Joyron, I hope that means he's taking you out tonight and Thursday for a good meal

I think that's what they call a result, Joyron.

Unfortunately not El Loro.  On re-reading my post I should have said "he" not "we" won't need an evening meal!!  It's works orientated.  I don't bother cooking just for myself when he's not home.

Not quite Yogi.  See my post above!! 

That's disappointing Joyron, still there's always next week, after all if he is dining out on those nights maybe he owes you a nice dinner out

Agreed

Definitely.

Agree too! *signs petition* Mr summer is teaching me how to make sushi tonight! he makes the tastiest sushi <3

I tried some sushi a few days ago (Mr Yogi loves it) and it was very nice.

I don't fancy the idea of sachimi, the raw fish stuff.

Hi all x
Lovely day again here, just had the wee one and have taken her home. Will get a sit down before i clear up the mess !

I thought all sushi was raw fish   Am I an ignoramus?

 

Hopefully just got 2 more recipes to get from people - I've got conversion charts coming out my ears.

Hi squiggle, i think it is, not my thing to be honest, but enjoy, Summer!   Is that the fish wrapped in seaweed and rice?

I know very little about sushi, but some dishes have raw fish, others have cooked fish etc.

Squiggle, anymore news on the cookery book.  I would be interested in buying a copy, if possible. 

Hi Skylark, yes that's the one, it does look nice but its the raw fish that puts me off.  I am not keen on the idea of raw meat or fish, people say steak tartare is delicious but I will take their word for it

 

Joyron, I will be happy to send you a copy if you would like when we have the finished article.  The cover price is £5 and we will have about 35 recipes, really tried and tested through the years by our members. All of that money goes straight to The Leprosy Mission.  One of the ladies gave me two sample slices on Sunday and they were both scrumptious, especially the blueberry and sour cream cake, gorgeous. I am hoping that I can get all the recipes in within a week or so and then I shall send it off to the printers and they will let us have a proof.  Our group starts meeting again in September and I hope to have the proof for them to look at then.

I would certainly like a copy Squiggle so please reserve one for me.  We can work out the details of how I get the money to you as and when necessary. 

Most happy to Joyron.  Its a very exciting project and I suppose it will be a very unique book with some of the recipes having been handed down through the generations, but if I am honest it has been a lot of work, especially making sure that the recipes cover all types of weights.  As you can imagine the ones using cups can be quite difficult to translate into ounces and grams but I should imagine that when making cakes using cups it must be a doddle as you don't have any weighing to do, just get a cup and scoop things up.

Well done squiggle, your book is near completion, i gather. I would buy one too, but dont know how to work out the practicalities. 
As for steak tartare, isnt that raw mince with some sauce? 
I sign the petition for Mr Joyron to treat Mrs Joyron for a meal out 

Its raw steak chopped fine and with raw egg and raw onion Skylark not to my taste at all.  I don't think Joyron or I have worked out the practicalities yet but we are game for a laugh

Good luck squiggle and Joyron, lets know how you are doing 

Yes mince, raw egg and onion..up here we cook that with tatties! Raw is just yuk 

The ones I had were little cooked rice parcels with vegetables, they were lovely.

I think the raw fish ones are called sashimi, but I'm probably wrong.

I've never fancied steak tartare - I like my meat cooked.

 

Excellent news on the book Squiggle, you have worked really hard.

Hi Yogi, and goodnight !
Going for a soak and early night.
Nite nite everyone  

Night Skylark, night everyone

Hi and goodnight Skylark, enjoy your soak.

Goodnight Squiggle.

Signing out, goodnight all.

Leaving hugs for Ros and Summer.

awww night squiggle sky lark and yogi sorry i missed you

aww if possible i would like one  please

very nice sashimi knowledge there yogi! Indeed not all sushi is raw fish ours tonight is made with cooked prawns, seafood sticks & cucumber. Choices are unlimited, you can use cooked chicken, beef, fish, and there are countless vegetarian varieties Squiggle I'm thrilled about your book! How can I get a copy?! back to yogi, and for everyone else, sweet dreams in here

Good morning everyone

 

I confess that I've never had sushi, sashimi or steak tartare . I'm like squiggle there.

