Having to do my pack up every day now, I am getting a bit bored with the same old cheese sandwiches. Sandwich fillers from the supermarket are far too expensive so I have come up with a few ideas of my own.
Take half a tin of chick peas, rinse the salt off and drain. Mash them up in a bowl, a fork is easiest, add chopped fresh spinach, and a chopped raw mushroom. Add a squirt of garlic puree, splash of toasted sesame seed oil (lovely nutty flavour), splash of lemon juice, mix into a firm but spreadable consistancy. Will keep in the fridge for a couple of days. It's lovely on those brown grainy bread rolls.
I'm going to try some more using different types of canned beans. You could add any leafy veg, herbs and spices of your choice, tomato puree, cream cheese, peas or sweetcorn, tuna fish, any chopped up salad items. I have just made some with honey and mustard dressing for tomorrow.
Another idea I am going to try is to make up some mixture and make burger shapes out of it and grill it. Home made veggie burgers, at least you know what is in it.
Look at the time, up at 5.30am
Ilona
I love beetroot, especially the homegrown and cooked yourself variety.
Somebody else said that chick peas make humous, I didn't know that.
Todays sandwiches were, mashed adzuki beans, chopped spring onions, wild garlic leaves, and prawns, sprinkle of olive oil. Lovely.
Ilona
All of that sounds lovely! Hoummous is made of chickpeas, oil, tahini paste, lemon and garlic - you should give it a try.
I always like a dip / spread made of chickpeas, coriander, cumin, garlic and quark whizzed up in the food processor - it's lovely with carrot sticks and on jacket spuds!!
I find a nice sandwich filling is falafel - chickpeas, garlic, leaf coriander and some garlic, with a bit of bicarb - then roast them in the oven - lovely on pitta bread with wild garlic!!
Not that I'm obsessed with chickpeas or anything!!
BTW - I was thinking of the wild garlic season last night - is it here!!!!????
Hi Morph
Your recipes sound tasty, lots of ideas there. I like to make things up according to whatever I have in at the time. I eat chickpeas straight out of the tin! I am hooked on the toasted sesame seed oil, in stir fries, stews, on everything, get it from T***o. 97p
Yes, wild garlic is in abundance here, we have a wood nearby full of it, I love walking through it and having a nibble.
Richard, Yes, I should put more on my web site, but, all my files are on my old computer, along with the upload programme, sitting on the desk next to this one with the new computer. I haven't worked out how to move everything over. So if I want to make changes to my site, I have to work on the old computer, trouble is, I get on the internet on this one and I run out of time.
See, bed time already and I have got to make my pack up yet.
Ilona
My husband is a lorry driver and given the very chauvenistic attitude (and that's the polite version) of some of his colleagues I can only imagine the mountain you have had to climb to get where you are. Well done.
Michele
In a perfect world every dog would have a home, and every home would have a dog - Anon.
Thank you Michele and Mo. It was mount Everest. I was very shy before I started driving, I got a lot of nasty comments from the men, and often came home in tears. But I treated every day as a fresh new start, you can't change what happened yesterday, and I just got on with it, and learnt their language, if you get my drift!!
My sandwiches for today were mashed peas mixed with cream cheese with garlic. I'm going to try mashed potato sandwiches next week.
I was near Sainsthingy yesterday and called in for some reduced price bread, it wasn't cheap enough, they don't knock much off. Then I saw they had 4 teacakes for 28p, so I thought, who says you have to make sandwiches with bread anyway. A few currants will add a new flavour to it.
Richard, how much do you charge for computer lessons?
Ilona
[/quote] all my files are on my old computer, along with the upload programme, sitting on the desk next to this one with the new computer. I haven't worked out how to move everything over. [/quote]
if the pcs are next to one another if you do not have wirless
just use a network cable to network the two
there is a program called ghost it will copy all info from
one hard drive to another
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