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cup cakes!!!
I have volunteered to make my friend's wedding cake in a fortnight, for which she has asked for lemon and chocolate flavoured cupcakes (that's separately, not lemon-and-chocolate, iyswim) I can find loads of recipes on the internet but thought i would see if anyone had a tried and tested, fail-safe yummy recipe,…
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Quick daft question - can you freeze chopped onion?
I buy pre chopped onion from ASDA to make life easier when cooking (I work full time and time saving is a neccessity when I get home). Obviously it would be cheaper to buy onions whole, chop and freeze in bags for when I need. BUT can you freeze onion?
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Quite pleased with myself as well!
Well guys....I'm quite pleased with myself as well (and well done to Sugar Jen too) After my rant yesterday of having enough and desperately needing to short my shopping out/meals out I think I am on the long road to recovery. Mother in Law was looking after the kiddies yesterday at home while I was at work. She left some…
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Unwashable Washable Paints...
Please can someone help. My son comes home from pre-school covered in paint, i put them on a 40 wash. All ideas welcome...
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Quite pleased with myself
Hi every1, Here we have me a stay at home mum, 2 kids in full time school (have school dinners Im on income support so its paid for, thankfully) and 1 in half day nursery. Decided to go old style today, been to-ing and fro-ing from the comp all day looking up recipes an taking note of what I have in cupboards/fridge and…
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Smelly Fusty Drawers
I have some drawers in a rather closed in walkin wardrobe, I noticed when I took a scarf out it smelt horrible:eek:, as did everything else, so I took all the drawers outside, washed them thoroughly with a bleach solution and left them in the fresh air to dry. Unfortunately there is still a rather unpleasant smell…
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Freezing Raspberry's and Strawberry's
Hi Please excuse me if this has been answered recently, if so could some kind soul point me in the right direction, if not... Ive been growing my own Strawberry's and Raspberry's. Ive been freezing the strawberry's and im after any ideas to use them apart from in smoothies and im no cake maker!!!. With the Raspberry's are…
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How to shell broad beans quickly?
Evening all, I'm a bit pushed for time and wondered if anyone had any tips for shelling broad beans quickly? Thanks in anticipation Sparkly
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ruburb chutney how do you make yours
hi... making ruburb chutney tomorrow as i have a load in the garden..its only me that likes it...so on the trying to cutting down on wastage i am making chutney.. i will be putting ruburb some cooking apples that i have lying round that needs to be used up pretty quickly onions some sultanas now this is where i need the…
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Where can I buy large container of bicarb?
:confused: Does anyone know where I can get a large container of bicarbonate of soda rather than the small pots you can buy in the supermarket?
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What to do with whey?????
Any ideas? I made a container of greek yoghurt, I have made scones with some of the whey but have about 1/4pint left, do not really want to throw it away..................
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BM help..swapping powder milk for liquid milk?
Hi, Were out of bread and to save me goin into tescos for a loaf of bread and coming out with £20 worth of 'crap' i thought id make one in my breadmaker...afterall..that is what it is intended for..NOT to gather dust on my kitchen worktop :D Question..can i use fresh milk in place of powdered milk as I don't have any in?…
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Help needed please with dehydrating food
Hello everyone I've just bought a food dehydrator and the user booklet is OK as far as it goes - but it doesn't go very far :confused: ...so it would be greatly appreciated if anyone who has their own could answer a few questions please?.... 1) Can I mix the things I dry in different trays - ie could I do a tray of onions…
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dog odour in carpets
Hi does anyone know of the best way to remove dog odours from carpets, hoovering doesn't really help?
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How do I get rid of the smell of urine from a carpet?
OK well the name of the title says it all really! Any suggestions?
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essential oils
i have seen a lovely set on naturally thinking.com for £175 which sounds a lot but includes 40 oils and 5 base oils. is it worth the spend out, i've wanted it for ages. plus i could make my own cleaning stuff and toiletries etc. does it work out cheaper making your own toiletries or not. Be interested in hearing your views.
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bacon and veg to use up
I have got 2 packs of bacon in fridge (8 rashers) and a load of veg that needs using up,potatoes onion, carrot,peppers,white cabbage, broccoli and cauli. tinned tomatoes i have an idea in my head that I could do some sort of bacon and potatoe bake but googling for a recipe hasn't given me any ideas. I would ideally like…
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Smelly Bunny - Help Please
Hello, we have a lovely white lop-eared dwarf rabbit called Cairo. He shares our house with us and has his own litter tray. The problem is, his tray gets very smelly very quickly and the only litter we've found that counteracts this is made from woodchips and is very expensive. He won't sit on a lot of odour remover…
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Not very OS, chicken pieces what can I serve with?
Hi there I got 2 tescos chicken breasts in tomato basil & red pepper sauce for tea ( they were in the bargain corner couldnt leave them there!) What shall i serve with them? I am baffled on this one!!
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will this be a disaster
HELP i know nothing can be done now but ive made a terrible booboo just made from scratch a lemon meringue pie so all the ingredients are way too much to just throw in the bin all went well BUT as i put my meringue on top i nioticed it felt a bit wet and soft have put the pie in teh oven and now just realized i had some…
