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Post by onlyMark on Mar 9, 2024 15:35:56 GMT
Read that twice and don't get it. British sausages, when chilled and not frozen, couldn't be imported you say even when they were in the EU yet the info says no ban on meat products traded within the EU?
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 9, 2024 11:48:54 GMT
Tod, it's Yorkshire pudding batter. Nothing more than that. I can give you my recipe no problem but it is just a generic recipe you can find most places. I used a cake pan because it is the only thing I had big enough. I put some oil in the bottom and added the sausages and put it in a high oven. Whilst that was doing I made the batter than added it to the pan when the sausages were starting to brown. But I avidly watch the GBBO & retain many tips just in case. I shall have to start watching it if that is the case. In any case, there is too much pastry for me. It's Yorkshire pudding so technically it's not pastry. Pastry has butter in it. but those sausages are not English enough Yes. Try getting proper English sausages or anything like them in my local supermarket though. I was there just now with Mrs M and there is a big selection as you would expect in Germany. I asked her which would be suitable for frying instead of what I'd bought. She said, none of them.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 8, 2024 15:57:31 GMT
I'll try the dusting method next time then and see what happens. Thanks.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 8, 2024 14:14:14 GMT
Had some not the right sausages left from the sausage cobs and felt toad in the hole would be an idea. They seem to have floated to the top though - Added some mash, peas and gravy -
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 8, 2024 9:25:07 GMT
Flopped over a bit but perfectly edible - cheese scones -
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 7, 2024 18:14:55 GMT
off
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 7, 2024 17:12:57 GMT
I've always found different countries have different allowances and tolerances they account for. There's not an EU wide standard. One weird thing was up until recently you were allowed in Spain got go up to 20km/h above the speed limit to overtake someone. I think in France you are allowed 5km/h up to 100km/h and 5% over 100km/h. Germany is 3km/h and 3% and Spain is either 3/3, 5/5 or 7/7 depending on the camera being used. They are the main areas I drive.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 7, 2024 17:04:39 GMT
My photo all looks a bit pink on my computer. Never saw that when I posted it. Bixa, no, not made by me. It was a quick lunch due to a few other things happening and I keep a few packets of those half cooked rolls you stick in the oven for ten minutes. Funnily enough I said to my daughter I'd gone some bread in the oven and she was thought I'd made some from scratch. She was quite disappointed but then as quite happy to slap butter on a couple whilst they were still warm.
Edited - changed the photo.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 7, 2024 15:35:24 GMT
The conundrum is that olives were getting less and less payment on the market for the farmers so they were turning to a higher profit crop - but then in Andalucía there was less and less rainfall and average temperatures were rising resulting in more and more water restrictions and drought. So a crop needing more water is/was on the surface, a bad move. I can only imagine to change from one to the other takes ten years or so (maybe shorter, maybe longer, I'm not a farmer) and in the meantime the climate has changed plus the income from olives is returning to levels before they made the decision to do so. I'd need to ask when I'm there.
I do know, being there every summer, that ten years or so ago is was unusual to have temperatures of more than 40 C for more than in total about a week between June and September. It has gradually increased such that last year for example there was one stretch of about three weeks over over 40 plus numerous other days. It's at a point that me and Mrs M are talking about if it is worth selling the house as there is no way we can have aircon with our solar, prohibitively expensive to get a mains connection and would we want to be there anyway with those temperatures.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 7, 2024 13:30:48 GMT
Looked up sopa de la milpa. I'd like that I'm sure. Lunch today - two sausage cobs. Unfortunately the wrong sausages and the wrong cobs but the onion and ketchup were authentic -
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 7, 2024 6:59:01 GMT
I've read different figures for almond water usage and many can't agree how it compares to walnuts, pistachio etc e.g. "For context on water usage, consider the following: 1 almond = 1 gallon, 1 pistachio = 2 gallons, 1 walnut = 5 gallons, 1 orange = 13 gallons, 1 apple = 18 gallons, 1 pound of alfalfa hay = 100 gallons." My area in Spain, Andalucía, combined with Valencia province are the second highest producer of almonds after the US and have been there from before the Roman era. I have an unknown number on my land, no more than about thirty though and they grow wild. There are vast tracts of land I can see from the house that have been turned over in the last ten years from olive trees to nuts of one sort or another.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 5, 2024 21:42:12 GMT
The little devil on my shoulder is saying I'd like to see Trump get back in if only for the entertainment value. Which means that would be the only saving grace to him doing so. A bit like watching car crashes is also. There are a million other serious reasons why I wouldn't want him to get in. He is a showman, it is part of his persona. He says things for effect. Taking that aspect in isolation and he is a good communicator, he knows what people want him to say, he can manipulate a crowd. He knows how to entertain. He is, granted, very dangerous. He also displays the seven symptoms of a Psychopath.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 5, 2024 16:46:02 GMT
