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Adventures in Homebrewland (image heavy - you have been warned!)
Hello boys and girls! I started my first homebrew experiment off yesterday (cheapskate's cider), and took lots of pictures :D Here's my method if anyone else fancies having a go :beer: [1] First of all, get your kit sorted: Sterilised demi-john (or any big bottle tbh, large 5l plastic squash bottles could be ok) Some…
Wholemeal Flour
I am currently making Banana Loaf in my breadmaker and the recipe uses Wholemeal self raising flour. Wholemeal SR flour in the supermarket is approx. 3 times as expensive as normal SR and comes in 1k bags as opposed to normal 1.5K for normal SR. I have been wondering about adding some bran to normal SR Flour? Also wondered…
corn meal
i bought a big bag of cornmeal from Sainsbury's Asian foods section. (not very nice quality, now I know why it was cheap, the stone-ground stuff from the whole food shop is much better). Maize meal pancakes are nice (at least with the good stuff), if fatty. But do you good folks have any other recipes? cornmeal muffins,…
Omelettes in micro/oven combi
Does anyone know how to cook omelettes in a combined microwave/convection oven/grill please? I want to use up some of our eggs for lunch, and don't want to turn on the Rayburn which is turned off for a bit of money saving as it runs on LPG.
banana & walnut loaf. no tin..what else can I use?
Hi, I am going to make a banana and walnut loaf for the first time today(Delia's recipe). I got all the ingredients but then realised I dont have a 'loaf tin' or even a cake tin like it said on the recipe! Do you think I can use anything else? Will it need to rise much? I have a shallow baking dish that I thought I could…
Open Farm Sunday
Hi, Sorry if you know about this already but i couldn't see another post about it! There's an event running today called Open Farm Sunday where locals farms are opening their gates to local people, might be a good (free) day out for you and the kids or also good for finding out about getting some good food straight from…
Banana skin curry??
On Sunday Life, BBC1, this morning, there was a discussion about using leftovers. An elderly lady had written a book which included banana skin curry but no clues regarding the recipe. Anyone bought the book or got any ideas?
Chinese 5 spice...
Hi I bought a pot of this some weeks back, but have no idea what to do with it. I wanted to make some kind of chinese dish, stir fry sauce or something? But I haven't got a clue what i'm doing to be honest. Does anyone have a recipe they could share. I am making a sunday lunch today so wanted to use the left over chicken…
OS Sunday, 1st June 2008
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 1st June, 2008 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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