General Chat

Berona, thank you for the tip which has been acted upon!!

It is simple freezing here today. The sky is a heavy grey and I would not be surprised to see snow...all shutters down to help keep the place warm and Heating on.
We are having Gammon today with veg and pease pudding, and I have made an apple tart with our own fgrown fruit. Cheated though as I used some ready prepared pie as the base...it is very good and made locally.

I think we will have soup in mugs for supper with fresh baked bread. Had our fruit for breakfast.

Now I really must start thinking about the menus I suggested , I wonder who will post first?

Bridget in cold grey about to snow Spain :-S

Bridget - if you click on "Watch This" at the top of the page, it will keep this thread on your "My Watched Threads" . Do this with your favourite threads and they will always be handy for you.

I have a few threads marked in this way and I rarely see the rest of the Chat threads. I started using it when I was seeing so many "spats" going on, and they didn't interest me.

I am back!! I hope that is good news.

OK here we go,
Please write and provide the recipies for a delicious Valentines dinner.
We could do
1. A money no object menu...
2. One we can in reality afford.

A must include the wine, champagne etc or if non drinkers what you will have instead.

It took me ages this morning to find this thread.....I was begging to think it had disappeared.


Bridget :-D

Just a gentle nudge - well it is early yet

Julia in Derbyshire

Green Fingers

We with the name Bridget are really very strong people. I will see if there is a special food for "Bridget". Also I will add your Bridget to my prayers.

Bridget

Sometimes it seems that some of us, have to bear more than others, broad shoulders Eh. Our own Bridget, who we call Bridge as an endearment is coming through her chemo, one more session to go, she is a shining example to us, dignified and hopeful. Things can only look up Bridget. Maybe I should have posted this on Diary !!!

More recipes to follow

Greenfingers

Your comment has hit home and how I agree about the different recipies. There has been a lot on my mind recently about younger members of tne family, a death and and some sickness. However I have also had some good news,so have decided to try and keep this thread alive.
Please wil someone or other please start the ball rolling again.
Has anyone got any ideas as to themed food, or budget food, evening growing your on food and how to preserve it and how to cook or use it.

World War Two provided lots of recipes for healthy and cheap food, with so much unemployment across the world surely we are all having to budget our food costs?

So the challenge is, Two Meals, one for a week day and one for a celebration such as a birthday or wedding, both of which would be cheap but delicious.

I haven't got a clue yet what I will suggest so off now to have a good think and once more go to my old cook books.

Hope to see some replies very soon

Bridget :-D :-D <3 <3 ;-) ;-)

A pity if this thread has died, I have had some lovely recipes from here

Sorry to hear your news....just be OK yourself

Sorry also to tempt you with a dessert recipe !!!!!!!! Will do better next time

So sorry to hear of the sad loss of your Brother in law and the illness of your young relative.
My thoughts are with you all.

I do have lots of low meals and will post some in the week. My son is much better now and has away match footy today thanks. Hope there are no injuries this week :-D

Teresa x

Oh, two newrecipies and I know that I will like both, thank you.
Theresa, I hope that you son is healing now, and that he continues to enjoy cooking,
Greenfingers, just as I thought that I would restart my diet along comes your recipe which I just know I will keep, try out and eat to much!!
The reason I have been away for a couple of days is that one of my brother in laws died and then a young member of the family has been seriously Ill.
I need recipies which are both delicious and low in calories
Any suggestions??

Hi Bridget,

I did say I would put my 13 year old sons school pineapple upside down cake on your thread.

He broke his arm 6 weeks before christmas so the cooking at school came to an end!

Im sure you all know this old favorite but here goes.

7inch dish
2oz soft marge
2oz caster sugar
2oz self raising flower
1 egg.

Mix all above , put pineapple rings on base on dish, add cake mixture and cook on gas mark 5 for about 20-30 minutes.

serve with custard.

Yummy :-D

Teresa

Oh Bridget...hope you are OK.

