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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:09 
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It’s a bit of a long shot, but does anyone here happen to have any cocktail sticks with the shaped ends, like this:
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I need them to make miniature drumsticks, but I don’t really want 500, I want six :D, and I was hoping someone might have some and be kind enough to pop six in an envelope for me.

Don’t have to be exactly that shape, but not pointy at both ends.


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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2024 20:00 
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I made the 2024 marmalade. It’s superior to the 2023 marmalade because I bought orange-shaped jars.


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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
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That looks awesome Mimi! :)

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2024 15:39 
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Thanks, Jazzy! I’ve just bought 20 lines because one person mentioned offhand that they like lime marmalade :D

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2024 9:13 
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Mimi wrote:
It’s Bean’s birthday this weekend, and he asked for a Jurassic World themed cake, which I’m currently making, but last night I made a few chocolate biscuits to go with the theme.


Wow! These look GREAT!

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2024 9:29 
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Blucey wrote:
Mimi wrote:
It’s Bean’s birthday this weekend, and he asked for a Jurassic World themed cake, which I’m currently making, but last night I made a few chocolate biscuits to go with the theme.


Wow! These look GREAT!


Thanks! I love making things like those.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Mon May 20, 2024 9:33 
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Actually I almost posted this the other day but didn’t for whatever reason.

In Thursday evening we were at the supermarket and I spotted in the discount (yellow sticker) chiller bay that they had two litre bottles of whipping cream marked down to £1.08 as they ran out of date that day.

We picked one up to bring home and that evening I made nearly a kilogram of butter and 1ltr of buttermilk.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2024 22:58 
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Ever with my finger on the pulse of modern trends, I’ve decided to join in with the pandemic hobby of sourdough bread making.

First loaf of sourdough bread baked today.

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Made a few raisin and ginger oat cookies as a tonight too for packed lunches, etc.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 10:20 
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I love baking but I've never done bread. Am always tempted so might give sourdough a go one day.

Mimz, your foot photography is so good. Those cookies look great.

My current go to cookie recipes are Murder Cookies (a bit of a Reddit favourite from a few years back) and this chocolate cookie one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqqlZz33HUY

Nigella's got a great chocolate cookie recipe also but this one is now the family favourite.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 11:54 
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Blucey wrote:
I love baking but I've never done bread. Am always tempted so might give sourdough a go one day.

Mimz, your foot photography is so good. Those cookies look great.

My current go to cookie recipes are Murder Cookies (a bit of a Reddit favourite from a few years back) and this chocolate cookie one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqqlZz33HUY

Nigella's got a great chocolate cookie recipe also but this one is now the family favourite.


I’m not a fan of chocolate, but Russell loves chocolate anything and always buys himself those big chewy chocolate cookies from the supermarket. However, those murder cookies sound like *exactly* my kind of thing. I love any dark sugar/black treacle/molasses flavours and anything spiced. I’ll give those a go.

Sourdough is a particularly easy bread, I think (says me with my one single loaf of experience) but compared to other breads I’ve tried it really did feel a lot easier, and it’s pretty amazing considering it’s made of nothing but flour and water (and a bit of salt).

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2024 12:10 
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Mimi wrote:
I love any dark sugar/black treacle/molasses flavours and anything spiced. I’ll give those a go.


Nigella's Sticky Toffee pudding would sort you right out then. It's gorgeously rich, easy to make and a proper crowdpleaser.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2024 16:52 
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A surprising sunny day = bonus BBQ.

Did chicken + pepper skewers and then yakatori mushroom + spring onion skewers. Went for the healthy option there but both were GREAT.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 7:47 
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It’s not the best cake I’ve done, but as he gets older (he has just turned nine) Darwin’s cake choices get more specific, and though I knew that an 8-bit Mario in this very specific pose wasn’t really suited to cake decoration, it’s what he really wanted. Hand cutting pixels small enough to achieve this from rolled out fondant was not fun, but he liked and appreciated it so it’s all good.


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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:30 
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That looks great, Mimz!

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
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Thanks! I really appreciate you saying that :luv:

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 9:11 
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Love the massive pixels/mosaic look

It looks amazing!

