Hello, I received a 2ltr container of double cream from Olio and decided to make some butter. It worked really well and I got 1kg of butter from 2ltrs of cream plus 750ml of buttermilk. Now, I... ...
Hello, I had the *bright* idea to order 2 sputnik lights from China for our dining room. There's an assembly video on the advert but it refers to "wires of the same colour are bundled together and...
I recently saw Reza Mahammad make a lovely looking chicken curry on the This Morning TV programme. He added yogurt before cooking and not surprisingly it split. Is it OK to have separated yogurt in a...
My sponces never seem to be cooked right to the bottom when I use silicone cupcake cases. When I make big sponges, the outsides seem to dry out before the middle's cooked through. I'm not very...
Hello, I want to make a Christmas Pud from Jamie Oliver's DVD. The one he makes fits a 1.5l basin, but i only want a third of that size. He strams his for 3 hours, how do I adjust the steaming time...
Hello, I've had a bright idea to make a fire pit (permenant) in our garden. I've done a bit of reserch, and it seems I need a square hole (logical) with a 2foot drain filled with gravel in the centre,...
Hello foodies, We recently had some "Mexican Chicken" from our local Chinese buffet place. It was strips of chicken which had been marinated in a red spicy sauce which the waitress...
Is anyone familliar with a Funtec 50cc also called a QPod city 50 please? I have one, it's helped me regain a heck of a lot of independance following Congestive Heart Failure, and I love it to bits....
Hello, My family have decicided they'd prefer apple pie instead of Christmas Pud. However I'd still like my traditional pud. I don't want to buy individual ones as the ones I've tasted are sickeningly...
Does anyone make pendants etc using leather or suede thonging please? A friend wants to make a necklace and she has bought her bits and bobs, but we have no idea how to fix the springy thingy to the...
I thought it might help anyone else trying to lose a little weight to have this recipe. Honestly - they're out of this world. I use a large pyrex casserole with a lid. Put enough washed and...
I bought a 1.8kg bag of McCain Crinkle Cut oven chips. Of this 1.8kg, 1.01kg was potato chips, 75g were inedible black potato pieces and 3 pints of ice. This is insane! It was a new bag. If it had...
Hello, I'm new to this phone and I'm using Vodafone pay as you go. How do I disable the voicemail please and can I lock the keypad? I can't find anything in the handbook abut this. Best Regards...
Hello, I am a fan of the vacuum storage bags that save so much space. I want do condense my fabric stash which is in 2 blanket chests plus various other places. I'm looking for some vacuum storage...
Hello fellow chicken lovers. This is a bit long but please bear with me. Well, we're 3 weeks down the line in the story of our hens. They almost completely stopped laying for about 2 weeks but seem to...
Hello, Please may I have some guidance. Last Sunday we adopted 5 ex-battery hens. They had all spent the 4 days previous to this at a free range farm awaiting their new homes. One of them laid an egg...
Hiya, We went out to a local Chinese restaurant last week and one of the starters was strips of chicken that were red-ish in colour and they seemed to be cooked then tossed in sugar crysals and salt....
I used to love a Gianni Versace perfume in a green and gold box called simply Gianni Versace (not jeans or blonde etc, just the name). It looks the same as the one on Ebay now - item number...