WHAT DID WE HAVE FOR TEA?

[Marilyn]

[Stanley]

[LizG]

I have always wanted to roast some fresh beetroot, Liz. Does it have a lovely flavour? (I really must give it a go. Veg shopping tomorrow, so shall keep an eye out for some).

It is incredibly sweet and does have a lovely flavour. It's nice warm with other roast veggies or in a salad with greens, nuts and cream cheese (or in my case a soy alternative). Give it a try. I'd like to know what you think.

[Marilyn]

Do I peel it I wonder...
If I pick some up from the Greengrocer tomorrow, I shall google procedure and let you know result.
Sounds yummy though, Liz.

[LizG]

I peel it, but I suppose it's like potatoes, if they're young maybe just scrub. I pick them just before cooking so a lot of mine have been in the ground for a while.

[Stanley]

St Augur on toast and a meat pie for dinner. Two ham teacakes with cucumber for tea. Went to butcher's yesterday on the way back from hospital so that's out of the way.

[Marilyn]

Didn't get to the Greengrocer this morning.
Other stuff got in the way...a leaky downstairs loo required a plumber ( after hubby did his darndest to fix it...had me tramping in and out to turn water off and on...and he managed to walk water halfway through the house!) Grrrrrr.
Then he had to skip off to a meeting, leaving me to pay the plumber, who managed to relieve me of most of the money I had in my purse. Then it was mop and bucket time. I had rather lost the urge to go shopping after that.
Slowly braised Steak and Onions tonight, which I am thinking of serving in monster Yorkshires.

[Marilyn]

Far out! What is going on in this house?
Dinner slowly burns as hubby replaces bathroom tap, which has started leaking.
I am about ready to scream.

[Tizer]

Maz, it must be the time of year for leaky loos! We came home after a day out on Saturday to find all the electrics off, then discovered that it was a leaky upstairs loo that had thrown out the RCD on the fusebox. The mains pipe into the loo cistern had sprung a leak, the water ran down the outside of the pipe, soaked the carpet tiles in the bathroom, ran through the floor and onto the hall ceiling and drowned the wiring between floor and ceiling, then ran down the hallway wall and soaked the plaster coving at the top. Luckily we're having hot, dry weather and it's all drying out quickly and the electrics are back on. The plumber had a look but couldn't find any reason why the screw joint had suddenly started leaking. He's fitted a new pipe and on/off valve, just in case. I'm glad we weren't away on a week's holiday!

[Marilyn]

Oh you poor love, Tizzy. Mine was all utility room tiles ( with proper floor drains) and vinyl ( which I only polished last week and it nearly did me in, but that was another story).
To top it off, we have just finished dinner ( had to either serve it up or throw it out)...and I was struck by a rather inconvenient back spasm during it. Very painful...but after lying over the kitchen bench for ten minutes, ( you are not getting photos, though hubby threatened them) I feel much better!
Ha Ha...honestly...today needs to go in the bin in it's entirety!
Hubby has disappeared upstairs to clean up his mess ( yeah right...I shall deal with it tomorrow).
Thankfully I am sitting here quite comfortably, but wary of launching myself into helping mode, should I once again end up in spasm!
And it has just started raining extremely hard and I cannot hear the TV!

Early night in store I predict....

[Cathy]

Marilyn, the house knows that you are leaving very soon and that you two are the ones to get it all ship-shape. Hopefully nothing else will need doing.
Or maybe because you are living in my vicinity, you are also experiencing some ground movement.
(That doesn't quite sound right, but not sure how to fix it... In my area, yeah that sounds better, haha)

[Stanley]

Nice to hear the ground is moving for you...
Dead simple catering at the moment, least trouble the better. Cooked meat butties with salad when I feel like it....

[Stanley]

Routine all to cock... Small butty at 01:00 yesterday and then nothing until teatime, two ham salad butties on plain teacake. We will be back on track today.....

[Marilyn]

From the cupboard under the stairs, where I am typing softly by candlelight, it seems the house has given up fighting us,Cazza, and has now gone quiet. It's been 24 hours since we crawled in here and sealed ourselves in.
No more leaks...no more trickles...
Think it will let us go peacefully...

[Tizer]

Are you chewing on the corner of a blanket Maz? I can't remember who it was, but some well-known creative type once admitted that his most productive time was when he was in an understairs cupboard chewing on the corner of a blanket!

[Thomo]

Schultz perhaps?

[Marilyn]

The only Schultz I know was from Hogan's Heroes. ( I liked Schultzie...especially the way all his chins wobbled when he said " I know nothing, I see nothing".)

All quiet on the Western Front here. Taps and toilets behaving themselves.
Bought the Beetroots and am roasting them this evening, along with other veg and Chicken.
Febby has already moaned that he doesn't like roast Beetroot...but what would he know...

[Stanley]

Nice to know you are all coping....
Dead simple again yesterday. Haslet salad butties X 2 for dinner and tea with an apple and a pear for pudding... Am being very careful with my sharp knives! (being an old engineer, they are as sharp as razors....)

[LizG]

Bought the Beetroots and am roasting them this evening, along with other veg and Chicken.
Febby has already moaned that he doesn't like roast Beetroot...but what would he know...

I'm sure he will love it!!! (He'll probably get a surprise tomorrow when he goes to the loo too.)

[Marilyn]

I loved the Beetroot.
Hubby said it was "ok" and that he would eat it again if I cooked it in the future...but it was "only ok mind" and he "wouldn't want it every week".
Likes to cover his bases does my hubby...

[LizG]

I'm glad you liked it. I make beetroot relish too. It's great with ham or corned beef in a sandwich, or as a topping on steak or hamburger. Better than pickled beetroot.

[Stanley]

Chowdrey's on the square sell boiled beetroot in vacuum packs, they go in all my salads.... I had a haslet salad butty for dinner and a cheese and tomato salad butty for tea.

[Tizer]

The only Schultz I know was from Hogan's Heroes. ( I liked Schultzie...especially the way all his chins wobbled when he said " I know nothing, I see nothing".)

Thomo is referring to Charles Schultz who did the Peanuts cartoons and one of his child characters always dragged a blanket around with him, thumb in mouth. But no, I don't think it was C. Schultz. I think it was an author or playwright.

[Stanley]

Harry Potter lived under the stairs....
Black pudding, tomato and egg butty for dinner. Cheese salad butty for tea. New loaf in the machine as I write....

[Stanley]

Black pudding, poached egg and chunky chips for dinner. Chips, peas and two poached eggs for tea. An apple and a pear for pudding....