I’ve made the curry now…not eaten yet. I loosely used a BBC recipe online. It contained coconut cream. I used green curry and added capsicum, sweet potato and chilli. It smells great.
The Blue Mountains are not far from here. We love spending a day, or more, up there. They had snow on the western slopes the other day. It would have been cold at Katoomba for Nama. 🤒

Purple we were lucky..freezing nights and sunny days!

As it is still Nama. Glad you enjoyed your stay ‘up here’. 😉
Someone suggested, on the radio, that we give the couple Queensland as a wedding present 😁

Nama,

I don’t know anyone who is remotely interested in the wedding and to be honest I’m not either. I have nothing against the about to be married couple but we are in the midst of numerous crises in this country with an incompetent government who seem to be hell bent on leading us to rack and ruin and most of the headlines are about the wedding and gleefully ignoring the fact that we are in a huge hole and the government just keep on digging.
Also, despite the fact that the royal family are mega rich, the taxpayer will be footing the bill for much of it when tens of thousands of the population are living in poverty.

Some will say it will cheer people up and helpthem to forget their own problems but that is missing the point IMO.

The way the media behaves on such occasions disgusts me, especially the way they have behaved towards the bride’s father.

We have had countless articles on the BBC website about the rise of mixed race relationships, quizzes to check if we are related to royalty, articles asking us if we are ready for the wedding. It is everywhere and almost impossible to get away from.

I know that there are many who are interested and are planning on celebrating tomorrow with parties etc and I hope they all have a wonderful time but there will be just as many who would like to ignore the whole thing.

Some will be taking advantage of the fact that many will be watching TV and going out to places of interest such as museums, galleries and outdoor places, enjoying their weekly shop in a quiet supermarket or as the pubs will all be open late tomorrow night, having a late night drink!

I think lots of people just want an excuse to party. Apparently all the thrift shops in Melbourne have sold out of wedding dresses as these merry makers also want to dress up!
I agree about the medias treatment of the brides father and I also dont get why the Royals cant pay for their own weddings. But my curiosity will get the better of me and I will have a sticky beak tomorrow night!

I am curious enough to watch because I think it is history being made, even a republican cant ignore the history of the Royal family. I can imagine the media in the UK must be driving you mad though!

Nama,

Why is Harry (who is sixth in line to the throne) getting married history being made?

I’m sure all the people who are queuing up at food banks across the UK are absolutely thrilled at the amount of taxpayers money being thrown at a wedding……….

And we won’t talk about the homeless of Windsor who will have quietly been moved on after public outcry over plans to forcefully remove them in order to make Windsor look nice for the wedding……………🤬🤬🤬

I’ve just finished off the leftovers of my curry from last night. It was pretty hot, but with some dahl, I had in the freezer, and yoghurt it was great. I DO love all veg meals. Mr P happily ate bacon and veg soup.
We’ve had another lovely sunny day (we need rain!) after a cold night and another to come.
Happy, I can just imagine your ‘girls’ all dolled up having an impromptu paddock party! Will the cats be invited too? 🐈🐱🐤🐥🐔P

Ah Nama, the joys of horticultural fleece! I use it in the polytunnel early in the season and in the veg patch, but only if it’s not windy!

P, one of the cats would gatecrash the hens’ party for sure! I’ve found him lying down in a nest box several times, and he goes in the paddock with them every day. They don’t appear to mind him. Everything works so long as no one makes any sudden moves! Then general chaos can quickly ensue.

It’s funny that vegetables have been long looked upon only as an accompaniment to meat, but actually you can get a lot more on the plate if you remove the lump of meat.

I’m thinking I might try a warm puy lentil, cherry tomato and halloumi salad tonight. Oh dear, it’s not even 8am 🤗

Confession time – I stayed up late last night to watch the wedding. It was a lovely, happy occasion, and I wish them well.

Welcome back, Jo. We are having a long weekend in Kaikoura in a fortnight, to support the locals as they bring their community back to normal after the devastating earthquake of nearly two years ago, and to admire where our tax dollars have gone rebuilding the highway along the coast.

Enjoy a hot bath, Amazon (if you have one) or a long reviving shower! Of course the ice cream couldn’t be re-frozen – not the way to treat it at all!

We Skyped with our two children in Sydney last night. They turn 40 on Tuesday, so are spending the weekend together. And son’s wife has planned a surprize for his birthday, mustn’t spill in case anyone is listening… 🙂

Haha ha Purple….well it is always a good time for me when my team wins, but I did enjoy the non traditional aspects of the sermon and the whole affair! Weren’t the little ones gorgeous? I thought you were going to watch Netflix?