Today is the anniversary of in 1984 the beginning of the ill fated and divisive Miner's Strike, bullied into existence by the arrogance of the shredded wheat haired tin-pot dictator Arthur Scargill that turned families against each other, destroyed the livelihood of thousand of workers, led to many areas becoming economically depressed, destroyed communities and community spirit and propped up the gloating grocer's daughter from Grantham enough to be elected for a third term.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 5, 2024 16:03:44 GMT
Based on my life experience, I'd expect most older English men to be cheering Trump on. I only know one older Englishman, me, and Trump has no attraction.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 5, 2024 12:45:56 GMT
Two to five kilos.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 4, 2024 21:00:30 GMT
The little devil on my shoulder is saying I'd like to see Trump get back in if only for the entertainment value.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 4, 2024 19:16:22 GMT
True enough. But then that would also be the case with old cars and open it with the key. I bet there's more than you'd expect who leave the keys in when they nip out for something, be it now or then, otherwise nobody would be locked in.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 4, 2024 18:05:46 GMT
However, WHY couldn't Cambridge FIX the lock instead of removing it? No doubt it is of an old style that is hard to source plus then there is the bureaucracy needed to go through to purchase one - after having at least three quotes etc. I bet some person just with a screwdriver took it off unofficially and will now lose his/her job because of not going through proper procedures - ridiculous as it sounds to us but in this day and age, you never know. That's why just about all bathroom/toilet doors have a little hole in them on the outside so you can use a screwdriver to open the lock if necessary. We had to do that once at my office when a colleague brought her young son to work. He was told not to lock the door, but... Just about all modern public toilets no doubt but not old ones? Never retrofitted? This brings to mind all of the kids who lock themselves in a car and are unable to follow their parents' instructions on how to unlock the door. I suppose this no longer happens with modern cars. All the cars I've had since the mid-nineties with central locking have a button somewhere on the dashboard to lock the doors from inside. Most cars will automatically lock their doors as you exceed about 5km/h but I was grateful to the manufacturers that when just getting in you can lock the doors without driving off - especially when I was with my daughter who was nearly kidnapped.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 3, 2024 20:45:38 GMT
As far as I know they are similar. In England they are not called English muffins but just muffins or maybe American muffins. I think they are made more with a dough and without baking soda than a crumpet which is a thick batter. Crumpets are cooked just one one side and have a more chewy texture than a bread texture as with muffins. No idea what in the recipes are different but it could also be something to do with using water instead of milk. Muffins are a traditional English food and in the past was sold by street sellers. Quite how they were and if similar, I've no idea.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 3, 2024 19:11:18 GMT
Never thought of that. It is/was a good idea.
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 3, 2024 10:26:55 GMT
Apple upside down cake. Started off in the frying pan than put it in the oven in the pan-
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 2, 2024 17:07:42 GMT
A friend on our hill in Spain checking one of the almond trees. There has to be some blooms somewhere. It's a bit wild though -
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 2, 2024 6:12:22 GMT
I've just learnt that from you now. It is of interest because we have a friend who we don't invite round for meals any more. They developed over the years from being just what we called a 'picky' eater to becoming obsessive. Now we can probably put a name to it. I've just looked into it a little and it's quite interesting as it is just another example of how extreme humans can be even to the point of malnutrition, but continuing. The originator of the term, an American physician said these are people, "solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly 'pure'."
As an aside he was scathing about veganism - "an invention of people who lived in Western countries and had too much time on their hands". Veganism was illogical as "animals all over the earth devote themselves to eating each other" and following a vegan diet could thus make a person miserable as it was "an arrogant violation of natural law".
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 29, 2024 18:22:57 GMT
Capital and where my father was born.
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 28, 2024 21:23:38 GMT
pus
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 28, 2024 6:13:38 GMT
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 27, 2024 18:42:10 GMT
fumo, nice to see the old electric switches there. I hope the coffee machine doesn't overload your circuits.
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 27, 2024 18:39:23 GMT
Blasphemy. Lime marmalade is my preference.
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Feb 27, 2024 15:29:45 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Feb 27, 2024 15:29:45 GMT
I'll be trying Cheery's cheese scones soon but in the meantime, and not strictly baking but it is a recipe I pointed Cheery to some time ago, are my first try at crumpets. Texture is good, taste is good, getting them the right size, appearance and handling them is inconsistent. Nevertheless, some salted butter and I'm pretending they are calorie free so I can indulge a few more -
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 27, 2024 13:04:17 GMT
Good for you then.
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