As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

ceridwen

Thanks for the clarification PaidinChickens - blame the fact that there are so many threads on the House Board where people are just trying to take over a bit of land for themselves only and trying to find a way to "buy it without paying for it" that its a bit disillusioning.:(

Anyways - lets hope it does take off as a communal project then. I'm all in favour of communal projects..:)

redlady_1

Cheers greenbe. Someone else mentioned Jaeger earlier on. It seems as if they could be a good option. Will certainly have a nose in the sales. Thanks very much.

mardatha

Thanks for all help with the Bread Maker, thanks button gone AWOL.!

short_bird

jackieglasgow wrote: »

I just wanted to share that my two football crazy, Xbox and Wii loving sons aged 11 and 9 are snuggled up on the couch watching The Wizard of Oz, smiling, laughing and ohh-ing and ahh-ing at all the right bits The old ones are still the best

And when they're teenagers, they'll watch Wizard of Oz while listening to "Dark Side Of the Moon" and tell you how it all fits together... here's the list!
http://members.cox.net/stegokitty/dsotr_pages/printable.htm

I received an email from a local group looking to pair off people with fruit and people with jam and chutney making skills. Now, that's a good idea!

mamaninie

kidcat wrote: »

Having a house warming do at end of month and was planning on throwing a big pan of something like chilli/curry and some desserts but my friend says house warmings dont usually include food, anyone have any advice?

I would never do a party without food:p If you start at 8pm you could just do nibbles. We had a few people round last night for a game of pool and some nibbles - I did tempura veg (from garden) and tempura prawns (on special), chicken satay skewers, some couscous salad, bag of posh crisps and pot of houmus and some olives. FOr pud I did "comprehensive" Mess (I don't aspire to have Eton in my desserts!) -easy to do in advance and is just an assembly job.

I've done vats of chilli lots of times before for parties - it always goes down really well - just remember to do a veggie one. I usually do a few jacket potatoes or a pot of rice - kept warm in the slow cooker, and salad and coleslaw. Poundland do the disposable bowls which are easier to serve that sort of thing in rather than plates - easier for people to hold in their hands standing up. The great thing about chillis and spuds is that you can hang onto the leftovers - spuds into wedges etc yum yum!

The thing with doing food for a party is to just do a few things nicely rather than oodles and oodles of different things. If people don't want to eat they don't have to!

paidinchickens

:mad: I still can't make yorkshire puds!!! I tried three lots tonight and lets just say its a pity there is no ice hockey ring near me:p

stiltwalker

Kidcat - I think I'd be taken out and shot by my friends if I threw a party without food, I sometimes think they only come for the food - lol! We had our housewarming last year and did a bbq (under an old borrowed VW awning as it was spitting) just basic homemade burgers and sausages - big bowls of salad, green, coleslaw and potato - a big broad bean and feta quiche (cold) - and about half a dozen or even eight different sorts of bread. People picked at the bread all night and it soaked up the alcohol brilliantly. The kids (including one or two large ones to supervise!) toasted marshmallows over the embers of the bbq.

Going to go and feed my tomatoes now (Yay I now have a few teemy tiny ones) and inspect the rest of the garden before I hit the ironing pile, think I may be earning myself a glass of wine later.

floss2

Rainy-Days wrote: »

.... In the first instance they need to be stopped = complacency is what these tin pot hitlers in local government work on. They need to understand that they are ONLY and will ever be just local government they are not on a par with direct government!

As I am "ONLY and will ever be just local government" I found this quite rude, and indeed inaccurate - local government officers have legal rights and obligations that are devolved from central government which give them the authority to apply centrally-made laws in their locality (hence the name "local government").

born_blonde wrote: »

paid in chickens, contact your local Land Registry office customer services department with a view to applying for possessory title as you have clearly been using this land for over 10 years you never know you might get lucky! Even if you don't they might be able to help.

Land Registry should be your first call to find out who owns the land.

GQ - I hope your mum's diagnosis is not cancer, having lost both my parents to the disease I'm sending a hug for both of you :grouphug:
CA - At least you now have a diagnosis and can now move forward armed with your new knowledge :grouphug:
Haribo - Hope your harvest catches up soon!

JIL

paidinchickens wrote: »

:mad: I still can't make yorkshire puds!!! I tried three lots tonight and lets just say its a pity there is no ice hockey ring near me:p

now its not conventional but here is my fool proof method.
you need a high sided roasting tin or muffin tins. pour in vegetable oil up to about a quarter or a third of the tins height. Put the tins with the oil into a really hot oven up to max.
beat two eggs in a jug or a bowl with a fork, do not be tempted to use a food mixer. then add in 4 tablespoons plain flour, salt and pepper and a tablespoon milk, beat again until the lumps have gone, at this point add more milk until the consistency resembles a thick yoghurt.
wait until your oven temp light goes off, then quickly pour in the batter mix up to 3/4 height of the tin. If possible do not remove the tins from the oven. Quickly shut the oven door and leave at the very high temp for about 8 mins, then turn down to about 200, or gas mark 6 do not open the oven door. 15 mins later you will have well risen yorkies. You will find they wont sink, but be nice and brown.
Do not worry about all the oil as you will find a lot of it will be left behind.

I hope this helps, its not the most conventional way to make them but I have got a number of my work colleagues to try it over the years and they have all had really good results.

paidinchickens

JIL wrote: »

now its not conventional but here is my fool proof method.
you need a high sided roasting tin or muffin tins. pour in vegetable oil up to about a quarter or a third of the tins height. Put the tins with the oil into a really hot oven up to max.
beat two eggs in a jug or a bowl with a fork, do not be tempted to use a food mixer. then add in 4 tablespoons plain flour, salt and pepper and a tablespoon milk, beat again until the lumps have gone, at this point add more milk until the consistency resembles a thick yoghurt.
wait until your oven temp light goes off, then quickly pour in the batter mix up to 3/4 height of the tin. If possible do not remove the tins from the oven. Quickly shut the oven door and leave at the very high temp for about 8 mins, then turn down to about 200, or gas mark 6 do not open the oven door. 15 mins later you will have well risen yorkies. You will find they wont sink, but be nice and brown.
Do not worry about all the oil as you will find a lot of it will be left behind.

I hope this helps, its not the most conventional way to make them but I have got a number of my work colleagues to try it over the years and they have all had really good results.

I always use a foodmixer is that where I go wrong ???? My tins are not that deep (jam tart style tins) However my mum used them and she used to do great ones. Will give your advice when I find a deeper tin and DH is not in as I think he is fed up with me getting my hopes up only to be dashed when they come out as pellets:rotfl: