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Fish Cake Recipe
I have just bought some smoked haddock; I have a piece of white fish in the frezer and intend to combine both to make some fish cakes. Now I have searched on the forums (and discovered interesting threads I had not seen before!)but not how to make successful fish cakes. I can make breadcrumbs and have eggs, but would…
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OS daily thread Monday 26th May
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 26th May. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome, please do come…
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Grocery Challenge Savings
Hi everyone We did discuss on the December Grocery Challenge having a thread to look at our overall savings for 2007. I figured I'd start one and see if it took off. It might also be interesting for the people just starting out to see what sticking with the GC has done for some of us :) Personally I've finally managed to…
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Slow cooker with timer???
Hi there, I am a fairly new slow cooker user and have a Anthony Worrall-Thompson 4.5 litre one which I have used successfully for lots of meals BUT I have had a few go wrong where the food is very tasteless and to my mind overcooked - an example being when I did a pork joint with peppers, onions and loads of spices (a…
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Damper bread
does anyone have a recipe for this? Ray Mears is cooking it on the tv now.
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Fresh orange spilt on my slate hearth!
I don't know if this is the right board to ask this so mods please could you move to the correct place if wrong, thanks. My daughter spilt fresh orange on my black slate hearth and it has taken the colour out and has become a white patch. I have tried everything but nothing is working to restore it back to black. Has…
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What can I replace bananas with in a recipe
Have got a recipe for banana and butterscotch loaf that I use, which I would like to make today but have no bananas and don't want to go to the shops for one ingredient. The recipe uses 3 bananas, anyone know if I could use dates or something different instead?
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Does anyone make their own Tea Towels?
Hi It might be a weird question, but I get fed up of stained old tea towels and would love an economical way of making my own fresh supply. I wondered if there was a tea towel-ish type of material I could buy by the metre that I could cut up and machine the edges to make my own, and if anyone already does this? I could…
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OS Sunday 25th May 2008
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 25th May 2008. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything OS and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already. Everyone’s welcome,…
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Has anyone got a hip bath?
21st century living. i have woodburning stoves. i place pans of water ontop to heat for washing up , cleaning, drinks. So its free hot water as the stove is lit when its cold enough to need heat in the house. i dry my washing on a victorin type ceiling pulley thing. next step, the hip bath in front of the fire? potty under…
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Oh dear, not very money saving at all!
Thought I'd make some flapjacks and granola bars and nipped to Tesco but I ended up buying loads of cereal which I thought would be good but I think I got seduced by all the pretty packets! So I now have Wheatbran Wheatgerm Oatbran Grape Nuts Quaker Oats Weetabix Branflakes (i had those anyway) Looking at the recipes again…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 19th May 2008
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to enjoy it! Following requests to start things steadier for…
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Oooh, me plums!
:hello: Good evening everyone. I am in need of some assistance please! I have a jar of Mirabelle plums which I acquired in France last June. They are in what I can only describe as a 'heavy syrup' - really thick, sweet & sticky. They need using, or chucking. I know which of the two I'm supposed to do. ;) Can I have some…
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Cheap, spicy & yum recipes
I thought I’d share with you a couple of really good, cheap recipes I discovered recently. Both are delish either as a snack served with a dollop of hommous and salsa, or as a side with a curry. Spicy parsnip and greens bubble & squeak Serves 4 as main, 8 as a side Vegetarian Ingredients* 800g parsnips , chopped * either ½…
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Realistic weekly spend for family of 3 + pets
I am back again with more questions. Sorry In light of recent rises in food costs what would you say would be a realistic food budget for 2 Adults 1 toddler and 2 cats?? While I was working FT we were £50 per week which was a £40 weekly shop and £10 for top ups such as milk and sandwich meats for two. I am now on Maternity…
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Spice mixes please..........
Does anyone have any recipes for mixes (not too hot) for chicken or any kind of meat really that you can mix up and keep in ziplock bag or jar and use as you need please. Thanks.....
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Butter
Dont know if this is just a Scottish thing, but Mr T and Mr S both stock Rowan Glen Spreadeasy butter, its only 70p for 250g so is cheaper than basics butter. I discovered it last week and have been using it in all my baking etc and its absolutely fine. The side of the pack lists the only added ingredient as salt so it is…
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jam help please
I have a load of frozen fruit from last summer/autumn and I want to make jam as my stocks from fresh are finished. I have blackberries damsons cherries and raspberries. Impossible to know the weitght as they are frozen. Can I make mixed fruit jam? Which would go best together, or all of them? Looking at some recipies on…
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Mealplans WB 23rd May 2008
Hi everyone :hello: I'm starting this thread for Penny-Pincher!! while she's in hospital. (Hope she's ok.) Here's my mealplan for the week. It's not very specific this week as my mum is visiting at the weekend and I havent got a clue what we're gonna do for meals yet. I have planned all meals while she's here to be either…
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any ideas for chilli baked beans?
brought some asda own brand chilli baked beans and as im stuck for an idea for tea tonight was wandering if you had any ideas on what i could do with these????thanks!x