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Help, I've ruined the bath!
Hi I am hoping someone can help me. I sprayed the bath with bleach spray and left it for bit before I cleaned it off. The bleach has damaged the plughole and made it rusty looking and lumpy. I have tried scrubbing it off and cream cleaner but it still looks awful. Can it be fixed? It is a modern plastic bath with silver…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 5th April 2010
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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Spanish omelette recipe, please
We have 5 new hens :T who are laying predigiously :T I'd like to make us Spanish omelette for lunch tomorrow. I've seen them taken as packed lunch, as they hold together like a pastryless quiche. Mine fall apart :( Anyone got a good recipe that will hold together, please :A TIA, Penny. x
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ave you got next months Good Food magazine?
I made some lemon and poppyseed cupcakes last week form the magazine and popped them in the freezer, intending to ice them tomorrow ready to take into work on Tuesday. (They turned out beautifully, by the way;)) Unfortunately I'm packing ready to move on Thursday....and I've packed the blummin magazine with the recipe for…
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Does anyone make Bonne Maman French style jams/conserves?
Does anyone make Bonne Maman French style jams/conserves? I made windfall jam/marmalade as per the hairy bikers mum knows best series. Then Strawberry jam as per WI. But to be honest I don't really like either of them, I like the really soft loose set of the French style conserves rather than the sweeter jellified set of…
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Slow Cooker Treacle Sponge
Morning I'm doing a treacle sponge for desert today and want to cook it in the slow cooker to save space. Does anyone know how long it will take? The recipe states 1/2 hours on the hob, and it's in a 2 pint pudding basin. Thanks all.
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OS Daily Easter Sunday 4th April 2010
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Sunday 4th April.It 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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Badly creased Jeans Question
Everytime I wash my jeans they end up with incredible creases in them that I can't even get out with the iron. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help you can give.:beer:
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Making your own wallart
Hello! My bedroom has white washed walls, which I love but I want to spice them up with some canvases covered with vintage Damask wallpaper like this:…
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Bulk cooking (to bung in oven later) tips and help with foil trays
So now that I'm working for myself, we don't tend to get home until 7ish from work. And ideally we'd like a meal we can bung in the oven for 30 - 60 minutes while we shower etc and then just enjoy. So far we have done lasagne (which took an hour to cook from frozen but was great with some garlic break :) ) and last week we…
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Help with tweaking a bread recipe?
Had some fantastic bread from Waitrose http://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdeliver/servlet/JSPs/shop/display_ind_fs.jsp?line_number=094082&prrfnbr=292700 Usually £2.89 a loaf:eek: 10p on a Sunday afternoon:money: It was amazing, the best bread I've ever eaten. I'm almost sorry I had it, as I will want to buy it again & again.…
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OS Daily Saturday 3rd April
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Saturday 3rd April.It 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…
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what can i do??
hi everybody. i'm totally new to money saving and i would like some advice as you are all so helpful and nice i thought that you could help- my oh went to the local butchers yesterday and asked what was cheapest even though i'd given him a list of what to get. the butcher offered to make up a mystery box up for him. the…
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urgent help please i need your brains!
Evening all, Hope you are all ok and doing something fun with your bh I need some help though please I have afriends weddingtom and im just pressing and organising my accesories etc when i have noticed a biro mark on my dress!!:mad: What do i do leave it (its not terrible but noticeable) or try to get it off I have not got…
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How much home-made stock to use?
I've made some lamb stock and chicken stock, which have turned out really well, but now I don't really know what to do with it. I was going to make a hot pot with the lamb stock, and a soup with the chicken stock. But say a recipe calls for 1 pint of stock - do I use a full pint of my stock, or a small amount of my stock…
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Hot Cross Buns & Custard
I'm sorry if there's already a thread for this ... but you lovely people seemed the most likely to know! Around this time last year some instore magazine (possibly Sainsburys?) did a receipe for a dessert that was mainly Hot Cross Buns, Marmalade and Custard. I made it and it was delicious. I have, however, lost the…
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Lentil help please!!!!
Hi there, I cooked some red lentils with some vegetarian stock on Monday, we had a dahl on monday and soup on tuesday and wednesday I have some of the original cooked lentils left, I would like to make another dahl tonight to go with some leftover potato cakes. My question is are these lentils still okay to eat? They have…
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Best way to cook smoked Vietnamese Cobbler
I bought some of this fish from Tesco, I've had it before and it's similar to smoked Haddock. I've cooked it in the microwave with a knob of butter but I want to cook it for 4 and was thinking of putting it in the oven in milk. What do you think will this be ok
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recipe help
Hubby was off work Monday & watched an Antony Worral Thopmson show with Gino D'Acampo - Gino cooked Crab & Chirizo Ravioli. Hubby of course now wants to cook this as he believes we have everything in. problem is he's not 100% sure lol :o Question is ... Did anyone see this & can remember the recipe or does anyone know the…
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OS Daily Good Friday 2nd April 2010
Hi there! This is the Daily Thread for Friday 2nd April.It 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.…
