Sorry - another OT, cooking B B E dates)

You don't. You put the crease back in afterwards. You do have an iron, don't you, and know how to use it?

My moths don't like my trousers anyway, they specialise in jumpers. And rugs, of course, but no freezer is big enough for them. :-(

Way to go Sweatheart. Enter again and next time win three 1st prizes

And the WI is a closed shop.

I learned to make pizza at school. Refused to eat it though; pizza was a bit too new and foreign for our household.

Owain

Have you tried moneysavingexpert.com forums? Lots of discussions on how to feed a family of ten on three quid a week.

Owain

Have the Italians tried to make Haggis?

Not with my Mother's cooking.

Very first pizza I ever ate was one I cooked myself, including making the dough from scratch - probably the first yeast bread I'd ever baked too. All by watching John Noakes on Blue Peter!

It didn't go down too well though, as:

Are you sure they aren't hygroscopic or contain additives that deteriorate over time. Brake fluid is like that.

Weevils won't hurt - they just add a bit of extra body to your bread!

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Ditch it then, it will have no bite left

Couple of years later for secondary school and boys could take cookery but they had to push otherwise your did woodwork or metalwork. IIRC there was one girl from our year doing metalwork and one boy doing cookery. You couldn't mix and match wood/metal work, I did wood work, so I'm reasonably proficient at hacking wood about but metal bashing is just that "hit wiv' 'ammer".

Didn't bother with uni, taught myself when I moved into rented shared accomodation.

Oh dear, I don't want to be morbid but what happens if you survive your wife? I'm sure you won't want to live on take aways or ready meals...

Any one who hasn't burnt themselves cooking hasn't done any cooking.

So you will really miss good food. Diving in trying to cook a whole meal is probably not a good idea and I guess she doesn't take kindly to you getting under her feet in the kitchen when she is cooking. How about getting her to show/teach you how to do parts of a meal, say just the boiled spuds or something. As with a lot of things having the confidence that you can do something is more than half the battle.

First cookery book Katherine Whitehorn's "Cooking in a bedsit", second Constance Spry. Since then I mostly don't use recipe books because mine are better than theirs. I pick up my best recipes from friends, particularly in Italy where everyone likes to show off their cooking skills.

What a crock.

How old does it make you if it was just called "cookery class"?

One that puzzled me was the grease for some blowers at work. The tubes had a six month shelf life, but the blowers (in a much more arduous environment) only needed lubrication every two years.

We ignored the manufacturers instructions. The blowers still outlasted the equipment, but did need new bearings every 10-15 years. Cheaper than replacing the grease every six months.

You can't go wrong if you can knock out a reliable victoria sponge, especially if kids are around.

Still in the little lemon shaped bottles :)

I buy loads - I find and old coke (etc) bottle filled up with water and a generous squeeze of jif makes a most refreshing, cheap and not unhealthy refreshment, especially if working on something manual (I find plain water a bit bland and thus tend not to drink enough).

Shove some of this in - it'll be too late by the time he notices:

Does tend to go off/cloudy once opened though, try PLJ instead.

In a sterile environment.

You should see some of the crap that likes to live in oil if it gets a chance.

So how come you had to ask what to do with out of date foodstuffs?