The Simple Bare Necessities feat. Gratitude & Recipes

Good Evening :hello:

Phew! Warm enough for ya? Too warm for me - shrinking violet that I am.

I've had a bitsy afternoon. Not achieved overmuch and then achieved quite a bit, so not so bad.

Tea this evening morphed into a mezze plate as opposed to a buddha bowl. I can truthfully [STRIKE]brag[/STRIKE] say that I bought nothing specifically for it, and that it was the product of what was in the fridge, freezer and store cupboard, so I'm feeling a little bit MSE! Clockwise from noon we have Gigantes Plaki (served at room temp,), HM Hummus, African Black-eyed bean salad, Caper and Olive Tapenao, a sliced avocado, HM flatbread and Pugilese Beetroot Salad. Picture here;



The tapeo was a recipe from Elizabeth Luard's 'Welsh Farmhouse Year cookbook'. I can't find a link, I'm afraid. It was good though, I would make it again. I used mrL olives and HB capers. Worked well. The flatbread was my 'goto' recipe, but I followed EL's lead from the same cookbook, and although I didn't make her flatbread recipe, I did roll them out into 'slipper' (ciabatta) shapes for a change. Think mine are possibly more 'pitta' shape, but the intention was there........ :rotfl: The avocado was the second one - we were supposed to have one, rather than half each, but the first one I cut into was black as yer hat, so it got composted. 25p wasted I think I was most pleased with the black-eye bean salad, as it was made from a 1/4rd of a tub of left over beans from the freezer, used up the last cherry tommies constructively, utilised a tiny piece of cucumber that was virtually good for nowt, and was actually far more colourful than the picture suggests.

We were engaged in making tea/feeding BG/preparing them for bed and generally trying to live our lives of an evening, only to be interrupted by a couple of canvassers for a political party - it matters not which one. What on earth do these people think that 'hard-working families' do at 6.30pm of an evening! :mad:

Today i am grateful for these 3 things;

Reflection

Reinvention - ...... of leftovers

Rejuvenation - I've a plan and a note book! :rotfl:

Ta for popping in, reading and supporting. Appreciated. Greatly.

Greying X

Good Morning :hello:

Oh I'm afraid it was just a 'tool' I was looking at, nothing half as romantic as a caravan, I'm afraid It costs less than a 'score', but by doing my research, we will save a 'Lady Godiva' compared to the same thing sold in other shops :j

Gonna be another hot one here today.

Tea last night ended up being garlic mushroom pasta with Woodland Asparagus pesto - a recipe recommended to us by Fortune, 2? years ago, as a way of utilising the 'woody' ends of asparagus. Tickles me everytime that I make it, that something that is routinely thrown away, can actually make a useful foodstuff Anyway, it was just right for the weather, made use of some of the mushrooms (rest will go in a curry tonight) and also made use of 'leftovers' :j Picture here;



We've got to go about hither and yon, doing chores. Which is going to be made more difficult by road closures and extra traffic generated by events. Ah well, can't be helped I guess.

I have already spent money this morning. We took advantage of the XXL event at mrL and bought some of their baby wipes, and we needed more bread spread so DH picked up a tub from mrT whilst out and about.

I'm getting a bit behind with updating my spending diary, but have all the receipts to hand, so just need to do it!

I had avocado toast for breakfast using the HM bread and an organic YS'd avocado. The toast wasn't great - I really don't think that the recipe is a keeper, the bread was not better than Dan Lepard's milk bread recipe (which makes super toast), DH didn't like the toast and as a dough, it's too sticky to work with. My YS'd avocado for 45p also ended up costing nearly £1 as I tried to use one of the market avocaodos first - black as your hat inside Cut the next one, which seemed ripe, but actually wasn't - so had to ditch it Think I may pass on buying avocados from the market'all for a while - no need for me to venture in there at this rate! Has anyone any experience of mrL avocados - are they about 95p each? Any good?

Right, best go and do some constructive things

Ta for popping in. Appreciated.

Greying X

Good Morning :hello:

We've been up for yonks................................

Can't believe it is still morning.

Anyhoo, have busied ourselves doing this that and t'other. Tidying and sorting and maintenance, so we've not been idle

I had the second YS'd organic avocado for my breakfast this morning. Lovely. I have to say that that is 5/5 avocados (YS'd) bought and eaten from m&$ now. It does make me wonder about the 'failure' rate of the '4 for a pand' avocados...... Ah well, we've all had produce that has disappointed, and I'm sure the produce in the 'posh' stores are not immune........ Actually, in fact I know they are not, because there was some YS'd cherries that were mouldy as anything in a certain shop with a food'all the other week........

Tea last night was a curry plate. I have to say that it was the most unattractive plate of food I have ever seen The aduki bean curry looked like the cat had eaten too much kibble....... However, it tasted OK. Aduki bean with ginger and garlic and Mushroom Curry were served with basmati rice. Picture here;



Hope we can get out and about this afternoon. Tea will be fish, chips and mushy peas.

As yet we've spent no money, but we'll probably go and invest in that tool, so that will involve expenditure.

Right, I can squeeze in some more tidying before making lunch.

Ta for popping in and reading. Appreciated.

Greying X