What you having for your Tea/Dinner, tonight. ?

[securespark]

Does that butter to jam ratio comply with regulations?

Not NHS regulations...

 

[Archev]

Oh no do I have enough range in my electric car ? Ah yes I remember now, when I arrived home yesterday it had 70% of the battery capacity left. But nothing daunted, I diligently plugged in. Later on I noticed Ohme’s reminder that I’d plugged in and did I want to authorise a charge. So I hit OK and set it for 10% by 08:00 today. I topped up the power bank on the overnight 7p rate too so as I make my cheap porridge I see I have a car ready to convey me and also that I set up the washing machine and forgot to hit the go button . Och two out of three ain’t bad.

 

[securespark]

I hate that.

I don't know why, but I'm tasked with remembering to charge the car.

When I am renowned in the family for having the worst memory ever.

So, Mrs S will plug the car in and say "Charge the car", and in the next breath, "What's for dinner?", so it gets forgotten.

Then in the morning, she'll say, "You did remember to charge the car, didn't you?"

We have an agreement now where she stands over me while I make sure the charging session is started in the Ohme app....

 

[salty]

The aftermath, twas bloody, lovely.

 

[Archev]

My lunch was lovely today - steak sandwich but it was half gone before I remembered to record that it ever existed.

And of course my faithful Guard dog was ever present.

Not sure if it was to safeguard me or the steak

 

[Archev]

Oh no do I have enough range in my electric car ? Ah yes I remember now, when I arrived home yesterday it had 70% of the battery capacity left. But nothing daunted, I diligently plugged in. Later on I noticed Ohme’s reminder that I’d plugged in and did I want to authorise a charge. So I hit OK and set it for 10% by 08:00 today. I topped up the power bank on the overnight 7p rate too so as I make my cheap porridge I see I have a car ready to convey me and also that I set up the washing machine and forgot to hit the go button . Och two out of three ain’t bad.

Better organised last night. I’ve now got a full car , power bank, HW cylinder AND a washer full of clean laundry and all for half price according to Octopus. So the Berlingo tariff today is one penny per mile with a bonus basket of clean shreddies

 

[Bam Bam]

Fajitas for us tonight.

 

[Archev]

Traditional tonight, this being the second Tuesday after a tumultuous Thursday and all

Shaun done good

 

[Gomev]

Traditional tonight, this being the second Tuesday after a tumultuous Thursday and all View attachment 39207
Shaun done good

Where's the gravy ?

 

[Archev]

Where's the gravy ?

Yuck. Some like some sort of cream whiskey sauce but luckily if it’s at a restaurant that’s served separately so that it can be ignored, not for me thanks. A glass of water is just fine.

 

[Archev]

Hey guys semi special dinner tonight. First course was the left over haggis, neeps, tatties and carrots from last night.
I couldn’t find an address to the left over second night’s haggis as I’m fairly certain Mr Burns didn’t expect any of the meal to be left. So I knocked one up for myself :-

Fare fa’ yer mark two face
Reheated chief o the pudding race
In the microwave ye took yer place
An like last nicht ye tasted ace.

Sorry about that.
But my coup de gras tonight, my specialty was my dessert.
My plum tree produced a beautiful crop of the finest purple fruit as usual and for the last week or two I’ve been going round the neighbourhood with bowlfuls til everyone in the street now locks their doors when I approach except the two youngsters opposite
Anyway I attempted single handedly to make some jam . Yeah it’s the special pouring type that isn’t in great demand at wri meetings.
But tonight by special request I had that throwback from childhood at Granny’s (not the ev kind). No I had Tapioca pudding with a dollop of plum splodge which promptly keeled over and sank without trace.
But with a bit of judicious stirring and what with the addition of a bit of cinnamon it was very nice indeed.
A tapioca dream indeed.

 

[securespark]

I love all kinds of milk puds, semolina, tapioca, rice, macaroni, sago.

Yum!

 

[Ian Key]

I love all kinds of milk puds, semolina, tapioca, rice, macaroni, sago.

Yum!

You're just wierd They remind me too much of thick gloopy school puds which always came with a dollop of red sweet stuff masquerading as strawberry jam.

 

[MG Clive]

You're just wierd They remind me too much of thick gloopy school puds which always came with a dollop of red sweet stuff masquerading as strawberry jam.

I think we went to the same school mate.

 

[salty]

Me too, one of um, not sure which one. Reminds me of Frog Spawn. Yuk!

 

[Ian Key]

The other one that got served up regularly was melting moments with pink custard.

Melting moments my arse, they wouldn't melt if you used a blow torch. I'm sure NASA used them as heat protection when the shuttle re-enters earth's atmosphere.

And the pink custard always had a thick rubbery layer of skin which would sneer at you if you went anywhere near it with a spoon.

As you might guess I wasn't a fan of school dinners in the 70's

 

[salty]

One school, dessert, I did like was a shortbread type thing, with chocolate and sugar on top. We called it Shit with sugar on. Bloody lovely though. And a nice bonus was, me mum was a dinner lady, at another school, so uses to bring some home, when that school had it.

 

[Archev]

The other one that got served up regularly was melting moments with pink custard.

Melting moments my arse, they wouldn't melt if you used a blow torch. I'm sure NASA used them as heat protection when the shuttle re-enters earth's atmosphere.

And the pink custard always had a thick rubbery layer of skin which would sneer at you if you went anywhere near it with a spoon.

As you might guess I wasn't a fan of school dinners in the 70's

I never enjoyed a school dinner in Scotland because I always lived close and came home or took sandwiches but I spent a couple of days “doon sooth” at a conference held in a boarding school in the Cheltenham area somewhere. My abiding memory, long outlasting details of where it was, included the apple pie and custard for no other reason than it was delicious. Well, there was another reason. Whoever served my portion did so with the wee ceramic pastry support intact ? I’d never encountered one before and wondered what was rattling my spoon. Imagine my delight? When my second helping contained the other one ( a big pie I seem to remember.)
The other memory from the conference was a guy’s speech about his travels to and from some of the islands we visited (Jura, Raasay, Gometra, Rhum etc etc). Anyway he ended with a tirade about the pronunciation of the name Oban or was it to be obAn ? It was hilarious. Pity no one recorded it on their pho …… ah yes I remember why now.

 

[m4rmite]

I like rice pudding but you can shove your tapioca where the sun don't shine

As a child(me) my father would sleep food like he was sticking it through a straw

Hence why I absolutely hate lip smacking eaters, I think it comes under mysophonia. My granddaughter is a lip smacker and when she eats and I have to leave the room

 

[Archev]

When I was in Tesco’s l couldn’t find the tapioca dream anywhere. I finally asked a young lassie who was stacking shelves. The way she said “What?” You’d have thought I’d asked for drugs or something however she looked up her stock finder and led me back to where I’d been searching, got down on her hunkers and reached away in the back of the bottom shelf. The only tin in the shop. She’d never heard of it and the girl at the checkout asked what it was too?
Should they be sliding it under the counter in plain brown paper bags ??