A sheep, a werewolf and a walrus walk into a bar.

(29-05-2022, 07:38 PM)Necro Wrote: [ -> ]

(29-05-2022, 04:27 PM)BuileBeag Wrote: [ -> ]I don't actually like biscuits. I eat them to be polite or occassionally out of desperation when there's nothing else to have with tea but yeah I don't really like them and I'd never bother buying myself any.

Having a rather spicy (sniffle) turkey papriksh (I didn't make it) with veg and (very few) bits of potato. Not bad, not bad at all. Happy out.

I am with Buile, not a huge biscuit fan.... I am more of a savoury than sweet food craver.

...and now I'm hungry again, saaaaake! 




think I'll bake some bread. 

Not a recipe, but if anyone likes chunky soups ,Dunne Stores Simply Better range have a lovely Mixed Bean and Chorizo one , a bit of fresh crusty bread with it ,perfect!

(31-05-2022, 06:42 PM)Mam of 4 Wrote: [ -> ]Not a recipe,  but if anyone likes chunky soups ,Dunne Stores Simply Better range have a lovely Mixed Bean and Chorizo one , a bit of fresh crusty bread with it ,perfect!

Oh yes I like that one too!

While we're on dunnes, they do very nice own brand yoghurt too, they're in the large tubs and are only a euro each.. the mango one is my favourite!

(31-05-2022, 07:02 PM)lorcand1990 Wrote: [ -> ]

(31-05-2022, 06:42 PM)Mam of 4 Wrote: [ -> ]Not a recipe,  but if anyone likes chunky soups ,Dunne Stores Simply Better range have a lovely Mixed Bean and Chorizo one , a bit of fresh crusty bread with it ,perfect!

Oh yes I like that one too!

While we're on dunnes, they do very nice own brand yoghurt too, they're in the large tubs and are only a euro each.. the mango one is my favourite!

Oh I love mangoes,  I must try that one,  thank you!

Another mango fan here! I get the clear tub of chopped mango in pineapple juice, it's great, keeps as well as a tin but without the sliminess of tinned. Pricey but worth it imo, fresh mango can be so hit and miss

It's Monday-Tuesday for me, it feels like at least Thursday, I am supposed to be eating healthy, instead it has become pizza (pepperoni, the tesco ownbrand stonebaked frozen one), crisps (hunkydorys) and wine (a tasty Rioja my aunt gave me the other week 😍) day 🤣

(31-05-2022, 08:13 PM)ari101 Wrote: [ -> ]It's Monday-Tuesday for me, it feels like at least Thursday, I am supposed to be eating healthy, instead it has become pizza (pepperoni, the tesco ownbrand stonebaked frozen one), crisps (hunkydorys) and wine (a tasty Rioja my aunt gave me the other week 😍) day 🤣

Wine has gone straight to my head despite pizza and crisps. I had this lovely pasta salad with sundried tomatoes and feta bought for lunch... but I was on my phone while paying (self service checkout), answering the call to be a career advise sounding board, and I left my fecking food behind after I paid for it (and bothered to get a receipt) so this is my first meal off the day... sigh...

Working weekend here, stopped for  luscious peas with pearl onions, nom nom nom...

That like is for the mad swans not for the pearl onions 😉

A cookie and a cupan tae and no I won't be sharing my cookie

I'd love cookies right now. But I'm down to emergency chocolate.

Gonna make this tonight.. Black bean chicken

Chop 2 chicken breasts & coat in a mixture of breadcrumbs, 1/2 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp chilli powder & salt.. Put into oven for 20 mins or airfryer for 15 at 220 degrees

While that is cooking, using a wok fry up 1 or 2 peppers, an onion & a chilli for a few mins.. Next add in 2 crushed garlic cloves, a small piece of ginger, 2 tbsps of soy sauce & 1 tsb oyster sauce.. Leave that for 5 mins then add in 300 mls chicken stock & 1-2 tbsps of black bean sauce (you can get really good ones in Asian shops & aren't too expensive).. Leave to simmer & reduce. If you need to thicken the sauce mix 1 tbsp of cornflower with 20 mls water & add that in gradually

Tis yummy if you like that type of food 

@lorcand1990 , that sounds delicious, enjoy , and thanks for the recipe!

