Nice People 13: Nice Save

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

Quiz time (please let me know if you can see the image)

Saw it. I didn't get the answer right
I had an alternative guess.

CKhalvashi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's the trouble with people with troubles like that ... you get sucked in.

I can see the side of both people here, but I think that the 'ideal' solution isn't going to happen tonight.

Please don't quote both, will delete for obvious reason.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Saw it. I didn't get the answer right
I had an alternative guess.

There is always one.....

Generali

Spirit wrote: »

What is your Sorbet recipe?

I asked DD to buy me a tub of lemon sorbet. I ate it over the course of a week. Then read the ingredients.It started off Ok in large font it said it was made with" Concentrated lemon Juice", then insmall font described everthing else in it.

I felt like I had consumed a tub of industrial solvent.

Any fruit sorbet is basically made with stock syrup (equal amounts of water and sugar simmered until half the water has gone) with fruit puree.

My sorbet was:

3 mangos
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
zest of 1 orange
juice of 2 oranges
2 egg whites

1. Put the zest and juice from the oranges along with the water and sugar in a small pan and simmer until the liquid quantity is reduced by about half. Don't boil it hard as you're not trying to make caramel.
2. Chop up the mangos using the 'hedgehog' method where you cut off the cheeks, cut a grid pattern, turn them inside out and chop off the cubes. Then hack off the rest of the fruit from the stone as best you can. Liquidise and add the stock syrup.
3. Whip the egg whites to the soft peaks stage and fold into the fruit mix.
4. Put into an ice cream maker according to the instructions or put in a plastic tub in the freezer and stir it now and again to break up the ice crystals.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

There is always one.....

There's always one honest one ... the rest all had the same answer... and stayed quiet.

LydiaJ

DS has come home from school with his GCSE options booklet.

He has to do:
Eng Lang
Eng Lit
Maths (and may or may not be offered chance to do AO Maths as well but that depends on how well he does in Y9 English :mad:)
Science
Additional Science (no Triple Science option )

He has to choose 5 others. He is looking at doing:
Computing
History
Drama
Art (in which he hopes to specialise in graphic design digitally)
DT: Food

He's academically ambitious and will probably end up going in some kind of computing direction. I am hoping these choices are a reasonable compromise between being academically respectable and dyslexic-friendly.

hjd

michaels wrote: »

There is always one.....

make that two

Generali

My idea for a cookbook would mostly to be to pass on recipes plus some family history on and then bung in some personal stories to make it interesting for any other readers, e.g. you lot.

Price? $0 (or £0 as it translates in UK money).

lostinrates

Generali wrote: »

My idea for a cookbook would mostly to be to pass on recipes plus some family history on and then bung in some personal stories to make it interesting for any other readers, e.g. you lot.

Price? $0 (or £0 as it translates in UK money).

Think about price later.

Write it. Talk about whose favourite it was and why, or who it reminds you of, and where you ate it. As you say, include tales,and did I mention pictures. . ( note: gorgeously fiery headed children enjoying food on beaches would make beautiful shots)


IME amazon printing can come out a little squiffy and there has been some problem with margins / formatting goes weird on some, so when you self publish get some of us to buy from different locations to test. Its my belief here us better than states but not sure.

Don't be in a rush to publish to quickly....get it written quickly. Then if you do decide to sp tell ALL you friends so as many of us purchase. Make us pay ( your profit is not earth shattering on self publish) but if you strong arm every one you know in to buying if you are really lucky it might get some attention and then once it gets attention the little bits might mean something. Might not.....but might.

There is no way I wouldn't buy a first cook book a friend ( some one I think of as a virtual big brother) had written. I'd be cross if I wasn't given option to buy it frankly, £0, pffft.

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

He has to choose 5 others. He is looking at doing:
Computing
History
Drama
Art (in which he hopes to specialise in graphic design digitally)
DT: Food

He's academically ambitious and will probably end up going in some kind of computing direction. I am hoping these choices are a reasonable compromise between being academically respectable and dyslexic-friendly.

History was my least favourite subject at school. It was all wars. kings and wattle-and-daub. When they made GCSE syllabi they made some really interesting ones including history of medicine; there was even a GCSE in World History which focused on the 20th century and looked brilliant.
I hope your DS gets an interesting syllabus.