Blethering, havering and general Scotsnet style chit chat....

[ElephantOfRisk]

I'm in the car reading a few threads where folks are fed up with the misery and fighting so thought I'd start a new thread. Not for politics or covid or fighting , just general stuff 🙂

I've had a nice day, off work on hols so we took a wee drive down to Peebles and had lunch, bought a few pies from lovely butcher and now heading home.

I've never been to a wedding with a scramble.
Is it a regional thing or are all the people I know too mean?

I remember one of my neighbours doing this as the bride left the house (I would have been a teen at the time). Think it was coppers rather than silver coins though

I don't know it's regional? I'm from Edinburgh originally and it was a frequent thing growing up. I didn't have one as I left for my wedding from my sister's flat and not with my dad.

Glasgow - oh yes! Scramble!!!

God i loved a scramble!! That and a balloon on a stick from the rag and bone man and i was happy.

We call it a Scrammy on the East Coast. I loved them.

Copper coins and maybe a sixpence (a shilling if you were really lucky ) at the scrambles at the church on my way home from primary school pre-decimalisation. This was in Bearsden.

Does anyone remember Spanish tobacco, a wee rectangular red waxy packet of coconut rolled in something like cinnamon? Bloody lovely. And lucky potatoes, with a plastic sweety in it, coated in a brown sweet powder? I'd love to taste them again. I've seen them sold in ye olde fashioned sweet shops like in the Barras , but they are never the same.

Oh I loved those too @ssd. Nothing seems to taste the same now, I think it's probably because half the ingredients have been banned. That might be a benefit to being out of the EU, they might be able to use all that stuff again in the UK!

I don't remember lucky potatoes but dh exploded, saying, "We had this conversation recently, they're called Tobermory Tatties"

I make brilliant tablet #justsayin

Oohhh i love some homemade tablet, luckily I don't know how to make it.....I'd be eating it for dinner..

I have to make a batch tonight for after the rugby game. I'm on the MN BootCamp at the moment - HFLC

So I can't eat a single piece

I think I said earlier that I've never made tablet. Actually given how much of a sweet tooth I have, it's amazing that I don't make anything sweet. I cook a lot but I don't bake or do desserts. DS and I have signed up for a beginners baking night class in January so hoping that goes ahead.

Hairy bikers spanish tray bake for dinner tomorrow and I also need to portion up and freeze all the costco meat and fish.

Ill need to Google that hairy bikers recipe, sounds lovely.

We like the Spanish chicken too although I'm not sure it ends up the diet version its supposed to be when dh is finished with it!

And that is a difficult job @pb - well done on the rugby too!

He sometimes adds chunks of black pudding which is tasty

Took me 13 batches to learn to make tablet consistently well: changed recipes half way through to the one my Dad said my mum has asterisked as "*The Best" Have the different stages timed down to the second.

I love baking: biscuits, cakes and sourdough bread and croissants. Just as well I have family and friends who enjoy the produce when I can't eat it

here you go:

www.hairybikers.com/recipes/view/spanish-style-chicken-bake

I just use garlic paste or chopped garlic as DH is too lazy to be bothered with the cloves. I do make more potatoes and veg (and probably a bit more chorizo) as we use it for a side dish next day after we've scoffed all the chicken

This is another favourite:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-chorizo-jambalaya

We freeze the leftover veg and then reheat with extra chicken and crispy potatoes to add texture

I think I cook as it's a necessity for us to eat, but when I was working full time with the kids doing activities every evening and weekends, desserts and baking just wasn't a priority to be made time for. The oven isn't great as it has hot spots too. I have the time now though so it would be good to get into doing it.

I have costco chicken schnitzels so it'll go well with those. I sometimes add eggs to the leftovers and make it into a frittata thing.