Lois_E begins a long MFW journey

Froggy-G

Chantilly cream & strawberries!! Yummy!

babyb06

Lois_E wrote: »

. Any suggestions for recipes using double cream, please?


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Dauphinoise potatoes? I love them - maybe as an alternative to roast potatoes with sunday lunch? Or a special saturday night dinner?

CathT

Curry? I use an onion, tomato puree, garlic, curry powder, chicken stock and double cream in mine.

Sepa74

If you're in a real fix about the conditioner, you can use either lemon juice or vinegar to condition hair, unless you live in a very hard water area.

Dilute it with maybe 5 x the volume in water, and then rinse it through her hair several times, capturing it in a basin for reusing it.

The only problem is if it accidentally gets wet between now and the next wash it will start smelling of either lemon juice or vinegar - whichever you used.

Not terribly elegant, but a useful stop gap if you get truly stuck! and if you use vinegar, it's very MSE!!

I would make a pasta sauce with the cream. Something with leeks and / or courgette in it would be lovely, if you are a gardener like me and have lots of pumpkin flowers you can fry them in butter and blend them with the cream... mmmm.

Make some scones and have a cream tea!

Whatever you do, enjoy!

Lois_E

Thanks for the ideas about the cream, everyone. They all sounded nice, and really got me unstuck with thinking about what to cook. I decided that to be properly MSE about it, I ought to cook something that didn't require me to go out and buy anything, but just used what I'd already got in - which was rice, chicken and red onions. So I googled, and found this: the exact question! So I made it and it was lovely. I put a bit of lemon juice in with the water I cooked the rice in, which gave it a little bite to stop all that cream being too cloying.

On the building front, I have seen the electrician, and am hoping to have all the electrics finished by the middle of next week. Not having so much success pinning down the general builder, though. Will have to be firm, or I won't make my (self-imposed) deadline of 6th October to have everything finished. I am not very good at being firm in situations like that.

Tesco_points_addict

I wish I had cream left over in my fridge now! Everything sounds so yummy:D

TPAx

pavlovs_dog

Hi Lois, just caught up with all your news. My brain hurts trying to get my head around your spreadsheet formula

thanks for mentioning about the owl interfering with your doorbell. Ours are plugged in next to each other, and we had 'mr nobody' ring the bell the other day. Never thought the two could be related, so will keep an eye on it.

enjoy the last few days of freedom before school starts again :j

Lois_E

Bought a pair of trousers today - treading the fine line where they are smart enough that you can wear them for work but not official enough that you look overdressed if you wear them for casual. Will wear them to school on Monday. They were £35, but I had a Debenham's gift card that somebody gave me ages ago, so used £20 of that, so they only cost me £15 of actual money.

Had to get a size larger than usual. :eek: I have never bought that size before. But my usual size were too snug on the thighs to look professional. The ones I bought were fine round the thighs & bum but colossal round the waist - I will need to belt them for the time being, and maybe take them in if I ever have time. I usually have this problem with trousers.

The electrics are now probably not going to be completely finished by the middle of next week, but almost all of it will be done by then, and there should be only one little bit left after that, which I hope will happen quite soon. In the meantime, the electrician has been v helpful, and I am convinced he is doing his best for me but being delayed by other people. The general builder is making the right noises, and I am hoping he has got the message that I'm not going to wait forever. He has promised to come on Tuesday - let's see if he actually does.

Lois_E

Aaargh! The electrician is coming tomorrow morning, early, the house (which was tidy on Tuesday) is a tip already, and I've signed up on Michelle's challenge to say I'll be in bed by midnight. Time to get going!

originalmiscellany

You have just under 2 hours to keep the place tidy :0
Plenty of time