I am trying to just breathe calmly. Will anybody talk to me?

[ABitWrong]

About anything. Just need distraction.
Please and thank you.

Ooooh puddings - yes. Mine would be.... erm - some sort of cheesecake or a gooey chocolate torte or the luscious passionfruit & mango thing that I had at the Cinnamon Club - fabulous!

Hmmm - my menu has not followed a theme - note to Semper - do not go on Come Dine With Me

Not a big parsnip fan I'm afraidbut alwayswilling to try

Marrow...um....stuff with itself and that nice tomato pesto..dress pesto is it? Lotsof garlic. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and cheese (dairy or non-dairy)
I am just making thisup.
I have had several sizeable courgettes in the kitchen for days

tomorrow the group of houses we live in is having a barbecue

and my dd1 wants to get her nose pierced

and I have to wash up and make food

and tidy in case the dcs invite people in [panics]

Have you tried making dizzydixies famous MN cheesecake? White chocolate. Oh Gawd. It's easy and so good.

Rhubarb crumble and custard.

wish I could afford to have pudding here

or a whole meal...

Tis very trendy in smart eateries to deconstruct recipes (or so I'm told).

Deconstructed lasagne - seperate heaps of tomato sauce and lasagne sheets mmmmmm.

My DD can also be funny if she can't work out exactly what the item on her plate is made up of.... funny creatures aren't they?

What are the vegan chocolates called? I can remember them starting with a b but that us about it.

I've been trying to get my nose pierced for months. I keep going to the shop, standing outside and then wandering off under the pretence of 'oh look something over there, quick, look, let's go and er, look over there, can you see...' Am 28 fgs.

Is the BBQ something you're looking forward to? Will they cater for veggies?

If you put a whole marrow on a bbq it explodes. Oh yes, I went to university.

Good grief - we seem to have moved swiftly to the most important bit of the meal - sorry I was lagging behind...

I'm going through a merguine phase at the moment - with peaches and raspberries.

Showofhands - which course involves experimenting with exploding vegetables? Sounds more fun than economics....

No problem

Try thinking about things but none important things so you're active but you can fall asleep.
Like name a veg beginning with each of the letter of the alphabet? Or soap character?

Mmm rhubarb crumble yummy

There was deconstructed banoffee pie on come dine with me the other day

yes, a lovely neighbour isalso veggie

do get your nose pierced, I had mine done years ago
More recently had my eyebrow done...now I want another

Idris, hello they are booja booja

We have a vegan restaurant in our local city. I went out of interest and expected not to like it but it was absolutely amazing. Their cakes (I still can't understand how they made them) were utterly impressive.

oooh - now that's a pudding to conjure with, banoffee pie. I have a glut of bananas at the moment (special offer at the market), perhaps I make a pie tomorrow....

What course? Oh if I'd gone to the lectures that day then my devilishly handsome and somewhat subversive housemate would never have introduced me to exploding marrows and what happens when you wire an onion into the mains. He works for GCHQ now.

Must have my nose done. Will go well with my purple hair. I'm not squeamish, not entirely sure what is stopping me. Wanted to do it for years.

Oooh send me some piprabbit. I haven't had any for ages!

Oh, I make vegan cakesall the time [nonchalant]

You know what I hadn't heard about banoffee pie until very recently. DH introduced me to it. Oh sweet moses.

I didn't know Readers' Wives was real until the other day either.

Oh I've lived a sheltered, yet vegetable filled life.

Oh don't be nonchalant, brag. It's a skill. DH is the baker in this house. I do a mean gingerbread man but otherwise I'm a cook. Cakes and their ilk are beyond me.

Cakes are more fun really, because peoplegenerally want to eat them.
Dinners are draining (well, with 4 dcs with differing tastes...)

I have a fruit salad here which I might eat. Or might go and find chocolate.

Decisions, decisions.

I took more ADs than I shouldhave done. Not dangerousamounts. But I started to feel funny and didn';t know if it was side effects or just me panicking.

A ready-prepared fruit salad? I'll have it if you don't want it.

See I have 1 preschooler so baking is the messiest business. We end up with flour and egg coating the soft furnishings, sticky fingers running over the walls, half the cake mix inside her and the other half in her hair. Dinner is contained, clean, less messy.

Are your DCs old enough to cook for you? Nose piercing hints at being older than a preschooler...

Booja's? Whoever asked about the vegan chocs.

Hello ABW ((((((((()))))))))