"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[MrsA2]

Boys or girls? The kittens I mean!

 

[Antje77]

Boys or girls? The kittens I mean!

I'd prefer two boys, mainly because they are cheaper to neuter and no risk of unwanted kittens if you don't get to the neutering quick enough for some reason.
But they weren't sure how many boys and girls there are so it will be a surprise.

 

[maglil55]

Just tried again, and it's all fine now! Must have been the Internet gremlins. Thanks for checking

I think there may be a problem with some of them. Jennifer Banz does not allow her recipes to be shared so they are not on my recipes circle. You can get around it by going to her Web site via the browser and save it to your own CMT.

 

[Antje77]

I'm also looking forward to monday, when my cleaner comes. Someone needs to test my labyrinth so she'll be blindfolded (because I haven't darkened the room yet and I need to see what happens if someone goes through it in case there are parts that don't work), To make up for having to crawl through my attic on hand and knees, she will find a chocolate letter and a bag of chocolate covered pepernoten, so I think she won't mind, it's all part of the job if you're my cleaner.
I'll make a picture too!

That was just too funny!

the labyrinth turned out to be much harder than I expected!
She did find her presents though, with a decent Sinterklaas poem to make up for having to test my surprise.

 

[Annb]

That was just too funny!

the labyrinth turned out to be much harder than I expected!
She did find her presents though, with a decent Sinterklaas poem to make up for having to test my surprise.

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Glad it wasn't me. She must be a longsuffering gem.

 

[MrsA2]

What a game lady. She deserves a good Christmas bonus

 

[MrsA2]

@Antje77 not sure if this link will work. Its 2 black kittens at our local rescue centre, I just love the names
Kiss and Cuddle

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02iq3PJqid65ZtuKVSt5ASBAskzeE4UUBRn6N5SpfDc3Shv6kP4PGmhxnHP5gVoTu1l&id=100064869933004

 

[Antje77]

@Antje77 not sure if this link will work. Its 2 black kittens at our local rescue centre, I just love the names
Kiss and Cuddle

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02iq3PJqid65ZtuKVSt5ASBAskzeE4UUBRn6N5SpfDc3Shv6kP4PGmhxnHP5gVoTu1l&id=100064869933004

So pretty!
And yes, link works, fine, likely because I'm on Facebook so it automatically logs me in.

 

[Antje77]

2 chips nicked from Mr Pipp’s plate when he wasn’t looking, mayonnaise ( it is compulsory since I discover thath is how to eat chips in Amsterdam, even though I haven’t been there for a very long time).

I was so surprised when I found out that mayonnaise on your chips is not a universal thing!
In the Netherlands, you don't order chips with mayo, you simply order a 'patatje met' (chips with), no need to specify you mean mayo.
(In the south you don't order a patatje met but a frietje met: Patat or friet is a small linguistic war between north and south here. But it's patat of course.)

Same as yesterday, zuurkoolstamppot.
Will have again tomorrow, but saturday and sunday will be quite adventurous.
We'll have our yearly family weekend (aunts, uncles, cousins and their childeren) for the first time since 2019, very much looking forward to it because I like all of them except for that one annoying uncle.

We'll meet over a lunch called 'bread table' so I guess I'd best bring my own low carb bread to transfer toppings, and hope I'll get it more or less right with dosing for whatever kinds of bread I'll no doubt will be tempted to eat anyway. Did anyone mention croissants?
Then we'll get a guide to show us all of the museum.

Evening meal will be in a hotel, looks like a very nice one in the forest. They asked us to mail our choices from the menu beforehand, so I went with a shrimp dish for starters and Indonesian spare ribs with chilli jam for mains. Asked to leave out any rice/noodles and the chilli jam, hope the ribs aren't coated with a very sweet sauce.
For dessert there were only sweet options but I boldly filled out my form to say cheese platter, so who knows!
Breakfast on sunday will be at the same hotel, we'll see.

Very much looking forward to see my family again, especially one of my cousins. He's been diagnosed with cancer only a couple of months ago, and it's going downhill fast. I'm surprised it looks like he'll manage to join us this weekend.

