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Good news Dea. Glad it all went okay.



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

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 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.........

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

<3

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

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

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

For Gracie


All-in-one hash
25 g butter
2 onions, chopped
1 tbsp fresh thyme, leaves only
1 tsp Marmite
350 ml beef stock
150 ml red wine
375 g corned beef
2 tbsp flat leaf parsley, chopped
salt, and freshly ground pepper


For the topping:

750 g potatoes, peeled
salt, and freshly ground pepper
milk, for mashing potatoes
25 g butter
50 g cheddar cheese, grated
25 g breadcrumbs
dressed green salad, to serve

At last....its sunny in Oz! Must have come out on hearing Syls good news :-D

Not sure what your belt and braces treatment is Sylvs? Im sooo glad that your treatment has worked well <3

Breakfast is ready


Tea, coffee, juices


Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Muesli, Choco Pops, Triple Berry Oatmeal Crisp, Honey Bunches of Oats


Hot cereal:-
Porridge, Instant Hot Oatmeal with Cranberry & Ginger, Cream of Wheat,


In the warmer:-

double smoked Danish bacon, turkey sausages, cheesy potato patties, smoked salmon omelette, mushroom and asparagus omelette, grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, baked beans, Maple baked beans, fried bread, black pudding


mushroom quiche, bacon quiche tarts


Tourtiere, Jamaican beef patties, Vietnamese spring rolls (vegetarian) with sesame dip, ratatouille (vegetarian), Thai-style noodles and shrimp, stirfry (chicken)


Buttermilk Dollar Pancakes, French toast, Maple syrup, Blueberry Fruit Syrup


Orange Yoghurt, Lemon Yoghurt


Toast (sourdough, rye, white, whole grain, 100% brown, Hovis, gluten free), barm cakes


Muffins -- cranberry & orange muffins, bran muffins, ginger date muffins, raspberry cheesecake muffins


Jams, jellies, Ginger marmalade, seville orange marmalade, marmite, peanut butter, vegemite






enjoy




s
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Hi everyone

Glad that you had good news Sylvia, and you feel reassured about the choice you made.

I LOVE corned beef with cabbage yummmmmmmm lol, mind you I also love lambs fry, which I know lots of people think is weird but my mum used to make it with a really tasy gravy and bits of bacon and soft potatoes :-)

Dea what is tatter ash?

Lovely sunny gorgeous day today!!!! :-) :-) :-)

Jax sorry I forgiot to ask hope you are feeling better too and not sore

oh yes,



and he was not happy that I had not been able to see the surgeon at 2 weeks, but had to wait 5.



it was said very diplomatically!



although he did suggest that I say something to her when I do see her.




s
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The news today was ................. GP didn't know whether surgeon was thinking along these lines or the reason she had referred me for radiation, but had an idea based on the following from the path report

lymph nodes clear of cancer cells

sufficiently large clear margins round cancer removed

no signs of metastasis


so their suggestion is that it is prophylactic treatment ....... to make sure


braces and belt syndrome :-D



oh yes ................. the path report also showed that pre-cancerous cells of ductal cancer were also forming.................... so he said I had definitely made the "right choice".




so I feel a lot better than I did yesterday




s
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Dea

I sometimes make tatter ash with corned beef at the cabin. Tastes really good up there :-D




s
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I like corned beef butties ...... with tomato ketchup (preferably Heinz) :-D


and, oh those Vesta curries!


we were actually talking the other night about getting rid of a large number of Chianti bottles, the ones in straw "baskets".

The height of entertaining circa 1970 .................... checked tablecloth, candle stuck in Chianti bottle, and spaghetti with meat sauce. To drink ..... Chianti, of course



OH found a box of said Chianti bottles in our basement, about 20 of them, plus 4 we had stuck up on the wall in one part of the basement.

The student opera group took about 4 bottles for "future stage use", we kept the 4 on the wall ............. the rest all went to the Sallie Ann thrift store, where I am sure someone will have bought them




s
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You can still get all the Vesta stuff...googled it

My girls loved those supernoodles or pot noodles just as bad yuk

Acheing a bit not searched for the bruises...sure they will show tomorrow when the parents visit

Corned beef made me violently sick when I had mu gall bladder probs same as sausages...fat content

I do eat sausages now, but put off by corned beef

ja...x

1966..I was 8 years old...Crikey Jonesey...You IS old..

So it was you 2 Lads in one small tent and T'Lasses in tother was it then Mr Jones???Yea right...!

Mother loved those Vesta Currys and was heard just the other day asking if they still make them....Do they??

I dont mind Spam done any style but you can keep yer horrid fatty Corned Beef...Yuk........I''ll just have the beetroot please but no pickled cabbage...Thats even worse than pickled walnuts or boiled Sprouts....Looks round for the barf bag just at the thought of those 3 things...

Hope your bruises are getting better Ja...x

Night
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Now you have taken me back as well Cyn.

In 1966 along with my girlfriend, my best mate and his girlfriend I holidayed "Sur Le Continent" I drove in my little Mini across northern France to Switzerland then on into Italy. We made our way back along the French Riviera to Marseilles and then turned north stopping off in Lyon, Reims and Paris before finally crossing the Channel and heading for home.

To keep the costs down as we did not have much cash between us we camped where possible in woods or farmers fields using 2 very small tents. My mate Brian's girlfriend took with her 2 packets of Vesta beef curry together with a sieve (For draining the rice). I am glad to say that as poor and destitute as we were we never had to resort to eating them. They returned home, still in their packets, after travelling some 3,000+ miles.

I make 'tatter ash' with corned beef Cynths - my grand-daughter's favourite meal !!! - I like beetroot with it, or pickled cabbage !!! (no-one else does!) :-D

Will be cooking it tomorrow for her tea after school !

No breakfast for me tomorrow folks - going for a scan so can't eat untill lunchtime !

Hope things are going well for you Sylv's ! <3 <3

Dea Xxx

Haven't had Spam in ages but I quite like it actually. I think I used to grill it.


Takes me back to the time when a Vesta Prawn curry was the height of exoticness - many moons ago of course ... :-D :-D


I also like corned beef........especially with beetroot :-D