I didn't know there was a chocolate day, I had lots of chocolate ob the 7th but it was just a coincidence.

Every day is Chocolate Day to me

I had crispy pork belly with crackling and tomato salsa salad

Mmm that sounds good liz! I'm having sausages on hot dog buns with brown sauce.

Love pork belly

Homemade beef burger for me tonight.. I went big and had it with lettuce, pickle, cheese, onion and an egg

The soup maker has returned from it's summer hiatus.. Butternut squash with chili pepper

Just did steak on the barbecue for the first time (I've only owned a bbq for a week )

It was pretty epic

How much use have you gotten out of that bbq so far, E.N.?
If ever I get one, I am expecting your expert advice (I don't know how to cook meats at all)

Past few days I have been limited to a diet of ...whatever my good hand can spread on bread easily.
....but today I ran out of bread - eek.

So I popped a frozen loaf of bread dough in oven (I am not sure how I will cut it, but oh the yummy smell), and while i was cooking that, I didn't want to waste the heat so's I put a baked potato in with a frozen chicken breast (with bbq sauce on top) - and walla, good food will hit my tummy soon! ...I may look like a caveman eating it, but nomnomnom cant wait!

I mixed my xmas pudding today! Hoping it comes out ok after reducing the alcohol content

(20-12-2022, 12:10 AM)DejaBoo Wrote: [ -> ]How much use have you gotten out of that bbq so far, E.N.?
If ever I get one, I am expecting your expert  advice   (I don't know how to cook meats at all)

For the first few weeks I was using it loads, and it's definitely the best way I have to cook steak. I ran out of gas just as winter set in though, so it's been lonely for the last month or so. It'll be back in the spring with a vengeance! I'd never really understood the BBQ obsession before, but it is very good

(15-09-2022, 07:45 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]Just did steak on the barbecue for the first time (I've only owned a bbq for a week )

It was pretty epic

Very Australian, I'm thinking Alf Stewart

(20-12-2022, 12:36 PM)jp liz v1 Wrote: [ -> ]Very Australian, I'm thinking Alf Stewart

Oi! I'm half his age you flamin' gullah!

(20-12-2022, 01:49 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]

(20-12-2022, 12:36 PM)jp liz v1 Wrote: [ -> ]Very Australian, I'm thinking Alf Stewart

Oi! I'm half his age you flamin' gullah!

(20-12-2022, 09:25 AM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]

(20-12-2022, 12:10 AM)DejaBoo Wrote: [ -> ]How much use have you gotten out of that bbq so far, E.N.?
If ever I get one, I am expecting your expert  advice   (I don't know how to cook meats at all)

For the first few weeks I was using it loads, and it's definitely the best way I have to cook steak. I ran out of gas just as winter set in though, so it's been lonely for the last month or so. It'll be back in the spring with a vengeance! I'd never really understood the BBQ obsession before, but it is very good

We all have Christmas Dinner at sons house, around 15-16 of us , small kitchen, two big bbqs worth their weight in gold keeping food hot last year 🙈😂

Not in the mood for dinner but I'm just after savaging half a McFlurry from the freezer. 

I'm not even much of an icecrem fan (hence only eating half in the first place). 
There must have been feck all topping out on it too because it was mostly just icrecream. 
So I crushed 2 Oreo's and mixed them in & OMGoooood, it was delicious 😋

McFlurrys used to have a specific machine for mixing them up, but they don't seem to now. That means they really are just toppings, it's a bit crap

(11-01-2023, 08:03 PM)Spears Wrote: [ -> ]Not in the mood for dinner but I'm just after savaging half a McFlurry from the freezer. 

