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The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes
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Good Morning :hello:
Bits and bobs of admin to do today, and some further sorting and shuffling *stuff* about.
I need a couple of things from up the high street, so we'll go and stretch our legs up there in a bit.
Tea this evening is Spicy sweet potato & butternut squash soup, which is orginially from the c0vent gard3n s0up co recipe book. The book long since went to a chazzer, but this is one of the few recipes that I kept. The sweet potatoes are from HB (cheaper than mrAl :j), the BNS was from mrL, I have a spare 25p tin of chickpeas kicking about, doing nowt (and plenty of dried chickpeas in the cupboard if it came to it), so I figured this was the soup to make.
Right, best get to it and make a start.
Ta for popping in. Appreciated.
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Does the flavour of the chickpeas come through? I'm trying to up my veg intake via soup but I'm not a big fan of chickpeas.Mortgage at 01.01.14 £119,481.83:eek: today £0 Emergency fund £5.5/5.5k & £200/200 cash.:jWeight 24/02/19 14st 7lb now 12st determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection.:T100%through my 1% mortgage challenge. 100% through my pb challenge.0
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in_need_of_direction wrote: »Does the flavour of the chickpeas come through? I'm trying to up my veg intake via soup but I'm not a big fan of chickpeas.
Not really INOD - I tend to blitz my version anyway, and the lime and spice seem to dominate - which is OK by me
Greying XPounds for Panes £7,305/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
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Just had news that we've lost a cousin to that !!!!!! *big c*.
For such an indiscrimnate disease, why does it always take the *good* ones?
Bl00dy disease.
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Sorry to hear your news Greying.
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EssexHebridean wrote: »Sorry to hear your news Greying.
From me too x0 -
Thank you.
It's just so bl00dy unfair. They fought so hard for so long. They won twice, but at the third time of knocking, I don't think they had anything left to call upon.
There are children who've lost a mother, a husband has lost his wife, a family that has lost it's shining light.
Bl00dy unfair.
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It is so bloody ufair.
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Oh greying - so sorry to hear the news. Hugs xNST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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Very sad news Greying. Sending hugs.
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