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[NickFitz]

This chap on YouTube is not a fan of jar sauces; his little videos are rather entertaining. There's something about swearing with an aussie accent that always makes me smile.

He may have a point, but I quite like Patak's sauces, I'm not that keen on really hot curries, and all that prep looked like a lot more trouble than I wanted to go to last night when I realised at nine in the evening that I needed to stop working and make some dinner

[DaveB]

He may have a point, but I quite like Patak's sauces, I'm not that keen on really hot curries, and all that prep looked like a lot more trouble than I wanted to go to last night when I realised at nine in the evening that I needed to stop working and make some dinner

You could start making sauces up in advance for the freezer and just add meat as and when you fancy it

[NickFitz]

You could start making sauces up in advance for the freezer and just add meat as and when you fancy it

Or I could carry on making chicken curries with the sauces and freezing them

Also, it works out cheaper (at least the way I do it) to buy enough chicken to make several portions at once, and I'm wary of thawing and reheating the sauce to add to the meat, then freezing it all again after it's cooled down

I could do the whole thing from scratch if I planned ahead, but I don't. Yesterday's dinner came about because the boneless skinless chicken thighs, used only for curries, were on top when I grabbed something out of the freezer to thaw overnight. Then, as mentioned, I realised it was 9pm and I had to stop working and get cooking. Even if I'd remembered to buy all those ingredients, they probably would have gone off by the time I'd remembered to take the chicken out of the freezer

[ladymuck]

Those jar sauces are very handy if you've left it a bit late, that's very true. I don't have a stash of basil and pine nuts to hand just in case I want to have a pasta and pesto dinner, for example. But, if I've thought about it, I will go out and buy those things to occasionally make it properly.

[ladymuck]

Lunch is going to be Waitrose chunky cod fish fingers in pitta bread.

<face stuffing hiatus>

With salad cream! I keep forgetting how nice that stuff is.

[DoctorStrangelove]

White sky & windy out there.

Not exactly "warm".

Freecell score: 100%, running average: 83% (83.08%).

Lunch: Heinz lentil soup with two kinds of Hovis bread, bramble jelly sandwich on one sort of bread, corner yog thing (purple & pippy), 0.91 pints of good Glengettie tea.

[NickFitz]

Last of the zingy chicken, tomato and lentil soup for lunch, with the usual assortment of bread

I'm hoping Sainsbury's will have a Big Chicken when I go there, as I want to make a fresh batch of soup. If not, I'll have to get a more mundane chicken and hope for the best

But I've decided not to go today. Apparently it will still be raining tomorrow, so I'm going to try getting soaked in the morning when there's a better chance of stock levels still being fairly high.

[NickFitz]

My calendar app keeps giving me reminders for my dental checkup appointment at 2pm this afternoon that was cancelled some time ago. Should turn them off I suppose, but there's a nostalgic feel to them

[ladymuck]

My dentist has reopened. I need call at some point and rebook the hygienist appointment that was cancelled. I'll give it a few weeks, I think.

[NickFitz]

My dentist has reopened. I need call at some point and rebook the hygienist appointment that was cancelled. I'll give it a few weeks, I think.

I suspect it'll be some time before routine appointments are rescheduled, as they'll have a backlog of patients who were in the middle of a course of treatment and so on, not to mention ones with stuff that developed during lockdown. But I must give them a call some time to find out, I suppose. Maybe they're twiddling their thumbs round there, assuming they've started up again