Re: Diary summary week ending 21st september 2025

[mare]

Perpetuating the subject somewhat! ... I don't recall having dried bananas as a child though have bought them occasionally and have dried trays of various fruits in the dehydrator over the years, including said bananas 

Amazing the number of products featuring bananas as well, F-i-l could attest to that, cards, wrapping papers, boxer shorts  etc ... some cards hand made by our children. I still have a couple of glass display bananas and a wooden one made of Huon pine in Australia that were gifts to him from family originally.

Also now recalled a foolish episode early years of our marriage ... half a century ago  We were renting a flat next to the house of the local milkman, occasionally he would gift us a loaf of bread from his friend the baker  other than that we didn't know them well, she was a youngish stay at home mum who seemed to love playing silly jokes like making odd noises and hiding among other things.  It wasn't often then that we saw bananas in our shops in bunches but one time we had several boxes of them offered to staff at work and I brought home a bunch for us and one for them. They had a very young banana palm only a few feet high along their side path that I could see from my kitchen window, it was getting dark when I got home and I thought I would jokingly tie the bunch to their palm....oooops, in the morning I could see that the weight was way to much for it and it was prone to the path!  .... she never actually questioned it ... though I did  my sanity! We moved to our own place in another suburb not long after and I still feel bad when I think of it.

Cuppa break over, best spring back into action with bit more kitchen spring cleaning before dinner time    Husband has suddenly decided on updating car again and disappeared for a couple of hours ...

[radstockjeff]

Talking oif bananas was it not Max Miller who was once peeling one in his act............... "One skin, two skin, three skin................banana!"
Naughty!

[Viktoria]

It took me a minute or two to get that!
Viktoria.

[louisa maud]

I can't believe how cold it is today, almost put the heating  on yet tomorrow  we are expecting  23 degrees,  weather, please make  your mind up !!

Yes Jeff, naughty

L M

[BushInn1746]

Hi All

Oh Bananas LM, I toast my brown sugar and sweetener free wholemeal slices, put butter on and have a banana sliced between two slices and done this ritual for years. Occasionally deviating to scrambled egg or sardines on toast for tea with a tomato.

An apple, kiwi fruit, most days, raspberries and strawberries until used up and next delivery, 1 or 2 squares of 90% dark chocolate, with a palmful of walnuts and half a dozen whole almonds

Unfortunate Viktoria, because Bananas are a good food. I'm not so quick either! But the penny did drop in the end.

Grapefruit is another, as you say Jebber to be avoided on certain meds.

Caroline, they say natural yogurt is very good for the gut microbiome.

Gillg, I only remember dried bananas in breakfasts like Alpen, or whatever it was.

Mare, living in a climate where they grow in your garden on trees.

Take care everyone and if under the weather, I hope you feel much improved soon, Mark

[ThrelfallYorky]

A terrible week - A Funeral one day, long journey in really foul weather.  Medical issues for OH next day, got to get rid of one car as OH not driving any longer - no idea best way to set about it - spent one full day weeding in garden, another day housecleaning. nearly a day spent trying to get satnav in his car to work..... roll on next week.
TY

[Gillg]

What an awful week TY! I do hope next week and beyond are more pleasant for you.
It's warm and sunny today and people are wearing summer clothes again. We are busy planning for our long-delayed holiday abroad, now that I can get holiday insurance, also for a visit from some old friends.  This morning I hopped onto the bus taking me to our nearest city in order to exchange a sweater which I bought last week in my usual size from a shop I use regularly. When I got home that day I tried it on and found it to be enormous , so had to make the return trip to exchange it.  It must have been the style or something, because I found that the size that fitted me now was two sizes smaller than the size I had originally bought.  It's a very long time since I was wearing clothes labelled that size!

Planning for our friends' visit ( we are offering a light lunch) I am going to give them a Greek salad with fried feta cheese and various nice breads, followed by German Apfelkuchen (apple cake - there are plenty of apples around) with whipped cream. (I'm trying to keep up with Viktoria's menu reports).

My son and his wife have just returned from a holiday in Turkey and while they were away we have been feeding their cat.  We were rewarded with a large box of Turkish Delight - not the pink and yellow stuff you can buy here, though,  this has all sorts of colours and nut fillings and is very fancy.  This is the real Turkish Delight, he says.  I don't think it will last very long. 

[louisa maud]

Oooh!,, my daughter and her husband are due home from Turkey midnight  tonight, in between we have  to feed the cat and try to keep her in, I took in a parcel for my son in law this week,  he asked if I like Turkish delight, so I am assuming  I might get some, last delight I had was from Cyprus which I called Cyprus delight having seen it made.

Today has been a beautiful day after a not so very good week,  I am in Lewes tomorrow,  weather at the moment predicted rain till about midday,  probably arrive about that time, then sun till about 5 when I expect we will be back at the pavilion, I am just a seat  person, don't bowl but pay for a seat which helps to the cost.
Enjoy your weekend  folks  and hope the weather is kind.

LM

[radstockjeff]

A query for the cooks!

Chips. I have noticed recently when cooking chips that when the fat is hot enough and I put the chips into it I get a lot of froth- see picture 2. And then as the chips continue to fry the froth recedes.
Is this due to the nature of then potatoes which I use or perhaps the size of the smaller pan. I don'd need as large a pan these days just cooking for one. We always, well when they were readily available used Maris Piper potatoes but I cannot get them in our local shop any more. Those I get always seem quite "wet" when I cut them up for chips. Any thoughts? rj