The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Greying_Pilgrim

Looks like a very nice recipe. Well done :T Chef Mrrtandon
Not too scary this veggie nosh, is it?

Greying X

mcculloch29

GP, you may yet convert to tea. Until about 15 years ago I was coffee only, most of my tea was drunk at a friend's house who made it horribly strong and stewed. It was also Typhoo, or some such godforsaken stuff.

Then I discovered Yorkshire Tea, and a bit later, Yorkshire Gold. I don't drink it daily as I never want to lose that 'oh yes' impact of the first few mouthfuls when it is taken; the instant unwind. It isn't the caffeine; the decaff has the same impact. In fact bag for bag I drink more decaff than ordinary.

That's an interesting recipe from an unusual source rtandon, I have the hate sprouts gene with a vengeance (my children love them) but like the quinoa prep method.

Hope your day progresses as planned GP.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning :hello:

Another day......

I've a coffee in front of me, and I can hear Baby Greying and DH babbling and coooiing away at each other, so all is well in the world

Tea last night was sweet potato jalfrezi - it is from the meat free monday cookbook, and I keep on forgetting that it doesn't appear in it's entirety online anywhere, so I've no link I'm afraid. Not that I copy it verbatim anyway, I adapt to what I have. I threw in 3 (small) parsnips into last night's mix to use them up. I made my 'goto' dhal and boiled up some rice. No pic I'm fraid, as it took a while to get BG to go to sleep last night and mumma and papa were a bit frazzled. There was curry and dhal left over - enough for 2 again with accompaniments, so I'm quite pleased about that really. Always good to have meals available in the freezer.

I got frozen fish fillets and oven chips yessterday, and have some cans of mushy peas in stock, so tea for tonight is sorted too.

We've a 'pottery' day today, and I'm going to try to get the stuff from mrL that they didn't have in yesterday - although if they are still OOS then I'll hightail to mrAl or back to HB.

I haven't sorted a menu plan beyond today, so I must rectify that, although I have been noting down some 'budget' recipe ideas that I want to try during the month. Perhaps I need to get one of my 'mini-challenges' to myself going again - my 'strictly curry murray' Saturday nights or some such nonsense I have dreamed up in the past :rotfl: How about 'Soup April' - got a ring to it, don't you think? It sure as hickey wouldn't do us any harm, and I know if I query whether there is such a thing as 'chocolate soup' for Easter, one of y'all is gonna find a recipe! :rotfl:

Right, best get shifting a tail feather as daylight is burning, and I've been writing this to you, without so much as putting a brush through me hair :eek:

Greying XX

Verbatim

Spicy chocolate and tomato soup on bedandbreakfast.com
Can't do a link from my phone on here.
Plenty of pud style choc soup recipes too if you google.
xx

greenbee

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3020688/chocolate-soup

Well you did ask...

Cheery_Daff

Chocolate soup :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Love the idea of Soup April I may well join you although I'm away for rather a lot of it so may not. Got out of the habit of freezing soup for work lunches and need to get back into it!

rtandon27

Inspired by your Soup April - we are having Miso Soup with mushrooms, beansprouts, spring onions & noodles for lunch - meal in a bowl - yum! - GP you do make cooking on a shoe string challenges fun!:T:T:T - It's amazing what can be scrounged up with what is already in the house!

Broth is (still) on the go & banana bread baking up...

Operation use up the stores has produced our meal plan for the week - Monday features the inherited quinoa & broc from the back of the fridge, Tuesday cauliflower & some sorry potatoes, Wednesday is frozen corn (from last summer) & a tin of chickpeas - with the leftovers of all this for Thursday & Friday - Sat & Sun will be noodle soup days...

Week after will see another incarnation of sweetheart cabbage, stilton and all the ends of the various pasta that seem to be lurking...

...and there the plans fizzle into nothingness...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Afternoon :hello:

:rotfl:wot are you lot like! I knew you could be trusted to come up trumps! I'll have a ganders at the soups, but no promises, as I'm not a fan of sweet things

Cheery i was semi-sending myself up in suggesting 'Soup April'. I think having soup every day may well get a bit wearing, even if it is chocolate on Easter Sunday...... :rotfl: But I like a challenge, I'll see what I could come up with for the 4 Tuesdays - where soup would normally be on the menu - for April. Perhaps set myself the target of making soup outta summat else, or soup out of nowt... Stone soup anyone?

Well, good and bad news, mrL had the things in I needed, but the bad news is that I (for once) forgot to check that the eggs I bought were intact. Came home, was pulling some out for egg butties for lunch and discovered that 2 were cracked and stuck to the carton. Can't take them back as needed to use some for lunch, but miffed none-the-less at my own carelessness and for paying £1.75 for 10 eggs, rather than 12. Not a good start to the month. Still, I paid £1 (ys'd) for 10 clementines, 30p YS'd for a bag of spinach and 35p YS'd for a sauce pouch (got me thinking of a frugal soup idea now) from a mini m&$, Also picked up a reasonable size butternut squash for 49p in the mrAl s6.

I fancy baking a cake this afternoon. Nowt fancy, a fruit cake for the tin or something. Haven't done baking for a while.

Cooking, tatting and chores on the agenda for the rest of the afternoon. Easy 'tea from the freezer chipper' later. Minimal prep :j

Right, sooner I start......

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

rtandon27 wrote: »

Inspired by your Soup April - we are having Miso Soup with mushrooms, beansprouts, spring onions & noodles for lunch - meal in a bowl - yum! - GP you do make cooking on a shoe string challenges fun!:T:T:T - It's amazing what can be scrounged up with what is already in the house!

Broth is (still) on the go & banana bread baking up...

Operation use up the stores has produced our meal plan for the week - Monday features the inherited quinoa & broc from the back of the fridge, Tuesday cauliflower & some sorry potatoes, Wednesday is frozen corn (from last summer) & a tin of chickpeas - with the leftovers of all this for Thursday & Friday - Sat & Sun will be noodle soup days...

Week after will see another incarnation of sweetheart cabbage, stilton and all the ends of the various pasta that seem to be lurking...

...and there the plans fizzle into nothingness...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Lawks rtandon - you put me to shame! I was thinking of you funnily enough this morning, looking through the 'Happy Pear' book there was a recipe using quinoa - I thought that it involved broccoli too.....I'll have another look.

Um, see ^ with regard to 'Soup April' - think it has been commuted to 'Soup every Tuesday in April.....waddya mean we have soup on Tueday anyway????'

*ahem*

Greying X

rtandon27

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
OH asked me to pop on and let you know that the miso noodles were definitely not soup! His comment was something along the lines of 'they weren't soup last time, they are not soup this time - vegetarian is bad enough - you expect me to go on a liquid diet too?' - Well there you go - out of the mouth of a grumpy Englishman...
...I think something non-veg might just be on the menu for dinner...
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
(they were however absolutely delicious!;) - no leftovers!)

...had a peak on-line at the table of contents for the 'Happy Pear' cookbook - might just have to pop into the library tomorrow!