Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lemonjelly

vivatifosi wrote: »

It would have required digging out or that would have been fantastic! As the house had two dining rooms, we did have a games room as well, with a full sized table tennis table and pub games like skittles. It was a great place to be around growing up.

The other room you would have approved of, I think, was the artisan's workshop in which I learned how to gold leaf.

Yow'm posh!:cool:

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Just googled these. What are they like? Citrus-y? Tangy? Sharp? Sweet? Juicy?

What is their texture?
What are they most like?
What do they go with?
Do I eat em raw, or in a pie/crumble etc?

Tangy but nt citrisy, tart. Almost inedibly so for some.

Texture, seeds surounded by jucy stuff, like passion fruit, but seeds less crunchy, then tin layer of firmish flesh, smother than peach.

Most like..hmm. Tart passionfruit? No. Truely there own thing.

Go with.....when a food is as rare a this.....nothing, eat as a naughty snack....naughty becase,...

Eat 'em raw, sliced lengthways and sprinkled with sugar, leave for twenty mins, then eat with a teaspoon or grapefruit spoon, the seeds and flesh, not the skin. I ea em sugar free, but most people prefer them sweetened

Edit ...found this for you lj. http://www.tamarillo.com/recipe_finder

michaels

Anything like a dew plum?

The archery was actually just a throw away reference to Hunger Games. However it would be great to have the funds to give the kids all these opportunities - I think I should have chosen god-parents more carefully - any NP looking to adopt a few extra god children?

lemonjelly

I like fruit that is almost sharp to taste. Not quite ripe plums, kiwi etc. I like it when one eye starts closing...

I may give them a whirl...

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Anything like a dew plum?

The archery was actually just a throw away reference to Hunger Games. However it would be great to have the funds to give the kids all these opportunities - I think I should have chosen god-parents more carefully - any NP looking to adopt a few extra god children?

No.....not like i remeber dew plum. So long ago . Want carribean fruits now too.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Onto solids again!

I've just been googling mashed potato recipes for my recipe collection. It's all stuff I'd like to cook, could cook, might cook .... the reality is I won't cook any of them ever probably.

There's no joy in cooking for one. If it's !!!! you've wasted your time and have to start again and think of something else. If it's good, there's nobody there to say "that's bl00dy good".

Breakfast today was sausages/scrambled eggs/beans.
Lunch was two half toasted crumpets with butter (half toasted as the toaster started smoking due to some burning remnants of a fat wholemeal roll I'd halved/toasted the other day, and I didn't want to set the smoke alarm off).
Tea was some midget gem sweets.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

So should I send my girls to archery classes?

It's what posh people do .... so yeah.
Are they interested in it though?

I've never done it - saw some people in the distance doing it once about 35 years ago.... I'd have a go, but after 5 minutes I'd be bored of it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

He also wants to go jousting..we know someone who runs jousting courses and is also keen for dh to go. But.....i am not sure his proprioception and spacial awareness is good enough to make it safe. It would tie in well with the other stuff we do (did) with special girl.

Edit: in fact, maybe we should set it up next weekend, if the weather is decent.

Some bloke died on Time Team doing some of that.

Wore the wrong helmet, got a splinter in the head

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12299376

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...tamarillos ... I love tamarillos, and they arne so hard to get here, haven't seem for years! I am crazy excited and planning on goig to buy Half a dozen o. Monday and have one every day. Of the week...and dh have one on friday.

Never heard of them.
So I found a photo:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4qdLmno4qOE/SIUNYhc9OBI/AAAAAAAABic/s3TZi6Uu9dI/s320/tamarillo+cut.jpg
How on earth do you eat that? If it's just the pips part in the middle, there's so little it's not worth battling to get to it.

Or do you eat the whole thing? Is the outside like a peach (soft/eat), or like an orange (hard/don't eat)?

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

any NP looking to adopt a few extra god children?

I've never known any god children. Never known anybody to be one or have one.