Cooking Hints And Shortcuts

[ItsOKImAPilot]

What about Fairford? I see loads of US bombers and spy planes fly over me ...normally when I'm trying to follow the plot of something on the telly ffs

No flying unit is actively stationed there at the moment. There are support groups to aid operations at Lakenheath and Mildenhall though, but no regular flying squadrons.

 

[The Cowboy]

Back when I was young and living in Kirkby, Mum would get tins of that for sweetening. Me and my brothers would tuck into the tin with spoons, slurp!

Ran out of yoghurts for the kids last night, so they had some custard instead. There was me, spoon in hand, sneakily scoffing a few gobfuls in the kitchen on the sly. Slurp indeed.

 

[Sy-]

I need a good onion bhaji recipe. Mine are always either too stodgy or too oily.

I WANT ONION BHAJIS.

I've tried these a few times but just can't get it either!

On a similar note though, this is probably the closest I've come to nailing pilau rice (in a microwave rice cooker):

1 serving:
2 parts water to a smidge under 1 part (rinsed) basmati rice
1 level tsp fennel seeds
1/2 tsp garlic powder
Just the seeds out of 5 cardamon pods
knob of butter

99% of recipes I saw involved cumin, which I'm certain now is wrong, getting rid was the difference between it tasting right and tasting like the pre-made supermarket stuff.

Also swerve making it yellow unless you're posh and have saffron, food colouring has a nasty taste, but not nearly as bad as tumeric.

 

[summerisle]

If you're making a fruit cake soak the dried fruit overnight in cold tea, or the alcohol of your choice. The fruit becomes plumpelicious.

 

[ijjysmith]

Homemade Fudge lads. Simple and easy.

1 Can (14oz) of sweetened condensed milk
3 cups of Chocolate chips

Empty the can in a bowl and mix in the chocolate chips.
Microwave on high for 1 minute.
Stir until everything is mixed together.
Empty the contents into a small baking tray ( 8 x 8 ). Line the baking tray with foil and grease it down.
Chill in the Fridge for 2 or 3 hours.

Done.

Well this didn't sodding work.

 

[summerisle]

Well this didn't sodding work.

How bad ?

 

[Toffeelover]

How are the arterieslol

3 weeks ago I had a triple A scan and was cleared no constriction in my Aorta.

 

[ijjysmith]

How bad ?

It just didn't set. Tasted decent but was more like chocolate sludge.

 

[summerisle]

It just didn't set. Tasted decent but was more like chocolate sludge.

Try partly freezing it and have some sauce/custard/cream on it.

 

[summerisle]

3 weeks ago I had a triple A scan and was cleared no constriction in my Aorta.

Eat more condensed cream, that's the answer to a healthy body

 

[ijjysmith]

Try partly freezing it and have some sauce/custard/cream on it.

Tried all that. Ended up just getting rid.

It was dead close to fudge but missing something to help set.

 

[Toffeelover]

Eat more condensed cream, that's the answer to a healthy body

Speaking from experience?

 

[summerisle]

Speaking from experience?

So my mind says.

 

[summerisle]

Tried all that. Ended up just getting rid.

It was dead close to fudge but missing something to help set.

Making fudge the proper way you have to boil the mixture for a while. Maybe more time in the microwave is needed.

 

[ijjysmith]

Making fudge the proper way you have to boil the mixture for a while. Maybe more time in the microwave is needed.

Could be.