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8 bit Mario cake = genius.


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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Tue Sep 17, 2024 13:56 
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Thanks, folks. I was unhappy with it, but I think that’s a lot to do with being rushed/stressed as I was making it. What I did like (despite it being stressful) was Darwin having a really specific vision of the cake, down to the very specific sprite he wanted replicated.

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 17:34 
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My pasta maker is my favourite kitchen gadget ever. It’s excellent fun and makes superb pasta.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 20:00 
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It looks absolutely brilliant. I haven't quite gone for one yet, but when I do, it'll be because of you.


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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 20:06 
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I like to think that if I have brought one thing to your life it is a fun but pricey kitchen gadget.

It really is so much fun, though.

I'm practically a nonna now. *Flexes in Italian*

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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 22:06 
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Mimi wrote:
I like to think that if I have brought one thing to your life it is a fun but pricey kitchen gadget.

It really is so much fun, though.

I'm practically a nonna now. *Flexes in Italian*


How's the cleaning? Faffy?


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 Post subject: Re: Food & cooking
PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2024 23:38 
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No, it comes with tools to clean it with, though I don’t have those. You just poke the dry pasta out the die (takes 10 seconds) and then bung all the bits in the dishwasher.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 10:25 
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The POTATO MASTER (our halogen oven) died the other day and took all of our electricity with it by tripping all the circuits. It has gone kapuuuuft and returned to meet its maker.

So, I have decided to join the air fryer brigade. The halogen fan oven was basically an air fryer, so it’s no huge change, and much like the halogen I have gone for a basket less one, simply because it’s the one my mother uses. It has a removable rotisserie bar and I’ve got a rotating basket for it, which I reckon will be great for roasting chickpeas.

Most importantly it has a baked potato mode. And a dough proofing mode, which will come in handy as I struggle to find a good proofing spot in my home.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 13:36 
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Mimz, I'm about to bestow a lot of responsibility on you. Over the years loads of people have told me how good air fryers are but I'm pretty much 'yeah but it's just an oven' and mine's a fan oven anyway. But I'd be interested to see what you make of it. If it's got some real utility (rather than just saving time) and that sort of thing.

I've not got an abundance of counterspace and my KitchenAid mixer is my baby and that will always have a space on there as will my slow cooker. But I could squeeze in an air fryer (at the expense of my blender). But I'd like to get your opinion first.

Because, of course, I could just get a pasta maker instead. :)

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On it!

I’m willing to bet I have less counter space than you do, but I’m hopeful this new machine is going to earn its place in the hall of fame.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 31, 2024 20:27 
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On a completely separate note, I hosted some Halloween funtimes.


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Mimi wrote:
The POTATO MASTER (our halogen oven) died the other day and took all of our electricity with it by tripping all the circuits. It has gone kapuuuuft and returned to meet its maker.

So, I have decided to join the air fryer brigade. The halogen fan oven was basically an air fryer, so it’s no huge change, and much like the halogen I have gone for a basket less one, simply because it’s the one my mother uses. It has a removable rotisserie bar and I’ve got a rotating basket for it, which I reckon will be great for roasting chickpeas.

Most importantly it has a baked potato mode. And a dough proofing mode, which will come in handy as I struggle to find a good proofing spot in my home.


Lady T bought a 'portable' airfryer that can be used while away in the caravan. It can run off a 12V power supply, such as the car cigarette lighter (apparently I am old because I still refer to it as such).

This portable airfryer is, predictably, utter shit. It's far too small to do anything worthwhile and the instruction manual reckons it will take 35 MINUTES to cook some sodding chips. However, I reckon that's a wild inaccuracy, as tried it and I don't feel like it puts out any more heat than me gently breathing on something with a wide open mouth.

A real, 240V airfryer, is pretty good though. It warms up leftover KFC quite nicely, keeps it crispy.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 01, 2024 22:40 
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Well, my new fancy air fryer arrived and it didn’t even fit under the kitchen cabinets (as in, it sat in the counter but couldn’t sit under the wall mounted cabinets) of my stupid dwarven kitchen.

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