Put away your purse & become debt-averse

crazy_cat_lady

Foxgloves - thank you, that recipe looks amazing and I'll definitely give it a go I think. It will make nice presents.
Need to get my gin on the go - if only I could remember how much sugar. I can just guess.
I currently have a computer file called 'Foxgloves Recipes' that I just keep adding to. I have your tomato chutney, the courgette fritters and now this cream drink - but no fruity alcohol.

foxgloves

Greying - Welcome! And hey! Remembering that chutney is a result, isn't it? I've already made the Cranks apple & ginger chutney I mentioned this year, as Mr F was given some apples at work. I make various different ones, some of which are my own recipes, but this Cranks one has long been up there with my favourite.
I am wondering if you live in a vaguely similar region to me, as I hadn't encountered the word 'snap' for packed lunch until I moved up here as a student years ago! At my first job, I worked with someone who would tell us all the jobs she'd got to do later & one of them was 'purrin' 'is snap up'. It was weeks before I twigged that this meant making her partner's packed lunch!
I love local dialect words.
F

foxgloves

CCL, I'm slumped on the sofa atm & my fruit gin recipe is just across the room in my Christmas recipe notebook. Hang on, I'll get the quantities for you now......

Right, OK, you can scale this up or down, but this is the recipe I generally use, whether it's vodka, whisky or gin:
300g white granulated sugar
1 apple
250g blackberries
750ml gin

Obviously this is for blackberry & apple gin, but if you just want blackberry, then chuck a few more in & ditch the apple. I like blackberry & pear vodka too. Raspberry vodka v nom too. You want to hunt down yellow sticker raspberries & whack them in the freezer.
Hope this helps. I'm going to get mine going in the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Yes, doesn't that coffee cream one sound amazing? think I'll give it a try. I'm also considering making cranberry vodka jelly sweets. They sound fiddly but I think they'd be festive. The recipe helpfully states 'Makes 49 jellies, 52 calories each'....... but if they are as nice as they sound, I could probably eat all 49, so I'm not going to do that sum, lol!
Happy making,
F x

crazy_cat_lady

You are my hero foxgloves. Thanks xxx

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

Hi all
all this food talk is making me hungry! I used to be a veggie but started eating meat a few years ago as I was really anaemic. Now i'm mostly veggie but eat red meat occasionally.
I've made veggie hotpot tonight - still using up homegrown potatoes and onions given to us by DDs grandparents.
Got a couple of bargains in Mr M's - winter duvet for DD2 for uni, £8 and a bamboo mug for friend's birthday for £2.
Glad it's a bit cooler, hopefully can sleep tonight
Deni x

foxgloves

CCL - Well m'duck, I like to encourage you in your culinary endeavours! You liked the courgette fritters then? Excellent! Did either of your children like them? I almost made a batch for breakfast when my nephews were here recently. Was going to serve with eggs & bacon, but opted for sausage cobs in the end. My youngest nephew (11) can eat for Britain & I didn't want still to be stood churning out courgette fritters two hours later!
F

foxgloves

Great bargains, Deni. I love my bamboo mug. They make nice presents, I think.
Yes, it should be easier to sleep now it's cooler. The last few nights have been unbearable. I know our sweetcorn bed will really be enjoying all this rain..... & it's saved me the job of going out to water everything too.
F

crazy_cat_lady

foxgloves wrote: »

CCL - Well m'duck, I like to encourage you in your culinary endeavours! You liked the courgette fritters then? Excellent! Did either of your children like them? I almost made a batch for breakfast when my nephews were here recently. Was going to serve with eggs & bacon, but opted for sausage cobs in the end. My youngest nephew (11) can eat for Britain & I didn't want still to be stood churning out courgette fritters two hours later!
F

The kids ate them - not particularly happily but they gave them a go. I loved them and they were quick and easy (apart from the squeezing water out - I didn't like that) so will definitely make them again. DS wants to know if I can make potato rosti now... :rotfl:

PurpleFairy26

foxgloves wrote: »

Purps - No, the Cranks Bible is a different book. There were a few, as the Cranks vegetarian/wholefood restaurants were quite trendy in their day. I only ever ate there once, in the 1980s at the Covent Garden branch. The book I'm talking about is just called 'The Cranks Recipe Book' by David Canter et al. Mine is the paperback edition published by Grafton Books, 1985. ISBN no is 0-586-06090-1.
I think it was out of print for a long time but there is a newer edition around with a much more modern cover. I can't say whether it's exactly the same as I haven't seen a physical copy to look at.
I bought mine when it first came out. I haven't cooked everything in it, but there are recipes Ive used regularly for years, including
Tomato soup, tomato & lentil soup, cream of watercress soup, mushrooms a la greque, apple & ginger chutney, sliced bread pudding, luscious lemon cake, falafel, cheesy lentil wedges, mushroom stroganoff, Belgian cake, fresh lemonade, cheesejacks, carrot cake, etc.
It's hearty solid food rather than the fancypants 'two spears of asparagus balancing on a poached quail's egg with a smear of parsnip puree & a salsify glaze' type of fare, iyswim.
Anyway, hope this info is useful.
F x

Thanks so much, added to wishlist :A all those recipes sound lovely.

Greying_Pilgrim

foxgloves wrote: »

Greying - Welcome! ..........


I am wondering if you live in a vaguely similar region to me, as I hadn't encountered the word 'snap' for packed lunch until I moved up here as a student years ago! At my first job, I worked with someone who would tell us all the jobs she'd got to do later & one of them was 'purrin' 'is snap up'. It was weeks before I twigged that this meant making her partner's packed lunch!
I love local dialect words.
F

foxgloves - I think I'm just a magpie when it comes to vernacular and colloquialisms. Snap is just a phrase an uncle uses, and it stuck - primarily from DH (who was then my DP) seemingly needing a snap 'bucket' for work each day - he eats alot....... Snap seems to be used over quite a large area, whereas m'duck is much more specific to a certain area iirc


Greying X