Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

CKhalvashi wrote: »

If we work on the basis of £1.50 ingredient cost for a large cake each month, we’ll be looking, on the basis of 25 NP, we’ll be looking at £37.50 monthly. (Using the cheapest, reasonable ingredients, paid on a cashback card then BT’d for 24 months, with the money placed into a savings account)

Throw in gas, which would come to around 30p a cake (using the cheapest supplier) and NMW during the first 12 months as an intern NP cake maker (MSE promotes this for interns), you’re looking at around £476/month (based on Mrs CK cooking)

I owe LIR £5712! :eek:

And there’s method in the madness of the above :money:

It is quite obvious you have not yet tasted one of my cakes. I think doozer's dh might give me half that sum for one brownie.:D


There is a moment dh calls the brownie moment. It occurs just a few seconds, maybe half a minute if the person has particularly blunt taste buds, after they bite into one of my brownies. They make a noise that could eminate from the bedroom as easily as the tea table....and stop chewing for a second while they register the delight of what is in their mouths.

Small moment of intense pleasure, more chocolatey than chocolate, as tender In the mouth than a lovers tongue....... So, not the cheapest brownies to make, but probably among the best.:D


The weird thing.....i don't even like brownies that much:rotfl:

misskool

i think we need to whip up some of those brownies for paxman tonight.

vivatifosi

misskool wrote: »

Great. Can you send a few thousand to lir to ensure we all get cakes delivered once a month for a year?

Ta muchly.

I feel I may throw a spanner in the works here.

I don't like cake.

Would it be possible for CK to commission me a nice fruit tart instead? I find cake a bit too sweet and prefer a nice fruity pastry instead.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

I feel I may throw a spanner in the works here.

I don't like cake.

Would it be possible for CK to commission me a nice fruit tart instead? I find cake a bit too sweet and prefer a nice fruity pastry instead.

Anything for you :kisses3:

vivatifosi

Ah, CK did you manage to get the document I mentioned over on the other board? Thanks for the pastry!

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

you forget that lir is a professional

also she has blue eggs and we know blue eggs are a premium at waitrose.

god, newsnight is mawkish. tax relief is being targeted.

Actually, if i go to ckhalvashi's kitchen he can also pick my brains and use some of my other very rusty skills fr anther business endeavour he mentioned.....


But eggs, today i had white, green, blue, brown And normal colured eggs...a good day after the weekends offerings....not helped by one of my older hens having decided ro eat eggs. I should kill her, but i am very, very fopnd of her.

My favourite eggs atm are the white ones, very small, laid by a sicialian buttercup hen. I am considering putting a breeding flock of them together, but the eggs aren't very salable, though terribly pretty in my eyes.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I feel I may throw a spanner in the works here.

I don't like cake.

Would it be possible for CK to commission me a nice fruit tart instead? I find cake a bit too sweet and prefer a nice fruity pastry instead.

I like making fruit tarts, but they are not so pretty. To my taste bud, they are fruit tarts are sweeter than most cakes i make though. Probably not helped by the almond or hazle nut layer i feel compelled to put it to soak up fruit juices.

I am trying to decide which variety of quince to plant. Having my own quinces here will change a lot i cook, i know it.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

Ah, CK did you manage to get the document I mentioned over on the other board? Thanks for the pastry!

I’ve...errm...’borrowed’ a copy from County Hall (that is destined for a library in Hertford next week, so need to return it before it goes out).

Interesting doc, and I’m going to try and find a Media version on there, as I’m on a studio-expanding mission (from 34 to 70-ish)

Thanks for that, I didn’t even know it existed!

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

Actually, if i go to ckhalvashi's kitchen he can also pick my brains and use some of my other very rusty skills fr anther business endeavour he mentioned......

What did I do now? :eek:

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

It is quite obvious you have not yet tasted one of my cakes. I think doozer's dh might give me half that sum for one brownie.:D


There is a moment dh calls the brownie moment. It occurs just a few seconds, maybe half a minute if the person has particularly blunt taste buds, after they bite into one of my brownies. They make a noise that could eminate from the bedroom as easily as the tea table....and stop chewing for a second while they register the delight of what is in their mouths.

Small moment of intense pleasure, more chocolatey than chocolate, as tender In the mouth than a lovers tongue....... So, not the cheapest brownies to make, but probably among the best.:D

And that moment really does exist and that noise really did emanate from somewhere when I bit into one As soon as we got home, the last two were devoured as we justified the fact that DD wasn't getting one by telling each other that she wouldn't mind - she was asleep. I did try to leave her her half, but failed. DH didn't even try.

I was going to say that I'm pretty sure there's more than £1.50 worth of 'stuff' in those cakes! I think there's an apothecary and Magick involved somewhere.