Chat back number 21

[Snoop Puss]

^Well done on the diet, Snadger.

And thanks for the congrats on the cooker. It's cooked three lots of crackers and a cake so far this morning. Cake a little bit burnt on one side, but not too bad, and cooked quite a bit quicker than recipe stated. So, possibly it's a bit hotter than supposed gas mark numbers marked. That said, I'm as pleased as punch. Spanish gas cookers are notorious for being either hot or cold, so totally uncontrollable. I once went looking for one years back and the salesman was pretty upfront about how useless they are. So, it's all systems go now. Really looking forward to stuffed tomatoes this summer!

[burnie]

Just got booted out again so probably won't be posting again today, take care all

I'm using microsoft's Edge to access the net and haven't had any problems, what are you using?

[Containergardener]

Yummy stuffed tomatoes .

Well done snadger , good work.

Took compost over to mums. What a day weatherwise.
Fire lit.

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All Fine but still cold here, supposed to warm up later. Hi Ho! Have a good day

[Snoop Puss]

Morning all.

Another frost out there but looks like another bright day on the cards. Cloudy from tomorrow onwards and even a bit of rain due towards the end of the week.

Mr Snoop very nobly volunteered to do the shopping on his own. So I got tea and then coffee and cake in bed before he set off! Plenty to do now I'm up. Better not include cake-making, though!

Have a great day, everyone. Lemon cake over by kettle. Smiles in the bag. Help yourselves to both.

[Jay22]

Cake for breakfast Snoop? Don’t tell Nicos or that diet is going by the wayside!
Morning all, a wet and wild night. Couldn’t sleep but it had nothing to do with the weather, just wide awake most of the night.
Going to try having a snooze, catch you later for that cake. x

[Containergardener]

Morning all, gusty damp weather here. Not nice at all.

Breakfast cake in bed enjoy
Brave Mr S , will he follow a list though or come back with extras like mine does

Hope you feel refreshed after your snooze Jay and are doing ok?

[Snadger]

Cake for breakfast Snoop? Don’t tell Nicos or that diet is going by the wayside!
Morning all, a wet and wild night. Couldn’t sleep but it had nothing to do with the weather, just wide awake most of the night.
Going to try having a snooze, catch you later for that cake. x

It must be summat in the air as I was the same last night. I was watching the clouds going past the, what looked like a full moon at 3.00am. Cream crackered now.
Off fishing later hopefully, that's if I can stay awake.

[Snoop Puss]

Cake for breakfast is a thing in Spain, honest. In fact, for breakfast more than at any other time of day except celebrations. Breakfast cakes tend to be plain. This one is a lemon flavoured 'yogurt pot' cake (pot used as the measure for all the other ingredients).

There's a lot of wordy blurb before you get to the recipe, but I use this one, always a hit. You'd never know it didn't have loads of butter in it. https://racheleats.wordpress.com/201...ing-and-a-pot/

Mr Snoop usually follows the list unless he forgets or loses it. He's been doing most of the shopping for us for years now. What he doesn't like is putting it all away. An arrangement that suits me fine. He's got two lists today, one just for fruit and veg, as he might need to go to two shops for those. And another list for everything else including compost. As for the extras, they're 'executive decisions'. As the shopper, he's allowed to make those.

Edited to say: I use sunflower oil in the cake, not olive oil. Not just because it's cheaper but also because cakes rise better.

[Containergardener]

Hahaha the problem with my OHs extras is he misses the rest of the list
I'm not much of a cake eater let alone breakfast.
Going to brave the weather for walking.. eek

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all

Not had chance to read back but wanted to say hi.

gotta dash....see ya later peeps!

[Bren In Pots]

Morning its sunny, dry but very windy here. GH overnight low was a tropical 9.7c that's the warmest yet this year. If I'd have known i'd have left my toms there.

Some gardening today then of for a walk. enjoy your fishing Snadger.

[greenishfing]

I'm another non-sleeper. I shut the curtains tightly as I could see the moon was more or less full but I could not drop off to sleep. I tossed and turned, eventually got up and had a glass of milk, tossed and turned some more and I think dropped off around 4.30am listening to a story on radio 4 extra. Wide awake again before 8am but feeling really tired now. The fridge is nigh on bare so I must visit a supermarket and also a window visit booked at a care home for an in-law. I'll take her the Easter egg and then it will stop tempting me. A nice day forecast here but at the moment it's dull and overcast. If I can stay awake maybe a couple of hours at the allotment this afternoon.

[burnie]

Morning, wild and windy, but enough about me, the weather looks set fair too, though too windy for fly fishing, it is a bit warmer, but with snow forecast again later in the week, the gardening is of the indoor variety, chillies to go into final pots and tommies need taking out of their cells and potting on, so busy week.

[NannyGreen]

Dull and overcast here, the weather forecast always seems to say brighter and warmer tomorrow - but then we know tomorrow never comes

Sympathy for all insomniacs, that can't be helpful, hoping you all manage to catch up somehow.

The talk of cake for breakfast sent me back 50 years to a holiday in N Africa. Breakfast was a gorgeous cube of plain sponge and a glass of fresh lemonade, refreshing and revitalising and a wonderful way to start the day. Weird how I seem to remember breakfasts more than any other meal, some good ( a lovely pancake parcel filled with goats cheese in Syria) and some not so much (haggis in Scotland, although they made the best cup of tea) even weirder as I rarely eat breakfast at home, go figure.

Anyway off to finish the first batch of Easter Eggs and try not to sow any more seeds until tomorrow arrives