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Cooking with Teenagers
Has anyone got any good ideas of recipes for teenagers to get involved with the cooking? Am in the middle of putting together a healthy pack for my mum to encourage her to eat more healthily and wanted to include some recipes that my brother would be able to help with. Unfortunately my mind has gone blank! He's nearly 15…
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Eating OS while staying in a hotel alone..
Hi All I am heading off to Brighton at the weekend...can't flipping wait as work has me stressed out (they have even been talking about cancelling my day off as there is so much to do, never mind that I've been working two evenings a week since mid-August and have already cancelled a scheduled day off...it'd make ya…
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I have an egg !
I am soooo excited as one of my hens has laid her first egg !!! We have had our 3 bantams for about 2 weeks and were not sure when they would start laying as we have not got to this stage before. I felt so guilty at taking her egg that I left it in the nest box for half of the day !! We were not sure how to cook it so that…
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Stain removal - help wanted
Hubby cut himself shaving and got blood on his white shirt collar, sprayed it with Vanish (we didn't read the instructions! and left it to dry). The sprayed area has now gone yellow and will not come clean. I have sprayed it again and washed it straight away, used ACE bleach and even left it soaking in bleach and water but…
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Breadmaker wholemeal rolls
Help. I know there are loads of threads of breadmaking but I could do with an answer pretty sharpish. I have made the dough (wholemeal) in my bm and I have shaped them and they are supposed to be proving ready to bake. It says they should double in size in approx 25 mins. I have turned the oven on low and they are on the…
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OS 'Cures' for colds
I don't get cold very often but when I do get one it's always a real hum dinger which knocks me sideways for ages and when your on your own with 2 children you have to just carry on like normal. So my question is is there anything for colds which can alleviate the symptoms other than taking tablets and using over the…
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Are you a cherry picker?
Nope don't mean of the fruit variety. But do you cherry pick the best deals from each supermarket. I do, last night I did a double supermarket run. To Asda first of all as there are couple of items I only ever get there. And then on Tescos to get the Bogofs and use some club card vouchers. And today did a local run to…
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Food Processors .....
......... bearing in mind the old adage "Time is money" and the good old fashioned method of "delegation" ... (chores) ... blah blah blah .... ... my d11yo, being at his *most* helpful, decided to do the washing up. :D I had used the food processor to make some most delicious Carrot Soup for lunch and to prep the…
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Milk and Money...
It's a month now since I started putting in place a little method of saving some money from all the milk I buy. I read about this somewhere and I think it was on this forum, but I can't stomach the search, so I'll say right now I am not the originator of this idea. My thanks go to whoever is. I live alone but go through a…
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The Humble Crumb...cookery book with uses for breadcrumbs
I found this interesting little cookery book, the Humble Crumb by Elizabeth Jones. In the introduction she says that she felt guilty throwing away the odd crust or slice when there are so many starving people so she set about finding uses for all the breadcrumbs that she was producing. The book has 200 + recipes from…
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The cost of cooking
I see their are lots of recipes on this board, to help cut the cost of living down (OK, and to make things that are different and healthier in some cases), but I noticed that some items take an age to cook. My question to you all is:- What is the cost of cooking your recipes? e.g. Ingedients cost total = £1.56 Cooking time…
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ingniter on cooker
hi all, after my little boy has played obsessively (he is autistic) with the igniter button on my cooker , which i only bought in july :eek: its has finally stopped working!!!! attempt at lighting it with long bit of screwed up newspaper this morning solved the problem temporarily....but i wondered? does anyone know if you…
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Slow Cookers - The mini index
. The Slow Cooker Mini Index We have such a number of threads dealing with various aspects of slow cookers that we have collected them into the three main groups that you see listed below. There's a certain amount of cross-over but over all it should make it a little easier for people to find the sort of information they…
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Annoying mark on new trainers!
Hello, so I have some brand new trainers, all white. And one of the trainers has a really annoying black scuff mark on it. It makes the whole trainers look bad.... The best way to describe it is as if someone has put permenant marker(that's not what it is) on it, I've tried water a white polish to try and get it off but…
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I am mortified
:question: :question: I have just gone to my microwave to cook the salmon for tonights salad, last night a spud burst when it was cooking and naughty did not clean it up straight away........I wiped the oven out with a cloth and was horrified at the amount of gunk that came off the sides of the oven, (its a combination…
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Less wet towels
In the winter I get everyone to "dry" themselves with a face flannell first-then, when they dry themselves with a towel it is not left soaking wet. In the winter, this saves a lot of washing and drying. My mother taught me this as we had neither washer nor dryer. :j
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Knit up odds of wool to Help the Aged
I loved this idea that came through to me on an e-mail from innocent smoothies:- Hats entertainment Some of you may remember our Supergran project - you know, the thing where we knit lots of little hats and put them on our bottles in branches of the fine sandwich shop EAT. Well, it's time to start knitting 2005's batch.…
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In Tears...and its CQs fault
:o Resistance was useless and today I finally bought the stuff needed and have begun my very first CQ curry sauce ready for a Prawn Bhuna and a Turkey Korma with Naan Bread for my Saturday night. 6 onoins peeled and in the simmer and I am in floods of tears!!! Anybody have any great ways to help the the onion tears cos I…
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cleaning brass
I dont want to buy new door furniture on new house, but the old stuff is tarnished. It's not solid brass it's the usual run of the mill numbers and keyhole covers you get from B&Q. Some of it is scratched, so I know I wont make that look good, but any OS ideas on how to make them look "as new"?:cool:
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Cornflake tart
How do you make it? I need to know!!!
