We have lots of widefall apples to use, we have made pickles etc. I wondered if I could make a pie filling and freeze it? If so does anyone have a recipe that they have put in the freezer that worked....
im boiling eggs, this is how i do it. i place eggs into saucepan of allready boiling water for 4-5 mins, take them off ,run cold water over them for 1 min, "try" to take shell off but have the bloody...
Every xmas I give a couple of my relatives some home made food in kilner jars eg chutneys, jams, lemon curd etc. But this year I was wondering how I could branch out. I still want to be able to...
I was abit eager in Whittards about a year ago and purchased 4 lots of leaf tea. I haven't managed to get through them yet and the best before date is looming (October) will the tea go 'off'? Or will...
Link for the lefties http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/vinnie-jones-claims-immigration-has-made-england-unrecognisable-and-not-the-country-i-grew-up-in-8795617.html Link for the righties...
Hi, just a quickie... How do you turn white rice yellow? I thought it was saffron but I used some last week and it didn't go bright yellow, it just went a pale yellowy colour. Did I not use enough or...
At a quiz last week the question was , How many turkeys are eaten at Christmas in the UK. The answer given was 11 million. I think that answer is complete rubbish as that would mean one turkey for...
I've looked on the web and the top oils that were listed as the best for cooking were also listed as the ones to avoid. Almost every site said someting different . Olive oil was considered the best...
I have a jar of white pickled onions (large ones, not the small ones), in white vinegar. We didn't really like them but I really hate throwing good food away. I keep wondering what a beef stew with...
Saturday...I'm just waking up..still early...some of you don't appear to have been to bed yet !!!.....quiet day for me today...still have a mountain of reading to catch up with having spent best part...
As a child we didn't have chocolate eggs we used to have ordinary eggs with the shells dyed or painted. Anyone remember that or were we the only ones ? I have been trying to remember how my Mum...
I am going to make some of these next week, with a ham and cheese centre (yes, next thing you know I will be wasting my time stuffing mushrooms). When the recipe calls for breadcrumbs, does it mean...