2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge

Nonnadiluca

Pip, it's not really a recipe, just cook some pasta and some broccoli al dente, put it in an oven proof dish, pour on cheese sauce and top with breadcrumbs mixed with grated cheese and sometimes crushed walnuts for a bit of extra protein. Bung it in the oven for 15 - 20 minutes, or until the cheesy topping is golden brown.
For two of us I do a bit less pasta than we would normally have, and for the cheese sauce, about 40g each of flour and butter and about 300 ml of milk. Rachel Roddy has a similar recipe on the guardian website; she uses peas if I recall.
Hungry now!!!
 Hope that's of use.

PipneyJane

Nonnadiluca said:

Pip, it's not really a recipe, just cook some pasta and some broccoli al dente, put it in an oven proof dish, pour on cheese sauce and top with breadcrumbs mixed with grated cheese and sometimes crushed walnuts for a bit of extra protein. Bung it in the oven for 15 - 20 minutes, or until the cheesy topping is golden brown.
For two of us I do a bit less pasta than we would normally have, and for the cheese sauce, about 40g each of flour and butter and about 300 ml of milk. Rachel Roddy has a similar recipe on the guardian website; she uses peas if I recall.
Hungry now!!!
 Hope that's of use.

That is lovely!  Thank you.  I needed something else to add to the repertoire for broccoli.

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

PipneyJane said:

That is lovely!  Thank you.  I needed something else to add to the repertoire for broccoli.

- Pip

I have always liked broccoli, with cauliflower sometimes, just cut into bits and pinged in the microwave til hot, and then I add my homemade, very garlic-y, vinaigrette and a few dashes of Tamari soy sauce, and it makes a quick, delicious lunch or a light supper, and actually I really wish I had some now... 

PipneyJane

Laura_Elsewhere said:

PipneyJane said:

That is lovely!  Thank you.  I needed something else to add to the repertoire for broccoli.

- Pip

I have always liked broccoli, with cauliflower sometimes, just cut into bits and pinged in the microwave til hot, and then I add my homemade, very garlic-y, vinaigrette and a few dashes of Tamari soy sauce, and it makes a quick, delicious lunch or a light supper, and actually I really wish I had some now... 

Me too!  It’s my favourite green vegetable.  I just don’t cook a huge amount of meat-and-two-veg meals.

Your idea sounds lovely, too.

- Pip

CAFCGirl

A coupon spend to report!
9 coupons spent on yarn. They'll be used for making a plant, yoga socks, leg warmers and whatever the excess ends can be put into - make fingerless mittens or a hat etc

PipneyJane

CAFCGirl said:

A coupon spend to report!
9 coupons spent on yarn. They'll be used for making a plant, yoga socks, leg warmers and whatever the excess ends can be put into - make fingerless mittens or a hat etc

A plant?  Please explain.

I watched the lovely Guernsey Literary and Potato Peal Pie Society on Friday and have been attempting to track down patterns for two of the jumpers, ever since.  Also the beret worn by the heroine, Juliet.  Would you believe that NOBODY in Ravelry has created/identified/copied them and tagged them?  

There is some really lovely knitwear in that film.  If you haven’t seen it, the film is set in 1946.  I’ve worked out the beret - it was fairly easy - and I’m almost certain that one of the sweaters is from A Stitch In Time - although I can’t find it, now that I look.   I managed to find a photo of one of the jumpers, courtesy of the Daily Mail:



There’s enough visible to work out the stitch pattern.  Time to hit the 4-ply, possibly.

- Pip

Laura_Elsewhere

See, skirts with bare legs, ankle socks and lace-up shoes are *the* look this season!  

btw, if anyone has ends of yarn or scraps of fabric too teensy even to be used up inventively, you can always just keep stuffing them into a bag or box and then, come autumn, spend a rainy afternoon with a good radio play or audiobook snipping them all up into shreds and stuff an old-fashioned draught-excluder (traditionally made by stuffing a cotton lisle stocking/ one leg of a pair of thick cotton tights!)

No spending here but I have had inexplicable yearnings for a plain white or cream cotton bra - no idea why, as most of mine are cheerful bright colours or dark, but I would just like a plain white/cream cotton one... so as my next foray to a supermarket is to Sainsbury's and they have an undies aisle I shall be spending... which means I must track back through my posts and find my previous spending this year, as my sig.file is unaltered, oops! 

CraftyLittleLisa

Pip - I recently watched that film for the first time and I also admired the fashion they were wearing.  It was a really good film and nice to watch something different for a change.

Lockdown projects are still going well although I have slowed up a bit now.  A couple of other people I have spoken to have said the same, that they are slowing down.  Maybe people are starting to feel the strain now.

This week I did make a curtain for my kitchen from my fabric stash and I have also made facemasks for my nearest and dearest just in case we get told we have to wear them.  I'm still trying to resist making clothes just for a little bit longer.  I'm glad I have finished them now as I was getting a bit bored of them.  I'm not sure what my next sewing project should be.  Perhaps a cushion for the chair I have in the kitchen to match the curtain I made.

Laura_Elsewhere

I tried to spend coupons today, I really did! I went and looked at all the bras in Sainsbob's and then came home and looked online and I just couldn't see anything I liked! 

So I'm dismantling one that fits well and comfortably but got accidentally soaked overnight with a dark blue one that ran like billy-oh, so now my pretty pale-peach bra is sort of murky-mouldy-peach... 

I don't have fancy power-mesh but I do have a couple of very high-end bras I don't wear as they are too small now which are made from non-stretch woven silk, so I've had a really good look at those and am hoping to make something which will work and look right...! 

This isn't silk - it's eau-de-Nîl crepe-backed satin, a much more gorgeous colour than it is in the photograph, lovely pale green-blue shimmer, and I hope to make some lace to edge it in pale-ecru and pale ice-green size-40 thread... 

This could be quite comical...

PipneyJane

Laura, you are a far braver woman than I am!  Good luck making your new bra.

On the knitting front, I have a small disaster to report. On Saturday night, I joined the sleeves to the body of my sweater and commenced knitting the yoke.  I was six rounds in when I realised that I had cocked up the armpit of the left sleeve, forgetting to put the final seven stitches of the body “on hold” when I joined that side of the body to the sleeve.  (The bottom of the armpit is 14 stitches across.  I’d only reserved 7 stitches of the body for it, not 14.).  It took considerably longer to tink back 6 rounds of 360-ish stitches than it did to knit them.

@CraftyLittleLisa, I totally agree re the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society film.  At present, I need film and television that put a smile on my face.  Tonight’s watch is Paddington 2 on BBC1, which seems to be on hard rotation on the “traditional” TV channels.  (I swear I saw it a fortnight ago, on ITV.)

Back to work tomorrow.  God knows what I will be doing - my stage of the project seems to have been postponed permanently - I hope there is something to keep me busy.  It’s much harder begging for work when you all work from home.

- Pip