Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

I saved a friend £2000 this week - thanks to MSE.

Employment issue - something her employer should have paid rather than take off her pay - employer was unaware of a change in the rules.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

I saved a friend £2000 this week - thanks to MSE.

Employment issue - something her employer should have paid rather than take off her pay - employer was unaware of a change in the rules.

Any further clues?

misskool

is zag around? I need some advise.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got the Takeaway Secret recipe somewhere if you want it....... I'll assume you're vaguely interested and I'll find it.

Edit: http://earner.hubpages.com/hub/The-Takeaway-Secret

The book is on my "must buy" list - as I was following the big thread, but tracking down the recipes I was most interested in was a little harder as it's all copyright stuff

Got that book a while ago; looks brilliant. Has a chapter on kebabs, wasted on me, can't get into them, seem like the porridge of the fast food world to me.
Now i just need time to try out the recipes. Easier said than done. :cool:

misskool wrote: »

is zag around? I need some advise.

Misskool, fire ahead or PM me.

lostinrates

I keep thinking about getting that takeway secret book. Its not the sort of thing. Would normally buy but they love in on the os board. I keep thinking in five years the charity shops will be absolutely full of them so i should wait a while.

I like porridge too though. Hm kebabs can be however zingy you want them to be. I also make chicken ones sometimes and did try fish ones, but they were nt excellent, i overcooked the fish...i really want kebabs now

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Got that book a while ago; looks brilliant. Has a chapter on kebabs, wasted on me, can't get into them, seem like the porridge of the fast food world to me.
Now i just need time to try out the recipes. Easier said than done. :cool:

I'm interested in the sweet & sour chicken. missjennipenni posted a photo of hers in the big thread about the book .... and it's been on my "yearn list" ever since.

Here's the tempting result missjennipenni got: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs759.snc4/65909_439958222606_746772606_5380850_2471115_n.jpg

And here's missjennipenni's Lamb Kebab she made from the book: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs830.snc4/69032_436374637606_746772606_5315818_4869620_n.jpg (added, kind of specially for Doozer ....)

The trouble with a lot of recipes is you need half a teaspoon of a lot of things... so first you have to buy all those ingredients, then you have to only use half a teaspoon from each pot ... then you have to like what you made SO much that you make it enough times to empty the pots you bought.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I keep thinking about getting that takeway secret book. Its not the sort of thing. Would normally buy but they love in on the os board. I keep thinking in five years the charity shops will be absolutely full of them so i should wait a while.

The ONLY reason I've not bought it so far is that I am not settled enough to get round to making anything in it.... but as soon as I get my own place (permanent, not some temporary place/rental), then it's top of my "to buy" list - even ahead of a new telly or a sofa.

PasturesNew

I do have quite a lot of the recipes from the book though ..... gleaned from various sources.

Some people have found their library has it - but not mine. And the inter-library lending cost is almost as much as buying/owning the book, so there's no point me getting it sent in. Also, inter-library lending has always taken 2-3 months for a book to appear, which kind of then makes it unusable for your original intention

lostinrates

I already have a s and sour recipe from student days. Almost never make it, but i can if i want to. Not sure i would bother with a donner kebab .....

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I already have a s and sour recipe from student days. Almost never make it, but i can if i want to. Not sure i would bother with a donner kebab .....

If I were to attempt the S&S from the book, it'd take some thinking about.... I could make/fry and freeze most of the balls (eat 1 portion, freeze 3), but I wonder if the sauce would freeze/defrost OK.... I guess it would. Such a nuisance always having to make loads of stuff and either eat it immediately or be able to freeze it/reheat it.

Maybe I should put some weight on. If I weighed 20 stone I could simply cook for 4 and eat the lot.