Army Thread 3rd January 2012

[pingu1997]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

we are cocooning, and getting countless school uniforms ready for tomorrow

can people please not post too much today cos it's my turn for the summary and I am crapping bricks.....

[spuddleduck]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

morning army... well its morning for me. just sloped outa bed at 1.45pm. hmmmm ... i was supposed to be fixing my body clock ready for work tommorrow. well i guess ill just have to take a sominex tonight to get a good sleep ... and employ mr spuds as coffee maker in the morning. im just hoping i dont get blown away today... tis a bit bloody windy here

[mama bear]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Hey Sooty...I want to try your recipe. too.
What kind of stock??? beef or chicken??

[sooty]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Hi mama bear, I'm vegetarian so I use a vegetable stock, usually the boullion powder- can you get that? Or a veg stock cube would be ok. It's been years since I ate meat, so I'm not much help, you might get away with chicken stock, I would think beef would be too strong a flavour.

[mama bear]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

thanks Sooty

[Cinders]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Sooty,

I am going to try your recipe. I have made a lot of lentil soup in my time but I have never used tomato in it. Interesting change up for me.

In Germany, when we went skiing, we usually would eat lunch on the slope, mostly a nice bowl of lentil soup and some crusty broetchen. Yumm!!

Interesting idea to use as a pasta sauce.

(re stock, I am not vegetarian so I would tend to use chicken, but I imagine vegetable stock would be just fine, too. I think beef stock/broth may be a bit overpowering for lentils.)

Hi, Army!!

Zenners, how are you doing?

Love,
Cindi

[Cinders]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

ps, What is Scotch broth?

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Lentils oh lentils, love em all, the soft red ones, the firm green and brown ones, the little black split ones the list goes on.....

Few nice recipes below

veggie.num.num — delicious vegetarian recipes

or a longer list:

BBC - Food - Recipe finder : lentils

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Yooooo hoooooo yerself........making a big bowl of veg & lentil curry soon as its freezing outside with a wind that would cut ya in two.

[pingu1997]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Finally the kids have pissed off and allowed me to use my own laptop so here's today's summary

Started by Tiptronic who claimed to be up and about early

Expat moaned that the kids were being less than co-operative on their first day back... and on her birthday at that. You would think they would be more considerate?!?

KTab and several others commented about it being extremely windy today in parts of the UK AND IRELAND AND ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE... (just for ktab who moaned at the blatant inaccuracy of my synopsis!!!)

JackieClaire added that she was glad things were back to normal again.

Mario said good morning. He is a man of few words

Stirly made us all jealous by saying it was sunny and calm in her own little world

Chillgirl reminded all us lazy buggers that exercise is really important and we should get off our butts and do some

Sooty is going to SW but sounds like she (?) is exercising already so that's a good start

Oney is mental and deadly and all things in between. And admitted to being a lazy cow, pingupants is with you on that one..

Anon has found some running to do. A bit of an exercise theme going on here today

Then the conversation changed from wind, running, lazy people.. to.... wait for it....

LENTILS..... ?!?

Following a big discussion, a few recipies and uses for lentils were shared around the thread. It appears that lentils are like marmite, you either love them or loathe them. I hate them personally

pingupants was moaning about having to wash and iron school uniforms

spuds didn't manage to see the morning as she didn't get up until 1.45 PM....

Cinders and Mama Bear all seemed interested in the lentil discussion and opened it up again

Somehow the conversation moved onto scotch broth AND THE LOVELY GORGEOUS UN-OUTSPOKEN ZEN KINDLY HELPED THE NON-UNDERSTANDERS UNDERSTAND what it was

And here endeth the lesson for today, apologies if I offended anyone, it was not intentional, sometimes my words come across as a bit sarcastic and upon reading back I seem to have added a few bits of my own..

[expat3]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

:bday6:Thank you so much for the Happy Birthday wishes!
Having a third of January birthday is kind of crappy-coming right after the holidays. People usually forget it completely. So it was a nice surprise to see all your posts.:l
I worked all day and then took my son to speech therapy but home and cosy now with the kids-Thai takeaway and a film tonight. Bliss.
I like lentils too.

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Hi birthday girl, thai mmmm lurve lemongrass so I do........ta for update Pingu errrr I aint in the UK

[pingu1997]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

KTAB;1237834 wrote: Hi birthday girl, thai mmmm lurve lemongrass so I do........ta for update Pingu errrr I aint in the UK

oh man there's always one who complains...:H

[pingu1997]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Zenstyle;1237839 wrote: Make that TWO.

aww piss off the pair of ye, you were on about the lentils and broth and stuff....

OK amendment number 2 coming up

I am gonna cry now

[tiptronic_ct]

Army Thread 3rd January 2012

Very :goodjob: PinguPants!

Congrats again, birthday girl!:l:l:l

Curry just out of the oven, basmati ready, just waiting for eldest cub to come and do his roti magic.