Walking in a Crepey Wonderland!

[MrsSchadenfreude]

I couldn't see that anyone else had started a new thread, after Stropps carelessly finished the old one without starting a new one, so here you are.

As someone with slight flatulence issues (let's just say it's never the dog that gets the blame in our house), I don't think anyone would want me on a crepey w/e away if pulses were served in any quantity.

A day working in school today. Ho him.

I could always bring my dog as 'cover' for you if you like Stropps

I must admit, I'm not a fan of pulses. Don't really understand them

I still have brandy butter in the fridge, but I've run out of mince pies. What else could I eat it on? It really is one of my favourite bits of Christmas and I can't bear to chuck it.

That's a shame Rudy

I love pulses too. The family less so, and I daren't give them to DH who has flatulence issues galore.

Chuck it out beachy - vile stuff. As are mince pies We have nearly finished our Christmas cake, but still have a bit of random cheese plus a big brie - any good recipes for hiding it in?!

Oh Rudy, a real shame but I agree that adding in going to London would really strain everything at the seams, wouldn't it. Best of luck for your mum.

I have just saved lots of money by not ordering a Toast grey fair isle tunic in the sales. Frugal, I am.

I love pulses. I do a proper soak'n'boil and stash in freezer job. Chickpeas are probably my favourite (and I keep meaning to pick up some chickpea flour to make savoury spicy 'chilla' pancakes which I suspect are the food of the gods) but am also partial to many others. You've reminded me to order some puy lentils (cook them in red wine and stock with a bayleaf and some sundried toms, and that's it - add feta in chunks afterwards). And I've taken to doing a veggie chilli (after many years of being traumatised by student versions) using red and puy lentils as well as the kidney beans. With dark chocolate in it.

Having whinged about being Alone With Children it now appears they have a dizzy whirl of sleepovers/invites to people's houses

oh Rudy :(
Will miss you next week.....

I am going to do puy lentils with mushrooms.... yum yum....

ds is very partial to a chickpea (or three) and now has the taste for refried beans...

MI, veggie chilli with chocolate in is indeed lush! The other recipes sound good too - I think I will plan to do them and feed the DC chips!

Rudy, you gad about!

Will miss you rudy, but agree your schedule sounds packed already.

I used to live on veggie chilli as a student, but I never made it with lentils or tvp or anything like that, just loads of veg and kidney beans in a chilli sauce. I made it in industrial quantities. May have to investigate a more grown-up pulse-based version. Ds1 would eat it, dd would sort of eat it and then play about with the rest, and ds2 would fall on the floor clutching his throat and then call Childline if I so much as mentioned it as a dinner possibility. Sigh.

Anyhoo ladies, I need your help. I'm trying to put together a playlist to burn to CD for ds1's birthday - teenage theme. Any good suggestions? Doesn't have to have the word teen in it, just has to be about being young with life ahead of you.

wilbur, are you looking for some tunes teens like right now, or tunes that are meaningful rather than popular now IYSWIM?!

Oh, anything - I want a mix of stuff he'll know already and stuff he won't. I can't let dh help as the whole CD will be full of weirdy dance music and The Smiths.

Corny ideas that spring to mind are Teenage Kicks by the Undertones, and that one about an old man by Neil Young.

And what's wrong with The Smiths? Perfect teen-angst music
And Teenage Kicks!

And that Blur one about We Are Young.

And some Beach Boys.

By 'that one about an old man' I meant 'Father and Son', and by 'Neil Young' I meant 'Cat Stevens'.

Glad I've cleared that one up.

Herbs . BTM - ds1 doesn't need any more angst, he can work up quite a head of it on his own. MI - and by Blur, do you mean Supergrass? That's a good one.

Roffle at crepey senility re bands.

I'm sure I do, Wilbur

smells like teen spirit/nirvana , school's out/alice cooper , all the young dudes/m t. h , fluorescent adolescent/arctic ms , i feel fine/beatles (or one of those other v early beatles no.s ?

Teenage dirtbag/ Wheatus :)

In other news, DP has just bogged off for a week. I am weltering in envious self-pity. I think working from home and seeing virtually nobody all day bar the Aldi run is possibly not the optimal thing in January.

Too much too young, the specials.

That does seem v unfair, MI. DP is always going away with work, and that's bad enough, but when it's entirely for his pleasure its a bugger. I suggest you start booking your own break, pronto, and present it as a fait accompli.

He's firmly behind that idea, Herbs, to be fair. Thing is, he's also happy to run up an overdraft (of his own) to do a Jaunt. Me, not so much.

My Perfect Cousin - can't remember who it's by but it goes with Much too Young and I love it. I think we may be showing our age a bit with this selection

Oh this is my area! And for the record I used to work with An Undertone

Teenage wedding chuck berry
Another brick in the wall Floyd
All the young dudes Bowie
Fifteen Taylor Swift
Jack and Diane John cougar mellancamp

Still thinking