Hopefully this is absolute nonsense but I'm sure I heard somewhere years ago that if you drink a cup of tea after eating a piece of fruit, it cancels out any nutritional value the fruit may have had....
Hi All Can anyone help with suggestions please? Making lasagne but I am finding that the pasta is soaking up all of the bechamel sauce making the lasagne very dry. I am using no cook sheets but should...
Has anyone else booked a holiday this year paid the full asking price , then got on the flight to find it a no frills flight? What's happening now the holiday firms are leasing planes from elsewhere....
Ok, I apologise for this being like the 100th question regarding the bloody Paella but I'm stuck with what to make for dessert?
What would follow nicely?
Thanks....
but products change and improve . My Norton antivirus is expiring soon and wondered what is the best one to replace it with. I believe Microsoft Essentials is quite good, if so which anti-malware...
Ok, so I make 'Paella' quite often, but I'm clearly doing something wrong. Whenever I've had it out, in a restaurant, it's not been soggy but almost dry, unlike mine :-/ I'm cooking the chicken and...
My neighbour is away and asked me to harvest her runner beans. I want to freeze them for her, but guidance is conflicting on t'internet - to blanch, or not to blanch? Help, please!
I use silver plate teaspoons every day and they go brown because of the tea. I scrub them with a sponge to get this off, but they are now tarnishing, the silver plate is wearing off in parts. How can...
Now I am only asking for your opinions, I am aware that there is not a 'perfect' room temperature. But going into Autumn/Winter the heating will kick in soonish. What temp do you have your thermostat...
my husband and I go to Benidorm staying at the marina hotel for Christmas and new year. but they are fully booked. does anyone have personal experience of any good hotels in that area. preferably with...
Have returned from a weeks holiday to find dishwasher not working - it was perfectly ok when we left. I did leave some dirty pots in (a few mugs and a couple of cleanish plates) and am wondering if...
Went for lunch today to pub/restaurant, the waitress brought the Blackboard with the specials on it! carott and corriander soup, guiness steak pie, sheppards pie, she noticed we were amused by it and...
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...
I went to empty my indoor food bin into the outdoor food bin and as I was doing so a maggot fell out!!! I've tried washing the bin out with disinfectant as suggested and spraying fly killer into it...