The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

gallygirl

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

beanie - i can understand a bit of extra cost because it's been further processed, but all but double???

It's also bulkier so will cost more to pack and transport. All adds up I suppose.

BG gets more attention than your average baby as they are obviously exceptionally beautiful .

When I used to buy frozen broccoli I found the trick was to let it defrost, spray with olive oil, add some spices and roast it. Nom nom nom .

I don't like polenta when it looks like custard _pale_. Mind you, I'm not that keen on it in blocks either :rotfl:.

Inspired by GP, I have started sprinkling 'stuff' on dinner before serving - looks dead posh :rotfl:. Started when we had friends round and were doing some impromptu nibbles. I had some little toastie thingies which we spread with cream cheese and added an anchovy, looked nice. Then we sprinkled paprika over the plate - wow, we felt like Nigella (though I didn't have my red dressing gown on at the time ). Just shows how much we 'eat with the eye'.

Greying_Pilgrim

gallygirl wrote: »

BG gets more attention than your average baby as they are obviously exceptionally beautiful obviously taking after their dearest ma, I'd say........ .

Oh gally, that is just so kind of you to say..... apologies for doctoring yer quote, couldn't resist...... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

gallygirl wrote: »

Inspired by GP, I have started sprinkling 'stuff' on dinner before serving - looks dead posh :rotfl:

Ere, you can get orf this ere thread wif all yer poncy poshness :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: You're showing me up, entertaining 'proper'- like

Greying X

gallygirl

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Ere, you can get orf this ere thread wif all yer poncy poshness :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: You're showing me up, entertaining 'proper'- like

Em, from memory, it was all back to mine after a pub crawl to find food to soak up the alcohol, not exactly a silver service dinner party .

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Lawks, it is after 8pm again - where do the days go to?

I knew my house was damp, but earlier, I found a small black slug saunterning nonchalantly across the landing carpet. Should I be worried? Or is my cauli so fresh, that it sustained a whole colony of livestock? :eek: And how did a slug get on the landing??????

How so very unlike the lives of the Royal Family......... :rotfl:

well, I'm rather pleased that I sprinkled, drizzled and 'strew' stuff all over me tea - as I'm not ready to be 'out-poshed', nay, 'out-Nigelled' on me own thread :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

We had 'made up' tomato soup ie onion, celery, carrot, garlic pureed and fried, add half a tin of butter beans, 2 tins of tomatoes, cook, blitz, add 1/3rd of a pot of mascarpone, blitz again and add salt, pepper, basil and paprika - EAT Served with flat breads that had basil and paprika flakes *tumbling* through them but no salt, coz I forgot it Picture here;



And can we note the 'dots' of olive oil atop the soup........ done for culinary effect and gravitas..........and coz there's precious little oil left in the bottle and it took ages to drop out! :rotfl:

Today i am grateful for these 3 things;

lovely comments, that very kind people take the time to make - both in RL and on here - THANK YOU

hugs and kisses exchanged, despite absence, because of email and the internet - letting good folk know you're thinking of them.

thrifty, nifty teas that you can make look a million dollars, or sup from a cup - it's all good

Ta for popping in, allowing me to pull your leg and for contributing to the chat. Appreciated.

Greying X

beanielou

:eek: to the wee black creature.

maddiemay

Greying, did you ever follow the late Shirley Goode's blog, she was always commenting about the slug trails in her kitchen:eek:

Whenever I have found the horrid things in the house I thought that the tiny ones must have come in on our shoes or the dogs' paws:(

The saga of the FP - I had an ancient Magimix that I bought from a mail order catalogue when we were younger very skint things:) when it died I could not find anyone local to look at it for me, nearest agent 40 miles away and did not have the spare cash to replace it, I knew that if I took the money from savings that I would struggle to replace it - easy for me to take the money out, but harder to put it back:o Meantime joints got more painful and I eventually had a few low spend months, so shopped around for a few weeks and all of a sudden firms were doing good offers so I bought the best deal which was from JL. I love it and OH wants to know who I am going to leave it and my K Chef to in my will:rotfl: If I die first the only kitchen equipment that he will be able operate is, kettle, toaster, m wave, oven for pies and frying pan.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Greying, i shouldn't fret about your slimy visitor. We regularly have them here, very often trails across the living room rug, and sometimes find them on the kitchen counter :eek: pesky fiends. They usually get swiftly dispatched to a happy life in the conpost bin with a good telling off (except the one Mr Cheery found in the bathroom which 'looked sad' so he put it on one of my cabbage plants to cheer it up...) :rotfl: :rotfl:

Blithering things. We have no pets but our house is 120 years old and there are holes all over the place. I'm mostly just grateful we've never had anything much worse! :eek: not regularly anyway! :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Oh maddiemay you remind me of when DH and I were first together as skint young things. I used to regularly purchase the bbc GF mag - veggie and ordinary, depending on what recipes there were. And at that time St. Delia did advertising for k3nw00d, and she featured their FP that looked more like the mag1m1x that the 'traditional' stand mixer that they were known for. Oh, how I coveted that machine, but they were over £200 pounds at the time. Finally, when I left a job, I received a tax refund, which would have purchased my hearts desire....... only to find, they had discontinued it!!!! I bought a dY$on instead. dY$on is still going strong mind. And I eventually settled on a k3nw00d cheapy processor that still works. When it finally dies, I may well treat myself

Slugs. Ugh. Just ugh!

'With rice' today, so we are hopefully having the Maria Elias parsnip risotto for tea.

Right, best get up and at 'em. Having showered and changed, and got a cup of coffee by my side, I'm ready to seize the day. DH is entertaining BG so I ought to do something constructive

Greying X

mcculloch29

Morning! A quick mention of the late Shirley Goode earlier, I read her regularly at one point, then stopped as she made an uncharacteristically waspish comment about Jack Monroe. I wish I hadn't.

Shirley must have mellowed, as one of the later posts she made mentioned how someone involved in her health care was a cousin of Jack.

Her blog is packed with recipes, the later posts not so much as health issues (and slugs!) dominated her thoughts.

Friday I made a version of the last recipe she published, (fishcakes. sorry Greying) but froze them for future consumption. The mix - made with cooked ingredients - tasted great so I think I will have those later.
Shirley's blog - her books are still widely available second hand. The best is More for Your Money.
http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/2014_01_01_archive.html

Greying_Pilgrim

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Morning! A quick mention of the late Shirley Goode earlier, I read her regularly at one point, then stopped as she made an uncharacteristically waspish comment about Jack Monroe. I wish I hadn't.

One of the (many) things on Shirley's side - much like St. Delia - was longevity. She'd bloomed later in life, but wasn't a flash in the pan. I suppose she had seen so many 'chefs' coming along -particularly those that jump on the bandwagon du jour - that she (wrongly) assumed Jack was just the latest incarnation for the blogging generation. Jack has demonstrated that pared down, economy and nutritionally sound recipes are her forte; but she will still get her detractors, probably for reasons other than what she can put on a plate with 35p and a tin-opener.......... And have no worries about mentioning fish or meat - I really don't mind. And have re-introduced a little fish back into our diet anyway.

Thank you for continuing to support this thread mcculloch, and for all that you do in signposting people towards bargain priced food and good recipes. I hope people regularly show their appreciation of that

Greying X