I'm not even much of an icecrem fan (hence only eating half in the first place). 
There must have been feck all topping out on it too because it was mostly just icrecream. 
So I crushed 2 Oreo's and mixed them in & OMGoooood, it was delicious 😋

Cookies and cream is my all time favourite, nom nom
(slides bowl - quick before seph gets in)

(20-12-2022, 08:44 PM)Mam of 4 Wrote: [ -> ]

(20-12-2022, 09:25 AM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]For the first few weeks I was using it loads, and it's definitely the best way I have to cook steak. I ran out of gas just as winter set in though, so it's been lonely for the last month or so. It'll be back in the spring with a vengeance! I'd never really understood the BBQ obsession before, but it is very good

We all have Christmas Dinner at sons house, around 15-16 of us , small kitchen, two big bbqs worth their weight in gold keeping food hot last year 🙈😂

you're a mam of 15? ....that's alot of mammying to do!

ok, I may have read that wrong, but ..... please pardon my non-cooking self, how does a bbq keep food warm?

(11-01-2023, 08:30 PM)E.N. Wrote: [ -> ]McFlurrys used to have a specific machine for mixing them up, but they don't seem to now. That means they really are just toppings, it's a bit crap

 
Yeah the topping was just on top. I probably wouldn't have finished it all initially even if it was mixed through,  but I did stop eating when it got to the icecream only part.

But the Oreo's I added in were double stuffed so they were really creamy mixed in 👅

Think I'll grab another tomorrow, eat half again & freeze the rest for another day 🐷

(11-01-2023, 08:47 PM)DejaBoo Wrote: [ -> ]Cookies and cream is my all time favourite, nom nom

Same.
I'm not a huge icecream fan & I rarely ever crave it, but Cookies & cream is one that would make me want to buy some.

Got an Aldi brand Butterscotch & Almond icrecream for over the Christmas.
The Butterscotch flavour was lovely but the almonds were slivers, & they tasted of what I'd imagine toenails clippings to be like.
Weird texture 🤢

Oh good gawd, toenail clipping texture would put me off ice cream forever!

A decade ago, McDonalds came out with some sort of chocolate chip/dust mix-in for iced coffee. I tried iti once (in my then homeless state) and jayzoooos, the texture was like drinking thinned down milk with thick (gag) coffee grounds added in (and dark specks sticking to the ice cubes), what an epic McFail!

(11-01-2023, 08:52 PM)DejaBoo Wrote: [ -> ]

(20-12-2022, 08:44 PM)Mam of 4 Wrote: [ -> ]We all have Christmas Dinner at sons house, around 15-16 of us , small kitchen, two big bbqs worth their weight in gold keeping food hot last year 🙈😂

you're a mam of 15? ....that's alot of mammying to do!

ok, I may have read that wrong, but ..... please pardon my non-cooking self, how does a bbq keep food warm?

Forgot to answer you, sorry Boo 🙈
They're gas bbqs with the kids that come down over the grill , so the pots and pans were put on them to keep warm until we dished up . (If that makes sense)

(14-01-2023, 09:47 PM)Mam of 4 Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-01-2023, 08:52 PM)DejaBoo Wrote: [ -> ]you're a mam of 15? ....that's alot of mammying to do!

ok, I may have read that wrong, but ..... please pardon my non-cooking self, how does a bbq keep food warm?

Forgot to answer you, sorry Boo 🙈
They're gas bbqs with the kids that come down over the grill , so the pots and pans were put on them to keep warm until we dished up . (If that makes sense)

No problem  mam

(I've never had a bbq, just seen the meme ones with burnng hot flames shooting out and blowing people down the block)... I didn't know you could do that, very smart!

(14-01-2023, 10:24 PM)DejaBoo Wrote: [ -> ]

(14-01-2023, 09:47 PM)Mam of 4 Wrote: [ -> ]Forgot to answer you, sorry Boo 🙈
They're gas bbqs with the kids that come down over the grill , so the pots and pans were put on them to keep warm until we dished up . (If that makes sense)

No problem  mam

(I've never had a bbq, just seen the meme ones with burnng hot flames shooting out and blowing people down the block)... I didn't know you could do that, very smart!

I don't have a BBQ either 😀 So the odd time we have one at my house, they bring it with them and the gazebo, and we make a day of it ! Everyone brings food etc .