Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

Pimperne1

Guys, over the Christmas period please be careful. Do not do any of these things:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-21/dumb-ways-to-die/4383942

chewmylegoff

vivatifosi wrote: »

Anyone like caviar? Not my bag, but this was an interesting story:

Pot of caviar for less than the price of a Big Mac
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2237654/Pot-caviar-thats-cheaper-Big-Mac-The-budget-delicacy-costs-just-1-49--buy-Lidl.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

i'd rather have beans on toast any day. caviar is rubbish.

vivatifosi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i'd rather have beans on toast any day. caviar is rubbish.

Me too. I love beans on toast, especially with a little grated cheese and black pepper on top. Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

After watching the news about floods and that documentary about cities this week I'm glad I don't live in Mexico City where the city's sinking in a crater and the sewage is starting to flow backwards down to the city and has to be pumped upwards to drain away.

And I wouldn't like that poor guy's job in the diving suit to swim in the sewage and clear up the filters and pumps.:eek:

Mind you I supsect his annual review goes well.

"Well we've decided to let you keep the filter-cleaning job for another year but remember you need to work hard at it or we'll get someone else to do it"

Yeah, right.:rotfl:

not sure - would have thought in a city with 20 million inhabitants and only a very basic social welfare system that you can probably find quite a lot of people prepared to do pretty much any job, no matter how horrible, for not very much money.

lostinrates

I have been rummaging around in my trunks of hoarded fabric today and have found I have a choice of fabric for the utility room blinds.

Either a cream and red ticking, but the stripes will have to be horizontal, because that's how I would have enough of it, or an amazing sort of orangey/salmony not quite toile de joUy. Not sure how to describe it, I might snap a pic later.

The cream and red is the simpler colour choice, as the boiler is red (a slightly different red) and I don't dislike it. But the farmyard toile type thing is unusually and warm and with the red boiler and dead salmon walls will ok warm and autumnal and while less classic and elegant might be more us.

I might take pics for nice people opinions later.

Edit

Colours not coming out under artificial light and dh grumpy I got his bare back in an unflattering shot

lostinrates

Dh just gave me a glass Of hautes cotes de Beaune and even with the taste impact of my pills I ided the flavours on the label(apple and nutmeg, but I also said cream. Our bottle is rather past it's beast though. . A note for the furture might be to organise wines by when they should be consumed!
Dh thinks I should do a wine tasting course, professionally, but.......worried they would all be a load of know all up them selves people.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

I made mine Thursday it's fine today. I don't think I would make it more in advance than that though. You could of course make and fridge your pastry. The whizzing up of the filling takes not very long so you could bake it quite quickly after work one if you don't have to factor in pastry. it is better after a day IMO. But I am not keen on something's hanging about. I have never frozen it (never makes it to the freezer) wonder if it would freeze ok.

I found the famous Christmas tree ring baking tin in Bath on thursday and bought it. I made a plain orange sponge today and stuck it in the oven while showering, which is how I used to cook when I worked, prep, oven, bath, eat.

i'm going to make it later in the week then. Whizzed up the butternut squash so that's ready. A pie isn't all that much work

Want to make pecan pie but waitrose was out of pecans :eek:

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

I have been rummaging around in my trunks of hoarded fabric today and have found I have a choice of fabric for the utility room blinds.

Either a cream and red ticking, but the stripes will have to be horizontal, because that's how I would have enough of it, or an amazing sort of orangey/salmony not quite toile de joUy. Not sure how to describe it, I might snap a pic later.

The cream and red is the simpler colour choice, as the boiler is red (a slightly different red) and I don't dislike it. But the farmyard toile type thing is unusually and warm and with the red boiler and dead salmon walls will ok warm and autumnal and while less classic and elegant might be more us.

I might take pics for nice people opinions later.

Edit

Colours not coming out under artificial light and dh grumpy I got his bare back in an unflattering shot

Oooohhh, I love the second one! Is that pigs I can see?

I love pigs and am a collector of Piggins.

SingleSue

Think I have found my level for cooking shows...Junior Masterchef! They explain how to do things, what the various things are etc and even have easy to understand recipes on the CBBC Junior Masterchef website.

Mind you, think I can go without the having a responsible adult on hand to do the sharp things....or can I? :rotfl:

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

Think I have found my level for cooking shows...Junior Masterchef! They explain how to do things, what the various things are etc and even have easy to understand recipes on the CBBC Junior Masterchef website.

Used to get people knocking on my door to ask if we wanted to be in the audience of Ready Steady Cook. We lived on the road where the studiio was where they filmed it and they'd send people out to round up the neighbours if they didn't have a full audience.

Got fed up of them asking and when the battery on the doorbell went dead I didn't replace it.:D