The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

rtandon27

Crustless quiche sounds really yummy - makes me think of soca pizza (or is my imagination not meshing with your description?!?)

GP - when did the festive R@dio Times go up to 4.50?!?:eek:

I remember it being 3.00 and GP says he swears it was only a pound last time he bought it!

We only buy it once a year for our lazier than lazy hibernation week - but wow that's steep!!!

Greying_Pilgrim

Well, at least you heard it here first. I did not sort out my crafting mistake second time around. Did I buffalo. I just got it wrong, differently, again :doh:

I knew in my heart of hearts it wasn't right, but couldn't see where I'd gone wrong. Until I went back to basics and envisaged what the finished article should look like and how that might be achieved. It finally dawned on me that I was reading the instructions 'flat' and yet what I was trying to achieve was 3 dimensional. Once i'd worked that out, the instructions 'read' to achieve the shape that I needed. :doh:It seems, that as per usual, Greying Pilgrim is trying to run before I can walk, and I'm on the intermediate slopes, when I shouldn't even have left the fitting room of the ski shop............. :rotfl:

rtandon27 wrote: »

GP - when did the festive R@dio Times go up to 4.50?!?:eek:

We only buy it once a year for our lazier than lazy hibernation week - but wow that's steep!!!

Dearheart, I have no idea! RT lost my custom years ago. But my oh, my, that is steep. A very kind mse'r prompted me earlier to look into the offer that RT do at this time of year to take out a subscription for 6 weeks or so, and it covers the Chrimbobs issue. The skill is to cancel the subscription before the date of the last issue, and you obviously get tremendous VFM, but I couldn't partake at that particular moment in time. We're still on with the tvCH01ce or whatever it is called. 55p a week or £1.10 for a double issue. You have to skip over the interminable drivel about the 'soaps', but then I'd do that for the equal drivel about Dr wh0 in the RT..........

Crustless quiche is similar to the socca pizza, but thicker. But the principle is the same with the batter. Some seem to have 'flours' in, others are more like a conventional quiche filling. I happened to put a 'sauce' at the bottom this time - I don't usually, but it worked well to be a 'self-saucing' dish, iyswim, so I would do it again. I just make crustless quiche to avoid the faff (for me) of pastry.

Right, I've a load of itty bitty chores to do today. Best start shifting my tail-feather!

Tea will be curry. cauliflower will feature. Further than that, I have not thought :think:

Ta for popping in, reading and telling me about the RT :eek: Appreciated. Greatly.

Greying X

mcculloch29

rtandon27 wrote: »

GP - when did the festive R@dio Times go up to 4.50?!?:eek:

I remember it being 3.00 and GP says he swears it was only a pound last time he bought it!

We only buy it once a year for our lazier than lazy hibernation week - but wow that's steep!!!

Which is exactly what the checkout guy said at A!di, when I bought mine. There were only half a dozen left, as well.
The lady in front of me had bought one, he had the same conversation with her.

I have a Smartphone with the YouView app, and a YouView box. I don't need the festive R@dio Times.

Not to get it, however, would be akin to not putting up my Christmas wreath (artificial, but a youngster compared with the tree, @ c. 15 years old.)

Regarding the price, it is a double issue, and £2.25 a week isn't too bad.

I know if I got a paper-based TV magazine, for 50 weeks of the year it would go unread. There is so much information online.

I have every sympathy with your crafting project struggles, GP. I have many tree and wall decorations that I made years ago, as practice pieces for making them with childminded children.

There are two Santa faces on card that some sadist in Family Circle magazine (remember that?) put forward as a suitable project for 5-12 year olds. I have never constructed anything so fiddly in my entire life. It comes back to me every year, as I hang them.

Greying_Pilgrim

Ay up mcculloch - I must admit, the last time I bought the RT, we did actually find the radio listings invaluable....... there are some cracking little programmes hidden away on various stations over the chrimbobs period. Fascinating what you can learn and hear. Anyhoo - fancy you popping in, when I was thinking of you in h3r0n today! They have their Gal8an1 brand mozarella in - not quite as barginacious as in previous years, but 'maxi' logs 2 for £1 (was 3 for £1) and buffalo mozzarella at 39p! The logs are now in my freezer, and as the buffalo mozzie is bb 29/12, it's safely in the fridge, writing 'nice meal next Thursday' all over itself

I also dropped into Wilks for a couple of items, and ended up with a tree topper (star shaped) and a pack of 20 star shaped LED lights from their half-price decs sale, £1.25 and £2 respectively. I did notice that the bauble that I bought previously at full price was in the sale, but there was only one left, and I had had the benefit of being able to select the one i did to make sure it was complete with no chips/bits missing etc, so I'll take that hit. The gal on the till double checked the lights were in the sale for me - and said, 'oh, quite alot is in the 1/2 price bit, isn't it?' and then added, 'I'll wait to buy my things next year.......' And yet we as mser's know it can be msing to be prepared too, eh? Dilemma, for sure. And yes, we can always wait for the sales, but then you take pot luck as to whether what you want is available and discounted.

