TONIGHT`S DINNER

Sherry and a few naughty crisps.

Quiche (onion marmalade variety), new pots and salad.

Homemade rice pud + a small spoonful of strawberry jam.

Hot smoked salmon and lemon and rosemary rice followed by strawberries and meringues with a touch of "Emily" (as my sister always calls it!). Like the sound of yours sparkygran!

Hairy Bikers' cassoulet and very tasty it was too.

Fillet beef stir fry, mixed veg stir fry, noodles, yum! X

Tonight plaice fillets I`m almost ashamed to say fried in brown breadcrumbs with homemade chips and peas. Tasted really good

KITTY Very good of you, I will write it down as my laptop hasn"t a printer.
It sounds really tasty !!.

I have PM"D you

Casserole of lamb, courgettes, chickpeas and shallots with cumin, dried lime, cinnamon and saffron. Followed by half a fig each (ripening one at a time) raspberries and strawberries from the garden.
Tomorrow will be something with courgettes and Tuesday and.......

wiki says it is said to be harmless to our insides.

Not according to this chap:

www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA401181/Is-Carrageenan-Safe.html

Local people pick it here and dry it, to make a kind of blancmange, its lovely.

Carageen is used in many, many things from toothpaste to puddings to pet food. It's a thickener derived from seaweed and I came across it years ago in breweries used as a beer clarifier. It's called E407 on food labels these days and wiki says it is said to be harmless to our insides.

Nonu, I've done the next best thing and put the recipe on the recipe thread.

www.gransnet.com/recipes/dish/6519-Kittys-dead-simple-tagine

I have just Googled gelatine and nails and found some people swear by it, others say that it contains nothing that could help. You pays your money and you takes your pick!

The article I read said 'Carrageenan, which has no nutritional value, has been used as a thickener and emulsifier to improve the texture of ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, soy milk and other processed foods.'

A change of diet might be in order methinks

I have seen it spelt both ways. You don't see it when you eat it in jelies and things - it is in many manufactured things, just read the ingredients on a carton of dessert. By the time it has gone through a food factory, it is unrecognisable!

You can buy sachets of "vegetarian gelatine" which have no bone gelatine in.

I've never heard of caragheen but have just looked it up (could only find 'carrageen' - is it the same thing? from red seaweed?) it looks frightening stuff to consume!

I think it has to be the kind of jelly with natural gelatine in it (animal based) not one with caragheen, or any of the other things that jell. The gelatine from bones etc contributes collagen to your nails.

LOL - on a positive note though - you'll have so much more nail bite through not to mention stronger nail

I think it was on this one where you said what you'd had for tea, including jelly. Then you said you were letting your nails grow so I asked what made nails grow.
Will make some jelly, DGD loves jelly too so I will make her some. Unfortunately it doesn't give me willpower to stop biting nails.

Home made ice cream is very quick and easy to make - my mother used to make it all the time so it can't have been that time consuming and it did taste wonderful. From what I recall, she used both single cream and double cream caster sugar and vanilla essence. I've never tried to make it myself though so I have no idea about quantities or method but I do know she'd have it made in no time and into the freezer it went.

Silverfish - I can't find the post you must be referring to but jelly will help your nails grow and it strengthens you hair too. I was told one cube per day will help (but I love jelly and would eat mounds of the stuff if I didn't know I'd make myself sick!).

LOL KITTY, send a taster over then I will know how good it can be !

maybe its tamed already and doesn't spit in the oven. Whenever Ive cooked rice before I spend weeks picking up bits all over the kitchen so maybe we should call it well behaved rice

anyone tell me how tame it, i've tamed feral cats before bit rice sounds a bit different

Tagine (mine is lovely nonu), tame brown rice and a huge salad!

Rose, I have never laughed so much for a long time but the thought of getting my fat a...e out of my chair and chasing anything makes me laugh even more. Will just stick to Asda's tame chicken and tame veggies for my casserole today. Leave the chasing to the young ones.