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Hi all,

Glad to see that everyone is feeling a bit better today - no nasty bruises for our Jax Xxx

It seems to be good news for you too Sylvia - you still need to have the treatment unfortunately, but only as an extra precaution.

Hope everyone else is well and happy!

Dea x

Gracie - the recipe that Ginns has given you, delicious though it sounds, is nothing like 'mine' !

The 'Tater Ash' that I make is the sort my gran used to make for me when I was a little girl in Lancashire.
There was one sort that would be done in a large frying pan with parboiled cubes of potato, onion, and corned beef.
It was quite 'dry' fluffy and tasty and you would get the delicious brown crusty bits on the edges where it stuck to the frying pan.... Yumm !

The one which is my favourite though is more like a hearty meat and vegetable stew:

Loads of potatoes (probably about 4 lbs) - peeled and chopped into chunky'ish cubes
Half a dozen med. sized carrots - halved down the middle then thickly sliced.
1 very large (or 2 medium) Onions - chopped
1 large tin corned beef - chopped into cubes,
1 or 2 beef stock cubes
salt and lots of pepper.

Mix all the above into a large pan (I use a pressure cooker)
Add water - up to about a bit less than an inch below the surface

Pressure cooker - 23 munutes at high pressure.
(You could use an ordinary pan and test to see when potatoes and carrots are cooked)

My gran used to cook hers in a large earthenware pot in the oven at the side of the open fire.
She would cook it in there for several hours and then put a "thick" layer of pastry on the top - now that WAS delicious !!

You can, of course, make a smaller amount but I always have to make enough to send home with grand-daughter as it is a great favourite over there too.

Dea Xxx

Have to go away from all this 'food talk' now as I am not allowed any this morning but I will return around lunchtime to see if there is anything left ;-)

Dea Xxx

Dea

Ive save you a load of pancakes and bacon and fried bread for when you get back from your scan...

Hope it goes well and youre not left hanging around

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Good news Sylvs...... :-D and thank you for breakfast.

Your comment about 'belt and braces' made me think of my elderly next door neighbour bless him. When he potters around outside in the summer he wears a belt round his middle and yes, a pair of braces. All eventualities covered.... :-D



Jonesey......just think......those Vesta meals may have been the making of your holiday... :-D Ignore Fan.......you know what she's like. I am sure you were the model of propriety ;-)



Hope all goes well with you Dea......I'll keep something over for you.


We do a 'corned beef hash' in the frying pan occasionally along with baked beans. Great if you're in a rush or supplies are running low, but OH isn't all that keen on potatoes being 'in' with a meal. Round here, the local delicacy is Hot Pot with a thick pastry crust on. He's not keen on that either........otherwise he is no trouble to feed :-D


Must go a get my shower..........taking my friend back to her house so that I can see her new stairlift.........

Yoo hoo - I,m back !!

Thank you Ginny + Cynths for saving me some breakfast - I am just having it now with a BIG cup of tea....................Heaven !!! <3 <3

All fine with me - same problems seen as on my last scan but they haven't got any worse. - Will have to wait for the report to come through for any further details.

Hope your friend is pleased with her new stair lift - are you going to have a go on it too Cynths??

Dea Xxx

Good news Dea. Glad it all went okay.



As for the stairlift.......hmmm....I might just have a go thinking about it! :-D

Hope you enjoyed your lunch Dea :-D

Glad the scan was what you expected....you'll not miss breakfast tomorrow ;-)

Have you noticed that we now have BIG square page numbers :-S

Where? I can't see anyfink different.

Hi all
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lovely sunny day here ..... apparently sun through Sunday :-)



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Glad your scan was OK, Dea xxx

I thought I shoudl say that one has to be very careful asking for corned beef, or when seeing corned beef on a menu, over on this side of the big pond


It is not the Fray Bentos Corned Beef in cans that we have all been talking about!

Over here, it is a cut of beef (usually brisket, but sometimes round or silverside) cured or pickled in a seasoned brine. It is often purchased ready to eat in delicatessens, or can be bought at the supermarket or butchers, and cooked at home, when it is treated as a joint, and is often served with cabbage.


It is the key ingredient in the grilled Reuben sandwich, consisting of corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand Island or Russian dressing on rye bread.

Corned beef hash served with eggs is often on breakfast menus

Smoking corned beef, typically with a generally similar spice mix, produces smoked meat (or "smoked beef") such as pastrami.





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Yes - It is the Fray Bentos Corned Beef in cans that we have been talking about Sylvs, although I have not been able to get 'Fray Bentos' for the past 12 months or so - There is 'Princess', though I won't touch that as when I tried it once it smelled like 'dog food' when I was cooking it and had a similar taste and I dumped the whole meal straight into the bin !!

'Morrisons' or 'Tesco' own brands are quite acceptable but Fray Bentos was certainly the best one.

Dea x

Corned Beef.......IS dog food!

Cyns, you cant see the big square buttons for the page numbers?

Get yer giggs on woman

Ginns - you are quite right - I will NOT be missing breakfast tomorrow - I was starving when I got back!!!!!!!!!!!

I have also noticed the big page numbers - I find them very distracting, I keep thinking I have a message of something :-(

I suppose, given a few days we will probably no longer notice them though.

Dea x

I give in. Where am I looking for these 'big square numbers'???



Sylvs.......I started to read the last bit of your message ......"Smoking corned beef........." and had a vision of Gins or Fans with a slice of rolled up corned beef drooping from their lower lips..... :-D



Fans ain't around yet......can any of you take a look at Sue's thread and see if you can help 'Old' please? Was going to ask her but I know she is either knocking a wall down or building one up or laying a floor....or...or...or....... ;-)

Rolled up corned beef......thats a site you will never see me in Cyns

The PAGE numbers at the top of threads....they bigger and square

Refresh of restart your PC woman....sheesh

Cyns

'Old' will have to post his own thread as it will get very mixed if we start looking and posting on Sues thread

....how long have you been here...sigh

I know that Gins....... :-P


It is just that he is an elderly chap who has become attached to Sue's thread......


My new numbers have kicked in now but they ain't bovvering me any as yet. :-D