October 08 - More birthdays to go!

[CantSleepWontSleep]

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

omg that looks quite complicated actually.

Star when I make Yorkshire puds I make as follows:-

Put a muffin tray in the oven (12 hole job) with a dash of veg oil in teh bottom of each hole. The oil MUST get smoking hot. Really, smoking hot. Your oven should be on full whack.

Put 6oz of plain flour ina bowl

In a jug, put 10oz of milk and 5oz of cold water and whisk in two eggs.

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That recipe makes it sound more complicated than it needs to be star. Just bung the batter ingredients (from that link) into a bowl and whisk. Cook some sausages in a baking dish, and once cooked, and ensuring that there's a good amount of fat in the dish, pour over the batter mix, and put back in the oven. You can ignore all the faff with the onions.

All this talk of food is making me nauseous .

Cross post. It's Delia's recipe that makes it sound more complicated, not MamaG's.

So how do you make gravy?

Like this!

I love the gravy recipe

CSWS is right, that delia recipe does make it sound like a real faff. It's actually really easy. As long as you cook the sausages beforehand and follow Mamag's advice about having the oven really hot and not peeping, it should be lovely. Let us know how it turns out.

maybe I should buy a frozen one first to see if I like it?

And oat milk works quite well in it too .

I doubt you'll get a frozen toad in the whole with veggie sausages, but you can get frozen yorkies that are ok. But you'll feel so much better for making them yourself!

I just looked it up on tesco and you can get a veggie one frozen [
Yes, I'll feel better making it myself.

STEP AWAY FROM THE FROZEN YORKSHIRES!

They SUCK

REally, they do. they are SO EASY to make star, I promise

Ladies - I've just realised that S is due to have his 1st MMR and PCV jabs on WEdnesday. He's been really poorly. I should postpone them till he's 100% shouldn't I??

Iirc they are ok to have them with a cold, but nothing more.
I really must book some jabs for ds. What are the ones they were supposed to have at 12 months?

I haven't had any reminders about immunisations which is very strange as they sent me two for each jab she needed with the first lot! I really should investigate......

According to S's red book at 12 months it's Hib/men C. Then at 13 months it's the MMR and PCV.

I think he just has a nasty cold. I know it's probably nsilly but think I might feel better if I postpone them. If his immune system is already working hard I don't want to make it harder for him to recover properly. There's so much stuff going round at the moment.

I wouldn't give Q any immunizations if he was feeling even slightly under the weather. Individual choice I guess (and I'm paranoid)

I tend to err on the side of caution and only take healthy children for jabs. Anything to reduce the risk of a sleepless night for me tbh.

Good point about the sleep Pepper. I really can't cope with too many more sleepless nights.

toad in the hole turned out well I made a gravy with veg stock, water, wholemeal flour and apples. Yummy. I used veggie sausages. I would have preferred just the Yorkshire pudding tbh

Hurrah! Hope you felt thoroughly British eating it!

I'm going to have to make Yorkshire puddings this week as well now. I shall blame this thread when I start busting out of all my clothes.

Me too aubergenie. Have ordered sausages.

Luckily I am immune to the temptations of Yorkshires. Not my bag baby! DH made a delicious chicken pot roast tonight though. Yum yum yum!

So you enjoyed it Star? Good old British grub. Do you cook a big roast at Christmas? You could add Yorkshire pudding to your meal now! Do Americans eat dumplings? That might be your next venture.

Went to BW with my little bro today and bought him some Timberland boots for his trip. They're bloody expensive things. However, after I paid for them I realised that the Boden boots I was wearing actually cost about £50 more! How ridiculous! At least DB's boots are waterproof and practical.

Where is Myjob? She has very quiet over the last couple of days!