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elantan

redofromstart wrote: »

Thai Green Curry

Heat oil in pan, then add tablespoon of brown sugar and half a jar of green thai paste. Let it bubble for a minute and add cubes of chicken. Brown the chicken, making sure they are covered in the paste. Drain a tin of potatoes, and cut them down to similar size to chicken cubes. Stir, let them cook for a minute then add a 200ml tin of coconut milk, re-fill the tin with water and add this too. Add some lime zest, a splash of mirrin/soy sauce/fish sauce (whichever you have) and let the chicken cook for half an hour. Add as much frozen green veg as you can fit in (peas, green beans, broad beans) and bring back up to hot then cover with a lid or some crumpled foil and give it another ten minutes till the veg is heated through. Serve over rice, sprinkled with some lime juice. Coriander would be a nice addition.

This was v popular and I was to make sure I kept the recipe

Thats a keeper that recipe ... the challenge has proven to be more than expected lol

redofromstart

elentan, and I expected it to get 'fad dieter' comments :rotfl:

I think the curry thing would work well as just veggie, or with the value white fish so a keeper for us.

DS2, despite my best efforts to nobble him with the wrong flour, has made perfectly acceptable biscuits. Finally a cooking success for him.

I was out and about this morning, and picked up more veg and the butchers order. MrM has 3 for £1 - broccoli, carrots, potatoes, onions and parsnips which is useful. The butchers gave me a lovely collection of beef rib bones so I am a happy bunny. If only I had a big enough pan...

greenbee

Can't believe you don't have a stock pot...

redofromstart

I know Greenbee, but I rarely make stock and its just another thing to store. I need to find the slow cooker to see if that is big enough. I do have a catering sized cast iron casserole which is great for bulk stews/chilli where you scoop stuff out but not so good for pouring.

A few fritters this week - Holl&B for bulk buy nuts (half price) but then I spotted rose bath oil very on offer so I bought 4. My favourite thing for the bath, but £15 spent. B)den sent me yet another silly voucher - £25 off a £30 and a 10% off on the site so it would have been rude not to use it. Another vest top and a short sleeve top in at £6.50. Didn't 'need' them but reasonable quality classics in the right colours so useful rather than 'it'll do'. £6 on a mini greenhouse kit in MrL, really solid hard plastic that can take a fat cat snoring on the top of it year after year rather than the thin ones which collapse. Complete with 4 packs of seeds, compost, pots and a dibber and I now have tomatoes, peppers, courgettes and cucumber seeds in it.

I've done a few surveys on PA but not up to payout, had £5 from secret surveys, £4 cashback cleared and I've ordered £10 from SB so that's not bad. No news on the homeworking front, but I have had an idea for something core skill related that I need to sketch out.

Today I need to sort the beef stock, and split and freeze the meat order. Its raining so probably not in the garden, although I could play in the poly tunnel

Seasidegal58

Sensible buy on the sturdy mini greenhouse kit for the hefty feline!

Love it that Chef DS2 has made edible biscuits! Do you think the secret to his continuing success will be if you keep nobbling his ingredients?

Green Thai curry sounded absolutely perfick by the way.....

redofromstart

I think it was DS2s last cooking lesson at school seaside, and he isn't planning on taking it for gcse like his brother, so last ever cooking lesson. He enjoyed making them, is enjoying eating them and wants to make them again so that is a good result. I think its because he actually likes biscuits so he tried to follow the instructions for once.

The stock is made, setting to a nice jelly so I am hopeful of a good result.

I managed to have an hour outside, filled the green waste bin off the roadside bed and split out some snowdrops in the green which should eventually colonise that bed. Its about ten foot wide, and eight foot deep, with a foot high stone wall round it but I can't actually see it from the house so don't want to spend lots of time or money on it. When we moved in it had a few straggling azaleas, and I have been slowly adding to it over the years. The back four foot or so is now solid with transplanted orange crocosmia which looks glorious and blocks out the weeds, but the front section was rather bare and I hate weeding it. I added some self seeded cyclamen late last year and they have taken nicely. I've now added a few hundred small clumps of snowdrops relocated from the back garden (where I have a good ten foot by eight of snowdrops from a couple of previous splitting of a few clumps years ago). It'll take them a few years to bulk up but one of those happy little interventions that cost nothing and will pay back beautifully. Still plenty left to add to the beds I can see from my desk window. I love snowdrops, it cost nothing and they usually thrive on my total neglect

doingitanyway

Ooh, you've gone all Alan Titchmarsh over here

redofromstart

I always like plants DIA, but it is very much my head writing cheques that my body can't honour. I only did an hour but oh am I sore this morning. Hoping it eases off later as the sun is shining.

'Free' electricity Sunday again, where does the time go? DW and WM on already, and my little oil heater as its still chilly.

OH gets paid tomorrow, so I have done the money shuffle. We both have money left in our current accounts so I have tidied some of mine to the secret emergency fund, I will use his to make a mortgage OP once the monthly payment has gone out. I like round numbers so will be able to round it down to the next whole hundred. I won't get paid by an external company this month, but I still have cash trickling out of the business account as wages. Looking at the numbers we have actually saved (or paid off debt) all of my earnings from interim work which is good.

doingitanyway

I like plants too but I lack knowledge. I do grow herbs just because they are so expensive to buy. I would like a raised veggie patch but cannot find someone to do one for me and I guess with the other stuff on my house it feels like a luxury right now.

I love your free electricity Sunday. It makes me smile I can see you whizzing around the house with kilowatts crackling in the air

Having a secret emergency fund is a great. Going to start one of those prompto

Seasidegal58

I love the sound of your garden redo. Unfortunately just a boring old communal lawn where I live though the trees are nice.

Money front looking good as well! Enjoy your 'free' Sunday!