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beanielou

Glad you had a good day.

Baileys_Babe

@Greying_Pilgrim said:

No Blackcats - we had pancakes on Sunday (made by LG) so we're not going to have them again tonight.

@Blackcats said:

What? It's possible to have too many pancakes? 🤷‍♀️

Don't worry Blackcats we have had American pancakes for breakfast, buckwheat galettes followed by (cheeky) crepes for lunch after dinner were are having some more crepes 😋 🥞

We have done other bits and bobs not just making and eating pancakes, including visiting the library and a routine medical appointment for the youngest.

Greying_Pilgrim

Ha Jellytotts - you are so brave shopping in PJ's 😂 My PJ's are so worn out, I wouldn't be decent going outdoors in them. I must get around to getting some new ones.

No, I don't think you can have enough pancakes, Blackcats - no caps on consumption in this house, but I just couldn't be bothered to make them is all ☹️ As it happens, I am also one lemon down, as I noticed one had gone grey with citrus mould ☹️

Thanks beanie it makes such a difference when it's not raining.

So the dehu had done it's 2 hrs and the trousers were dry, but not bone dry, so I've put it on for another hour and that should get us to dry enough (I think) and with an overnight air, should be dry in the morning.

We had mulligatawny soup for tea. It was unashamedly stand your spoon up in it, thick. And just what we all needed. I used a couple of the sprouty wiljas, a couple of the carrots and a jazz apple from the green box, along with some lentils and spices. There should be a portion for lunch tomorrow - depending on what we're doing.

I can't think of anything else MSE to add. So I'll push orf.

Thanks for popping in and having a convo. Appreciated, greatly.

Greying X

KajiKita

Oooh …. A thick, vegetarian, mulligatawny … Please tell me more! 😊

KK

Greying_Pilgrim

Well KajiKita - I wish I could tell you who the original author of the recipe was. It's in my recipe notebook (now transferred to the index), between a recipe from Monty & Sarah Don's book 'Fork to Fork' and a recipe that I know came from a friend. I can't find any version on the internet that 'reads' like this does, so I'll write it out for you, but please know that I'm not a recipe follower, and so just bung in this, lob a splodge of that and keep my fingers crossed. I did the soup in the PrC tonight, but the lentils did slightly catch as my attention turned to washing up our picnic things.

Vegetarian Mulligatawny Soup - Serves 4

2 tsp coriander seeds

1 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp fenugreek seeds

1 small piece of dried chilli, deseeded and crushed.

2 tbsp oil

1 large onion

1 garlic clove, crushed

1 tsp root ginger

1 potato, diced

1 carrot, grated

1 apple, diced

175g red lentils, rinsed

900ml vegetable stock

1 tin chopped tomatoes or passata

1 tbsp lemon juice

Seasoning to taste

Method: Dry fry and crush spices. Heat oil in a saucepan and fry the onions, garlic and ginger for 5 minutes. Add the potato, carrots and spices and fry for a further 5 minutes. Stir in the lentils, stock and tomatoes. Bring to the boil. Lower the heat, cover and cook for 30 minutes or until the veg and lentils are cooked. Add in the diced apple, lemon juice and check seasoning to taste. Allow to stand for 5 minutes. Serve.

Notes: I didn't bother grinding the spices - I have these as powdered spices, and used them like that. I didn't put any chilli in. I used a couple of large potatoes, 2 large carrots and I didn't weigh my lentils. I also think 900ml is too much stock - and I always eye-ball liquid when cooking veg or lentils. Sorry if my method of cooking isn't very easy to follow, but to be honest, so many recipes in books contain errors, I've learnt to just cook things how I think is logical - which works most of the time, baking perhaps being the one exception.

I have no idea if this is a help or hindrance! Our tea was nice though - even DH said, "Just the job for a cold night".

If you make it, let me know how you get on - I still think the stock quantity would give you quite a thin soup - you can always thin out a thick soup, but it's more difficult to thicken up a thin soup.

Greying X

badmemory

I used to work not far from a school & with the same start time. You would not believe how many women used to walk (not drive) their children to school wearing their pjs.

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

badmemory - not quite in the same vein, but I've noticed that 'mufti' days at school now seem to be dominated by sleepwear; PJ's, Onesies and dressing gowns. It used to be football kits, but now……

So I've amended my siggie figgie - I forgot yesterday.

Not too sure what we're up to today. The weather forecast is all over the place, promising stiff breezes, intermittent rain, and eventually the possibility some snow (although that's supposed to be confined to the hours of darkness - and may not affect us, the map keeps changing 🙄). We were supposed to be meeting up with a chum tomorrow, but if we do have adverse weather - of any description, that will have to be postponed as we were going for a yomp up the side of a mountain 🫤

I have had to wash DH's workwear, as he got filthy yesterday. It's a shame that the stiff breeze promised today, coincides with the most likelihood of rain, so I don't think I will be able to get the things dryish outside. I could have done with offsetting the 'extra' wash with a 'free' dry.

Foodwise it will depend where we are and how much time I have to prep anything.

This post has turned into an unintentional nothing burger, as every action today seems to be dependent on either the weather or the actions/decisions of others. Ho hum

Off to see if I can (optimistically) peg out a trouser leg………

Greying X

KajiKita

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81889028#Comment_81889028

Thank you so much for this 😊

That looks really good and as you say it’s much easier thin a soup than thicken one. I’m a lot more confident at soup flinging about since making so many batches this year - I will have a riff on this 😊

KK

Greying_Pilgrim

Well done KajiKita - I tend to use recipes as a baseboard, because I improvise or substitute so much. I don't know if this recipe was originally one that had meat in it, and i just 'missed out the meat' to make it veggie, or whether it was originally a veggie version. It was just the ticket for tea last night - closer to a stew perhaps that a conventional 'soup'. Although if you wanted to, you could blitz this soup smooth too.

Greying X

Greying_Pilgrim

Good afternoon MFW'rs

We went out for a walk on a local circuit with chums. I'm ever so glad we did, because the company was excellent, and it was great to be out and about. But oh my, I'm cold to the core and can't warm up 🫤

The workwear dried well whilst we were out. It has come in 'cold' but has dried amazingly. I'm so glad that I took the punt and put it out on the line. Meanwhile the machine is whirring again, as our trousers were absolutely plastered in mud. I regretted not owning a pair of wellies today.

We came home via MrL, as just in case the weather turns yukky tomorrow, I've got milk etc enough to last us past the weekend. We'll certainly not starve. I spent £19 something - I will dig out my receipt just now. Edit - I forgot to say, there were green boxes in MrL - and I said to LG that they were probably no good, as they wouldn't still be there if they were - and true enough, they had about 6 items in each. You'd be pushing it for it to cost £2 "proper" price. Either make it a value-ful "waste" box, or don't bother. Boxing up a couple of bags of things and saying "£2 please" is just making the store look silly. If they haven't any waste - hurrah, they're doing something right, but these boxes were just neither one thing nor another.

LG and I finished off last night's soup for lunch - even that hasn't defrosted me 🫤

Tea tonight will be omlettes and something.

I assume it is all the fresh air - I just want to call up under a blankie and go to sleep.

Greying X