Mundane News

[Speicher]

I can't leave a kitchen messy, I have to wash up as I go along.

Yes, I tend to clear up as I go along, putting, for instance, sticky utensils in a jug of warm water. If I used a lot of pots and pans, I would put them in a sink of hot soapy water. I cannot do that as currently I only have four saucepans and two frying pans.

My sister in law, has two, yes two dishwashers, one in the kitchen and one in the utility room. After she and my niece have cooked a meal, the kitchen is a complete disaster area. I like to help clear up after a meal as a guest, but that mess is so over-whelming, I just have to ignore it.

 

[Speicher]

I always leave the kitchen in a mess, but I can work in that .... until Mr Summerdays comes in and gets stressed about it! He does the clearing up.... that's the deal ... I cook he clears up

If I make a mess, I can continue to work in it, but clearing up someone's giant mess is a different kettle three saucepans and two jugs of fish altogether.

 

[fossyant]

I've been busy cake making with my daughter this afternoon. A big batch of chocolate brownies and flapjack.

 

[Speicher]

What sort of chocolate did you use in the chocolate brownies?

 

[marknotgeorge]

Pudding was a very respectable steamed chocolate sponge pudding made by Mad Scientist.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I always leave the kitchen in a mess, but I can work in that .... until Mr Summerdays comes in and gets stressed about it! He does the clearing up.... that's the deal ... I cook he clears up

Yep Foodie cooks, I clear up.

I prefer it that way.

 

[fossyant]

What sort of chocolate did you use in the chocolate brownies?

Dark chocolate and Cadburys Bournville cocoa ! No idea if that was correct. They taste good (I'm not a big cake fan). We did drop the sugar content by nearly half though. Pouring 500g of sugar out and we were both like, no way... We stopped at 300g (big batch).

 

[potsy]

I'm not a big cake fan

 

[TVC]

I made enough stew for this evening's meal and some left over to do a lunch.

We have eaten the lot. I will be dozing on the sofa if anybody needs me.

 

[TVC]

He means he prefers small cakes.


Well I hope that's what he means, the alternative is unthinkable.

 

[StuAff]

[QUOTE 4679169, member: 21629"]Ha, it's me a lucky person, not him.

He went to CAB with me few times after I was sacked. He brought my clothes and other stuff to London hospital when I asked him if he could do so. He saw the carpet in my room and didn't ask to replace it. He agreed to delay my rent when I was unable to pay it for January.

Instead of asking me to find another place to live and getting another tenant.[/QUOTE]
You're lucky to have a landlord like that, but he's lucky to have a tenant like you.

 

[Speicher]

Dark chocolate and Cadburys Bournville cocoa ! No idea if that was correct. They taste good (I'm not a big cake fan). We did drop the sugar content by nearly half though. Pouring 500g of sugar out and we were both like, no way... We stopped at 300g (big batch).

Someone I know was going to make a big batch of Chocolate brownies, and insisted she could not use anything less that something like 72% cocoa in her recipe. If it was a rich chocolate cake for a very special occasion, possibly I would agree. In biscuits, though, I would have thought Bournville cocoa would be okay.
I wonder what our resident food technician would suggest.

 

[potsy]

Is @potsy our resident food technician? Have I missed something?

Kebab technician

 

[potsy]

Most of the 'food' in here I hardly recognise

 

[Reynard]

@Speicher - I would suggest, if there is a Lidl near you, to try their Fin Carre 52% cocoa cooking chocolate. It's 99p for a 200g bar and tastes very similar to the Callebaut dessert (cooking) chocolate that mum brings me from Belgium.