 

Another sunny day at present here.

 

 

Good morning everyone a really beautiful morning here

 

My husband was very unadventurous with food, didn't even like curry.  This thread is very educational and some of that sushi sounds delicious.

 

Wow I am so pleased that Ros and Summer and Joyron want a copy of the book.  I am sure we can work something out, we will have to think about cheques (I see the banks have had a change of heart and they are not to be discontinued) or Paypal accounts

just a quick good morning to you all, I'm off to decorate the living room! Have a lovely day each of you, I'll pop in later if I can

Good morning everyone, it's a beautiful, sunny day up here. day up here.

Summer, your sushi sounds delicious - Mr Yogi and two of my sons love sushi.

Good luck with your decorating.

 

I've got to take Keira to the groomers this afternoon - her second least favourite place, after the vets. I've washed the two dog beds, so everything will smell lovely.

I made the appointment before I knew that Harvey was coming to stay and now I've realised I will have to give him a bath, otherwise he will be the only one smelling doggy.

I've been doing a bit of gardening this morning and started chatting with this man who had been visiting a neighbour. My neighbour is replacing his windows, is getting some quotes and this was one of the window people come to give him a quote. Anyway, our chat was nothing to do with windows. He saw that I was cutting my hedge and he told be that he had a privet hedge 22 foot tall. He bought something which can cut the top of the hedge without him having to stand on the top of a ladder. I asked him jokingly if he lived in that big house in Cirencester. He knew what I was referring to -

It's the tallest yew hedge in the world - 40 foot high on the Bathurst Estate.

 

He is also into flying. I mentioned to him that I had seen on the news yesterday that someone has started training people to be able to fly Spitfires. At present he is into paragliding. Next year he intends to paraglide across th Channel to raise money for Help For Heroes. Good luck to him as this is dangerous and last year someone died in the attempt.

 

I've just had a phone call from Microsoft support warning me that I have viruses on my computer, so I followed his instructions until he passed me over to someone else. I listened to him carefully. Eventually it got to the point where I had to access my internet connection and he told me to type "support.me" in the browser.

 

This was some 19 minutes after they started. It was at this point that I told him that I knew perfectly well that this was a scam, that there had been an article in the Guardian exposing them and that they were based in Calcutta. Strangely enough, the phone went dead. He realised that I had been conning them rather than the other way 

 

The phone number appeared as 0212 777 3019 which is not a genuine number.

 

By the way, "support.me" would go to the Logmein site which is legitimate and is used by many support companies where they need to get access to customers' computers. What would have happened if I had typed "support.me" is that I would then be shown an authentic logmein screen and I would then have been told by the scammers to enter a number which if I had typed that in would then give them access to my computer.

I think I once went to the place that had the oldest yew hedge, planted in about the 1500's, it was near Aylsham in Norfolk, Blickling Hall, it was very old but was it the oldest?

Good afternoon everyone.    I hope you are all well.

Squiggle, I'm sure we will be able to work out a way to get payment to you, either through our little PM or by exchange of information through email.

 

It's started out really dull and grey here today but the sun has been shining for a little while this afternoon. 

I had a look about Blckling Hall and it says 18th century.

 

You may be thinking of

They told us something that was unique about the Blickling Hall Yew but I can't remember what it was now

I wouldn't want to cut those hedges.

 

Keira is back from the groomers, looking and smelling lovely.

Harvey had a bath this morning, so he smells good, too.

 

I'm not keen on alcohol so rarely dink, but youngest son has given me a glass of Pear Cider to try - it's gorgeous.

 

Weather has been sunny and warm again today, long may it continue.