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Dish-Matic for Washing Up
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Weekly Flylady Thread 16th September 2013
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week or getting motivated when it comes to housework then come and join us. Thank you to Dusty for last weeks thread Still going with the new style this week, which works on how much time and motivation you have. The idea is that even if you are really…
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What are quick cook oats?
Have recently seen quick cook oats mentioned in a couple of recipes and wondered what they were. I have porridge oats in though as these were also mentioned in the recipe have eliminated these. I can only think it means something like ready brek, am I on the right track? Many thanks.
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Anybody made hollygog pudding?
Saw mention of this pud in a magazine and I found the recipe online. It seems like a square of pastry with golden syrup spooned on then rolled like a swiss roll and baked. Was wondering if the pastry cooks through ok if it's quite thick?…
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Feather pillows
Hi all I feel a bit daft asking this, but in my living room i have got some feather pillows thati put my pillowcases. But the feathers keep sticking through the cases and pricking you lol Is there any way of stopping this? Do the need a liner ?
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OS Daily Sunday 15th September 2013
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 welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Anyone put their extra freezer upstairs?
Hi all, Am in a food saving mood lately, and realise that I need a bigger freezer. Currently have half and half, but it's not big enough for my cooking and freezing frenzies! Kitchen is too small to put another one in. No way. So was thinking of putting one in the box room, sorry rubbish gathering room, where everything…
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Frying pan and wok for induction hob
Have just returned a ceramic jml frypan that everything ended up sticking to after 3 weeks use. Looking to buy frypan and wok to use with new induction hob, can anyone recommend ones that they have found to be good quality and non stick. Thanks.
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Doing without a microwave - do you? Can I?
My microwave finally gave up the ghost this morning, with a flash and burning smell, and has gone to the recycling depot this afternoon. I went straight to Tesc0 to get another. The old one was an Arg0s cheapie about four years old. I was looking for a simple manual one, not digital, with a handle to open the door, not a…
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slow cooker bolognaise help.
Hi all. Did bolog in my slowie for the first time. Ingredients were 500g mince, 2 onions, 3 grated carrots, 2 courgettes, handfull of mushrooms, 3 peppers. 1tin of chop toms, 1 carton passata, 250ml beef stock. Loads herbs and garlic n worcesrer sauce. Left it for 9 hours on low. Taste was lovely but it was quite watery.…
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amounts
i want to do a months batch cooking for a family of 4 and a single guy (local older gentleman) needs to be stuff i can throw in the oven so i have thought of loads of easy meals but cant work out how much i need to get planning on having each meal once a week bolognaise lasagne chilli beef caserole shepards pie chicken…
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Oh No! Dilemma...
Exactly one week ago today, I found grated gruyere cheese reduced from £3 a pack to 49p a pack so, obviously, I bought 5 packs..... I had planned on freezing them and making a nice cheese fondue one wintery evening..... However..... I just found them in the bag, under the table :eek: They all look fine - no mould. I…
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OS Daily Saturday 14th September 2013
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 welcome, please do come in, put your feet…
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Sewing pattern enlargements
Hope someone can help here... I've got a new craft magazine and want to make something from it. The templates for the pattern say... " shown at 50% enlarge to 200%" My little brain can't work this out!! I'm using a copier within a printer to do this (don't know if this is relevant!) So....do I press 'enlarge to 200%' or…
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'Man Food' Help
Hi everyone, DH is having a few work friends around on Sunday night, I can't think of anything to make as a 'snack'! I want something easy but has a wow factor, pulled pork maybe or is that too much? Any ideas welcome!
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How to keep our bathroom dry?
Hi everyone Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I figured OS-ers are pretty resourceful and might be able to come up with some ideas for my dilemma. We've just moved into a house that has a shower over the bath - a very powerful shower. There is a small shower screen next to the shower unit, however…
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Dan Dan noodles with quorn mince
Hello! We are having some vegetarians to stay and I was thinking of making Dan Dan noodles but with quorn mince instead of pork. Do you think it will work? All the recipes I have seen on the internet suggest using tofu, but I can't bear tofu!
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which slow cooker for my daughter ?
I know there are pages on here about SCs, but here's a quick question: my son in law likes SC cooking but my DD says that everything comes out of it wet and tasteless. I freegled mine as I found the same thing and now I Kuhn Rikon PC instead (which I love). She is now wondering if it's just their very old SC, and because…
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Finnish Bear Meat Anyone?
I just can't put this off any longer! Two years ago we had visitors stay from Finland, they brought us a gift of a tin of Karhun Lihaa - Bear Meat! On the tin it says 94.5% Bear meat 5% Grease fo wild boar Corn starch Salt Rosemary New shoot of spruce It is a delicacy in Finland and quite expensive I believe (although they…
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Lost jamaica ginger cake recipe - please help
I make a ginger cake that takes just like the ones you buy in the shops (it has black pepper in it - secret ingredient) The recipe came from a site "mortgage free in three". I thought I was being good storing the recipe in favourites on my PC and not wasting paper printing but now the site has gone :( Such a shame, the…
