Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

*googles* ..... that looks like something I'd really tuck into.

Actually, because you threw the challenge down last night I felt I had to live up to it


I still cannot get in to photo bucket :mad:

tomterm8

Hope things are going OK, bugslet.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

The flour is the hard thing to get hold of. DH gets it in London. One can whisk up a batch leave it in a jug in the fridge and ( profligately ) bake just two at a time if you want.

I found this recipe reliable. I've tried few over the years, this is the simplest. I've used it several times. Over Christmas DH made a batch for himself and I made mini pao de queijo near the beginning of the break on a day I also made blinis, both for canap!s. I made the mini ones in little petit four moulds and they came out brilliant shapes (I didn't expect that, I just thought they'd be smaller and puffy and know one would notice the bottom) but the tops reflected the bottoms. So they will be a recurring canap! here now.


http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/easy_brazilian_cheese_bread/

Looks easy/doable/nice. It can't be too difficult to make it by hand (no blender) I assume. I'll put it on my list of "things to make in the future, if I ever get some of the flour", which can probably be found, eventually, if one's a mind to track it down in some hippy/stinky shops (e.g. holland/barratt or furren/funny shops).

tomterm8

It's the kind of thing I used to be able to get when I lived near a chinese supermarket. Sometimes health food stores have it, but it's even difficult to buy online.

Edit: You can get it from sites like goodness direct but it is very expensive

PasturesNew

Did a quick google and tapioca flour is simply tapioca pearls ground down - which you can do in a coffee grinder (if you're the sort of person that has one). So there's nothing "special" about it.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did a quick google and tapioca flour is simply tapioca pearls ground down - which you can do in a coffee grinder (if you're the sort of person that has one). So there's nothing "special" about it.

Take a lot of coffee grinder action;). For us its easier to buy it, as dh can easily.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Looks easy/doable/nice. It can't be too difficult to make it by hand (no blender) I assume. I'll put it on my list of "things to make in the future, if I ever get some of the flour", which can probably be found, eventually, if one's a mind to track it down in some hippy/stinky shops (e.g. holland/barratt or furren/funny shops).

Very easy, and definitely doable by hand. .

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Just had the most bizarre weather event. There was a blinding flash and a split second later the most strange thunder crack. It didn't sound like rumbling thunder, but different - too odd to try to explain. Next, the heavens opened and it tipped it down, including hail - but then it sounded like the hail was hitting my loft hatch (in the hallway), so I was wondering if I'd lost my roof ..... but I can't view that part of the roof. I got dressed .... and by then hail was hammering against the front door, but I couldn't hear the sounds of what sounded like hail stones on the inside of my loft hatch any more.

As I can't see, can't check etc..... I'll just have to assume everything's all OK.

Had to sort out the fence stick this morning - and the telly's warning it's all going to be bad/worse here today again, with 70mph winds.

Edit: Once it'd calmed down, had a little look around inside and realised my loft hatch had been dislodged in the rumble. So, using an umbrella, to stop it falling down on me, I managed to jiggle it shut again. No idea if the roof was hit .... but the thunder sound was very weird, wouldn't be surprised if the neighbour knocked later to say they could see there was an issue (only they can see it)/

Thunder sounds very different when it's close. I think you hear a lot more of the result of it. We used to live near a big electricity substation and the storms there were frequent, loud and frightening. The electricity would always go off in a storm.

Have only experienced it once since and that was here, just after we moved in. I don't know where it hit but it took out our BT Infinity box and plenty of others around us, judging by the number of vans present in the following week.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Thunder sounds very different when it's close. .

I have always known that if you count seconds between flash and thunder that's how many miles away it is - and this is the first time for me there wasn't really a gap.

It was a rumbling, grumbling sound with sounds as if the earth were splitting open. I wasn't aware of any actual movement, but the sound made it sound like there should have been movement (hard to explain what I mean).... a "shaking senssation by noise" sort of thing. Loft hatch having risen, twisted, reseated out of position was bizarre/a first too.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have always known that if you count seconds between flash and thunder that's how many miles away it is - and this is the first time for me there wasn't really a gap.

It was a rumbling, grumbling sound with sounds as if the earth were splitting open. I wasn't aware of any actual movement, but the sound made it sound like there should have been movement (hard to explain what I mean).... a "shaking senssation by noise" sort of thing. Loft hatch having risen, twisted, reseated out of position was bizarre/a first too.

Yes, it's scary isn't it. I remember once, in the old house, thinking it was Armageddon happening around me. I was alone, and didn't want to be.