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Got home the other day from shopping to find a bag of lemons hanging on the door - they turned out to be from my new neighbours from Madrid, who own a holiday home here. There are 11 of them, and they are HUGE. (The lemons, not the neighbours)

My builder arrived today with a bulging bag of oranges. There must be 30 of them.

I don’t currently have a kitchen until said builder finishes strutting his stuff, which at this rate could be February or March, so making orange juice and lemonade is problematic.

Suggestions?

At one and the same time the most boring, yet potentially most useful, blog I have ever posted.

Those who know their onions eggs can please add their own vital tips for the culinarily-challenged (which includes me)

Fresh eggs drop to the bottom of a glass or bowl of water and lie on their side

Not so fresh, still edible, eggs will drop to the bottom and stand on end

Stale eggs float. Save for throwing at politicians. Do not tell anyone I said you should.

A hardboiled egg in its shell can be kept for up to a week in the fridge

If you can’t remember which eggs are raw and which are hardboiled, a hardboiled egg, if you spin it like a top, spins far faster than an uncooked egg.

Freeze eggs by breaking them into a muffin tin, large ice-cube tray, or their own plastic container if they came in plastic. Once frozen solid you can pop them out and bag them for up to a year in the freezer.

The only thing a defrosted egg doesn’t do as well as a fresh egg is separate, so you could also freeze the yolks and the whites separately.

Egg yolk is good for shampooing hair and egg whites are a good face mask.

Want to know the difference between involved and committed? Look at a plate of bacon and eggs. The hen is involved. The pig is committed.


Okay the last was a joke, the rest is solid gold, even if you knew it all already. And in case you're wondering why my sudden mad fascination with eggs, I bought a half-dozen yesterday, got them home and realized I already had a dozen in the fridge. Not taking a shopping list on my weekly shop is costing me a fortune.

Although Cadburys has ruined it for me, have you tasted the creme egg lately?

Does anyone want some soup? ........

Does anyone on here have a delicious pumpkin pie recipe? If so, would you please share it on here? For Thanksgiving on Thursday, I have been designated by one of my daughters to make homemade pumpkin pies! I told her I would buy a couple of pies but she was insistent that I make them from scratch! I can cook and bake but have never tried to make pumpkin pie.

Thanks for your help!

I normally try to eat healthy. It has been feeling good lately to save all my veggie matter to take to the community garden, then it dawned on me to use some of it in my own yard around veggies I'm trying to grow. Makes great compost.

Well this morning after running around doing my chores I stopped at a First Watch restaurant (noted for healthy menus) Bear in mind healthy does not mean low calorie so I have to watch that. I ordered a chia power bowl. I did not know that there was something called Chia Pudding made from chia seeds but that is what I had mixed with granola and fruit. Oh my goodness it was to die for. I came home to immediately google Chia Pudding Recipes and you can just blow me out of the water. Chia, coconut milk, vanilla, honey, soak overnight and in the morning you have Chia pudding. Many other recipes but I got so damn wet I had to come here and shout it out.

Eating Chia and flax seeds I've done for years but I didn't know Chia seeds swelled up sort of like tapioca. OMG I love it. My brother gave up sweets almost a year ago for diabetes, I will make this for him and use stevia instead of honey and he will be able to indulge without guilt or sugar. I'm so happy

And folks being happy is where it is at, I tell you.

Of course watch me make this recipe and it bombs, ha ha.

So, we all have experienced that situation, where you're lying in bed thinking about this and that. World politics, pretty girls, our workplaces... And so it goes.
And so a man gets to thinking, I'm not exactly hungry right now but at the same time I wouldnt mind something to eat. Like not a huge meal, and not a chocolate bar either. Various thoughts run by, various things are considered like maybe a bowl of ice cream, some instant noodles, or maybe sardines on toast. Its like a complicated jigsaw puzzle and the pieces dont quite match up.
Like a bolt of lightning when you're out playing golf, it hits you. A blindingly obvious epiphany strikes like a coiled up cobra, as you remember there's a jar of Greek olives in the cupboard. Its a cold night and you dont want to get out of the warm bed to go to the kitchen, but like an unwanted erection the more you think of it the harder it gets.
After some time, you decide to have a few bongs to try and straighten up a bit, but that niggling thought about the olives has taken hold. You put your favourite Enya album on and crank the volume to the maximum, but its still not sufficient to stop your mind racing, thinking about those little black salty treats. You have a few more bongs and pace up and down the hallway, trying to think of reasons why not to hook in, but your inner self is justifying why you should hook in. Sure, everybody else is doing it, you're not harming anybody else, if it was such a major problem olives would be illegal right?

So you roll over languorously, after deciding you will maybe open the olive jar and just sample the liquid. Whats the harm? nobody will notice a tiny bit of liquid missing from a jar of olives, surely. If its a major drama, you can always backfill the jar with cold tea and nobody will be any the wiser.
So you head straight for the kitchen and grab the olive jar firmly. There's a reassuring snap as you crack the seal, and like a bogan leaving a tattoo parlour you realise there's no going back.
You inhale the vapours, thinking of Thessalonika or wherever they make olives, and gingerly taste the fluid. You roll it over your tongue like a hairdresser at a wine tasting, nodding slowly and moaning with pleasure.
So you quickly put the jar back and go back to bed. But you toss and turn and just cant sleep, knowing those greasy little berries are wiggling their backsides at you, more or less.
So you decide enough is enough, and race back to the kitchen with your eyes bulging out like a madman. Throwing all caution to the wind, you clumsily grab the jar in desperation, breaking a few jars of pasta sauce in your haste. Discarding the lid you raise the jar to your lips, the liquid running down both sides of your chin and all over your chest. You know from past experiences how badly olive juices stain the carpet, but you're past the point of caring now.
You chomp those Mediterranean morsels like they're about to be prohibited, eventually you rest against the kitchen bench, totally spent. The jar is empty now, you even used a chopstick to get a few that rolled under the stove, and now all you can think to do is hide the evidence and pretend nothing ever happened.

Last night the Washington Nationals beat (5 to 4) the Houston Astros in game 1 of the best of 7 games baseball 'World' Series.

While many of you don't care about baseball, perhaps you might care about Taco Bell's offer.
If a player 'steals' a base during one of the games, they let you 'steal' a free taco.
The first batter of the game stole second base on the first pitch to the second batter.
Thus, we all can get a free taco.
Thanks Trea Turner.

The offer takes effect on October 30th
If you walk into a participating Taco Bell you can pick it up free from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Or you can get it all day by order it online or with their app. free of charge.
Anyone can afford that price. Enjoy !

Love this! :)

I had very tight time before my daughter to have lunch. so I cut some pork pieces, and boiled not fully. then I washed some dry mushroom. And some ginger and spring onion, pepper(not spicy),chinese type,close to black pepper,then I poured some food oil into the pressure cooker, and put in the chinese pepper, and the boiled pork, and stir fry, then I added ginger,spring onion,sauya sauce,mushroom,stir fried till all the pieces got some spice,then I added water and the pressure cooker covered up properly, cooking with pressure. 20 minutes after the pressure cooker starts to let out air. My daughter loves it. And it reminds me of a hometown dish: chicken stew with dry mushroom. Very tasty.