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need urgent help with knitting?
i have a knitting kit that has 3 balls of wool, 2 are the fun fur type and one is a straggly type. the pattern is for a scarf knitted on 25mm needles. pattern says take a strand from each ball and cast on 9 stitches. continue knitting until all wool used and cast off. so scarf is one ball long. i am assuming that if…
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quick stew question
my mums sent me her recipe for stew inwhich she says to use a packet of farmhouse soup mix - now I ain't going all the way to asda for one, so will a veg/beef stock cude do and abit of flour later on?
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Briquettes from coal dust?
Does anyone know how I can recycle coal dust into briquettes for my open fire? I found an intriguing piece of information on the net that referred to mixing it with old tea leaves and using two flower pots, but no more info than that. I assume the mixture has to be damp and that you stick some in one pot and then put a…
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Defrosting HM cakes?
Just a quick question :) My mum wants to know, when defrosting HM cakes (in this case a Medeira) do you leave them in their wrappers, or is it better to remove them first? We weren't sure whether they would go too soggy/dry depending on what was done :)
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probably a daft question
can i make a chicken pie in my slow cooker ? ive got some of that ready made frozen pastry in the freezer and some chicken and stuff wondered if it would work somehow? any answers would be great cheers katex
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Ideas for buffet in June 2007
Hi, June 2007 sees us celebrating ten years married, :beer: and we want to have a nice celebration, as when we got married, things were on a real tight shoestring budget. It will be in June, so allowing for warm weather, any ideas for finger food and a hot sit down meal too please, by the way, I don't eat pork and won't…
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Removing hair dye from white bedding?
My Step-daughter (15) has dyed her egyptian cotton sheets dark brown with semi-permanent colour.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Any idea how to get the stains out? Can I bleach? Thanks Donna x
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How do I clean pan after boiling (and burning) sweetcorn in it?
Hi :) I boiled some sweetcorn in a nonstick pan but forgot it on :o and it burned badly. I've unstuck the sweetcorn now but the pan still has remnants on the bottom and I can't seem to get these off. I'm reluctant to go on it with a metal scourer as it is a non-stick surface so any ideas OS peeps? :o
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Freezing gingerbread dough?
can anyone please tell me if its possible to make up gingerbread dough in advance and freeze it or if i could indeed cook the gingerbread men and freeze them....... ive looked online but all recipes just say to make and eat will last a few days but nothing about freezing. thanks Strawbs xx
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Goose gilbets...
I bought a goose on Saturday from Lidl.... lovely it was too..... I've taken off the meat we didn't eat and frozen that for other meals. Then, last night, I simmered the carcass with a couple of onions and carrots to get stock (and I'll take all of those lovely little bits of meat out to make soup...) My question is re the…
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Krispy Kremes - freezing
Just a quick query, can you freeze Krispy Kreme doughnuts? DH is getting us a box of 12 tomorrow, and he has also got a voucher to get another 12 at the same time. Now as much as I like these doughnuts I cannot eat 24 before they go off, so was wondering if I could freeze them..
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Pulses Novice needs HELP!!!!
Right, my cupboards are overflowing to some extent and the main culprit is dried pulses. I bought them to stretch the grocery budget...but they're still sitting there :o So I need some ideas for what to do with :* BIG bag of Red kidney beans * Black Eyes Beans * Butterbeans * Chickpeas I have split red lentils but they…
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Help choosing food processor
After a decade of faithful and extensive service (lots of cakes :) ), my food processor refused to blend the latest batch of Leek & Potato Soup. Since engineering hubby couldn't get it going again - but he had a lovely time with the screwdrivers trying - I'm now in the market for a new processor. Is there a food processor…
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bread tastes very yeasty! yeuck!
I have a panasonic sd253 breadmaker as recommended on this site and have been using DCL active dried yeast as per instructions for everything in the recipe book that came with the breadmaker. This is a large tin of yeast which I keep in the fridge and is in date, I got it in a health food shop as it was cheaper than those…
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Jam
Hi everyone, Very skint at the moment, so for the OH's Grandmother, my Grandmother, my Dad and his Wife I was going to make Christmas hampers (great advice on the Christmas board) for Christmas and I want to include a jar or two of homemade jam as I heard it is cheap and pretty easy to make. Does anybody have any easy…
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Can I freeze fresh leeks?
i bought some leeks, which i have used in soups etc.... but i have one left, so rather than waste it.....i was going to freeze it.... so the questions are... can you freeze them ? do you need to blanch them ? or just cut it up and freeze.. i know its only one leek, but i really got to get back into the habbit of not…
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Persimmons - any ideas?
My Spanish neighbour has given me two carrier bags full of persimmon fruits. I have no idea what to do with them. They are so sweet when they are ripe that they are sickly. All we've done in the past is thrown them away, which seems a great shame. Any ideas??
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Orange Pomanders
I bought some nice oranges in Sainsbury yesterday for about 60p and thought I'd use them to make pomanders for Christmas (and for scenting some clothes cupboards) since I've already got plenty of cloves. I've never made them before and thought it would be fairly simple and inexpensive. However, after googling, I seem to…
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Calling people on diets
Which would you say is the cheapest diet to follow? Really fancied low carb (not Atkins) but its all meat/poultry/fish and I think it would be really quite expensive. Just wondering if anyone has tried WW/SW/RC and could say which one seems to be the cheapest to follow?? Thanks Jx
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Anyone got a 'Recipe' for Hair Conditioner?
I'd really like to make my own hair conditioner but it would seem all the recipes I can find are for conditioners that need leaving on for half an hour or overnight etc. I'd really like one that can just be left on for a couple of mins (like the shop bought stuff can) and then rinsed off - I'm always in a rush in a morning…
