The General Chat Thread

Thanks guys, maybe the old chinese text made it difficult to spot! Definitely wasn't in the Tesco I was in, but good to know the brand name

rubadub wrote: »

I think in mine it was on the cereals aisle, about 3 aisles away from where you would expect it to be.

Then they have a world food section in the middle nowhere as well, with lots of other sauces that should be in the regular section for asian sauces. No sense to it at all, nuts can be found in about 5 different sections too.

Yes, and dried fruit! I've picked up dried apricots in the fruit and veg section, put them down and got better pricing in the healthy/whole grain/gluten free section, then found them even cheaper in the baking aisle!

I've always considered my cooking skills to be at least a bit above average but I've shied away from anything even vaguely similar to "baking" bar making pizzas.

I never realised I should have been using strong flour. I now wonder how many hours of extra cleaning of the kitchen, my hands, my clothes, etc, etc I've done due to using all purpose flour.

Making double the amount than normal and with strong has made maybe 1/3rd of the mess and that was even with hand kneading when I'd normally use a mixer. 6 bases ready and waiting and I have the counter cleaned already! Still need to learn how to make them round rather than sort of a rounded rectangle though...

I would just remove the stones and bung em in the freezer. so when you take them out you won't have to do anything with them. We do it every year when we have plums from our trees

Found out today that I have a nut allergy. No more pistachios for me

dee_mc wrote: »

All nuts? You poor thing
If you're a peanut butter or satay lover you may be interested (or horrified) to know that there's a nut-free peanut butter alternative available now, called something like 'peanot butter'?!

I'm not sure tbh. I had a reation a few weeks ago and it kept flaring up on me so I had bloods done and an allergy test and it came back with a mild nut allergy. Dr said to try and avoid them at all costs because although its mild, it has the potential to get more serious.

For my reaction I ended up on steroids and anti-histamines

I do like satay but thankfully not peanut butter.

I just need to watch everything now as I don' want another reaction like I had, it was horrendous. The painful itch is something I've never experience before. My God.

Bit of an etiquette question. I have received some rhubarb and want to make rhubarb and custard cake. I won't eat a whole one so want to give some to a friend. I can't be bothered making 2 smaller cakes so would you consider it ok to receive, wrapped in clingfilm, a third of a cake?