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[User10119]

For meals involving mash, the SmallestCub always has a Great Wall of Mash to create a gravy lake, separate from the rest of dinner, in which to dunk things. It's the reason said Cub decided to like mash.

We also have a range of household opinions about cheese and its role in sequencing in various foodstuffs including jacket spuds, beanz on/with toast*, fajitas etc.


*Most popular option over time being beanz-inna-bowl, toast on the side.

 

[Illaveago]

Food construction only works if you have mashed potatoes. Then anything is possible. However, mashed potato as a construction aid to keep your roast potatoes gravy-free..........well.............that might just have your dinner guests glancing surreptitiously at each other and furtively googling the local mental health services.

I just thought . You could recreate a small garden on your dinner plate using different vegetables .

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I worked out how to attach album cover art to audio files, so the correct cover art is always displayed when you play the audio file in a PC or portable music player. I even have a plan to apply this to my entire music collection.
That's enough geek for one day, I think.

 

[Asa Post]

[QUOTE 5284764, member: 10119"]For meals involving mash, the SmallestCub always has a Great Wall of Mash to create a gravy lake, separate from the rest of dinner, in which to dunk things.[/QUOTE]
My mum used to do this for me - she called it a bird's nest.
Nowadays, I do it for myself. Physically, I'm an OAP, but mentally...

 

[User10119]

My mum used to do this for me - she called it a bird's nest.
Nowadays, I do it for myself. Physically, I'm an OAP, but mentally...

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The EldestCub, in contrast, has always taken a 'pour it all over' gravy strategy, albeit with an extra bit into any suitable Yorkshire puds which are then, obviously, finger food. Which, freakishly, he has always managed to successfully eat with zero mess - even when he a Very Small Cub.

All about inclusion and celebrating diversity of many sorts, including weird food preferences, our household

 

[Illaveago]

My wife's fans have arrived . I didn't know she was that popular !




They will come in handy when she goes to the South of France .

 

[The Crofted Crest]

Mine only ever abandoned his cutlery once. In an Italian restaurant, where he scooped up his spag bol and smeared it into his angelic face. The look on my mother's face still makes me laugh.

 

[Illaveago]

Is it breezy out ? The trees are swaying back and forth like they are trying to attract my attention .

 

[Threevok]

[QUOTE 5284091, member: 21629"]Updates.

Tyres are ok, I was told they still have got couple of inches of rubber left. I've got different opinion but who cares.

A man came to see what's wrong with both FLTs. So none of serious faults have been reported (faulty brake, missing bolts, faulty hydraulics etc). Some rubbish stuff instead like a bump on a mast (we both were unable to find it... a bump on a large piece of metal, hmmm hmmm).

For my surprise the guy didn't come in to repair them. He only checked what's wrong. I've asked him when the real repair team will come in. His answer killed me - "after couple of weeks ... probably".

Welcome to real life, ladies and gentlemen.

p.s. this is the rule. Not an exception.[/QUOTE]

We had a battery one that kept doing strange things and cutting out after about 10 minutes use.
Repair guy spent 8 months trying to track down the problem to no avail.

Then, one day while I was driving it, smoke started to pour out of the back and one the circuit boards caught fire.

I phone the engineer up, who says "Really ? That's great !!!"

 

[Salty seadog]

Is it the wrongest day ?

If you ask my Dad he'd say it's the 21st of Dec. The shortest day of the year, an annual present he's gifted for it being his birthday.

 

[Salty seadog]

On the subject of weird food. I LOVE Mint Sauce on roast chicken....

Try horseradish.

 

[Lavender Rose]

Try horseradish.

EWWW! Horseradish is horrific!!! Although you usually have horseradish on beef right? I make a wicked wholegrain mustard rub for beef!! x

 

[Salty seadog]

EWWW! Horseradish is horrific!!! Although you usually have horseradish on beef right? I make a wicked wholegrain mustard rub for beef!! x

Nothing right or wrong about food and cooking. If you like it then it can't be wrong.

 

[Reynard]

My bigarreau cherries are starting to ripen. I've a fantastic crop this year.

Have just scarfed a handful.

 

[Speicher]

Do you need more that one cherry tree for pollination?

On an entirely different subject, like many Knitty Professors, I have lots of oddments wanting to be knitted into something useful. I recently found this.

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/marthamckenzie/sediment-scraps-blanket

If you change colours at the largest point on the square (knitted diagonally) would it matter where else you changed colour? Or would you do it randomly like she has. This would mean that I not have to line up the changes of colours.

I have knitted some jumpers but find it really difficult to sew them up. I like to relax when knitting, not do anything too complex.