I did forget to pick up a couple of stamps from the post office, but I can get those on Monday or Tuesday. It was probably more important to 'duck in and duck out' of the high street before the 'leisure' shoppers arrived

Right, I must get on, I keep on thinking it is later than it is. I did remember to post the majority of the 'postable' cards on my way out, so they will be in the system, rather than leaving it until Monday. I only have one definite card to be posted now (larger envelope) and one that could be posted/delivered, depending on how things pan out. A couple of letters/thank you cards could be posted too, but it's not the end of the world if they go after Christmas.

Edited to add: mcculloch - if it was down to me, we wouldn't have a paper-based TV mag either. I don't watch enough TV to warrant it - and didn't realise Rick Stein had a new series on anyway - and DH didn't tell me despite having the mag! I had a - albeit brief look - at the TV over Christmas, and I might have missed something, but I didn't see any prog and say, 'Oh, MUST watch/record that.........'

Greying X

apple_muncher

Dh signed us up for the RT 12 week offer. So far, I am enjoying the read, and using my highlighter:rotfl:. And Doing the sudoku. But to be honest, there is not a lot of highlight - mostly Father Brown, World's Strongest Man (and all its varieties) and a few bbc4 progs.

However, today I consider it worth every penny as dd was glutenised yesterday (by supposed vegan, gf, df cake) and the ensuing poorliness was rotten. Yet discovering a Judy Moody film has made her day an she is giggling a lot at it.

Greying_Pilgrim

Oh apple - speedy recovery to DD - hurrah for spirit-raising films!

Actually I was thinking of you in MrT's the other day, as I saw a range of foods - supposedly gf/df/veggie def, vegan poss, foods that I had not spotted before. That doesn't mean they are 'new', it just means I get into mrT rarely, and hadn't seen them before. They were chilled products; bakes/'burgers'/falafel type things. It wasn't mrT own make, it was one I'd not heard of before, and have promptly forgotten........ :think: it was something like..... Gosh or Good - 4 letters I think. They were a little on the pricey side, sort of around the £2.50 mark, but what caught my attention was the reasonably imaginative ingredient combinations. And I suppose it is one of those situations when if they are suitable for someone with allergies, they can be great to have as a standby. It wasn't anything you couldn't have made yourself, I was just taken that they were pretty firm on what they didn't contain, and were interesting flavour combinations. gf/df food seems to have moved on a bit Assuming of course that they have been prepared with care and attention.

Edit to add: It was Gosh, and they are stocked in other sm's - link to one product here

Greying X

apple_muncher

Thanks gp. I had a couple of the gosh beetroot burgers once. The ensuing , ahem, wind, was certainly a new experience... But given that I love meat, I shall still bear them in mind for veggie sis/bil and vegan niece.

Greying_Pilgrim

apple_muncher wrote: »

Thanks gp. I had a couple of the gosh beetroot burgers once. The ensuing , ahem, wind, was certainly a new experience... But given that I love meat, I shall still bear them in mind for veggie sis/bil and vegan niece.

Oh........ erm................... Gosh!!! :rotfl:

I have no idea if they are good/bad/indifferent. I just spotted them and was taken with the fact that a little bit of effort had been expended with ingredient composition.



Well, it's official, DH has quite the worst case of snuffles ever recorded in medical history. He has taken to his bed in daylight hours..........

BG has been a bit tearful/niggly today, for no obvious reason, but seems well enough. They are currently snoozing.

I'm pondering whether to make tea, only to have DH declare that he's not up to eating anything................... Or make it, leave it on the side and tell him to help himself buffet-style.......

Or there is red wine and L1za Tarbuck on R2............................

Decisions, decisions


X

Cheery_Daff

Poor DH. I vote for saying 'you were so poorly I assumed you wouldn't want to eat so I just made my own tea. There's bread to toast if you're hungry'

(I'm a pushover really :rotfl: )

beanielou

£4.50 for the RT's.:eek:
Lies in a darkened room.

Hope that your OH is on the mend really soon.