The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

Mrs_Chip

You may well find the instructions online FPK, most are these days. My cooker is a rise'n'time, so can help if it's one of those.

I love pressure cooking - used to use my normal one until I bought a 6-in -1 electric cooker from Aldi. It's not really a 6-in-1 cooker at all, but just an electric pressure cooker. Once I got over being peeved about the misleading description, I came to love it, as it is a lot less hassle than the old p cooker. Used it today to make chicken curry, it seems to give a really good depth of flavour that I usually get by cooking and leaving stuff for a day to 'mature'.

Congrats on the new arrival Kidcat!

greenbee

I have just started to use a pressure cooker (or at least, I try to when my kitchen isn't in bits, which is rare), but am really struggling with it on an electric hob (ceramic, which is an improvement on the solid plate I had until December!) as I find it takes AGES to get up to pressure, and then it is difficult to keep it going properly - I often find I have to give things several goes and they take longer than suggested...

kidcat

Evening toughies, its been a very hectic and exciting two days. First we had DS10 party yesterday at the sensory room, which went really well and was a success.

Then today DS15 and I travelled to collect kitty, has taken most of the day, but he is gorgeous and worth it

Knit_Witch

awwww so cute!!

paidinchickens

Lovely pic

One of our foster cats has now been in our pen for a year. We feel so sorry for her but it has taken her ages to come around. DH has spent all day making a cat pent house on top of the pen. They have a play area but he has raised it a level so they can have a snoop around so it's a little less boring for them.

They have got four kids, four dogs and three chickens to watch mind

I'll post some pics when it's finished

PiC x

FairyPrincessk

Thanks for the PC insights. I've done a bit of googling around and I can't find instructions for the exact model (Tower 4 litre) but I've found several that are said to be similar. Like most things in life I guess I won't know until I try it out!

Kidcat, he is beautiful! Enjoy him!

burtha

hi, use my p.cooker lots, mine was my nana's ,once you get used to it , its great , puts the wind up my dh though lol
have been reading along ,as time seams short ,working lots and kids busy , have a few days off over the next 2 weeks so that will be good , may even manage to clean the house from top to bottom . have started to run again, week 3 of training just ran 2 miles tonight, have so far ran a total of 32 miles , tonight ran most of it without stopping ,so must be getting better lol .
have next mri scan soon , can you believe its 6 mth since 1st scan , will find out how big its grown and what happens next, if nothing else its prompted me to get fit ,... still have problems with arm/neck and in pain anyway so running just adds to the pain ..but not a lot
kitten look cool , enjoy the fun

paidinchickens

Morning

While cooking dinner yesterday I thought I would break down the cost and found the dearest part was the potatoes ???

What?? how are spuds sooooo expensive, I live near the blimmin spud distribution place. With four "men" in the house the good ole spud is a big part of our meals.

We bought a sack at the road side for £5 last month and that was a good buy but by the time you use fuel to fetch them it doesn't work out any cheaper.

Has anyone got a secret dealer they wouldn't mind sharing? :rotfl:

PiC x

FairyPrincessk

PIC, they have become very dear haven't they? For a long time Jacket spuds were a cheap and easy meal in our rota but we've stopped having them very often. I know some have found good deals but none of them seem to have been feasible for me. We just eat fewer of them!

nuttyp

PIC when they do the harvest we have a local farm that does the reject spuds, like 1 needed per meal as they are huge for about £3 a sack. If you want some this year later on let me know, it mite be worth getting a few sacks for winter and storing in the garage all wrapped in a blanket to stop the frost.