Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

lostinrates

I feel like some one in the great depression....currently sitting by the wood burner as fuel for tonight are a broken chair and a really chunky Jamie Oliver (via tk max) chopping board. The chopping board had cracked (I think dh butchered something on it). Not giving out much heat though.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I feel like some one in the great depression....currently sitting by the wood burner as fuel for tonight are a broken chair and a really chunky Jamie Oliver (via tk max) chopping board. The chopping board had cracked (I think dh butchered something on it). Not giving out much heat though.

You need a battered saucepan and a toasting fork. then you can make soup in the saucepan on top of the wood burner and toast your bread over the flames. We did that in the power cuts of the 70s, except we didn't have a woodburner, so the saucepan was balanced precariously on the fire coals.

Toasting bread with a toasting fork is fabulous... and each slice has 2-3 small holes and a white bit where the flame didn't toast it behind the fork prongs.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

You need a battered saucepan and a toasting fork. then you can make soup in the saucepan on top of the wood burner and toast your bread over the flames. We did that in the power cuts of the 70s, except we didn't have a woodburner, so the saucepan was balanced precariously on the fire coals.

Toasting bread with a toasting fork is fabulous... and each slice has 2-3 small holes and a white bit where the flame didn't toast it behind the fork prongs.

I love things (bread, muffins, and best of all crumpets) tosted over the fire too, maybe we'll do that for breakfast over the holidays

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I love things (bread, muffins, and best of all crumpets) tosted over the fire too, maybe we'll do that for breakfast over the holidays

Every time I buy a packet of crumpets I think "I should make these really...." never actually got round to it though. I bet they're lovely fresh; I've only ever ever had cheap packet crumpets in cellophane. Aldi have just started selling packs for just 39p, which is brilliant but I bet I could make the same for 15p. I think I'd like to make an 8" crumpet and eat it, dripping wtih marg, while it's still pan hot

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

You need a battered saucepan and a toasting fork. then you can make soup in the saucepan on top of the wood burner and toast your bread over the flames. We did that in the power cuts of the 70s, except we didn't have a woodburner, so the saucepan was balanced precariously on the fire coals.

Toasting bread with a toasting fork is fabulous... and each slice has 2-3 small holes and a white bit where the flame didn't toast it behind the fork prongs.

Pastures that sounds such fun. It almost makes me want to crack open my favourite - window licking - thread so you can add it. Please feel free should the urge take you;).

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pastures that sounds such fun. It almost makes me want to crack open my favourite - window licking - thread so you can add it. Please feel free should the urge take you;).

What thread's that?

I can't have any urge ... as I've actually (at this point) no idea what you mean.

vivatifosi

Allow me...

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1377795

(any excuse)

Davesnave

When I lived in a hostel in London, they didn't feed us properly and it was rumoured they put bromide in the tea. :eek:

A couple of us managed to get a key to the basement store room copied, and that gave us free, (but not risk-free) access to quantities of bread & butter. On many nights, we made toast in front of the radiant gas fire.

I suppose we'd all had plenty of toast as kids, but that toast seemed rather special and extra tasty, though looking back, it was probably just because we were so hungry.

vivatifosi

I had toast for dinner tonight. I did plan to have a vegetable jalfrezi I'd bought from the Sainsbury's deli counter, but DH is feeling sick and I thought the strong smell would make him feel worse. So toast and marmite it was. I was gutted, but hopefully a good wife.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, on Dave now.....

One of my favourite books, and never seen the movie.