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Soya Mince
I have a packet of soya mince in the house that has passed its best before date, by about 6 months, do you think it would still be ok to eat as it is dehaydrated?
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Cooking rice for 12 people
When I cook basmati rice, I always cook it in plenty of water then drain and ALWAYS rinse with boiling water. Nice, non sticky rice. On Christmas Eve I will be doing chilli and rice for 12 and possibly a couple more. I don't have a seive big enough to drain so much rice and I assume it would drop through a colander. I have…
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Roast chicken meal and ideas for nibbles
I was wondering if anyone could give me some good ideas for doing a roast chicken. Ive only ever done one before and went very well, now im cooking for 6 just 2 days before christmas. Now I would like it to be a bit different as everyone will be bored of turkey so I would like to have a sauce or something to liven it up…
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Food left out overnight - fit to eat?
Last night I roasted some chicken drumsticks with lots of vegetables. I ate half, and put the remainder in a foil dish on the draining board to cool. I forgot all about it until 7 oclock this morning, when I put it in the freezer. However, it's been left for 12 hours in the kitchen, and I live in London so it doesn't get…
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OS Monday 10th Dec 07
Morning everyone - only 15 days to go:j:j:eek: Hi, this is the Daily Thread for today. 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…
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Help! Fruit cake nightmare.....
Well not a nightmare but deffo not a success made a fruitcake out of the Good Housekeepings magazine today - it specified hour and half at 140 for a fan oven then another hour at 100 then skewer til it came out clean............ Except I skewered and kept skewering and TWO hours after it should have come out it was still…
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stain help, please
A common one I expect: my daughter made a plasticine nativity (yes, complete with tiny little bits of gold, frankincense and myrr!). Delightful, even for inveterate non-believers (I think they picked her as Mary as revenge). But we now have plasticine in the landlord's brand new carpet ... Thought I'd check for advice…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 10th December 2007
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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"Cooking for the 5,000 - loaves and fishes stuff"
Quite some time ago now I scanned a cookbook that had specifically been written for cooking for loadsa people - it was written in a format where the ingredient quantities were given in 3 or 4 different quantities - along the lines of whether one was cooking for 4 or 20 or 50 people (that sort of idea anyway). It was…
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HM bread
I am wanting some home made bread for tomorrow as we are going away for the week and will be arriving at dinner time and another member of my family is making a pan of soup to have when we arrive. I am at work tomorrow and want to leave immediately so wont have time to do anything tomorrow so I was wondering if this would…
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OS Daily Sunday 9th Dec 2007
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sat 9th Dec 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…
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Will last year's Xmas stuffing be OK?
I've found a container of last Xmas's homemade stuffing in the freezer and was wondering if it's likely to be OK. Apart from breadcrumbs, some sort of dried fruit and maybe hazelnuts I've no idea what went into it and I can't check as I've no idea where I got the recipe from! What do you think?
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Train set scenery
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I wondered if anyone knows of any way of making realistic looking scenery for a train set? (Similar to those you can buy in the shop.) I have looked at buying packs of figures and buildings but they are quite expensive in the long run. Thanks in advance.
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Beef Wellington Recipe Needed Pls!
Hi I am cooking 2 Christmas Day meals - one on the day and the other on Boxing Day. I am having more people on Boxing Day so have decided on Nigella's Coke Ham, and on Christmas Day I would like to do Beef Wellington. However, I am 7 months pregnant just now so cant have pate - so would like to make individual Beef…
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Preparing for Christmas
I have just frozen parboiled poataoes rolled in polenta ready to use on Christmas day, I did sprouts last week big bag for 25p. Just wondered what else people are going to do bdfore hand Dawn
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Freezing butter - any pitfalls?
Today at Mr T's, I discovered that my favourite Lurpak slightly salted (the ONLY butter I buy!) was on offer at 2 for £2 which is a really good saving as the individual price is £1.29. I bought six packs and made sure the sell by date was long enough so they would keep in the fridge. However, I was wondering about buying…
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Can you freeze stollen?
I have a large stollen (the type with marzipan in the middle), I'm the only one who eats it so would like to slice it up and freeze in portions... will this work?
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Curse of the expensive puddings!
Any ideas on how to wean my dad off expensive individual shop-bought puddings (i.e. miniature American style cheesecakes, premium brand trifles, etc!)?? He seems to be falling for the fact that they look pretty and are nicely presented in pretty packaging. -I've tried making homemade puddings, but obviously they don't come…
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I can't find.......
A thread that was done ages ago about cheap meals for two - I think it was done by EagerLearner? Not sure but it rings a bell. I did copy most of the recipes, but have lost the file after doing a reload. I'm also after the recipes for the cobbler using just flour, sugar and water I think with the fruit on the bottom and…
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too much onion in soup!
Afternoon In my bargain hunting trip to asda the other day i bought 2 of their leek&potato soup kits for 10p. Not exactly OS i know so for those who have never seen them they basicallly contain chopped veggies and a stock sachet - cook veggies in a little oil, make up stock with water and simmer for 20mins. Anyway,…
