Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble with recipes is: achievability/desire .... all I did earlier to make them was chuck some mash and veg into a bowl, mix that with some curry/garam massala and chop and onion and lob in an egg. Then shape into rough balls and lob in the oven..... 1 hour 10 minutes later .... they were cooked. It's a lot of wait/faff for what should have been simple. Packet of instant noodles would have taken me 4 minutes and resulted in less washing up.....

If, on your link, you mean the recipe that says: 4 medium onions (approximately 1 lb), 4 oz caster sugar, 1/2 cup red wine vinegar, 1/2 cup tomato ketchup, 2 tbsp tomato puree (paste), 3 tbsp dried mint

I'd [a] not want a pint, just 2 tablespoons, and never have any red wine vinegar, don't have any tomato puree, not got any dried mint.

Most of the ingredients in most recipes would need to be planned ahead. I only made pakoras because I had some spare mash and veggies that had to be eaten by today And I also had an onion (well, 2/3rds of one as it was going manky/soft).

Here's another version, on video. Viola, as the man says!:D

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

pfft... although now I'm wondering .... I've had a couple in an indian with a green minty sauce.... er ... is that yoghurt? The yoghurt I'm scared of? Well, I had the green minty sauce with poppadums, but when they try to snatch the sauces away I always grip hard and keep them.

Almost certainly yoghurt based. Good Indian restaurants have one with more yogurt and less runny-ness.

There's also sometimes a cucumber-and-yogurt one called raita.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've no speakers
And I restrict my online activities to exclude video where possible as I've limited bandwidth..... but, just for you, I'll see what I can see.

Edit: it wants me to watch a 45 second advert first.... so I closed it.

You can skip iit in 5 seconds- the chili sauce bit is 4 mins 30ish seconds in. Can you skip through to that without using bandwith?

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

You can skip iit in 5 seconds- the chili sauce bit is 4 mins 30ish seconds in. Can you skip through to that without using bandwith?

No idea, I've always wondered if skipping saves bandwidth, or if it buffers it anyway, so uses it.

PasturesNew

Watched video, he's making posh 'uns. Cumin seeds and the flour => never bought either of those.

Skimming through, it might be good, but it'd require a shopping list and a special trip to get the stuff I've not got, which includes lemon.

I just used up what I had and used a recipe that was closest to what I had

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Love this idea.

http://www.cluttermagazine.com/news/2013/05/amazing-tree-shadow-chandelier

Would work especially well in a white room.

Funnily enough I almost got a pencil and traced some shadows on our walls the other day. Might still, but this would be less ...clunky.

That reminds me, one of the places we stayed had a light that I thought would interest you.

http://www.glenoaksbigsur.com/bigsur.html

Follow this link and look at the second picture, they call it the antler chandelier but it is made from wood.

silvercar

At Las Vegas airport awaiting our flight home. Final treat is that we are seated upstairs in the plane. Apparently that is a treat.

I really have had an amazing holiday, when we were talking about people removing comments on threads, I remember that I used to say houses were lived in 48+ weeks of the year and holidays came and went. I'm revising my opinion.

Lost a v small amount of money at the casino last night. Watched a cirque de soleil show - Vegas is famous for them, I think they are wow but not sure I could sit through a load of them.

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

At Las Vegas airport awaiting our flight home. Final treat is that we are seated upstairs in the plane. Apparently that is a treat.

I really have had an amazing holiday, when we were talking about people removing comments on threads, I remember that I used to say houses were lived in 48+ weeks of the year and holidays came and went. I'm revising my opinion.

Lost a v small amount of money at the casino last night. Watched a cirque de soleil show - Vegas is famous for them, I think they are wow but not sure I could sit through a load of them.

You were missed on another thread, and also of course this one. Sounds like a great holiday.

We're off on our annual family reunion holiday soon, but it won't involve flying using planes or helicopters!

silvercar

I should apologise for not thanking posts; dodgy Internet in places has meant that thanking posts causes the page to refresh and go slow.

silvercar

Chatterbox awards to the women again:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/misc.php?do=whoposted&t=4508065