Welcome to the no corona zona

[YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet]

Have you aged ten years overnight on a supermarket website?
Are you sticking to the 'two sheets' rule?
Have you had it with singing celebrities?
Are you yearning for what we will now call The Before Times?

If you've answered yes to any of the above, here's where you come to post threads about Naice Things - like ham and cats. Where The Virus That Must Not Be Named (TVTMNBM) is off-limits.

We'll do our best to keep the corona-free zone moderated - you do your best to chill out and gather strength.

Keep using the normal boards for normal stuff, but here's where to come if you need a break. We're hoping everyone will see the value of having somewhere to get away from it all.

Thanks,
MNHQ

There's an English rhyme about magpies, prok (is that ok for short?)
For those of us of a certain age it was the theme song for a kids tv program called Magpie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneforrSorrow(nurseryyrhyme)

Ack, sorry, I think MN formatting has mangled the wiki link a bit.

What's with all this thigh clique shit?

Gate-crashing a party - just as well as there weren't many others around last night.

Gate crashing a thread on MN?

Maybe if it wasn't so cliquey more people would feel inclined to post?

Well everybody is entitled to post, threads that are being taken over by cliques tend to fizzle out.

But post something @Frankiecandle perhaps someone will respond .

I've found the board games for 2 thread, @Davros !

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3857576-board-games-for-2-people

Massage apologies @Bananabixfloof
It was this: www.maryberry.co.uk/recipes/baking/the-very-best-apple-dessert-cake
I put in lemon zest instead of the almond extract and we didn't have any flaked almonds but it was still very tasty.

I have discovered a new cake- apple desert cake. It's amazing

I need this cake recipe!

As it happens, I came on to boast of a new gastronomic discovery myself - HOMITY PIE!

I had some leftover pastry after constructing a quiche, Normally I cook it up and give it to the dogs, but there was enough to line a small quiche tin, and I had some potatoes going spare so I scoured the internet . . .and found this:

Homity pie
Ingredients
For the pastry
125g/4oz plain flour, plus extra for rolling
125g/4oz wholemeal flour
150g/5oz butter
1 free-range egg, beaten
For the filling
850g/1lb 14oz floury potatoes, such as Maris Piper or King Edward, peeled and cut into quarters
25g/1oz butter
1 tbsp sunflower oil
3 onions, halved and sliced
2 garlic cloves, crushed
100g/3½oz baby spinach leaves
175g/6oz mature cheddar cheese, coarsely grated
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley leaves
250ml/9fl oz double cream
pinch freshly grated nutmeg
flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Recipe tips
Method
Put the flour and butter in a food processor and blend until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the egg and pulse until the mixture just comes together as a dough. Bring the dough together and flatten into a round.
Put the pastry in the centre of a 20cm/8in springform cake tin and carefully ease it over the base and up the sides of the tin.
Cook the potatoes in boiling water for 15 minutes, or until just tender. Drain in a colander, tip back into the saucepan and cut into 3cm/1¼in pieces with a round-bladed knife.
Melt the butter and oil in a frying pan and fry the onions gently for 15 minutes, or until soft and pale golden-brown. Add the garlic and cook for two further minutes, stirring regularly.
Preheat the oven to 200C/180C (fan)/Gas 6.
Add the onions and garlic to the potatoes and sprinkle with 100g/3½oz of the cheese and the parsley. Add the spinach leaves and season with nutmeg, salt and freshly ground black pepper. Mix all the ingredients together until well combined.
Spoon the filling mixture into the pastry case. Pour over the cream and allow it to drizzle down between the layers. Sprinkle the remaining cheese on top. Place the tin on a baking tray and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and pale golden-brown.
Leave the pie to cool in the tin for 10 minutes. Remove the pie from the tin and place it on a serving plate. Cut into thick wedges with a sharp knife.
Recipe Tips
This recipe is great for using up leftover boiled potatoes or even mash.

It's Hairy Bikers and is delicious - even though I just used shortcrust pastry and had no spinach and barely a drizzle of cream and didn't bother with the nutmeg.

We all really, really enjoyed it!

Oh - and I only out about half the filling quantities in, for reasons of economy - it was enough (though I still used two cloves of garlic).

Whoops massive apologies. I'm crap at massages.

Prokupatuscrakedatus

One for sorrow/ two for joy/ three for girl/ four for a boy/ five for silver/ six for gold/ seven for secret that will never be told/ eight for a wish/ nine for a kiss/ ten for a letter/ more for something better

There is a similar one for crows that starts

One for sorrow/ two for mirth/ three for a funeral/ four for a birth

but I forget the rest. I'll have it written down somewhere

@SchadenfreudePersonified the version I know has "10s a bird you must not miss".

Tried to do something nice for someone alone on their 50th is all!

FrankieCandle say something interesting so I can laugh.

Ooooh like the Homity pie recipe. At the moment, because I'm bored I want to cook and experiment, we love our food, but that love has become an obsession.

Trouble is... my supply chain is a bit broken and I obviously can't just pop out to get ingredients.

I did cook this the other day, and OMG it was delicious. I love risotto, love goats cheese etc.

www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/goats-cheese-sun-dried-tomato-risotto/?fbclid=IwAR1569xfSg59o-IY8SwBCFe4tYCtOfXMwEXTn4d2OTw4DH8QJRmP8wXnQVE

Sorry you felt sidelined Frankie. It is cliquey, in the sense that some of us know each other from other threads, but lots of people just join in anyway and are included - it’s a friendly clique!

@MinnieMountain I see you saw sense there and posted up that there recipe. Good for the MN reputation that is. We is well known for recipe bombing some threads.
I imagine at some far distant point some on here, including me, will be desperate for those recipes that need half a lemon, 1 kiwi and a sweet potato.
In fact I'm loving the homily pie below.
Still appear to only have adult children around. Was hoping to wake up like on Christmas morning but with little children running around. Sigh, I'm missing those grandkids so much.

Is this thread cliquey? If it is, that fact has passed me by! Perhaps I'm not part of the clique (if there was one) but I haven't noticed and I just carry on regardless.

I dislike it when something is called a clique when it really isn't, unless a clique is a thread for posters who don't want to talk about CV on a particular thread, but want to post happy and nice stuff... there's enough of CV stuff going on elsewhere.

No it isn't at all Rousette it's just that some people regard us Thighs as a clique, which isn't really true as we always have stated 'All welcome' and Not judgement' as our mantras.

It's just a bit of fun to offer a bit of humour and support to folks during grim times!

Obviously not everyone enjoys our appearance on a thread but if it gives someone a bit of a break from the lock down that's worth it.

Also I liked what you said in your second paragraph x

Comments like this don't help. It comes across as rather rude.

FrankieCandle say something interesting so I can laugh

But what did we do to actually deserve Frankie's original comment Soup,? She knew we'd see it as we're in the thread.

Anyway I'm not here for a ruck, I wish ALL of you all the very best during this horrible time and that includes Frankie, no hard feelings on my part. I reckon it's just a misunderstanding really.

Good luck in the coming weeks everyone stay safe and well ❤️

I don't know what a Thigh is. For all I know I might be one!

AFAIC anyone can post on here can't they? Just don't mention the C word!

Maybe best move on...
My cooking at the moment largely involves the contents of veg boxes. DH was so relieved to find a couple of local businesses trying to set up home deliveries that he ordered from both last week. Also milk and eggs - I'm about to make some baked custard which we're having instead of yogurt.
Not sure what to do with the potatoes which are part of the standard boxes though - there are more than are compatible with edging my BMI back below 25 (which I've been gradually doing since the start of the year quite successfully) .