 

[Tamarillo]

I was so surprised when I found out that mayonnaise on your chips is not a universal thing!
In the Netherlands, you don't order chips with mayo, you simply order a 'patatje met' (chips with), no need to specify you mean mayo.
(In the south you don't order a patatje met but a frietje met: Patat or friet is a small linguistic war between north and south here. But it's patat of course.)

Same as yesterday, zuurkoolstamppot.
Will have again tomorrow, but saturday and sunday will be quite adventurous.
We'll have our yearly family weekend (aunts, uncles, cousins and their childeren) for the first time since 2019, very much looking forward to it because I like all of them except for that one annoying uncle.

We'll meet over a lunch called 'bread table' so I guess I'd best bring my own low carb bread to transfer toppings, and hope I'll get it more or less right with dosing for whatever kinds of bread I'll no doubt will be tempted to eat anyway. Did anyone mention croissants?
Then we'll get a guide to show us all of the museum.

Evening meal will be in a hotel, looks like a very nice one in the forest. They asked us to mail our choices from the menu beforehand, so I went with a shrimp dish for starters and Indonesian spare ribs with chilli jam for mains. Asked to leave out any rice/noodles and the chilli jam, hope the ribs aren't coated with a very sweet sauce.
For dessert there were only sweet options but I boldly filled out my form to say cheese platter, so who knows!
Breakfast on sunday will be at the same hotel, we'll see.
Very much looking forward to see my family again, especially one of my cousins. He's been diagnosed with cancer only a couple of months ago, and it's going downhill fast. I'm surprised it looks like he'll manage to join us this weekend.

Sorry about your cousin.
Good to have this opportunity to connect anyway, and your weekend sounds fabulous! How nice not to have to cook. Hope it's a lovely break away.
As a teenager I remember a lovely drive - with my least annoying uncle, for what that's worth! - from Eindhoven down to Antwerp and there I had my first and only ever chips with mayo! They were served in a paper cone (?) if my memory serves me correctly.

 

[Antje77]

As a teenager I remember a lovely drive - with my least annoying uncle, for what that's worth! - from Eindhoven down to Antwerp and there I had my first and only ever chips with mayo! They were served in a paper cone (?) if my memory serves me correctly.

Yes, that's the Belgian way, in a paper cone!

 

[Annb]

I was so surprised when I found out that mayonnaise on your chips is not a universal thing!
In the Netherlands, you don't order chips with mayo, you simply order a 'patatje met' (chips with), no need to specify you mean mayo.
(In the south you don't order a patatje met but a frietje met: Patat or friet is a small linguistic war between north and south here. But it's patat of course.)

Same as yesterday, zuurkoolstamppot.
Will have again tomorrow, but saturday and sunday will be quite adventurous.
We'll have our yearly family weekend (aunts, uncles, cousins and their childeren) for the first time since 2019, very much looking forward to it because I like all of them except for that one annoying uncle.

We'll meet over a lunch called 'bread table' so I guess I'd best bring my own low carb bread to transfer toppings, and hope I'll get it more or less right with dosing for whatever kinds of bread I'll no doubt will be tempted to eat anyway. Did anyone mention croissants?
Then we'll get a guide to show us all of the museum.

Evening meal will be in a hotel, looks like a very nice one in the forest. They asked us to mail our choices from the menu beforehand, so I went with a shrimp dish for starters and Indonesian spare ribs with chilli jam for mains. Asked to leave out any rice/noodles and the chilli jam, hope the ribs aren't coated with a very sweet sauce.
For dessert there were only sweet options but I boldly filled out my form to say cheese platter, so who knows!
Breakfast on sunday will be at the same hotel, we'll see.

Very much looking forward to see my family again, especially one of my cousins. He's been diagnosed with cancer only a couple of months ago, and it's going downhill fast. I'm surprised it looks like he'll manage to join us this weekend.

I hope you have a great weekend with your family, Antje - even with the annoying uncle but especially with your cousin, making happy times for him and happy memories for you and the rest of your family. Even the food sounds good, so enjoy!

