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Coffee and chocolate

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  • Erme
    Erme Posts: 3,597 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped! Debt-free and Proud!
    I now have an interview for a clothes shop on Monday as well....

    Phone interview for the mobile folk on monday

    guys pray I get one of these two

    Only snag with the phone shop is that I can't work Sundays but still (and I haven't told them yet :eek:)

    E
    :dance:
    I believe in the power of PAD
    Come and join us on the Payment a Day thread
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  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    Just about awake again... what a stormy night! The ground was littered with leaves this morning.

    DH is having a tidying up day, I suppose I ought to join in.

    Not yet though. :)

    Saved some money on shopping last night and also made some bread - a little more space in the larder where the mix was and a nice breakfast for me at about 6 this morning. :)

    DH has found the ice cream box I put food in for work - and it's got chocolate in! This is turning into a good day!

    I've also just remembered the friendship cake mixes are ready to cook today. Definitely a a good day, though not for the waist line. :)
    Miggy

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    Every Penny a Prisoner

    This article is about coffeehouse bartenders. For lawyers, see Barrister. (Wikipedia)
  • ani_26
    ani_26 Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    miggy wrote: »
    I've also just remembered the friendship cake mixes are ready to cook today. Definitely a a good day, though not for the waist line. :)


    Are these the "living cake mix " thingamies? :p


    Years ago, some one used to give you a living yeast mix ? ( i'm talking 30 ish years ago here,) and you watched it grow for a week or whatever it was, and then i used to add fruity type ingredients to mine and sprinkle sugar, (:eek: ) on the top, and it was G O R G E O U S.:D Then you save some of the mix back, and off you went again, with next weeks cake. Trouble is, i never learned how to start it off in the first place, so you were ermm, committed to making cake every week.............:rotfl:



    Those were the days.There's one for a good mse tip :D
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    free from life wannabe


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  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    That's exactly the one.

    G O R G E O U S is the word for it.

    When you get an oven (when not if ;) ), I will send you a starter. :)
    Miggy

    MEMBER OF MIKE'S MOB!
    Every Penny a Prisoner

    This article is about coffeehouse bartenders. For lawyers, see Barrister. (Wikipedia)
  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    Ani, if ever you get some spare bricks and cement (as one does), you could of course make your own oven:

    http://www.rivercottage.net/users/Carolina/blog/how-i-built-my-wood-fired-bread-oven/

    These are so beautiful... I WANT ONE! :rotfl: I think it would do cakes too...
    Miggy

    MEMBER OF MIKE'S MOB!
    Every Penny a Prisoner

    This article is about coffeehouse bartenders. For lawyers, see Barrister. (Wikipedia)
  • ani_26
    ani_26 Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    miggy wrote: »
    That's exactly the one.

    G O R G E O U S is the word for it.

    When you get an oven (when not if ;) ), I will send you a starter. :)


    YIPPPPPPEEEEEE



    Free cake ad infinitum


    ( when i get an oven, that is ) :p
    Debt free - Is it a state of mind? a state of the Universe? or a state of the bank account?
    free from life wannabe


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  • ani_26
    ani_26 Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    miggy wrote: »
    Ani, if ever you get some spare bricks and cement (as one does), you could of course make your own oven:

    http://www.rivercottage.net/users/Carolina/blog/how-i-built-my-wood-fired-bread-oven/

    These are so beautiful... I WANT ONE! :rotfl: I think it would do cakes too...



    Hmmmm


    Have to get permission from the ha for that one :D
    Debt free - Is it a state of mind? a state of the Universe? or a state of the bank account?
    free from life wannabe


    Official Petrol Dieter
  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    ani_26 wrote: »
    Hmmmm


    Have to get permission from the ha for that one :D

    Build it on a platform... then it's furniture, not a fixture. :)
    Miggy

    MEMBER OF MIKE'S MOB!
    Every Penny a Prisoner

    This article is about coffeehouse bartenders. For lawyers, see Barrister. (Wikipedia)
  • miggy
    miggy Posts: 4,328 Forumite
    If you can rise bread in a slow cooker, perhaps there's a way to bake cakes too?

    *Delves into freezer for thinking cap.*
    Dya know what? I feel a bit like Morecambe and wise


    Maybe a duo?

    "I'm siiiinging in the rain, just siiinging in the rain...

    Dah da da da, da-da da da da dah...

    Oh look, there's a slug! Pass me the salt, quick!
    And it's good bye from me..."
    Miggy

    MEMBER OF MIKE'S MOB!
    Every Penny a Prisoner

    This article is about coffeehouse bartenders. For lawyers, see Barrister. (Wikipedia)
  • ani_26
    ani_26 Posts: 3,700 Forumite
    And it's goodbye from him..........................
    Debt free - Is it a state of mind? a state of the Universe? or a state of the bank account?
    free from life wannabe


    Official Petrol Dieter
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