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What to use instead of corn oil?
In response to another question I raised earlier in the week about my veg box, I had decided to try the beetroot and chocolate muffins that were mentioned. However, the recipe uses corn oil - could I use anything else, just hadn't wanted to go to the supermarket on mothers day of all days. Many thanks.
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any cake decorators about?
I'm wanting to have a play with making some sugar flowers and want to make flower paste - I have fondant and gum tragacanth but cannot find instructions on how much gum to mix into the fondant. Any advice would be greatl appreciated, thanks.
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OS Daily Sunday 22 March 09
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 22st March. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Mrs Beeton books in Asda
My local Asda had the best of Mrs Beetons on the 2 for £3 shelf today. They had kitchen garden, easy everyday cooking and, jam and preserves. Hope this helps someone. :D
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old style homemade medicines/remedies for children
hi, do you remember your mums homemade medicines, thick, treacly yucky stuff, but which actually worked! with more and more restrictions coming in on childrens cough and cold medicines (due to miss use by some parents), rising ages on labels and the fact that they dont seem to work away, i was wondering if anyone has any…
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Ahhh, need help. Total plonker cooking Mexican
Hello! I can't cook to save my life. And I'm cooking myself a Mexican.... vegetarian fajitas. I have Quorn fajita strips, a fajita kit with the tortillas, spice mix and salsa, and some peppers and an onion. So, first question: which part of the pepper do I use. It has loads of seeds inside... do I throw those and just use…
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Boxing Day Tea!
And yes, I know it's Mothering Sunday tomorrow - but by special request.......!!!!!!!!! :confused: :rolleyes: I've cooked off the Turkey Crown & a piece of smoked Gammon today in readiness. After I boiled the Gammon I popped it in the oven for an hour & basted it frequently with a concoction of lemon juice, orange juice,…
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Peas
Hi all, I'm going to make ham and pea soup. I have the ham, the stock, veg, and technically the peas. Y'see, I asked the OH to pick some dried split peas up, and he came back with Batchellor's quick soak dried peas. I'm wondering if I can use these in the same way, but just not soak them with the soaking block, or will my…
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Cheap salads
I have a very stressful job and get home tired and late from work, in an attempt to eat fairly properly in the week without the hassle of cooking, clearing up, dishes etc ( I know how lazy I sound ) I have taken to buying prepared salads from Sainsbury in a box - iceberg lettuce, grated carrots, sweetcorn and red cabbage…
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April 2009 Grocery Challenge
Hello everyone, Welcome to the April 2009 Grocery Challenge. :hello: If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your March budget, then keep on posting in the March Grocery Challenge As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will be…
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cashews gone soft...
I didn't tie the bag up properly so now i have 400g of soft cashews :( :( Is there any way to crisp them up again....or any recipe that benefits from soft cashews? I usually put them in stir fries but I don't like them soft :(
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oven at 110 for 16 hours!
What else can I do at the same time? is there anything I could cook at such a low temperature? Will only be a little bit of room though I think as will be cooking shoulder of pork (donnie brasco-HFW meat book) so taking up most of the oven Thanks
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What salad would go with this ?
Am having a girly night in tonight with a bean chilli (THANKYOU NODWAH!!!!!) serving it with brown rice and want to have a salad as well. Was just going to serve with chopped spinach ,cucumber and spring onion what shall i do for a dressing? I think something cooling (chilli is hot man!) any tips ??
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Is it safe to eat green potatoes?
Is it unsafe to eat green potatoes or is that just an old wives tale? I have 1/2 of 15kg of potatoes I bought for 60p on a RFQS. Some are starting to go green. I set myself a personal challenge of eating all the potatoes eventually when I bought them so if the green ones are not harmful then I can continue with my…
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OS Daily Thread - Saturday 21st March
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Saturday 21st March. This is an 'Over the garden fence' type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Thai Jasmine rice recipe?
Hi all, SK's OH here (get me with the lingo!) with a question about my favourite topic - food! I'm a huge fan of Thai food and recently, thanks to all you lovely people, we've been doing much more cooking from scratch. We've got the curries and other main dishes sorted (kinda) but we can't for the life of us work out how…
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Missing recipe book-Please help!
Hi Most of my books are boxed up at the moment and I can't find my Slimming World 100 Recipes Red Days. I'm looking for a recipe i have only made once and i can't remember what it was called. It was a sort of chicken stew with chorizo in it, does anyone have the recipe book please and can help? Thank you
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coconut ice??
Does anyone know how long coconut ice keeps for? I want to make some for a school fundraising event. (son volunteered me!) Problem is, it's on my sons birthday. i won't have a lot of time and want to know how far i can make it in advance. sally.
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Cleaning crayon off an LCD TV
Hi everyone Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, but have often found fab tips on cleaning things on this thread. Does anyone know the best way to clean crayon off of an LCD screen please?? Only had the TV a little while and my little darling has drawn on the screen and the instructions say to only use a damp cloth on…
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Soup help please
Good morning all. I'm hoping someone can help me: I remember reading a recipe on here for ham and pea soup, but didn't bookmark it. I've tried the index collections but can't find it anywhere :confused: I do remember that it involved buying a certain type of ham joint and boiling it - I think it then said that you could…
