Good old Brum tin worm, kept me busy for years welding up old cars.
 Have to write something this morning, like chatting to a friend. Weird dream that woke me, having a shower and someone walked in so covered myself up. Like I said weird !
 After yesterdays efforts my back is just "stiff" , took some pills to help movement and will see how I get on today. Hoping its easier to get to the nuts on the exhaust mountings where they go through the wheel arch on the l/h side.
 Wind has died down, bit of cloud now but showers this affty.

Made a veg curry yesterday when I got back home from doing a bit to the Austin, it said spicy and creamy. Its defiantly spicy, one chilli in the blended spice mix and a split chilli in with the veg. Coconut milk in at the end makes it creamy but it made me sweat!!
  Well its Thursday grocery shop again, fridge is looking bare. Now cant decide what meat to get, just had chicken for the last 4 days so lamb, beef or pork or do I splash out and get fish? Fish is a lot more expensive now, I look for reduced and freeze it but there has not been any lately.
 Cloudy today but just started to lighten up, 12C so high summer for Danielle!!!!!

Do you make Tikka Masala?  I'm looking for a good home recipe. I know I can find oodles on the net, but I'm so tired of going to the web for anything.  I miss the personal touch of exchanging recipes. I was of a mind to try the basic Tikka recipe then tweak it with different ingredients for variety.  My partner doesn't give a fig for curry. What's wrong with them? Tikka doesn't taste or smell of of traditional curry so she'll eat it with me.

Certainly the cost of groceries is a touchy subject. I do love my fish!  Wild caught where I can get it.  The fish farming horror stories warn me off most fresh offerings.

Quote from: davina61 on January 25, 2024, 03:31:40 AMMade a veg curry yesterday when I got back home from doing a bit to the Austin, it said spicy and creamy. Its defiantly spicy, one chilli in the blended spice mix and a split chilli in with the veg. Coconut milk in at the end makes it creamy but it made me sweat!!
  Well its Thursday grocery shop again, fridge is looking bare. Now cant decide what meat to get, just had chicken for the last 4 days so lamb, beef or pork or do I splash out and get fish? Fish is a lot more expensive now, I look for reduced and freeze it but there has not been any lately.
 Cloudy today but just started to lighten up, 12C so high summer for Danielle!!!!!

Tikka Masala is a made up restaurant recipe that came about (if I remember right) when someone asked for a mild curry and the chef mixed some chicken tikka with a masala (BTW masala means mix of spices) . I do have one I think in one of my books, will look in a bit. I can never understand folks that don't like curry!! a good curry is not hot, if it is drowned in chilli you cant taste the spices. Cooking a daalcha at the moment ,meat and veg. Lamb cooked in  tamarind/ tomato sauce with marrow or in my case courgette with mashed and whole chickpeas. 

Must stop hibernating, woke at 7.30 and put the radio on and listened to the local news and some chat. Next thing I knew it was 9.30-------
 A well gives me time to catch up on stuff today, have to pay once yearly landlord insurance. On line of course so see how well their site works. Still waiting for the man to come and unblock the kitchen drain, will be taking more clothes was to mum then.
 I was a naughty girl yesterday, there was a selection tray of dried fruits and almond sweets in the reduced shelf so I bought it. Pigged all the sweets and some dried fruit, slap my wrist.
 Well that was a faff, the folk I do landlord liability insurance through no longer do it. Searching on the net brought up no results so rang agents. We no longer need it she said ,just do contents so after a bit of keyboard bashing have new cover for £45 a year

I didn't know that about Tikka!  How interesting.  An Asian friend told me yesterday, curry is just another word for gravy.  How about that.

Quote from: davina61 on January 26, 2024, 04:55:19 AMMust stop hibernating, woke at 7.30 and put the radio on and listened to the local news and some chat. Next thing I knew it was 9.30-------
 A well gives me time to catch up on stuff today, have to pay once yearly landlord insurance. On line of course so see how well their site works. Still waiting for the man to come and unblock the kitchen drain, will be taking more clothes was to mum then.
 I was a naughty girl yesterday, there was a selection tray of dried fruits and almond sweets in the reduced shelf so I bought it. Pigged all the sweets and some dried fruit, slap my wrist.
 Well that was a faff, the folk I do landlord liability insurance through no longer do it. Searching on the net brought up no results so rang agents. We no longer need it she said ,just do contents so after a bit of keyboard bashing have new cover for £45 a year

So you saved some money and ate some delicious treats. Sounds like what most people would call a good day! 😘

Don't slap your wrist about the sweets. "foods we enjoy" are just as valid a macro as protein, fiber and complex carbs. You need to allow a balance of them into your life so you can enjoy what you eat and stick with your overall eating plan in the long term!

Have a lovely weekend!!!

Love,
Allie

Yes dear, having some dried fruit and choc (sticky toffee pudding flavour so it says on packet) hobnob biscuits for pudding!

Davina I have given up on my girlish figure. Every time I complain about my belly, EVERY woman pretty much tells me to stop whining.  As one friend said, "Oh for goodness sakes you are a woman over 60, get over it!"  It did make me smile.  I find my transgender validation in the strangest places.

