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Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People
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Courgette sliced with a spud peeler and 'cooked' in lemon juice with olive oil, salt and pepper is awesome, especially if they're fresh and young and just picked from the garden.
We had this for dinner last night http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.com/recipe.php?title=italian-pan-seared-tuna
I added thinly sliced courgettes to the sauce to make it more vegetably. It was delicious.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »The flaw would have hit long before I was interested in what kind a food you liked Lydia. You like guys.
Well, yes.
Maybe in the UK. I'd rather have a battery as well as a wire in a smoke detector, especially if I was a smoker.
The hard wired ones also have a battery so they will still work in a power cut.Do we have any homosexual nice people?
I guess there's about 20 of us plus lurkers which probably put us put to close to the ton (I found out today Mrs Generali is a lurker and boy am I in trouble - love you sweetie).
Just wondering. On the scale I reckon I'm very hetero but I have had a little dabble once when drunk many years back.
Hello Mrs Generali :hello:
Do come in and join the conversation some time. We don't bite.
I am also very hetero - can't remember ever having had a thought in the other direction. Didn't we discuss some kind of questionnaire about this sort of thing a while ago? IIRC it was labelling some of us as confused/confusing for not feeling that the presence of the same sex people was the main/only reason we wouldn't want to be part of an orgy. I think I wasn't the only female NP who felt that more than one bloke at a time was just as off putting as a woman.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
We're going to have proper ratatouille with it too. Proper rat has lavender in it, something every single English person leaves out of rat. English people also overcook rat every time I've ever had it. If you can learn to make good ratatouille you'll get the angels boogie-ing properly.Ratatouille is onion, garlic, tomato, aubergine, courgette and peppers with herbes de Provence all cooked in olive oil.
The herbs are thyme, rosemary, lavender and bay leaf. Parsley is an optional extra.
It's normally horribly overcooked and under herbed.
We're going to have lightly boiled cauliflower and broccoli and roast pumpkin, parsnips and carrots (if the carrots haven't gone off in this humid weather).
Interesting; I'll have to try it with the herbs you mention (I'm pretty clueless and uninspired about them usually). I have a different recipe from the Hairy Bikers or Hugh Fearnley Wotsit, which involves (sort of, haven't got book in front of me) roasting the veg, and reducing a tin of tomatoes with chopped onions, then mixing them together towards the end. Completely different and sumptuous.
Didn't know humidity could make carrots go off.
I am hungry now.PasturesNew wrote: »I have a small veggie steamer for my microwave..... nice and small, easily cooks small portions for one small person. Actually it's big enough to steam veggies for two big portions. I use it for steaming rice too - and steaming jacket spuds as steaming halved spuds gives a better baked spud texture than just nuking them. I also use it to nuke sliced spuds to make mash.
I won't be going hungry .....
It would never occur to me to steam half jacket spuds - how long does a medium one take?
I am, by the way, even hungrier now!
My town does Open Studios every year, where local artists (not just painters) open their studios or houses to the public to showcase their art. The daughter of someone I know was exhibiting this year for the first time, so I dropped in. She works in watercolour and/or line drawings, and I now have a piece of original art! A couple of small paintings of a small lake on a farm in British Columbia. Predominantly in blue and green, they just looked rather fresh.
Does this make me posh?! Apart from a lovely fabric landscape hanging made for me by my aunt for Christmas a few years ago, the most compliments I receive on pictures are two watercolour landscapes from Dunelm Mill!0 -
. I think I wasn't the only female NP who felt that more than one bloke at a time was just as off putting as a woman.
DH is laughing his pants off at me. He says I should just keep quiet and log off. I'm not meant to be doing. Any thing at all now, just sitting around like a pudding. :mad: but I think I might decide this pudding can go for a stroll around the garden,
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I can't imagine finding a man attractive (and struggle to understand why women do). Once when I was a teenager I was into 'arty' movies and had heard 'My Beautiful Laundrette' was very good so having no idea what it was about ended up going with my mum as she wanted to see it and having a very awkward journey home especially at one point where she, obviously thinking I had known what it was about, asked me whether I associated with one of the characters.
I love ratatouille, one of the few dishes even my mum's cooking couldn't ruin. WE have (lightly) boiled courgette, the kids don't love it but do eat it. If it isn't eaten straight after cooking though it gets pretty unpleasant.I think....0 -
lostinrates wrote: »I'm not gay, but I don't or didn't always identify as heterosexual (to use terminology I know -nother doesn't like and I have come to that way of thinking but I am familiar and comfortable with using). My most serious relationships bar one have been with primarily men though.
I'm not at all bothered about what terminology is used for these things but do get anxious about getting it "wrong" in front of people who are bothered. For instance, I have a good friend who likes both, has been with both in the past, and is now in a committed relationship with someone who's MTF trans. This friend can't stand being described as bisexual, and prefers to describe her sexuality as fluid. I make sure I remember that, since it's important to her.lostinrates wrote: »DH is laughing his pants off at me. He says I should just keep quiet and log off. I'm not meant to be doing. Any thing at all now, just sitting around like a pudding. :mad: but I think I might decide this pudding can go for a stroll around the garden,
You don't need to keep quiet. You also don't need to disclose anything you'd rather not. I am, as my previous paragraph should make clear, cool about being friends with people whose sexual preferences are different from mine, as long as they're cool with mine being what they are, which everyone always seems to be if reassured that I don't disapprove of them.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
he should ask his mate whether tails should wag dogs or is it the other way round! As dg says that's astounding!
They do say "no good deed should go unpunished" :eek:
Private schooling? I can't be ideological about it.
Ds goes to sixth form this year so that's a gigantic drain on our finances stopping. He got an offer from a good local school today and i dropped off an application to another good local school. They're comps in a grammar school borough but in this borough there's no bad schools that i know of, and they're well-performing
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We had this for dinner last night http://www.jamieshomecookingskills.com/recipe.php?title=italian-pan-seared-tuna
I added thinly sliced courgettes to the sauce to make it more vegetably. It was delicious.
That needed a bigger plate ... and chips.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Very heterosexual but curious? Is that what you are saying? Or taken advantage of?
Strong drink had been taken and we had a fumble in a hotel room.
I've never felt the need or want to try it again.
Statistically it's unusual that a group of people would come together randomly and for them all to be entirely hetero. If I'm the gayest person here with a single experience then we are an odd group.
I would also guess that we have well below the average number of kids between us active posters.0 -
Previous discussion of NP sexuality was on NPT8, and also started by Gen:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/62015507#Comment_62015507Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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