Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Cybercandy stores in London, Birmingham, Brighton (not sure which is closest for you.
Also Bentall's in Kingston used to do American sweets and other grub.

There was another American food store near parson's green I visited in the early 90s but not sure it's still there- can't seem to track it down.

Not sure where you are either. I knew bentalls well once.

The sainsburys in Cobham used to stock some us foods.....not far from the american school between there and Esher i guess.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pastures, I meant to say, I got a great cookbook in the booksale at the library last week. I often have to make things just for me as DH eats totally differently to me and at different times of the day. This one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/400-Three-Four-Ingredient-Recipes/dp/0754817032/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1346083022&sr=8-4

I've got a similar book but this is by far the best.

I've seen/got some 3-4 ingredient recipes....

The reality about most cookbooks is there's only 1-2 things inside each one which you'd actually like/cook.

I've got a limited palate (think: 1970s comfort food and school dinners)..... I don't have a mixer/food processor ... and usually don't have access to a freezer. I also don't eat much meat, certainly no mushrooms ...

So, all in all, I think collecting recipes I would like is better than starting any cookery book collection; a collection that'd never get looked through.

With my Evernote, I can load it up, then type in what I fancy, or ingredients I've got - and instantly I'll have a collection of 4-10 recipes to choose from that I've collected together along the way.

The biggest issue is cooking for one. I could make a great soup ... and I could bake bread .... but without a freezer that's a whole week's meals done.

I've created a tag for when I move - as I am finding recipes to cook once I've moved I'm adding the new tag... so I'll have a list of recipes I intend to cook once I've moved. Number one spot is the Takeaway Secret Kebab Meat. I've also tagged a biryani, Baked Muffin Sandwiches, Rice Pudding made with Soda, Veggie Samosas, Lemon Dumplings, Felafel, Cumin Pastries, Veggie Pakoras, Angel Delight lollies, Oven Baked Garlic Bread, Bombay Spuds, Microwave Sweet & Sour Sauce, Takeaway Secret Sweet/Sour Chicken, Potato & Swede Cakes and Baked Onion Bhajis.... that should be more than enough until the end of the year In fact, if you consider than each of those will make 4-6 meals .... that's probably all the cooking I'd need for a year!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I am already getting excited about thanksgiving,

I didn't even know about thanksgiving until the last 10 years (thanks Internet)....

Thanksgiving celebrates some massive fight/massacre.... so should be confined to those who 'won' I feel - those in the US whose family go back to that time/place. Europeans killed 700 native indians, kind of sad.

lostinrates

Lemon dumplings sound nice. I love dumplings! I make biriyani too. Last week all three of us (that still sounds odd) made tandoori, whoch none of us had ever made, but it was delicious in the extreme.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Awwww
Although the way things are going I might be saying that soon too ..... we can start a club

Oh dear! Hope your other old is OK.

To face dealing with one when you are still grieving for the other must be hard. I hope your siblings are shouldering some of the load.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't even know about thanksgiving until the last 10 years (thanks Internet)....

Thanksgiving celebrates some massive fight/massacre.... so should be confined to those who 'won' I feel - those in the US whose family go back to that time/place. Europeans killed 700 native indians, kind of sad.

Well...sort of but not quite. (though i would point out catholics often feel the same about GUy Fawkes night) It is highly romanticised and indeed ignores some pretty grotesque colonial behaviour of the worat sort. As well as the poor native americans there were the bison.

What is 'stands for' though i think every one should do more. Its a lovely celebration.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Lemon dumplings sound nice. I love dumplings! I make biriyani too. Last week all three of us (that still sounds odd) made tandoori, whoch none of us had ever made, but it was delicious in the extreme.

I've got a couple of lemon dumplings recipes in my collection and a golden syrup dumplings recipe.

This is a microwave version I thought I'd try at some point: http://www.be-ro.co.uk/recipe/showrec135.html

And this one was added this morning, golden syrup: http://degroot.id.au/recipes/2006/03/07/golden-syrup-dumplings/ - done 'properly'

And here's a microwave golden syrup one: http://www.microwaveassociation.org.uk/recipes/recipe.php?id=42

I make great plain dumplings, dropped into stews - they always grow to twice the size and are super-fluffy.... so these were collected [1] to try out a microwave version [2] to see how to make a sweet sauce rather than dropping dumplings into gravy.

Years ago, I used to just make up a couple of Oxo cubes and water - and have a WHOLE saucepan of steamed dumplings for tea

PasturesNew

I've very nearly collected enough recipes,, with photos, to be able to call it "1001 Recipes You Know You'd Love".... imagine that..... hours of fun collecting, just viewing .... and dreaming of one day being 4rsed enough to cook them.

Fun - and FREE. Very MSE.

Tags include: Bake, Baking, Bread, Bread-NoYeast,Buffet, Cakes-Baking, Chinese, Coatings, Confectionery, Cookies-Biscuits, CrockPot, Desserts-Sweets, DipsSaucesChutneys, Egg-White, Egg-Yolk, Flour-Bread, Flour-Plain, Flour-SR, Freeze, Fry, Indian, MainMeals, Microwave, NoBake, Picnic-Food, Potato, Quiche, Quick&Easy, Salad, Sausages, Savoury, SawOnTV, Serves-1, SideDish, Snack, Soup, Spicy, Takeaway, Thai, Vegetarian.... most recipes have 3-6 tags each.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Oh dear! Hope your other old is OK.

To face dealing with one when you are still grieving for the other must be hard. I hope your siblings are shouldering some of the load.

I changed from first-contact, to also-on-the-list a couple of months back, although their paper-based systems still seem to call me.... with a home, you get a call saying "It's all OK, but .... and it's all been dealt with...." which is nice. But the old's having lots of UTIs and then falls and seeing things..... so hovers between "a bit ga-ga" to "completely loony tunes".



The trouble is, every fall is potentially one step towards a bad one that takes them to the next level down.... currently bed-ridden/bandaged, but that doesn't stop them wandering and repeating it at any future point.

chewmylegoff

skiing booked for jan 2013, we're being super organised this year. here's where we're off to. http://www.igluski.com/val-d-isere/chalet-cherrier_p15290

16 steps from the front door to the nearest bar aparently...