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 Topic: Butternut squash recipies.............. |
Chick-pea
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 Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Oct 17, 06 9:24 pm Subject: Butternut squash recipies.............. |
Do you peel your BNS before you roast it?
Nakipa
Nope. You can eat the skin even though most people don't. It softens during cooking. |
| Topic: Butternut squash recipies.............. |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Tue Oct 17, 06 12:28 pm Subject: Butternut squash recipies.............. |
| We're having stuffed roast butternut squash tonight. It's like a veggie equivlent of roast chicken. I confess I'll be using a packet stuffing mix (one of the nice ones with rosemary and a sachet of ap ... |
| Topic: What would be a good dinner... |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat Oct 14, 06 7:07 pm Subject: What would be a good dinner... |
| Glad to hear that, Sally. He'll be happy to be back home safely with you (and a glass of wine) waiting for him. I'll bet he doesn't care what he has to eat as long as it's hot and he doesn't have to w ... |
| Topic: What to wrap the kids' sandwiches in? |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Thu Oct 12, 06 9:43 am Subject: What to wrap the kids' sandwiches in? |
| I give the kids their sandwiches in reused plastic bags. I have a cupboard full of plastic bags - bread bags, fruit and veg bags, cereal bags (I don't wrap them up with string, I just bunch them up an ... |
| Topic: Stuff! |
Chick-pea
Replies: 16
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Mon Oct 09, 06 5:38 pm Subject: Stuff! |
| Slime moulds rock! They're single-celled doodads that normally go around individually, so you might be in a field full of them but they're microscopic and spread about so you don't know they're there. ... |
| Topic: Welcome Welsh Girls Allotment |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Welcome Posted: Mon Oct 02, 06 6:58 am Subject: Welcome Welsh Girls Allotment |
Hello Welshgirlsallotment. Love the blog, especially the Links section  |
| Topic: BBC2 'Going Green' documentary wants to hear from you... |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Fri Sep 29, 06 5:18 pm Subject: BBC2 'Going Green' documentary wants to hear from you... |
| There's a chap called Richard Cannon has a [url=http://www.downthelane.net/]website. I'm not sure exactly where he lives (somewhere in Kent) but he certainly doesn't have 5 acres in the countryside, ... |
| Topic: BBC2 'Going Green' documentary wants to hear from you... |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects Posted: Fri Sep 29, 06 2:16 pm Subject: BBC2 'Going Green' documentary wants to hear from you... |
| That's a good point. I'd also like to say people on low incomes. I don't like the fact that you have to be middle class to buy organic food in the shops, as it is out of the price range of many people ... |
| Topic: Online cook shops |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Thu Sep 28, 06 11:09 am Subject: Online cook shops |
| I love [url=http://www.lehmans.com/]Lehman's. It's an online Amish store (no kidding) that sells non-electric kitchen equipment like preserving jars and copper kettles and hand-cranked ice-cream freez ... |
| Topic: Egg Laying |
Chick-pea
Replies: 19
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Sep 28, 06 10:54 am Subject: Egg Laying |
| Are they still young? They'll get around to it eventually. I don't think there's anything you can do to speed the process. As long as they're healthy - someone was telling me just yesterday that his h ... |
| Topic: What does your Council do regards recycling? |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 5:21 pm Subject: What does your Council do regards recycling? |
My bin now contains nothing but plastic, and there's not even very much of that.
What about kitchen waste?
I have chickens and a compost heap. We're vegetarian. I don't put any kitchen waste in ... |
| Topic: What does your Council do regards recycling? |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:01 pm Subject: What does your Council do regards recycling? |
Paper
Card
Glass
Tins
Garden waste for composting (but not kitchen waste)
Textiles
This is all kerbside collection. You can also recycle plastic bottles at the waste rception centre, but the h ... |
| Topic: Environmentally Friendly Alternatives to Clingfilm |
Chick-pea
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 12:59 pm Subject: Environmentally Friendly Alternatives to Clingfilm |
| I also reuse the bags from cereal, and also bread bags, and fruit bags from the greengrocer. When you start looking for them you'll probably find you are always throwing away perfectly good plastic ba ... |
| Topic: Yoghurt |
Chick-pea
Replies: 3
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Forum: Make Your Own/DIY Posted: Sun Sep 24, 06 5:06 pm Subject: Yoghurt |
That's funny, my blog entry for today is instructions for making Philadelphia-style soft cheese out of yogurt (home-made of course, although if you want you can make it from shop-bought yogurt)
The ... |
| Topic: Passed its best recipes |
Chick-pea
Replies: 14
Views: 6804
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sun Sep 24, 06 2:12 pm Subject: Passed its best recipes |
We get an organic veg box delivered every thursday, so Thursday night we always eat something using up the week-old leftover veg.
Veggie Chilli (I always serve with with wholemeal cheese scones, yu ... |
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