 

[Annb]

Had an early breakfast of slices of ham. Early to try to get around this morning spike. It worked, but then I spiked in the afternoon (14.9) after lunch of one slice of toast, 2 sun dried tomatoes chopped up and pressed into the toast, cheese and 2 thin slices of fresh tomato on top, melted in the microwave. I know, sugars are concentrated in dried tomatoes, but my brother had something similar as a starter a week or so ago and he recommended it highly, so I had to give it a try.

BG has finally come down to 7.9, so I can think about another meal now. Been very hungry all day. (Neil couldn't get any kind of bouillon powder and I didn't want to complicate matters by saying that a stock cube would do).

Why should 3 meals instead of 2 make me so hungry?

This meal will be a lamb chump chop with some cabbage.

Shouldn't take too long to make but Em is here at the moment - she's been off school most of the week with some very odd bug. Lots of schoolkids here have whatever it is - they just can't stay awake; sleep soundly all night and then are like zombies in the morning and just fall asleep again once up. Em was brought here at 7.30 this morning. Had a glass of milk and half a cup of tea, sat in my big chair and went to sleep. That was from about 8 am to 5.30 pm. She's awake now and playing on my tablet but she has one very sore eye (walking around with a teabag over it held on by an eye-patch - she thinks she looks like a pirate!)

 

[DJC3]

@Antje77 have a super weekend with the family, will that lovely aunt you’ve mentioned a few times before be there? Sorry to hear of your cousin, Paul’s cousin has incurable cancer and we went up to Yorkshire for a ‘living wake’ a couple of months ago. He wanted to say goodbye to everyone and it was a surprisingly jolly affair.

Tonight I made a sort of Stamppot/ bubble and squeak with cauliflower mash , sprouts, leeks and cheese. I could eat this 3x a day every day. Thanks for the hints Antje. I had it with a couple of slices of belly pork. And a glass of red.

Lunch - a SLC roll filled with chicken, Camembert and sliced gherkin. DGF cake to follow.

No breakfast, just a lot of black coffee.

 

[MrsA2]

@Antje77
Are you OK? See you doing mod stuff but you a bit quiet on chatty side of things

 

[Antje77]

@Antje77
Are you OK? See you doing mod stuff but you a bit quiet on chatty side of things

Thank you for asking!
Yes, doing well.
Had a wonderful family weekend, we even all got to put our shoe for Sinterklaas!
Turned out my family knows even more Sinterklaas songs than I do, so we filled a solid 45 minutes singing to our shoes in the breakfast room of the hotel after dinner!
And the whole family spend the rest of the evening on one shoe too.

We all got a chocolate letter W for Wartena, our family name, pepernoten and - surprise - a mini stroopwafel that the hotel staff added while we were sleeping!

Brought my own low carb bread for breakfast but decided that warm croissants and a very good seedy roll were worth it for once, with predictable results, hitting 11.7.
No problem, it definitely was worth it, and I even got to eat a bite of my chocolate letter for slightly overdoing my insulin!

But tired from socialising when I came back, and busy working on my Sinterklaassurprise and mod stuff. Also saddened by seeing my cousin for what must have been the last time because he's dying, hence the little amount of chat.
No interesting meals either, mostly freezer stuff and bread and such, so nothing to add to the WHYET thread.

Only 8 more days before the kittens come, I expect to tell all about them all the time when they are here!

 

[Annb]

Thank you for asking!
Yes, doing well.
Had a wonderful family weekend, we even all got to put our shoe for Sinterklaas!
Turned out my family knows even more Sinterklaas songs than I do, so we filled a solid 45 minutes singing to our shoes in the breakfast room of the hotel after dinner!
And the whole family spend the rest of the evening on one shoe too.

We all got a chocolate letter W for Wartena, our family name, pepernoten and - surprise - a mini stroopwafel that the hotel staff added while we were sleeping!

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Brought my own low carb bread for breakfast but decided that warm croissants and a very good seedy roll were worth it for once, with predictable results, hitting 11.7.
No problem, it definitely was worth it, and I even got to eat a bite of my chocolate letter for slightly overdoing my insulin!