Separately, my two addictions in England are fish & chips (they are terrible in the US) and sticky toffee pudding.  Thank God my trips are limited to no more than twice a year! I'd have to get two seats on the plane.    

But my clothes are getting tight!! Yes I was going to say curry means gravy but it has become a catch all for Indian food.

Well I tried to post earlier but internet kept crashing, went down the workshop this morning and did a few bits. Ran out of things to do again and came back home, didnt realize how cold I was till I changed out of my work clothes. Took me over an hour and a few cups of tea to get warm!! It was 8C but a very stiff wind.
 Mum got a quote to get her shrubs and trees trimmed and cleared, £275 so not bad. It would be almost that much for a skip and days of work so I am glad about that.

Well my internet is no better this morning, running a scan first and then will shut down and reboot the router. Cooked some dry veg curry just and have a sweet potato dessert cooking now, the sweet potatoes were starting to rot on the ends and as I had loads of milk it has made a nice way of using stuff up.
 Only 1.50pm and I am bored already!!

So stuck at home again, rang the local Vauxhall dealer to see if I could get the code for the immobiliser in the engine ECU to get a key chip coded. You need the vehicle registration document (V5) , now thats a problem as it was sent in when the donor car was scrapped. Also have to drive all the way to the city , whole load of cant be bother --------
 Have the annual check up tomorrow, that will be "fun" as over weight and high blood pressure I can work out for myself. Watched the "what's in your shopping trolley " program last night, I am doing the right things and eating good stuff as per the program and still cant lose the LBs GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Quote from: davina61 on January 30, 2024, 04:40:15 AM... that will be "fun" as over weight and high blood pressure I can work out for myself. Watched the "what's in your shopping trolley " program last night, I am doing the right things and eating good stuff as per the program and still cant lose the LBs GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Right with you old dear!

Well I had my annual "MOT ,scales said 105kilo what ever that is in LBs. My scales said 16st 4lb this morning, still not lost the Christmas gain. She took an armful of blood (someone might get the reference) and told me on my notes that I had been prescribed statins and cholesterol meds. Well thats great as no one has messaged or told me, on my last blood test my cholesterol was normal and they never checked that only my blood pressure. Words need to be said I think, got a text from my chemist when I got home to say my meds were ready to collect!!  I hope to lower blood pressure by diet alone.

Week has flown by ,good grief Feb already and food shop again. Tail pipe ends turned up for the Austin so that's a job for tomorrow and I also have 3 fruit trees to plant at mums. Warmer this weekend and dry so best time to plant them if my back lets me dig the holes, they are in about 18ins pots. Mum has a post hole spade that is weighty so that helps, next problem is where to put the soil ? Its very clay and stony so not good on the veg patch or borders.

Maybe mix it well into your compost heap?  Then screen out the rocks later?

Mum does not have a compost bin, I keep saying she should but she has a garden waste collection bin so uses that. Well I need a kick up the bum this morning to get going, took me ages to come around when I woke. Roll on the nice weather.
 Upped my breakfast oats to include seeds as well as blueberries after watching the food in your shopping program last week. Checked a lot of stuff on the supermarket shelf and they must have share in a salt mine and sugar plant!! Watch what you buy folks as processed food is REALY bad. Bought a whole chicken and made a simple curry ,just a few whole spices (cinnamon, cardamom and bay leaves) onion, ginger and garlic ,one green chilli and yogurt. Slow cooked (korma) ,had a job getting all the cut up chicken in my biggest sauté pan but its nice and moist.   

I have been away from here for a week or so, just been too busy. So caught up with your mutterings lol. On the subject of curry I agree with you. Heat is a symptom of the spices not requirement of the curry. The whole should be in balence. Very hot yes when the spices produce it, but also mild when the flavours demand. So anyone can eat a good curry and if you can take the heat it just gives you a bigger selection lol.

Yesterday being away I had a curry from the curry house just over the road from my hotel. It was pretty good a veg madras, balance was good not that hot but tasty, I had it with a garlic nan that I asked to add a few chilli rounds. Then used the bread to eat the curry saving them washing up lol

Then it is weight lark, I spent ages last year losing 10lbs and within a month it's all back again. Just give up deary. We are built for comfort not for speed lol

Hugs
Jessica xxx

 

The fruit tree planting went a lot easier than expected, no aches or pains either. Soil has gone in some waste bags so that problem solved.
 Called in on Debs as she tried ringing me as I got to mums, no good as there is 0 signal there so called in on the way back home. J was there cooking her some lunch (she knows how to get others do stuff) and she said she hade been in a dark place again. Gave her the tough love talk again and she rallied around, went to check on the veg patch and non of the seeds I planted had come up. There is a good crop of borage, <not allowed> stuff is worse than any weed as the slightest bit of root grows into a plant. Job for spring then.
 Cooking afternoon now, Gobi Aloo, Keema and lamb and spinach. Not sure if the beef mince I used is okay, it has been defrosting for 2 days in the fridge and there was still some ice in the packet when I opened it. It was a bit pale looking and after cooking there is a slight odd taste. I ate a spoonful and not thrown up yet!!Its going back in the freezer anyway once its cold.