Well I didn’t watch it. The weather was beautiful and I’m never in the house if I can be outside. But it was of course the only thing that happened in the world yesterday so impossible to avoid entirely!

Interestingly, I just made a lemon sauce pudding with a home grown lemon. I have been making this recipe for 47 years. We used to share it between 4. I happened to read the serving size today…it should be between 6! So that’s what I did. Back to 70s sized servings 😉P

😀 double post 🤣

It is interesting that men of a certain age seem to be less inclined to change to a more plant based diet than women. Could it be that women are more adventurous in a culinary sense?
Or is it just a case of old habits dying hard?
Is it different amongst men who do a lot of cooking?

I don’t have a single female friend who doesn’t think it’s dinner if there is no flesh on the plate but the majority of my male friends feel that way and can’t explain why they are of that opinion other than saying something along the lines of “it’s not right”
I have one friend whose husband has over time come to enjoy the plant based meals she produces, and no longer comments on the absence of meat on his plate if she gives him a vegetarian meal. They have a huge kitchen garden and produce a large amount of lovely fresh veg so it helps that she can make something really special from the result of his labours.

In traditional human societies, the men hunt the animals and the women gather the fruit and veg, I guess it’s a deep seated thing 😊
Mr P can cook and used to be a vegetarian, long ago. He eats a much wider range of veg now and accepts 100gm of meat or fish, but, given the chance, he will always order meat dishes, when I usually go for the vegetarian as they are often more flavoursome. Vive la difference! P

I used to have conversations with my brother (who did the majority of the cooking in his household ) about the quality of “supersize” chickens he bought in order to feed his extended family and he would mention cost every time I did so. I would then point out that if he stopped cooking enough for 5 or 6 imaginary family members he could afford better quality meat but it always fell on deaf ears as did suggestions of the occasional meat free meal. I was always horrified at the amount of food that was binned. They were all terrified of eating anything past its use by/sell by date and he was the only one who would eat leftovers. With so many adults in the family there was far too much random buying which resulted in items getting lost in the back of the enormous fridge on a regular basis only to be binned at a much late date.

My biggest issue is that I really enjoy eating good quality meat but I can no longer ignore the voice of the little eco warrior in my head telling me it’s not sustainable and that is without considering the ethics of killing animals for food which is something that never bothered me until relatively recently and I cannot explain why my feelings have changed.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would feel this way I would have split my sides laughing at such a ridiculous notion.

And before anyone points it out, eating fish in the quantities we do isn’t sustainable either but one step at a time……….

I am so looking forward to my lamb dinner 🤣😱😵🍷

For today, it is more like ‘Don’t eat, fast and live longer’? 🤣🤣 Enjoy your Monday fasts folks. P

I have just been listening to an interview on the radio, where the ‘expert’s’ conclusion on fasting is that it has no benefit for weight loss… Another case of shouting at the speaker – or at least hitting the off switch! It’s so sad that such misinformation is being promulgated so widely.

Fast Day here (as I sup my Monday soup) with this wonderful regime that has enabled me to lose and keep off the weight that was going to make me a pudgy old lady. No benefit indeed!!

We in the colonies are happy that our (free) head of state continues to provide such entertainment, Amazon. Think of the choices – monarchy: Liz; republic: Trump. I’m not a dedicated royalist, but there are a lot of positives from it.

In this household we follow the traditions, he is soooo deprived without a lump of meat on the plate, I am trying to sneak in more meatless meals, he with beer in hand, I prefer my wine – just not tonight 🙂

We were planning our Sydney visitation on Skype the other evening, P. No way will the children allow us not to come calling. I think finding a spot to enjoy the New Year fireworks might be on the agenda too, and an opportunity to catch up with you both. Stay warm 🙂

Really makes you wonder which big food conglomerate funded that research!
I think I will take my chances too! My own weight has been stable for 3 yrs and I calculate I have avoided knee replacements and type 2 diabetes at the very least. ..

Hello Fasters
Thanks Amazon for getting me back on the thread.
Sorry about silence. I have been in the wars, but getting better.

My melanoma has been removed definitively after the second go, and my ankle is well nign healed. That required more than a month of sitting with my feet up. So I am so out of form I will need months to get back a satisfactory level of fitness. I should have returned to Europe today, but am gated for 3 weeks more. It will be too late for planting the potatoes, but tomatoes will be possible.

I have continued to fast, but it has not been easy.
I am back now after my AWOl.
Wiwi

Glad to hear you are back on board, in every sense of the word, Wi 😊 You’ll get back in shape, now that the problems have gone. Enjoy Wellington for a little longer…you can always buy potatoes 😉😉P