A recipe I tried at Christmas..don't think I posted it before


Lemon Loaf

1 jar lemon curd good one if poss, I very large tub of Lemon Yoghurt, I used Yeo Organic (it was very nice on its own) 1 lemon, zest taken off and lemon squeezed, 4 meringue nests broken up into small pieces. Line a 1lb loaf tin with a double liner of cling film. Mix curd, and yoghurt together and then fold in juice and zest. Then mix in meringues pour into loaf tin, level off and freeze. Take out of freezer about 15 mins before use......it was absolutely delicious !!

Let us now how you are Bridget

I am sorry not to have added on here,but we have had sad news in the family. I will be back in a few days.
Meanwhile I hope that you are all OK.

Bridget

Good morning one and all.
I hope that you all had a very good Christmas and New Year Celebrations.

So here I am back to my threads and hoping that we will enjoy reading new twists on old favourites and new inventions.

If anyone has any ideas re recipies, party food, food tasteing etc it would be very welcome. Also I wonder if any new people will join us.

Well I shall await some replies, I hope, and look forward to hearing from you


Bridget

Good morning everyone.
Greenfingers, thanks for the recipe, I will try this but not today as OH is going to do the cooking, he has some lamb and I am not sure what he is going to cook.
We are having duck for New Years Eve, which we both enjoy, I must admit though that we bought a ready prepared duck with all the instructions, so no worries. We have decided that buying good champagne is, this year, rather expensive, well it is here in Spain, so we are having wine which we already have. Haven't decided on the starter or the desert so maybe a few suggestions would be helpful.

We were at the last of the Quizez, that OH does once a fortnight, last night. There were some very good wines given to the team that one and the team who came second. The third team had a large tin of well known toffees etc which they immediately opened and shared around.
Just as we were leaving OH was presented with two very good French Wines, which was totally unexpected, but very welcome. My team came last but one!!

The weather here is very very windy and the sky is still dark blue with deep pink and Red patches, I think we may be in for a wet and windy day.

So, another year is almost ready to start and I wonder what is in store for us both world wide and locally, wouldn't it be wonderful if the wars decreased, if people suddenly realised that we all need help and kindness, if children did not become parents and if children were children again rather than mini adults.
Is anyone making a New Year Vow? I have to decide what mine will be, it may be as simple as sitting back and watching and caring about all the family and friends ( this includes people on here) or if I should decide to become more active in ??????? Certainly not healthcare as I think I have done my stint.....AH, just as I was writing I realised that what I am going to do is...........................starting my writing again ,


Off to make second mug of coffee, so bye bye for now

Bridget.

Bridget Jamie Oliver (love him or hate him) made a Chowder with leftovers

4 rashers of finely diced bacon, 3 small onions finely sliced, 3 cloves garlic finelty sliced, 1 red pepper desseded and roughyl chopped, 2 tsps cayenne,1 tsp sweet paprika, 200g leftover veg roughly chopped, 500g roughly chopped cooked meat of any kind, 1 litre stock, 3 large handfuls of sweet corn.

Fry bacon,onions,garlic until soft, then add cayenne, paprkia and the red pepper, fry for about 10 mins, then add leftover veg and meat, tip gravy of pan juices in and stir boil for 10 mins blitz slightly with hand blender, add sweetcorn Serve with grated cheese on top or a swirl of cream,

Hope thats a help


HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone


Jan

Ah, Annabel,

With success comes the inevitable, a request for more recipies.

Wishing you and everyone else who has every posted on here a " Very Happy Christmas"

In my house there were always bits of this and that, as far as food is concerned, left over from Christmas, so just wondering if anyone has some good meals / recipies for left overs?

Anyone planning a special New Year Party? If so what is your Menu?

It is sunny but cold here,and very quiet outside. Didn't hear the birds tjis morning because I slept longer than usual.

Be happy, and enjoy your cooking

:-) :-) :-D

So pleased my boiled christmas cake recipe , turned out great looks like it as gone world wide.

from here in Perth Western Australia a very happy christmas to you all Annabel xxx :-)

We ate the first one I made when visitors came, and then I made another because it was different so really pleased to read that Annabel's Cake is delicious...I have not iced it because we do not like icing But I did put Marzipan over the top. not to thick and then on went the old bits and pieces that I have always used, It has sugar sprinkled over the marzipan and and a holly ring around the sides. each time friends visit I can see them looking at it BUT nothing cut off this one until Christmas Day!!!

Bridget