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But tired from socialising when I came back, and busy working on my Sinterklaassurprise and mod stuff. Also saddened by seeing my cousin for what must have been the last time because he's dying, hence the little amount of chat.
No interesting meals either, mostly freezer stuff and bread and such, so nothing to add to the WHYET thread.

Only 8 more days before the kittens come, I expect to tell all about them all the time when they are here!

So glad that you had a good weekend with your family Antje. Was the annoying uncle as annoying as you expected? Sad that you may not see your cousin again. I have come to the same conclusion about members of my own family, including my brother. Not because they have any life threatening disease except life itself. We're all getting old. None of us can travel and we all live very far apart. You have managed to see your cousin at a happy family occasion, so the memories will be good ones.

Added: it appears that Ginnie is in pup and they should be due any day now. Her new home, once the pups are old enough, is settled. She's going to a lady on the other side of the Island. Goodness knows where the pups will end up - however many there are of them this time.

 

[Antje77]

Was the annoying uncle as annoying as you expected?

I was able to mainly avoid him!

 

[Antje77]

Food looks great ( not the fruit gums) and I love your plate.
Is Sinterklaassurprise food or is it related to your long suffering cleaner crawling round your loft?

Not food related, so taking to parallel thread.
Here's a bit of background, and I'm one of those taking both point 8 and 9 very seriously...

Ten things you need to know to celebrate Sinterklaas - DutchNews.nl

On December 5, the shops will shut early and some 60% of Dutch households will settle down to celebrate Sinterklaas. Here’s a list of all you need to know to get it right. 1 Who is Sinterklaas? The man in the mitre is impersonating Saint Nicholas, a 4th century bishop who lived in Myra, in what...

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No need to draw names to determine who I'll have to make a surprise and poem for, it's only the two of us, me and a German friend who wanted to know what Sinterklaas was all about.

So this is our fourth year celebrating together. She's not as good at it as I am, but I'm very happy she's willing!
With both parents dead, no siblings and no children, my favourite time of the year (trumps both christmas and birthday by a very long way, and I like those too) had grown to be a time of longing, sadness and grief, but it looks like this year for the first time pleasure has the upper hand!
In the past years I enjoyed it as well, but this new tradition seems to have taken the place of the old, and all is well again.

The wonderful thing about Sinterklaas is that more than half of the fun is making the surprises and poems, so if you start early you'll have 3 weeks of happy stress.
And being a hardcore Sinterklaas lover with too much time on my hands, I tend to go all out.

So yes, it's related to my suffering cleaner who tested my labyrinth.
There has to be a package in the living room of course, presents and surprises come from Sinterklaas so everything has to be self explaining, giving hints myself is out.
So there will be this darkened labyrinth, but there will also be a poster advertising this New, Exciting, Never Before Seen ride!
And there will be an envelope with an invitation to this Exclusive Experience designed to represent the way we need to make our choices in life, crawling through darkness with no clue on which choices will lead us to the best outcome.

My friend is currently rather struggling with choices in life and depression, and surprises and poems are supposed to be personal, and if possible touching slightly painful stuff in a friendly and funny way.

The invitation will also tell her about the useful gifts she'll find to help her on her journey: consolation, fun, and wisdom, with the extra gift of luck for the very first visitor of the ride.

Consolation will be a horrible giant stuffed dog I got for my birthday, but I'll make it a jacket saying "Emotional support dog".
Fun will be a toy making noise when you touch it. Which I imagine is very scary when crawling through a dark labyrinth, but it definitely will be great fun for me!
And she can use it to have fun with others in the future, so not a lie.
Wisdom will be a self help book I think will just suit her, that's the real present.

And the extra gift of Luck will be a keychain with a 4 leaved clover.

I've been working on the advertising poster this week, pretty happy with it! It's as big as a real poster too, and it says'The Dark Labyrinth of Life'.
This will be the thing wrapped as a gift in the living room, and the invitation will be inside. Of course every gift she has to find in the labyrinth will have a short poem to explain too.

 

[Antje77]

Here's the picture I meant to add, software was acting up: