Everything Leads Into The (new year) Elite thread

thick_tom

.............. time to start dreaming - night campers

tweets

Big Bro :eek: :rotfl::rotfl:

Bedtime for me and Poppy she looking at me waiting

Cya all tomorrow :wave:

purpledonkey

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

The focaccia is a James Morton recipe (the guy off Great British Bake Off a year or two back, in the fair isle sweaters). I've tried a few different recipes, and this was by far the best - and the easiest, too. I posted the recipe online elsehwere, here it is (with my scribbled notes on it!)
http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz61/JellyBiactol/scan0001_zps6339af67.jpg
hopefully big enough to download and print out. Do try it, TM:)

Would also love to know what you're planning to bake ... maybe a few piccies of the finished results?
I used to do a lot of baking (happy memories of making bread during the summer, letting it prove outside on the step, then a quick trip to the pub for a 'cheeky pint' while it was baking, and fresh-baked bread on the return), then slowly got out of the habit for no particular reason, so am trying to get back into the routine.

That sounds heavenly. I like his recipes although I've used more of Mary-Ann Boermans recipes than James's... So far!

Jelly_Biactol

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Wonder what percentage of stores have SS?

I wondered about that myself, and thought about emailing M&S to ask - think I'll do that now.
(It's a Jelly on a mission.):)

TrulyMadly

purpledonkey wrote: »

Me too, cookies and a Super Mario Swiss roll (still figuring out the logistics on that one). What are you making? Same question to you Aau!

OH tried the Belgian chocolate flapjacks in M&S today and loved them so think I'll have a go. Other stuff is bog standard stuff. Lemon cake, tea loaf and I hate to say it.....pea and ham soup.

Sorry TS but the gammon has lasted ages....feeling tired of it. I shouldn't have cooked it with just the two of us around. We've has sandwiches, salads, broth, omelettes,..........all week.
The pea and ham soup will be the end of it

Using this recipe

http://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/p/pea_and_ham_soup.html

purpledonkey

aau1 wrote: »

Just a giant culcake on the go here. My gran is 95 tomorrow and it's her favourite

Awesome, I hope you post you pictures

hornetgirl

Another really easy and delicious focaccia recipe is this Lakeland one

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/r80235/Focaccia-with-Black-Olives

FloFlo

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

There's no chance of that, she's totally shut down on me. She's using him to get at he and the only person who knows why is her :mad:

If I drop him home tomorrow, she'll stop my brother weekends. She really is that vindictive :mad::mad:

Jezzer would have a field day with her. She'd need a weeks worth of episodes just to herself

Such a shame, I have very little contact with my next oldest brother due to his wife, I barely know their children. I just can't cope with her behaviour.

Jelly_Biactol

purpledonkey wrote: »

That sounds heavenly. I like his recipes although I've used more of Mary-Ann Boermans recipes than James's... So far!

Do you have a copy of her 'Great British Bakes' book? Highly recommended. Lots of long-forgotten recipes from the past - classics such as Welsh honey cake, Chelsea buns and trifle, and intriguing delights such as rout biscuits, taffety tarts, wiggs (sweet and spicy yeast buns) and fanchonettes (an early and more delicate version of lemon meringue pie). She knows her stuff, too - who knew that doughnuts date back to the seventeenth century and were originally boiled in lard?

aau1

CookieRaider wrote: »

New Mr Ts opening in Knightswood, Glasgow next week.
http://dumbartonroad.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/tesco-at-knightswood-shopping-centre/

Glasgow will have more Ts than Greggs at this rate