the daydream fund challenge thread

rozeepozee

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I did buy a bread maker a few years back, but to be honest i didnt really get on with it....

so i have bought a bread mix, for now, and will try and have another go at the bread maker, alot of people just use it for kneading and mixing the bread mix, and then cook in the oven, so might have a go at that....which ever way i do it, it will end up like bricks:rotfl:

Take heart, CTC, it just takes a bit of practice. We haven't bought a loaf of bread since we got our first breadmaker 7 years ago abd OH makes a wholemeal loaf at least every other day. If you want, I can ask him for some guidance. It took a while to perfect. I know the loaf is softer if it's a part wholemeal, part white mix.

I keep saying we should be more adventurous with it. He makes a banana cake mix in it when we have an excess of ripe bananas and sometimes pizza dough.

alfie_1

CTC.... sorry to hear of your friends accident, always sad.

glad to hear your OH has got his bike back on the road...if you ever set off on a "thelma and louise" trip, do call here, can always put you up... lovely biking round the forest. an ex had a 1000cc bike and stupidly i got on it as passenger and to say i was scared is an understatement !! he forgot i was on the back i think and me being a novice, as he was at a junction [rural road thankfully] i relaxed, he took off and i just flipped backwards onto the road !! hed gone a few miles before he realised !! im sure i dont need to even suggest here what i called him when he finally returned ..... lost my nerve after that !! but loved going to the bulldog bash [by car!], fascinating people and great bands etc..

im sat twiddling my thumbs waiting to leave now... no point going early as just too much traffic on the M1...
got some smoked salmon and cream cheese sarnies, pringles and lucozade !! maybe a few bars of choc......

ukmaggie45

Good luck for your journey Alfie! Just take it easy. Best wishes.

lostinrates

Yep, good luck and take care Alfie!

Rummer

Good luck with the journey Alfie!

alfie_1

thank you

Davesnave

Take it steady, alfie, on your long trek North. (anything above Birmingham is The North to me! ) Lots of breaks for tea:)


And let's hope there's egg, bacon, sausage and black pudding at the other end!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lol... Alfie, i know that has happened to a few pillions...luckily hubby's bike is like an armchair for me, with a back rest... many a time i have fallen asleep on the back when we have been on a long run....and the only reason why i woke up was when hubby was breaking and i jolt forward, and bang his back with my helmet..:rotfl:

he has a kawasaki vn1500 like this one, but he has taken the screen off, so it goes a bit faster...:D

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/800/images/11131638@Kawasaki-VN1500-C-01.jpg

you take care when you are travelling.... and dont forget to eat all your posh sarnies..

make sure you post when you get back, just for us to know you have got home safely...

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I have, you have to leave them for a while, I think I left them for at least a week, maybe 2.

And after all that.... they still taste bitter

Maybe if you do what the Victorians did and beef up a big plant by feeding and looking after it. Maybe then if you blanche it, it would taste better.
But tbh most things that have gone out of use for salads is for a reason, they taste orrible!

I knew I had forgotton something today. Tomorrow I'll find and put a pot over a dandelion.

I don't necessarily agree with you Lotus, about the salad veg and popularity. I think we tend to have quite a narrow palate for veg in UK. e.g. I find the very bitter grilled chickory in Italy a little too much, but a nation doesn't! So, the fault is partly my palate so I keep nibbling. I think its two dozen times or something that is meant to get you appreciating the flavour of something. I'm WELL over that but I keep trying.:)


And yes, young nettles are meant to be best, but I've had them quite late in the summer. They just taste...healthier....not nice but edible.


I hope I find some local wild garlic....I'm going to have to plant some in the base of a hedgerow I guess.

choille

So sorry about your friend CTc - It is so sad a thing.

Take care Alfie.

I'm off to bed early again as feel bushed with this head cold thing - the wind is still fierce here but so mild.