy but its constituants for once I can see us using for 'quick teas'.

Enjoy the coffee petal I'm off for a read back as I've been away.

Happy Tuesday to your and yours me dears.

XOXOXO

Fortune_Smiles

That pie looks amazing.

Fortune x

Greying_Pilgrim

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly children grow up.

I noticed this morning that a child in the street has obviously 'gone up' to secondary school this term. I didn't realise they were quite old enough - I'd of thought they had another year at primary. But there they were, looking soooo much taller, bigger & growed up in their new uniform. I remember seeing them being brought home from hospital, a day or so after they were born........

I was up the High street yesterday, wandering out of the shopping centre, when 4 lads came walking towards me in a line. What was striking was that they were all munching shop bought sandwiches (in the cardboard triangles) and they were all holding those packages at exactly the same angle - what are the chances of that? Would have made a terrific photo. I think they were possibly all lower VIth, as their backpacks looked pristine and their jeans & trainers very nu........... But I did ponder on what it would be like to spend... what? £1.50?, £2?, £3 on a packet of sandwiches or a 'mealdeal' each day. Sometimes I do wonder if scratting around, making every penny squeak is worth it. Although I am well aware that I'm not a care-free college student any longer.......

I was 'chatting' to someone yesterday about BG and mentioned how quickly time was flying and how old they were now. It'll be all too soon that they will be trying on a school uniform for the first time, and then 2 seconds later it'll be a different uniform for a different school, and then................... I will prefer it though, if they learn to make their own sandwiches, and don't expect the bank of mum & dad to stump up each day........ :rotfl: Poor BG - getting lumbered with us! :rotfl::(;)

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

BG is blessed to have you as parents and don't you forget it! :kisses3: You're giving them skills to avoid a lifeime of debt, which is priceless

I won't recommend what we had for tea last night as weve both been up all night with upset stomachs - I have literally lost nearly 5lbs since yesterday :eek:

We had leftovers of the lentil and veg pie thing I made the other night - but come to think of it, I can't even remember what night I made it, and it's just been sat on the side ever since, not even in the fridge. I get a bit slack, thinking we dont eat meat so dont need to worry but that's caught me out before and will undoubtedly do so again Mr Cheery's leftover soup will NOT be being consumed today though and has now taken on the status of TOXIC POISON :eek: :rotfl:

Dragging myself out in a tic as were almost out of loo roll :erk: and I was the first to stop being sick so I'm clearly better :eek: trying to think what I fancy to eat - usually cornflakes when I'm ill

Anyway sorry greying, rambling on with tales of woe. Hope you're all feeling better than me xx

Greying_Pilgrim

*passes Cheery a piece of dry toast......*

Oh love, it's awful being ill. I hope it's just something that once it's exited your system, it's done......

But thanks for the reminder, we're low on loo roll too Forgot to get some at the weekend

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Mmm, not too sure what today holds. The weather seems nice now, but it has rained heavily.

Anyway, we'll need supplies, but DH will be in charge of getting those, as they are of the mrL/mrAl variety.

BG and I had a lovely day out yesterday. I took a bit of a leap of faith and have widened my circle a bit, and have found some lovely people to hang out with for a few hours each week. It makes a difference. We donate what we can afford, and have a wonderful time.

I also hit the jackpot with gifted produce yesterday, some from the gardening parental and some from a friend. So that will be used up - every last bit

Tea last night was creamy courgette and pasta, which is a recipe I have made before. It utilised 3 of the gifted courgettes and whilst I did buy some cream to put into the dish, it did also use up the last of the parmesan cheese that I got a good few weeks ago. So for the most part, a pretty furgal dish. I made ours with macaroni, as it was what I had in and I'm no fan of fettucine.

Tea this evening will be a produce heavy buddha bowl. Other than that, the details are quite fluid Oh, and on Tuesday night, we did have leek and potato soup. It was awful. I used frozen leeks from fArmf00ds - lawks they were stringy. It was like eating grass soup No need to query the 'fibre' intake in the Greying Household............ We ate it all up, but gosh, a worthy eat, if ever there was one

Can't think of owt else :money:to report, so best get to choresville by the express route.

Ta for reading. Appreciated.

Greying X

rtandon27

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

No need to query the 'fibre' intake in the Greying Household............

Oh my...

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

beanielou

That courgette things looks fair braw

redofromstart

ooh the pasta thing looks perfect (sans yucky pasta obviously), I have courgettes and squash to use, and the last tiny corner of parmesan so that will work perfectly. Maybe substitute broccoli stems or runner beans for the pasta. Thanks GP!