From Frugal Foundations to Fortified Family Future

Humdinger1

@EssexHebridean yes, yes! Cake is indeed the answer!! Reminds me of smuggling courgettes into choc brownies.  Evil mummy ahoy...love Humdinger xx 

Blackcats

Please don't ever disguise beetroot and sneak it into my food - I have tried to like it and because of all its wondrous properties I have tried just to tolerate it but honest to goodness the stuff is vile.  

I hope you get some items on your nuisance list crossed off.

beanielou

I LOVE beetroot. 

EssexHebridean

Blackcats said:

Please don't ever disguise beetroot and sneak it into my food - I have tried to like it and because of all its wondrous properties I have tried just to tolerate it but honest to goodness the stuff is vile.  

I hope you get some items on your nuisance list crossed off.

This is the beauty of shoving it into chocolate brownies - you wouldn't even know it was there! Much the same as carrots in carrot cake - if you can taste the veg in their own right, the cook has messed up!  That notwithstanding though, I absolutely agree that sneaking veg of any sort into the food of consenting adults is a no-no! 

northwalesd

A friend once made me a cake containing brussels sprouts. Even she admitted it was beyond the pale. Her chocolate beetroot cake is, on the other hand, fantastic.

Jellytotts

Ohhhh roasted beetroot is my favourite.  I always try and grow lots, I gave up trying to get the offspring to eat them, of course they both now do as adults and declare them one of the best veg ever and why didn’t we have it when they lived at home.   I just do my “teenage” eye roll and move on.

Very damp and misty here too. I went for a walk, saw some magnificent geese and swans came
home and climbed straight back into my comfy house trousers and knockoff “oodie” style
top.  Could really do with some sunshine, January seems to have been particularly bleak this year.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Evening MFW'rs

Head duly wobbled.  The day has ended better than it's 'middling'.

No washing achieved, even though we didn't have any of the forecast rain.  The breeze wasn't very good, but the sun did come out late afternoon (didn't touch the garden by that time).  

LG had an OK day at school.  There's been some nonsense going on again 🙄At least the class teacher sees it for the stoopidity that it is, and is prepared to take people to task over their behaviour, whether that will lead to behavioural modification, remains to be seen - I suspect the kiddos involved have just gotten away with it for so long, that they don't know different now.  Some of what is going on is being repeated in wider (adult) society if viral videos are anything to go by, so the teacher would have to be a miracle worker to get several of those young people thinking different.  And LG is supposed to be attending an 'average' school, in a bobbling along, conventional area.........

I decided to do 'boofay stylee' wraps for tea.  I had cooked up 600g basmati rice in the PrC, so used one pot for the wraps.  I didn't have the right ingredients, but I was heavily influenced by the Japanese style of seasoned sushi rice - i used a tiny bit of red onion finely diced, a little sugar, a little salt and some red wine vinegar, and I added in nigella seeds, and stirred it with the rice to thoroughly mix.  There was sliced cucumber, grated carrot, toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds, tahini yoghurt dressing, lettuce, Pugilese Beetroot Salad, rocket and smoked tofu slices, to pack a wholemeal wrap with.  LG was helpful and used the salad spinner to dry the washed lettuce and rocket.  They tried a tiny piece of rocket, but didn't even manage to eat that, they found it too peppery.  So I said that they were to have 'some' of all the veg on each wrap, but they could avoid the rocket (there was lettuce, and they will eat lettuce), but that they had to have 'some' beetroot on each wrap.  I had chopped the beets into thin, smallish slices, and they were good to their word, and I saw several slices being put on each wrap, so credit where it's due, LG ate some beetroot tonight.  

We had yoghurt and banana for pud.  

LG is going on a little outing with school tomorrow, but there is no cost associated with it, so 🤞 all the kids have fun and behave themselves.  

Thanks for all the beetroot talk.  Greying X

beanielou

I think all schools have their problems. Even the highly selective private ones. 

Greying_Pilgrim

I forgot.  I did learn something today.  It's a bit of a tenuous link to MSing, but in weighing out the rice for bulk cooking in the PrC, I am following an American recipe (kindly supplied by tmv), and it uses cup measurements.  I discovered today, that an empty 'normal' jar - of that French 'good mother' brand jam - will hold precisely 1 cup of basmati rice if you fill it up to the 'lip' that is on the jar, just below the lid, when it is screwed down.  I can measure out the rice, and then follow up with the water measured out 👍  I wasn't going to buy any cup measures - I used to have some and gave them (except the 1/2 cup measure), away because I didn't use them.  Now I don't need to, as the jam jar works perfick 👍

Greying X

Baileys_Babe

beanielou said:

I LOVE beetroot. 

Me too 😋

Shopping the jar from homes instead of buying a new set of cup measures is definitely MSing.