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doingitanyway wrote: »

Marinated mushrooms? I have some YS ones I was going to grill. How did you do them?

I cobbled a recipe together so no link as such but essentially: wipe, quarter or half if they are big. Equal quantities of vinegar and oil in a pan (I did 100ml of each, balsamic as that is what I had) a finely sliced onion, heaped tea spoon of brown sugar, some garlic from a jar and a sprinkle of mixed herbs. Took the liquid up to the boil, then added the mushrooms and simmered for ten minutes. Was lovely cold the next day, spooned over a pan fried slice of stale tiger bread.

Food shopping this morning and I neglected to make or take a list. MrL is being refurbished and everything has moved which doesn't help. Anyway, I at least remembered milk so nothing critical. We picked up some Rye bread while we had our sneaky day out on Friday (from a superb village bakers in Rutland) which the boys loved, so I got some rye flour (Aldee) today with a view to having an attempt at making some this week.

I bought some potted basil and coriander which made the car smell lovely. Must sow some herbs this week but at 67p each these will keep us going for the time being.

I was looking for something of OHs earlier and ended up tidying our bedroom to find it (as you do) and found a 150ml tube of l'occitane shea butter hand cream, hurrah. Thought I was about to run out so really pleased with that as I couldn't justify buying one at the moment. It shows you just how many lotions and potions I have stashed away though when I forget something of that size and value.

Actually thinking about it, I haven't bought any face or skin stuff this year other than emergency wipes for the car - and that was because I had run out. Clothes, footwear - I bought (planned) boots and jumpers in the Christmas sales but since then have only done the Boden low/no spend and jogging pants for gardening since. That's not bad really, at under £20 ytd on clothes and smellies. I've also established that putting a few drops of the expensive rose oil in the bath with the cheap bubbles (Asdar 43p Rose and Mallow is actually quite nice) gives the same end result of no need to moisturise my very dry legs which is a result for both economy and laziness

Focus is on building the emergency fund at the moment, but still making small rounding down payments to the mortgage. We are in a much much better position to weather any potential storm than we were even a few months ago so all the penny watching is paying off

DIA I split the savings out into (five) different accounts. I make it hard to get it back out or it is too easy to 'just' dip in so the true emergency fund is in a passbook only account so I would have to go into branch to get it out but I can pay money in online.

Stewing beef defrosted and in the pressure cooker with some stock. Will transfer to casserole and add mushrooms, carrots and dumplings later. I have some rye bread waiting to be baked so will half microwave some jacket potatoes and then finish them off in the oven, and crisp up some cooking bacon for packed lunches so the oven is full.

Cold and raining, I am regretting leaving my thermals off today.