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Saving vegetables!
OK I have a few questions regarding vegetables/fruit I currently chop and freeze raw onions for use at future date, seem to work fine, is garlic ok to do? Chop or freeze cloves whole? Tomatoes - use around 12 or so a week for salads, but only use part of them (not keen on the middle green bit) so that ends up in the bin…
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Cornbread and green chilli
Hi All:hello: Just wondered if anyone had a recipe for cornbread, have looked on the recipe index and can't find it and have googled it but all the recipes that came up were american and I didn't recognise some of the ingredients. Also, DH has mentioned fancying trying 'green chilli' which I have never heard of, any…
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Greek/Turkish food-how do you make Kataifi pastry?
That shredded filo pastry,that looks like shredded wheat. Can you buy it ? I imagine it must be quite hard to make?
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OS Daily Tues 15th July 08
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 in, put your feet up (although check the…
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glycerin question
hi all, need to buy some to stop my icing going hard, see some in boots today, but want sure if its the same thing as it had 'bp' on it. it was £1.95, is there anywhere cheaper? not seen it in asda? or should i be looking in the medicine sections? kind regards mel
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Can I make cornflake cakes with
crunchy nut cornflakes? :o I have 2 boxes of these and didn't want to go out and buy some rice crispies or cornflakes but I will if the crunchy nut will be awful? Thanks
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Mrs Beeton - Free Download
Mrs Beeton's "Book of Household Management" is available for free download from Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10136
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What would you clean a freeezer with?
I have been inspired by all the posts on OS and cooked a vegetable soup, a chicken soup, artisan bread and a few fish pies, my small freezer is now full, I do have a chest freezer in the outside shed, but it's been empty and unused for about a year. So I need to give it a good clean before I start using it again. What…
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Does anyone please know how to make these biscuits?
Im sure I can remember the ingredients being Oats, melted butter, sugar, flour, goldern syrup You mix them and make them into balls then they spread out on the baking tray during cooking I cannot remember what these are called or the recipe I know they sound like twinks but im sure there not:confused:
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HM Falafel
Hi, Does anybody have a tried and tested recipe for this. There are lots of variations on different sites. Going to make humus also but mose recipes are the same for that anyway.
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Do you think this mixture would work?
I am not known for my cooking skills but as today is lovely I thought I would have a bash at something a bit more "Summery". I have leftovers from yesterdays roast chicken and I was thinking about slicing up some courgettes,mushrooms and fry with some garlic, chuck in a tin of tomatoes and the chicken and cook until it…
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Cooking Beans in a Slow Cooker
I have at last got a slow cooker. Because I didn't have one before I didn't read the slow cooker threads very well. Now, here's the thing ... Can I cook cannellini beans in my new slow cooker? Thanks folks. :D
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Recipe advice please!
Hi all I have been volunteered to cook a meal for 2 tonight. I am defrosting 2 chicken legs and a bag of brussels & carrots (I'm OK for spuds). However, I have no idea how long or at what temperature I need to cook the chicken or veg. My (fan) oven is graded in centigrade. Can anyone give me some tips please? I also have…
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OS Daily for Monday 14th July 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 come in, put your feet up (although check the…
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Removing a stain from dog sick
Mum's dog was sick twice on her new cream carpet and after washing there is still a stain there, any ideas for getting it out? Thanks.
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Question about slow cooker
I've had three different models of slow cooker in the past. My current one was very expensive but what I've found with all models irrespective of price is that they tend to overcook. Most booklets suggest using 'high' setting if cooking meat and this definitely burns my roasts. Even if I use the low setting I still find…
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fuchsia berries
Hi, Just wondered if anyone had tried these - I nearly did today, I found a ripe one, split it in half and smelt it before I tried it - thought it smelt of pomegranate - then a wasp came and tried to get it so it got dropped on the floor! - couldn't find anymore ripe ones then :rolleyes: After reading up on them, I found…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 14th July 2008
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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What size?
Hi all, I have a question for all Remoska owners - what size did you buy? My combi-oven is no more and will be buying a Remoska but what size. There are only me and my hubby, David. I like to cook and freeze extra portions. Any advice greatly appreciated.:D
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Scratched Laminate any ideas???
I have just moved into my first house and the wheel of my sofa had come off without me realising. As we were trying to position it it has practicly ruined the laminate flooring underneath it. It is deeply scratched over 4 pannels and i cant afford to have a proffesional into replace it. Any ideas on maybe fixing or…
