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Don't you just hate people who one-up you? The husband must've eaten loads of iron to get iron poisoning. Why would you do that to yourself? The only way I like spinach is in spinach and ricotta canelloni or pastries - yum.

Sue xx

I will be spending this Saturday morning sitting on the chesterfield stuffing an army of spinach and cheapo cottage cheese (and I add a ground beef/pork mix) canellonis myself. I adopt your spelling, so it had better be right. I make up two suppers + several lunches for No.1 at a time.

Or maybe not. With EastEnders being withdrawn from me ... cooking prep and East Enders were symbiotic on a Saturday morning: cooking prep is mindnumbing by itself, but so is 2 hours of EastEnders somewhat. No.1 may find his diet going downhill.

I'll get around to offering up that chicken saag recipe eventually. Canelloni was second on the list, for the frozen spinach + tinned tomatoes combo. Then spinach quiche with a side of gazpacho. Then I run out of things to do with frozen spinach.

Forget Eastenders, Janey

Can you pick up Radio 4 - if so, The Archers is the place to be whilst cooking

Sue x

There's the "Bring an appie" to the party standby

Spinach Dip

Ingredients
1 cup mayonnaise
1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
1 (package (dry) Knorr Vegie soup mix
1 (4 ounce) can water chestnuts, drained and chopped
1/2 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained
1 (1 pound) loaf round sourdough bread

Directions
1.In a medium bowl, mix together mayonnaise, sour cream, dry soup mix, water chestnuts and chopped spinach. Chill in the refrigerator 6 hours, or overnight.
2.Remove top and interior of sourdough bread. Fill with mayonnaise mixture. Tear removed bread chunks into pieces for dipping.

Surely you don't still stuff canelloni - not sure if it's the right spelling by the way:-)) I just cut fresh lasagne sheets in half and roll up the spinach/cheese mixture. I'm a lazy cook.

Sue xx

That sounds good, Deb.

Is this a mass takeover by the Canadian contingent?

Sue xx

Sure is Sue :)

Then I'm off to start my day:-)) Hope you are well - haven't seen you around for awhile.

Sue xx

Ah. Rolled lasagna sheets. Hmm. Well, there's a reason I didn't think of that! It would about sextuple (excuse my French) the carbs per canelloni. I use the no-cooking-needed pasta, in a bunch of tomato and white sauce. The white sauce is the part I hate doing with a passion. As it stands, with all the fixtures and fittings, one canelloni (canellonus? canellono?) is 10 grams of carb in my recipe. Makes it really easy for the diabetes carb-counting deal.

Spinach dip, of course. Now Deb, isn't just buying President's Choice easier? ;) I don't use the veg soup mix because of the humongous amount of salt in those things -- I grate carrot and chop green onions. I'm just a regular June Cleaver, I am.

Just so you know.....

cannelloni m. Plural form of cannellone
So there!!!!!

I knew that.



;)

You should see the shopping list when No.1 has to buy both those things and broc___li.

I can just imagine it, Janey

I bet he's rushing around Sainsbury's (or your equivalent)
asking for one cannellone or, indeed, a single of broccolo

Sue x

I just take mineral supplements ....... selenium, chromium and zinc, one of each twice a week, and have done since 1995

Either chromium or zinc is supposed to help md, and the other helps wound healing. But I can never remember which one is which, so I still take them both.

I was diagnosed with macular degeneration in January 1995, and told I might well be blind within 6 months

THAT is devastating


4 months later I was diagnosed with breast cancer ........ well, that was easy to deal with after being told I was going to go blind. Take it off!

2 weeks after that I went to my GP, and was discussing everything that had happened, and mentioned the macular degeneration. He'd not had a report from the retinologist. He suggested I take the 3 supplements, 1 of each a day.

2 months later I saw the retinologist ...... hmmm says he, I'll see you in 6 months

6 months later I saw him ...... hjmmm, says he, there hasn't been much change. I'll see you in 6 months

6 months later I saw him ...... hmmm says he, there hasn't been any change, I'll see you in a year.

The next visit, he said he didn't want to see me again.


In 2001, I had cataracts removed from both eyes. At the last check-up I asked that guy "what about the macular degeneration?" He said "what macular degeneration? There's nothing wrong with your eyes!"



so was it a wrong diagnosis, by one of the top guys in his field? Or the supplements??


I have no idea ........ but I still take them twice a week!!!!




and anyway ...... I don't like spinach!!!




sylvia

Hmmmm. Talk about yer one-upping, Sylvia. ;)

I need to get us some of those things and also vitamin D, the new wonder drug.

What I really need is to get some sleep ...

Sorry 'bout that!


sleep tight


We're away to open up the cabin tomorrow. Just a quick trip up there and back. Only 8 hours each way, broken by 2 nights at a motel, 1 day at the cabin.


I'll be back on here Thursday evening.


Behave until then!



sylvia

You could be the new Popeye and Olive Oyl with all that spinach Janey!


Just remember to lift the bottoms of your jama legs before trying to run next time dear! Can't be doing with all that weeping and wailing :))



Actually, I can remember a rude verse of Popeye's song from my childhood which would just about fit that situation. lol

No, I will not repeat it on here - it was very childish :))))


Cx.

Cynthia I wonder if it is the same rude verse I know? Does he live in a caravan? Who? Popeye of course.

Gail

Yes. Know about the spinach. Usually grow it so we can have it fresh but it was not planted this year. Like the idea of the frozen spinach. Takes up less room in the fridge.

So for anyone fretting about No.1 - he's doing just fine. And I did a bunch of dishes last night. Haven't raised the washing machine issue yet. It's a portable in the kitchen, you hook it up to the kitchen tap, and I have no clue how it works.

And the predictable happened. He was talking to his mum this afternoon, telling her all about it. And then: earthquake! so he had to cut the conversation short. He called back a few minutes later when it seemed all clear, and sister-in-law had been awakened when the quake hit there a few minutes later (she works nights) and wanted in on it.

Yes, once again, he'd come up with any old excuse so he didn't have to perform his filial duty and stay with his mother while she and his brother take their scheduled annual vacation -- next week. At that point he hung up the phone. She called back a few minutes later and I answered and said he had walked to the store (bad idea; if he can walk to the store, surely he can travel 5 hours by bus and look after his mother), and she didn't want to hear anything but asked that I pass on apologies. A while later his mum called again, so I guess it will get smoothed over.

My family may be a bunch of pull-no-punches oddballs, but I'll take them over that yap-first-think-later (to the extent she can/does think) sister-in-law any day.

To be fair, she was really disappointed, that their vacation might not work out. They've had a bit of hard times with the recession. And I know what I had to say to No.1 when he decided to pull another midnight medical drama. But I later impressed upon him that he should never hesitate to whine about whatever malady he was feeling. It usually does turn out to be an emergency ...

GAIL


ERRRR THIS CARAVAN IS THERE A HOLE MENTIONED