The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

EssexHebridean

Right there with you MM on decent quality cheddar lasting a lot longer than you expect that it will!

"Pigs in Kilts" made me chuckle first time I saw them too - I think that particular manufacturer always brand theirs like that!

rtandon27

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

...There would be no room for any other food groups in the freezer :rotfl:...

:eek:There are other food groups?;):eek:

Greying_Pilgrim

Actually maddiemay, you're quite right - I suppose I just had a vision of the freezer already full of blue bags, and of course i still had the memory of the 'orf' YS'd cottage cheese - and wasting 51p. Hopefully, the cheese was sold, and other's benefitted though

I bought a couple of cartons of whole milk uht when there was that hoohar just a while ago about disasterous weather just around the corner (which, thankfully didn't materialise as forecast for us). And I'm thinking of digging out the thermoses again and making yoghurt with them. i also want to re-check something that I saw, I think it was in a branch of mrS, where they had m00 brand (the brand I was buying for the FB), but in organic form. I didn't take in the price, nor whether whole milk was available. Our local mrW doesn't do organic uht. further research needed

We went up the high street, principally for fresh air and exercise. But I did buy a bag of oven chips and some fish fillets (frozen) for Sunday's tea from h3ron. Saves buying them tomorrow and I know tea is sorted for Sunday now - I've a mind to go adventurising if the weather holds.

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 wrote: »

:eek:There are other food groups?;):eek:

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

X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

Lawks we have packed a load in, and it's only 5 past 8! :rotfl:

Tea this evening can now legitimately be called a buddha bowl, as I used entirely what I had in stores or 'leftovers'. And fake, plastic see-through doodad that I am, I chose to make the dish, entirely based on it's NAME!!!

Instead of buying tofu, I got a block of paneer out of the freezer, and employed the technique that inod told us about to ensure that it was de-frosted in time - it was So I found a recipe for Til-E paneer (:D) which is apparently sesame coated paneer - but I mean, a thrifty recipe, named like the goddess of MSE :D:D - who's not gonna give that a whirl????? . But you actually marinate the paneer in a yoghurt/chilli/spice mix, with the sesame seeds. I wasn't going to bake my paneer - as I couldn't justify having the oven on for one thing, so I actually ground my sesame up, rather than leaving it as seeds, as I didn't want them to catch in the pan. I boiled up some brown rice (which actually looks claggy in the pic, I can assure you it wasn't ), defrosted the left over spicy vegetables from the polenta dish last week, cooked up some extra green beans and made some raita out of the half a cucumber that was left over from last weekend. I then pan-fried the paneer at the last minute and put it all in a bowl, with a lemon segment to squoze over Picture here;



I had meant to sprinkle sesame seeds over the finished dish, but I forgot Definitely a keeper of a dish for me though, really tasty And unlike anything I have done with paneer before :j

Today i am grateful for these 3 things;

a text from a mum-chum - good to hear from her, although we missed to meet up, but there will be other times

a new thrifty recipe that's delish enough to make it into the index

Team Greying - bathing, reading, feeding, playing, it's all been going on.......... :rotfl:

Ta for popping in, reading and joining in the conversation. Appreciated. As ever. By me. Muchly.

Greying X

rtandon27

YUM - Greying your Bowl of Grub looks AMAZING! - Your creativity is such an inspiration!

Safe to say that we all want to be just like you when we grow up!:D;)Thrifty and creative to the core!:cool::cool::cool:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

ha ha ha, thanks rtandon - i feel about 6 in my head which is rather scary when I look at the little bundle of wriggliness on my lap - whom I notionally am 'in charge' of.... :rotfl:

I caught the remnants of a wonderful sunrise this morning. We never get the full effect, due to houses all around, but the blues, reds and peaches i saw looked lovely. Frugalwoods has been posting some pretty spiffing pics of sunrises/sunsets on her blog, so it's clearly even better when you're in the midst of the great wide open

Tea this evening will (probably) be calzone - ring the changes a little from conventional pizza-pie, given we've had one already this week It'll either be broccoli/mozarella, or mushroom.

I don't think we need anything from up the high street, so may well go in the other direction for some fresh air and exercise.

I was thinking, EH metioned about 'St' Valentines Day. When I was at school - and yes, Adam was in the year above....... :rotfl:- particularly primary school, we referrred to it as 'St' Valentines day - not 'greeting card holiday Valentines Day'. No sooner had the bubbles gone flat on the fizz, than I see Easter cards are in the shops. And of course, the next appropriation of an event to turn a buck will be 'Mothers Day'. We too were never encouraged by our mother to mark this day commercially. and I hope that Baby Greying will prove thoughtful and caring 365 days of the year, to us and others - and that we will do our utmost to earn that thought and care. No card needed.

Right, I need to make a decision re the calzone and get mozarella out of the freezer if necessary.

Have a great Friday - as we intend to


Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening :hello:

What a lovely day it has been weatherwise in the vicinity of Greying Towers, most spring-like and lovely

We wandered up to MrM to have a laugh..... we were not disappointed

There was nowt barginacious, and nowt new and interesting.

On our return, we found someone's credit card (on a path, nowhere near any supermarket, nor houses). Whilst I was trying to decipher what the card contact number was (must book an eye appointment), to report it 'found' I noticed, that they asked you to cut it in two, if found and return it to them. This I did. I HAD TO PUT A STAMP ON THE ENVELOPE. Since when has it been obligatory to pay to 'do the right thing'? I realise I could have just cut it up and thrown it in the bin; I 'suppose' I could have left it right where it was, and let someone with less good intentions get hold of it......

*sigh*

Tea this evening was broccoli and mozarella calzone (as kinda slated) with wilja wedges. The tatties are coming to the end of the bag now, and I think of EH everytime that I delve in, as these tatties are sprouting Not uber vigorously - the sort of sprouts you'd want on your seed tatties, but none the less, sprouting they are. A 300g mix of pizza dough made 4 calzone of pretty decent size I'm still not sure I like calzone. I like that I can now make them, thanks to Leanne Brown, but I think pasties are nicer However, I'd be the first to say that the broccoli is nicer 'in' a calzone than 'topping' a pizza. I also used up the last wee bit of cheddar that was left in the box from DH's sandwich 'allocation'. Tis working, tis working! Anyhoo, pic of us tea, here;



Today I am grateful for these 3 things;

Friends

For Family Greying

Fecundity of spring....... there won't be a shortage of baby sparrows this year......... :eek::rotfl:

Ta for popping by and encouraging me

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Snap is packed. We are orf adventurising today

Listening to Anneka on R2 this morning, and she's been shufted from her Saturday morning slot to a Friday night late spot. She's being replaced by Tony Bl@ckburn......... ugh, can't stand the man. R3 morning show on Saturdays in future for us I think.

See you later.

Greying X

maddiemay

Have a lovely day:D we are orf to meet lovely cousin and her DOH, we always kept in touch via her DF and my DM, now he is gone we are trying to keep in touch directly. Lunch in country pub with a very good reputation for good food, lovely treat after some very sad stuff that has been happening in another bit of family lately.