Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Anchovies taste salty and 'umami'.

That is word for word what I was going to say

Thanks for the recipe PN. As yet, I've not been overrun by courgettes, but I'm still hopeful. As luck would have it, anchovies (tinned) were in last weeks lidl half price offer, so I have 6 tins

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

Thanks for the recipe PN. As yet, I've not been overrun by courgettes, but I'm still hopeful. As luck would have it, anchovies (tinned) were in last weeks lidl half price offer, so I have 6 tins

I just figured you might be looking for easy ways to eat them that might be nice/tasty - and the recipe looked perfect for "cooking for one", in just a few minutes, without much washing up or mess.... and no huge 20-ingredient long list of things you don't have.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

.... it's really senseless for you to feel any compulsion to add more salt than you like.

Analysing TV chefs it seems to me that the "secret" to making fabulous meals EVERY time is: do exactly what you always did, spend 4x as much on ingredients as you used to .... then add half a pack of butter, a whole tub of cream, and more salt than you could possibly imagine

I often wonder if these dishes they cook on the telly, with guests then tasting them, are ever actually horrible - yet the guests are told to smile and say it's lovely no matter how it tastes

lostinrates

I think of umami as a taste that completes and satisfies.

When you fancy something and you don't know what ( you know that crazy feeling?) but its food something with with a big punch or something umami often does it. Or something sweet and salty and the same time.


Premade food is high in salt but tastes different to adding salt at the table. Like you and Lydia, I don't add salt often. I have so e let out clauses to that. I'd rather in most cases people adjusted to their tastes on their plate. For me that's almost never adding anything. But a little salt sometimes can work miracles.

PasturesNew

For any of you that read 1-in-10 of my minutae posts ... you might have spotted that I'd bought one of those "grow your own chilli" pots, a cardboard 'coffee cup' with plastic lid, for 19p. It was a bit out of date, but I followed the destructions about 2 weeks ago (sprinkled seeds from packet into pot, add water, put on windowsill). Well, I did that and didn't expect any joy.

Just looked .... expecting nothing.... there are 10 sprouts.

Now I need to read the rest of the pot as I think I have to repot them.... I'm hoping a plastic egg box will do for that.... or I have just bought 6 chocolate mousses from lidl and so can use those pots.

How exciting....

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

Correction: Yes, you can. For example, http://www.bestbathrooms.com/Mono-Basin-Mixer-Tap-Swivel-Spout-without-Waste/pr58274.html?gclid=CP6psq_45L8CFY_MtAodwyYAnw

Scary. Those are the taps in my en-suite. Stalker!

Even more scary is all this Ebola talk. Thank goodness DS2 is home, though he wasn't in one of the 4 countries hit this year.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, hard water area. Not sure what's changed now, or what the significant information is that I apparently provided

Check that there's not a scale build up in the spout as that can force the water down a different route to that designed for the tap if it has been allowed to build up long enough. You should be able to scrape it out with a screwdriver, or dip a cloth liberally in Viakal and pop it into the spout bit. Alternatively, if you have one of those griddy bits over the end of your tap spout, it should unscrew and see whether that improves the flow. If not, try leaving it in a bit of Viakal, or pricking out with a pin.

From the sound of previous occupants, they probably didn't look for that kind of stuff and its an easy, no cost, fix if that's where the problem lies.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Correction: Yes, you can. For example, http://www.bestbathrooms.com/Mono-Basin-Mixer-Tap-Swivel-Spout-without-Waste/pr58274.html?gclid=CP6psq_45L8CFY_MtAodwyYAnw

That's nice. Maybe I should buy two and put them in the cupboard for when I have a plumber that can just switch them over.

That just leaves The Abyss problem ..... I guess, apart from dropping things down there, I get some heeby-jeebies thinking that either a monster will loom up from the hole (don't ask about my irrational monster fears).

silvercar wrote: »

Scary. Those are the taps in my en-suite. Stalker!

Oooh.... you cheapskate
I'd have expected the price of your taps to have three digits in them, not just two!

vivatifosi

Re the abyss, can you get one of those hair traps and put it in the hole? Something like this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tala-Stainless-Steel-Strainer-Silver/dp/B004KLU6I6/ref=pd_sim_kh_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=1RTWM37Z6VPXCF278DY8

Nikkster

Hope about something like this to stop things dropping down the gaping hole, and stop monsters coming up it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00E7OPJO2?pc_redir=1405338820&robot_redir=1