Ding! Ding! All change, please... (now replaced with new diary on MFW)

themadvix

Thanks for the reminder about Jack Monroe recipes EH, I tend to forget them but they are tasty and very cheap - will have to have a look and pop some on my meal plan for the week ahead.

Your house hunting sounds very exciting (at this distance all the angst of it is forgotten!). Enjoy!

EssexHebridean

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, excellent plotting and scheming there! I'm getting all infectiously enthused about your house move 😁 Sounds like you've got the finances all sussed - can't wait to see where you end up!

It's the only thing we HAVE got sussed right now, in fairness!   (And I've just noticed your signature change! Nice!) 

TMV you've made me think I could probably drag out the Jack Monroe book again for further inspiration too - I'll need it for the burgers anyway. (And I bet they cost a darned sight more to make now than they did then!). I also love "Economy Gastronomy" by Allegra McEvedy & Paul Merrett - my favorite yellow split pea daal recipe comes from that, and I've cooked a number of other things from it through the years too. That's probably rather more meat orientated, but still some good veggie options too as I recall. (it's also a bit hilariously middle class in a  few places!) 

This one, by the way, shall officially be known as "the One With All The Florals"
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/128670137#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media1&ref=photoCollage

milann

I’ve got the Economy Gastronomy book…..not looked at it for a long time. Thanks for the reminder 👍

Humdinger1

EssexHebridean said:

Cheery_Daff said:

Ooh, excellent plotting and scheming there! I'm getting all infectiously enthused about your house move 😁 Sounds like you've got the finances all sussed - can't wait to see where you end up!

It's the only thing we HAVE got sussed right now, in fairness!   (And I've just noticed your signature change! Nice!) 

TMV you've made me think I could probably drag out the Jack Monroe book again for further inspiration too - I'll need it for the burgers anyway. (And I bet they cost a darned sight more to make now than they did then!). I also love "Economy Gastronomy" by Allegra McEvedy & Paul Merrett - my favorite yellow split pea daal recipe comes from that, and I've cooked a number of other things from it through the years too. That's probably rather more meat orientated, but still some good veggie options too as I recall. (it's also a bit hilariously middle class in a  few places!) 

This one, by the way, shall officially be known as "the One With All The Florals"
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/128670137#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=media1&ref=photoCollage

All the florals indeed! Would you be reluctant to change them?! Xx

Suffolksue

Good grief ,at least the bedrooms are plain !when we moved  years ago we saw one that had dado rails everywhere.the bottom half was all magenta regency stripes - many of them slightly crooked and the tops were a different floral in every room !
I came out with a migraine !

DawnW

I don't think I could live with the florals

themadvix

Wow, that really is something to behold!

I've cooked a few Economy Gastronomy recipes found on the web (and here) and they've been good. Kidney bean, carrot and cumin burgers (more hot-dog shaped as those were the buns I've got!) are chilling in the fridge now - thanks!

starnac

Oof that is definitely a sight to behold! Yikes!

milann

I do love flowers roses but in my garden and not on my walls. 🤪 Although I do remember talking my parents into a geometric rose pattern in my late teens 😂😂😂

foxgloves

I enjoyed the TV programme which went with the 'Economy Gastronomy' book. I may be wrong, but I think it was the series where was an episode featuring a couple who would buy a chicken, roast it, then only eat the breast meat before throwing ALL of the rest of it in the bin. Mr F was so shocked, I thought he might need a cardiac massage! Could really do with a TV cookery/food management series now, showing how to meal plan, economical recipe ideas & how to roll ingredients forward to make further meals. I don't mean Gregg Wallace looking in people's shopping trolleys, I mean some instructive, supportive & very affordable household food management.
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