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themadvix

Sounds lovely - but not very filling with only one egg and half a romano pepper (so wrong shape for filling!). I'm thinking I might do fajitas anyway - just more onion, less pepper and lots of beans (no sour cream either though, and not much cheese!).... I may just buy some eggs, but that's it then until Friday for food spends. We are out and being fed tomorrow (at Oasis), so only lunch then and Thursday's meals to deal with - and I've got the gigantes plaki for then, so I could buy eggs...

rtandon27

haha - yes you are correct a romano pepper would not work at all for what I had envisioned!

themadvix

rtandon27 said:

haha - yes you are correct a romano pepper would not work at all for what I had envisioned!

My fault for not mentioning it! 😆

A couple of good surveys this morning and I'm now on £28 with £5 pending on PA. Whoop! Think I might go to see a cat now. 

Baileys_Babe

themadvix said:

I'm thinking I might do fajitas anyway - just more onion, less pepper and lots of beans (no sour cream either though, and not much cheese!).... I may just buy some eggs, but that's it then until Friday for food spends. We are out and being fed tomorrow (at Oasis), so only lunch then and Thursday's meals to deal with - and I've got the gigantes plaki for then, so I could buy eggs...

You could substitute the sour cream with plain yoghurt, we often do.

rtandon27

If it's the sour taste you want, a squeeze of lemon or a squeeze of lime works in yogurt, we often do this with Greek yogurt.

themadvix

Ooh, brilliant tip there ladies, thank you. I've bought the eggs now (see below), but I'll definitely try that next time, even though the sour cream is my favourite part of fajitas! 

Eggs bought from Coop. £3 for organic ones, which is what I buy. £1 off your shop and 25p off eggs vouchers applied. Saw reduced pack of Tofu, down to £1.50, so managed to grab that for only effectively 25p more than what I was expecting to spend. Rather pleased with that, as that's another two nights' protein sorted. Have decided that rather than do avo/eggs on toast (which would use up the loaf), we'll have them on rice - a sort of hash/scramble type affair. No idea how nice it'll be or not, but worth a try as we have plenty of rice in still (and we had potatoes last night, pasta is down to the dregs).

The large cat sitting invoice has already been paid, which means it will boost this month's earnings (rather than next month's, when the cat sitting is). This is helpful, although I hope I won't regret it next month!

themadvix

Have just cashed out on 1P! Whoop! And PA is now at £33.50 cleared, with another £5 to come. Amazing what a bit of focus can do. I've been waiting on some answers from main client so spent an hour doing some Cambridge data entry - making the most of my allotted hours... although I think I'll probably head down to the allotment now and get the broccoli in the ground. Mr MV is going to be late home as he's popping to his parents first.

Suffolk_lass

When we go for breakfast, we have diced avocado, poached egg, sourdough toast, plus a little salad of diced cucumber, tomato and rocket, and some fruit (berries or pomegranate seeds) and a little French dressing. 

Your plums should ripen OK - watch out for patches starting to go brown - it is an indication that either a ladybird larvae or a codling moth has used it. If the latter you get a small maggot-like grub inside, with its black faeces that will wash away - so do always cut them. (the former just leave a husk on the outside).

On our tree (same thing, heavily laden) the tree didn't get pruned enough and was quite closed so the recent rain resulted in whole bunches suddenly rotting, as the codling spots, with warmth and rain caused them to suddenly go. Still loads on the tree, since pruned.

themadvix

Thanks SL. Yes, the plums are already definitely a bit more purple than they were, which is good. I've just turned some and removed a shriveller. 

That's one of my favourite brunches - with a good garlic chilli flake seasoning too. We had a riff on that last night with rice instead of toast and it was quite nice (never as nice as a slice of toast, mind you). I think lunch today will be avocado toast as there's another one that could do with eating.

Cheery_Daff

Very impressed with your plum harvest! We bought 3 trees when we moved here - one died pretty quickly, the other survived but we've never had a single plum. Got apple trees nearby but clearly that's not enough to fertilise it. Will investigate. Damson is looking laden - but I've only just bottled the damson gin from 2 years ago, and there are some still in the freezer, so... 😬

You're reminding me I do need to get out and harvest some fruit though. Blackcurrants and gooseberries currently providing a feast for the birds, and it would be good to make SOME jam at least!