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Cooked a chicken. Now what?
:confused: :rotfl: Pretty sure it's cooked. Juices look clear and I stuck a knife in the leg and the meat was falling off it. Looks and smells pukka. :D But what do I do with the juices? Do I use it to cook the roast potatoes? I've only done them once before and they were pretty horrible. Not sure I had enough oil in the…
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New Kitchen Counter Smearing
Hi everyone ive just had a new kitchen fitted from b&q and my gloss counter tops smear really easily.Would i be right in thinking i need microfibre cleaning cloths?.My usual jcloths dont seem to be any good many thanks
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Does anybody have a Roomba?
I'm thinking about getting myself one for Christmas - but - it is very difficult to find out just how good they are. One review said get the red one - can't find them in the UK! That leaves the 530 and 560 ... I just don't know. :confused: Help!
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carpet cleaning - apple juice & dog urine
Hope someone can help. Over a year ago my daughter spilt some apple juice on her beautiful cream bedroom carpet. Unfortuntely this was left to dry in. Also our then puppy decided to urinate on same spot. Have tried vinegar and washing up liquid. And foam carpet cleaners. Nothing. Would really like to get rid of this stain…
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Mealplans WB 24th October 2008
Hi Guys! Cant believe it's half-term:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: ....we are away for a few days from today, but we have a mealplan:A :rotfl: This week we are having: Thursday-Fish & Chips Friday-Shepherds Pie & Veg Saturday-Curry & Rice Sunday-Carvary at local pub Monday-Spagbol & Garlic Bread Tuesday-Pie, Mash & Veg…
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Os Daily 23rd October 2008
Hi, this is the OS Daily thread for Thursday 23rd October . It 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,…
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Please help a distressed young lady - laundry
I hear you are a lovely bunch over here so please help if you can. I manage some rental properties and a tenant's flat has been flooded by raw sewage. She had various baskets with linen in like towels, bedlinen, there might be clothes too, I am not sure until I go through the baskets and they have been soaked in the sewage…
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Does Apple Chutney Thicken during cooking or on standing?
Hi Following on from some really useful tips of things to do with tons and tons of apples I am making my first ever batch of apple chutney using the Nigella Lawson recipe from the Domestic Goddess book. According to the recipe you cook the chutney for 30 - 40 mins until it starts to thicken. I am at 45 mins (about to turn…
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the cheapskate shopping list and recipe thread
anyone want to join in? as stated on another thread, I don't write a shopping list then try to find everything on it at the cheapest place: I buy what's cheap then work out what to do with it. So my shopping list reads: any bargains available, full stop! We could share what we've found super-cheap lately and proffer ideas…
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Long life cream
Does anyone know if there is such a thing as long life cream and where to get it? I hate having to keep throwing cream away because it has gone out of date. I need the cream ( single) for Jamie's chicken and leek stroganoff...scrum diddly umptious! Farf x
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Old Style in the North East any tips please?
Hello anyone who reads this :) I am 6 months pregnant and on a really tight budget at the moment, I have read the Old Style board with interest for some time now, but never really posted. I have been doing a lot more home cooking lately and dropped my hours at work meaning I have time to spend making things from scratch,…
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Instead of taleggio cheese?
I've picked up some cheap portobello mushrooms and was going to cook them in a Jamie Oliver recipe with tomato sauce - the recipe uses talegio (sp?) which I don't have and can't get. Any good ideas for a substitute? I was thinking of getting a ball of value mozarella and mixing with some cheddar.
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What a good idea - finance lessons in school!
They are planning on giving kids finance lessons...it can't do any harm to make children more aware can it! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7682512.stm
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sooooop
This weekend I'm running a homeless awareness camp which involves scouts 'camping' in an unheated hall in cardboard boxes. I'm running a soup kitchen in the evening for food and a fire in the evening where they can rest their aching bones. Any ideas for a good soup they'd be likely to find in a soup kitchen? I have plenty…
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How do you make sugar mice?
like these: http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/sugar-mice-p-527.html I've never made sweets before and would like to make some for retro sweetie boxes for xmas. Not paying that price for 3 mice! need idiot proof way of doing it:rolleyes: thanks annie
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OS Daily Wed 22 Oct 08
:D Hi, this is the OS Daily thread for Wed 22 Oct October. It 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,…
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Chow mein noodles
does anyone know what i can do with 2 packets of chow mein noodles, other than make chow mein lol. Thanks xx
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Need everything for a kitchen! So useful OS stuff is...?
Hey folks On saturday I move in to my nice shiny bachelor pad :beer: There's a cooker, a fridge and a freezer, but I have nothing else to go in there, not even a fork! So I've begun compiling a list of stuff I'll need to cook like my ole Nan did when I were a lad :) I've done LOTS of reading on here so meal planning,…
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Mummy bread
I've been challenged to make the bread from this blog post http://hollyklein.blogspot.com/2008/06/morning-mummy_26.html but I can't see how you could make the strips of mummy. Suggestions anyone? I've got a Panasonic so can set dough on there
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what to do with amaretto biscuits
other than just eat them what can i do with about 100grams of ameretto biscuits they are only small just less than the size of a 2p:confused:
