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I used to enjoy Russell Brand?

(Read his My Bookywook and the lurve has gawn.)

Yes, he had his moments.

Sausages, beans and chips tonight.



(Okay, dog boy?)

Fish Pie for me.

I cooked a leg of lamb and some shanks (because we haven't pigged out enough this week ) for five hours yesterday - served it for dinner last night with roast potatoes and butternut pumpkin. Very nice.

I'm having lamb and mustard sangers for lunch today.

Basil wrote:Fish Pie for me.

For dessert?

simkat wrote:I cooked a leg of lamb and some shanks (because we haven't pigged out enough this week ) for five hours yesterday - served it for dinner last night with roast potatoes and butternut pumpkin. Very nice.

This sounds REALLY nice. If there are any leftovers you can't fit in, can you put them on here please? (Don't worry about reheating them)

Strawberry jam on toast, with a steaming pot of fresh bodum coffee.

Bought a coconut for 19p today. Sawed it in half. Eating one half ourselves. Have hung other half out for the birds. When both halves picked clean plan to make clip clop noise with the shells.
Should be good fun.

ever hopeful wrote:Bought a coconut for 19p today. Sawed it in half. Eating one half ourselves. Have hung other half out for the birds. When both halves picked clean plan to make clip clop noise with the shells.
Should be good fun.

How do you open your coconuts? The other day I got one, put it in a carrier bag and smashed it against the wall. Got covered in milk.

Don't drink JD before attempting to open a coconut Vilks.

Are we discussing food in this thread? I LOVE FOOD!

To open the coconut I sawed it all the way round, a bit at a time with a hacksaw. Quite hard work, but opened nice and cleanly. However, have got another one now which, after a specific request from a family member, I am just going to smash!

Good stars tonight where I am. Mild too.

There's a small depression one one end and you stick a screwdriver in it and tap the screwdriver with a hammer. It should split evenly in two.

Is Ray Mears the only pom who knows how to open a coconut?

I just take it in the garden and smash it with a hammer, (not a Siberian hamster, Lardy.) Job done.

Russell Brand is on at this very moment

And, I have a secret crush on Ray Mears.

Will navy blue clash with his khakis?

Oh, you can't send me to bed thinking about Ray Mears in navy blues!

I hope you don't do any damage to your hubby

The damage was done earlier. There was a Liverpool win. The poor thing is knackered now

So he doesn't mind being called Fernando then

G.Wood wrote:Is Ray Mears the only pom who knows how to open a coconut?

Tapping the small depression with a hammer and screw driver (as suggested by Bradman) did not result in a clean split, although it did make a hole from which to pour out the milk (does anyone LIKE that stuff?)

As to Ray Mears, he may well be the only pom who can open a coconut (without a hacksaw or by smashing it) but then we don't get many coconut palms here of course, and they're not in the shops too often either. On the other hand, I CAN skin a rabbit when necessary. Probably not as efficiently as as the boy Mears, I'll admit

Demelza wrote:And, I have a secret crush on Ray Mears.

"Secret" in the sense of...?

I attempted my first homemade short crust pastry tonight.

I have to say I do quite like dumplings in my pie/casserole!!

I agree, but one doesn't see dumplings so much these days.

I make wontons - using pre bought blocks of pastry - they work well.