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Archives for July 2012

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    • Ideas to use up fili pastry

      I tend to buy ready made pastry if I see it on yellow sticker for pennies .It goes in the freezer .I have 3 large packs of FILO and need some ideas of what to do with it!

    • posting recipes policy?

      What is the MSE policy regarding posting recipes? Since having to learn a whole new way of cooking after most of my kids went vegan, I've discovered some unique recipes for making things like vegan cheese etc. that are usually expensive to buy. I don't follow the recipes entirely, so they are adapted to what I have on…

    • Cooking Pies

      Hi, I've just made a chicken and mushroom pie, using some of the chicken I got from a reduced roasted chicken at Tesco yesterday. I'm just about to cook the pie, and remembered that I have a rhubarb and apple pie in the freezer that I made when I was given some rhubarb. Would it be ok to put this fruit pie in the oven…

    • Tips and tricks

      I was thinking today how much I used to love reading the tips pages in magazines to save money or to recycle and I did search but couldn't find a page that had that on (sorry if there is). The tips I have picked up and have saved me money are: Use cheap sponge rolls in trifles instead of trifle sponges Using banana skins…

    • OS Daily Sunday 1st July

      Hi, this is the Daily Thread for 1st July. 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. Everyone’s…

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