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arggh Jamie - NO!
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OS daily Thursday 20th September 2007
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 20/09/07 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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Cheapest paper dressmaking patterns
Can any of you wonderful people point me in the right direction for the cheapest Vogue dressmaking patterns online? Hope so!
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Help sc and bm, lots of questions...
Hi everyone, i bought a chicken today and would really like to cook it in the slow cooker ( never used it before) and i have a few questions 1) do i need to put water in with the chicken?? 2) if i wanted it ready for say 5pm what time should i put it on at and what temp? or can i put it on tonight, or would that be to…
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Chocolate zucchini cake recipe please ?
I had a recipe from either The Times/Guardian/Observer about 10 years ago for a Chocolate zucchini cake. It was a lovely light fragrant cake and I would love to make it again. However having moved house several times I cant find the recipe. Does anyone else have it?
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Baking day...What to bake???
I want to start having a baking day now DD is at school so she has nice things to take in her lunchbox and we have nice things in the cake tin, but i'm not sure what to bake. i am quite good at making cakes (even if i do say so myself) but i normally make 'fancy' cakes with frosting and fancy icing but i just want some…
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Help! Can I pretend I am a domestic goddess?
Hi My husband has informed me today that his work are having a cake sale next Tuesday and they are all expected to take in some wonderful home made item that can be sold to raise money for charity, after I stopped laughing ( I am not the best cook, I did think of buying something from Sainsburys and pretending that I…
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Freezing cauliflower and broccoli cheese bake
Can I freeze cauliflower and broccoli cheese bake. I have got way too much for one meal but the veg needs used now so I have to make it all now so can I put it in tubs and freeze it to use another day? Thanks for any help.
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Where To Buy Tamarind Pulp? Now includes chutney recipe
I have got a recipe for a banana, tamarind and date chutney which sounds delicious, but where do you buy tamarind from? also what does tamarind taste like? i know it is used a lot in latin american and asian food but thats all!!! would sainsburys sell it? :D
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Help with my s/c holiday to Cornwall please
Hi guys Im in a panic We leave for Cornwall tommorow night staying tommorow night in a Travelodge then the rest of the journey to Cornwall friday morning Due to the overnight stop im limited to what food we can take with us and was planning on doing a supermarket shop when we get there Only ive checked ASDA, Sainsburys,…
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Healthy meals from tomorrow.wish to join me
I've just sat here and ate 6 jam tarts and i'm utterly disgusted in myself! Anyway, i'm shopping tonight and i've decided to healthy eat (under 5% fat 'ish' for adults & healthy meals for kids) from now on. I'm going away now to plan my meals for the next fortnight and i'll post them later......does anyone wish to join me…
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make ur own sandwich meat?
i found an american recipe, but the ingredients arent found in asda LOL but does anyone know a way of making sandwich meat, ie mince mixed with ???????? and then packed into a log, clingfilmed, refridgerated, then sliceable for sarnies? im wondering what the ??? must be?
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Using up Apple Sauce...
I have been given 2 jars of apple sauce they only have about 1 month left in date on them other then eat lots of pork what can i do with them?
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Bizarre sausage help needed please
So at one of those continental market jobbies I ended up buying a wild boar sausage as well as a venison sausage. You know the ones that you slice bits off as opposed to the ones you fry............how technical am I? :p Anyway they were duly sliced and pronounced YAK! Not offensive, just..........you know, not something…
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Losing Weight OS?
Hi everyone, As a newly converted OSer I thought Id ask you all for advice... My mum and I have vowed to start getting healthy and losing some weight - in the past we've tried Slimming World and Weight Watchers but both are rather expensive... so I thought we could do it in a more old style way with plenty of home made…
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Negotiate
My wife always asks for discounts at small privately owned shops. This often gets a result and she will often get 5 - 10% off almost anything she buys from clothes, books, cosmetics etc. She works on th ebasis that it does no harm to ask especially if you are spending a substantial sum or buying several items. She gets a…
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The Art of Knitting
i have already said on another post that i have subscribed to this magazine, and am well behind on my squares. this morning another batch arrived with a volume 3 folder so thought i better hunt out all the others that are lurking around. have gathered them all up and put in folders and now know i am 25 squares behind. seem…
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Defrosting HM Soup
Hi, I took a tupperware box of HM watercress soup out of the freezer yesterday morning at 9am, I left it on the sink drainer as it was a cold day and thought that it would be fine by evening. However, at 4pm yesterday it was still rock solid, so made a different dinner, popped the soup in the fridge to have tonight. I just…
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Burger Me!
Apologies for the thread title, I have a schoolboys sense of humour and couldn't resist I bought a burger press a few weeks back and tried a suggested recipe of mixing 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and 2 tablespoons of Lea and Perrins with a finely chopped onion into a 1lb of lean mince. Which I thought sounded pretty nice,…
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Uses for caviar!
I know it's not a regular old style ingredient but I have a can of 'grained salmon caviar'. It was given to our department by a visiting Russian academic and no one was keen to take it. It was going to be thrown away and I hate to see waste so I ended up with it. I have some vague ideas about posh canapes at christmas, but…
