Done most things before…i did spend an unnecessarily long time playing on my XBox. But then I’ve also done laundry and cooking and I don’t have children so there’s no one wanting excessive amounts of attention from me, so maybe it wasn’t unnecessarily long.
The tarte tatin looks delicious. Swap you a slice for a portion of root vegetable gratin in a homemade béchamel sauce and with a crispy breadcrumbed topping?
I watched a TV program about tartes tatin this morning. It was Raymond Blanc and another man who sounded like Raymond Blanc. The pastry was folded over the apples in a small frying pan like tucking in a bedsheet, baked, then taken out turned upside down and left for half an hour to get more chewy. I also went to Barker and Stonehouse to try out sofas.
There was a very simple roast chicken with the gratin. Pretty yummy. Carcass stripped and stock being made in the slow cooker. Leftovers will be dinner tomorrow and probably the day after.
I watched a TV program about tartes tatin this morning. It was Raymond Blanc and another man who sounded like Raymond Blanc. The pastry was folded over the apples in a small frying pan like tucking in a bedsheet, baked, then taken out turned upside down and left for half an hour to get more chewy. I also went to Barker and Stonehouse to try out sofas.
clearly Monsieur Blanc et l’autre were calling me from the fourth dimension
so i've just done something for the first time. I've eaten a ginger snap. It's not a biscuit that we buy, and we never had them at home. I frickin' love them. This is a game changer (when the game was "don't really like that many biscuits").
For the first time ever yesterday I downloaded the audi app for my car purely to reinstate the stanav connection which had expired because the 3 year warranty ran out. It took about 2 hours, 2 diff apps, as it turned out, lots of money and a great deal of swearing. Never again.
My contribution today is that yesterday I walked from Lyme Regis to Bridport. It’s a push with three significant hills. Was quite tired.
today I visited the Weald and Downland museum - been past it a million times (it is between Goodwood and West Dean houses) and got to poke my head into The Repair Shop. YES
There is a diversion between Lyme and Charmouth as the cliff has collapsed so you have to do a detour out of Lyme and a hike round the golf course and town, adding a few kms. Reckon I did 16k and some stiff walks up those shitting hills.
I've never painted my own fence. The trick is to convince some local teenage loser to do it in exchange for martial arts training so they can defeat their bully and get the girl.
Thing is Mutters, I'm selling the place. So while I've been careful to avoid splashes, there are bits behind bushes that the future owner will discover if they ever pull the bush out. I might make a handover list with the paint type and colour.
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Solid effort. 8/10
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Does this have to be something practical? Erm
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No
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It’s the taste that matters in baking.
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Yeah I am about to try it
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Done most things before…i did spend an unnecessarily long time playing on my XBox. But then I’ve also done laundry and cooking and I don’t have children so there’s no one wanting excessive amounts of attention from me, so maybe it wasn’t unnecessarily long.
The tarte tatin looks delicious. Swap you a slice for a portion of root vegetable gratin in a homemade béchamel sauce and with a crispy breadcrumbed topping?
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I watched a TV program about tartes tatin this morning. It was Raymond Blanc and another man who sounded like Raymond Blanc. The pastry was folded over the apples in a small frying pan like tucking in a bedsheet, baked, then taken out turned upside down and left for half an hour to get more chewy. I also went to Barker and Stonehouse to try out sofas.
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Root béchamel gratin and apple tart tatin lovely autumn Sunday dinner.
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There was a very simple roast chicken with the gratin. Pretty yummy. Carcass stripped and stock being made in the slow cooker. Leftovers will be dinner tomorrow and probably the day after.
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I watched a TV program about tartes tatin this morning. It was Raymond Blanc and another man who sounded like Raymond Blanc. The pastry was folded over the apples in a small frying pan like tucking in a bedsheet, baked, then taken out turned upside down and left for half an hour to get more chewy. I also went to Barker and Stonehouse to try out sofas.
clearly Monsieur Blanc et l’autre were calling me from the fourth dimension
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Once made a test-run GF tarte tatin for a dinner party with 2 coeliacs coming. It was utter dogshit, so made eton mess for the actual thing.
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Jean-Christophe Novelli. Eurotrash does apple pie.
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made me chuckle.
I've vomited things that look similar but more edible-looking.
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If that doesn’t look edible to you then I am sorry to hear it
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My instinctive response to the OP's question was of course "your mum" but I respect mutters too much.
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glad to see mutts has gone for the home made look
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I respect the tradition and the reserve shown until just then
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I didn't do anything for the first time over the weekend I can recall
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Did you use an ordinary frying pan, Mutters?
I used to make a beautiful banana version but Mrs P made me get rid of my cast iron pan which was ideal for it.
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Heh heff.
not much fartarsing here.
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I used a cast iron pan
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It was absolutely delicious by the way. All of the apples were confi, and the pastry at the bottom was crisp with the edges gooey and crunchy
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It makes a difference, then. No more banana tatin for me.
Perhaps that was why she got rid of mine. Respect for my waistline
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I fins cooked bananas rather unpleasant. There is a strange sour note that they seem to develop.
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no cuss mate, not a fan of sweet stuff anyway. I'm sure it was lovely.
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so i've just done something for the first time. I've eaten a ginger snap. It's not a biscuit that we buy, and we never had them at home. I frickin' love them. This is a game changer (when the game was "don't really like that many biscuits").
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Is that distinct from a ginger nut? I don't mind a ginger nut.
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For the first time ever yesterday I downloaded the audi app for my car purely to reinstate the stanav connection which had expired because the 3 year warranty ran out. It took about 2 hours, 2 diff apps, as it turned out, lots of money and a great deal of swearing. Never again.
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Discovered a half peanut shell on the balcony from my (first floor) home office. I have no idea how it got there - presumably a passing bird.
sadly this is the only new thing I have done today. I must correct that.
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Worked from the garden in the sunshine this late in the year. Marvellous
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Do ginger nuts contain nuts? If so, not that. I'm not really a biscuit person. I am now, tho.
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Had a Heston B prawn cocktail from Waitrose - too rich was not impressed
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My contribution today is that yesterday I walked from Lyme Regis to Bridport. It’s a push with three significant hills. Was quite tired.
today I visited the Weald and Downland museum - been past it a million times (it is between Goodwood and West Dean houses) and got to poke my head into The Repair Shop. YES
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Oh mate i would have rec'd you a pub in bridport run by my m7 dave's brother
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I wasnt hanging around as I had to get back to Lyme, find my car and wife and drive home to Sussex
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Golden Cap is quite a climb
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There is a diversion between Lyme and Charmouth as the cliff has collapsed so you have to do a detour out of Lyme and a hike round the golf course and town, adding a few kms. Reckon I did 16k and some stiff walks up those shitting hills.
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I painted a section of picket fence for the first time. It was surprisingly taxing.
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Fence painting is a pain.
there are too many faces to paint. Seems simple; is
a cock ache.
having done it a bit i now have it definitely on my list of things to pay others to do.
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Yes but they wanted £600ish and I felt like I could knock it over in an afternoon. Took most of the weekend.
Looks good though.
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Yeah been there
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Well done though
probably better than someone else knocking it off for a margin and less caring about corners and splashes
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I've never painted my own fence. The trick is to convince some local teenage loser to do it in exchange for martial arts training so they can defeat their bully and get the girl.
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Thing is Mutters, I'm selling the place. So while I've been careful to avoid splashes, there are bits behind bushes that the future owner will discover if they ever pull the bush out. I might make a handover list with the paint type and colour.
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Your Mum.
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I thought Tom Sawyer had solved the fence painting problem for us.
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