BLOKES THREAD-aimed at blokes-shielas welcome.

[serendipityricho]

Seems to be a lack of threads for blokes.
On other threads,some ladies have mentioned, their OHs
would post, but had no interest in most of the threads on offer.
I can bump this thead twice a day,so its easy to find.
Give it a go---Richo.

[bushies.girl]

Ride on mower, just what hubby needs atm lol

[ooak3]

good morning Richo ,bushie and everyone

10 going to be 23 degs today

Richo good luck this morning hope you find something that makes you happy 

bushie lots of free feeds there !!  i dont watch that show so cant help there sorry 

happy day wishes to all

[serendipityricho]

Morning Bushie and Ooaks.

Loved the ride on mower Bushie.lol.

That vine might fire up again next year-seems a hardy plant.

Ooaks-feeling lucky-time for a shower and rug up for the gs.

Will have the beanie on.

Tomorrow is the Rosedale Retro day--lots happens-gets bigger every year................Richo/////./

[bushies.girl]

Yeah cut the vine right back Richo but didnt pull it out, its fairly sheltered where its growing, so will chuck some mulch around it and see what happens

Retro days sounds good, are you planning on going to it Richo?


Morning Ooak 🙂

[ooak3]

Richo hope your E.S.P is right and its your lucky day dont let that cheater sneaker inner get ya lol

bushie --how long does an uncut whole pumpkin last i have never been sure i think it's a long time but never been game to test it , do they get better or worse if you 'age ' them after picking them ??

can get some good buys on whole ones at the shop sometimes 

when we have a roast hubby always does extra roast pumpkin so we can have soup it's so yum 

[bushies.girl]

Ooak

If stored correctly home grown pumpkins can be stored for months BUT I dont know re the supermarkets ones, depends how old they are when you buy them/if they have already been in cold storage etc. etc

Could hubs make extra soup and freeze it? I dont roast mine for soup just chuck them in the boiler with some spuds n onion n a few other "bits"

[ooak3]

yer good point they could be old when bought ( like the rest of "the fresh food" peoples fruit and veg )

we have a soup maker that is brilliant makes any kind of soup in under 1/2 hr but only enough for 2 big serves ,suits us perfectly ,but i

was wondering about the whole pumpkin idea then next time he did a roast we could roast the whole pumpkin and just freeze the bits then we could have the pumpkin soup more often ( cus its our favorite )

might try it its not like they cost a fortune and if the ovens on any way might as well risk it 

if we had soup more often it would save hubby cooking so much

[bushies.girl]

I know you can par boil pumpkin and freeze it Ooak, would imagine par roasting would be the same ...... loses a bit of texture if frozen but
perfect for making soup ..... Am making  a batch of chicken n veggie soup atm, my kitchen smells divine lol

If you have a large freezer, could you hubs make up dbl/triple quantities of some meals, then freeze them? I do that for Winter, saves heaps of time and gas cooking it this way

[ooak3]

well we dont do a lot of the freezing meals thing,

if we do its usualy chilli-con-carni  that handles freezing well

 we like it in small serves in the freezer for putting on jacket potatoes with cheese and sour cream

but he does make quiet a few meals that do us for 2 days, so that helps

[imastawka]

Mornin' all

You did very well with that feral pumpkin, Bushie.    I'll be very interested

to see how that vine travels over winter. 

I rarely make pumpkin soup, I don't like pumpkin, and his lordship has to be

'in the mood' for it, so not much point.   I used to make it every afternoon for

the grandkids after school in winter.

Garden scrounging day again.  Trying to see if there's anything else

out there that I might want in the future.   There's escaped oregano, so

I might pot that up.

Hope Richo finds an OMG today

12 deg atm heading up to 19 later, no wind and sunny