One toy mouse found for PB........

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.....so temper tantrum forestalled for 10 minutes. Edited by MNHQ at OP's request

I have just finished a big pot of lentil and vegetable soup made through choice. Delicious and easy-peasy.

I have lentil soup most days. Or butterbean.

I watched that bbc back in time for tea and they had pilchards in tomato sauce mixed with semolina on toast, it actually looked really nice.

I'll make some more mice this week assuming the red felt arrives, if ever. If not I can do them in some other fabric.

F ooh definitely, sounds delicious.

I've always wanted to master dahl - seems a shame to wait till Armageddon, might have a crack this afternoon. And those properly crispy fried onions you get in Indian restaurants, Dreamies to me.

C what stock cubes do you use for soup. Or do you boil 30 chickens.

No heat, no hot water, no cold water, and now sinks are all blocked and gurgling horribly. Hey ho.

I use 'bouillon powder'. I have soup a great deal so it's easiest to throw in a couple of dessert spoons or so of that.

I only wish I could give you actual receipts. I fear that as a real soup maker, I tend to use 'enough' of each ingredient. (That word used to drive me bananas when I was trying to get receipts out of my grandmother.)

I've got bouillon powder! It's my fave. Mr C will be gutted, no meaty chunks. Will report back.

I don’t use stock because of my allergies. I just add salt.

Whenever something doesn’t taste the same as processed I add enough salt to cause a stroke et voila. Tastes just like Heinz.

I made an amazing soup once that I need to do again. Cauliflower cheese with crispy bacon on top. I put some mustard in and used really strong cheddar. Was lovely

I don’t use stock because of my allergies. I just add salt

Also, you might want to try things like soy sauce, Worcestershire Sauce (I use the vego version), marmite and a dash of really good balsamic (depending on your allergies) just for a bit more depth ...

I'm vego and use these whenever the recipe calls for beef stock.

Cauliflower cheese with crispy bacon on top

How much bacon made it into the soup and how much into the cat?

Lana go to an Indian / Pakistani grocer. The secret to those crispy onions is that they come in big, plastic jars!

If you want to make them yourself, you need the pale pink onions from the Indian shop, slice wafer thin, they need to be like tissue paper. Then crush in your hands and squeeze all the water out. Leave to drain then deep fry.
Or, just buy a jar!

Yet he's not actually that keen on bacon. Today's rejected food is natures menu. He wants applaws

He likes pork scratchings but not bacon? To a vegetarian that is incomprehensible and illogical :).

Hey Ho. He's a cat. (They do illogical 24/7 with double rations on Sundays. )

I can’t have any of those Spartacus. I’ll be down to bread and water the way it’s going.

It’s bloody Dickensian you have no water or gas L in a capital city in Europe. When can they fix it?

Believe me, my landlords are straight out of Bleak House. I'm surprised the block isn't called that.

Tomorrow. Joy.

I'm off to the Indian shop in Tooting.

F tell me at least you can eat sugar? It's not half as bad as everyone tells you as long as you don't inject golden syrup.

I can have cane sugar but not beet sugar. Can’t have golden syrup at all & I did a really good treacle suet sponge. Proper beef suet.

Meh. Dh thrilled I can’t have most of the whisky he buys now. Not so thrilled he can’t blame me when the contents evaporates overnight.

Wild freedom is still being demolished here, in preference to any other food, wet or dry. Says grain free, lots of meat. Suspect it contains cat crack

That's so tough for you. Still, cane sugar does the trick. Can you drink gin or some sort of vodka? What about wine? Why is DH buying whisky for himself and not a delicious yet sustaining liqueur for his lovely but painfully fragile wife???

I hope you have at least got a decent choice from the four main food groups: fags, chocolate, snacks and drink. Sympathies.

Rum should be OK, that's cane sugar!
I have created a slightly lopsided cottage loaf, but it's possibly the only bread in Somerset at the moment.
Should I eat it or start an auction out on the street?

I can have sparkling wine & gin/vodka but not the tonic 😭 luckily due to age my favourite drink is proper coffee 😂

It’s not so bad, there’s always others worse off.

A really good cup of coffee is Nectar of the Gods. You need the soho coffee shop who now post out. You call them, describe your fantasy cup in liplicking detail, they ask what your machine you use (DH+ percolator/dripper/espresso) and they grind the beans to suit & send you the coffee. It's more pricy than Tesco but miles cheaper than Costa & a different planet. Shop's been there for about 200 years, the smell down the street is just delicious.

The other brilliant coffee is the Poundland red one, have you tried it.

Is it douwe egberts or the one with a forrin name?

Has it warmed up in London? It was 6c here earlier.

Oh it's warmed up alright .

I live just outside the M25 and woke up this morning to almost all the snow gone and much of the ice from the road. Cue an afternoon of rain and it's CLEAR (yay). Happy happy me!