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Gloomtastic! wrote: »After planting a load of seeds in April/May, we've finally got ourselves a red chilli!
Two tips:
1. Don't water too much and add a drop or two of tomato feed to each watering.
2. When the plant starts to flower, you have to tickle the underside of the flower with a small paint brush to pollinate it.
If you don't do the above, you'll end up with dead flowers on leafless sticks. (As I had a month or so ago).
That's fantastic and I love the way it's hanging on its own in plane view. I can just imagine all the creepy crawlies having their weekly meeting in the garden about which house to conquer next and saying...nah, we're not going in THERE :pac:0 -
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the beer revolu wrote: »Greenfly just love chilli plants!
I stopped growing them because of the little feckers!
Me too - I used to grow them from seed and give plants to friends and family until one year they were covered in little mites. Turned out they were plant lice
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Remember last week, when we were talking about the merits of the maris piper?
Tesco are doing 1kg bags of apparently bog standard "white potatoes" for 49c this week. Most are bags of cultra, but there are some batches of maris pipers in the mix - just check the lower right corner of the bag to see the variety, as in the attached photo.
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Ooh! Maris piper chips!!
Morning kids hope everyone is having a super pleasant week. I'm back from holidays and have Bratwurst coming out of my pores. I am the odd smell of pork in Dublin if you are wondering. If anyone is knocking around Berlin in the near future I couldn't recommend Yumcha Heroes enough - dumplings!! Also, could you ask the bar men why they kept sticking cucumber in my Moscow Mule? It was surprisingly pleasant but confusing 0 -
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Didn't have the 1kg bags of MP's in my local Tesco, just had the 2kg bags and they were smaller/"baby" potatoes. Still big enough to make small roasters though!Remember last week, when we were talking about the merits of the maris piper?
Tesco are doing 1kg bags of apparently bog standard "white potatoes" for 49c this week. Most are bags of cultra, but there are some batches of maris pipers in the mix - just check the lower right corner of the bag to see the variety, as in the attached photo.
Nope, you're right. I had one yesterday for lunch and couldn't taste the chorizo at all, and I even went with plain mayo, normally go with southwest sauce but didn't want it to be too spicy, it wasn't spicy at all!I usually lurk here but I had to post because Subway have added chorizo to their menu and it instantly reminded me of this thread.
Although I had the steak & chorizo melt sub and couldn't really taste the chorizo at all, maybe I chose toppings that overpowered it. 0 -
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Made a huge batch of Chilli yesterday and the same of Stew today, all for the freezer. It takes a bit of time doing it but it's great ending up with about 40 dinners tucked away in the freezer for those evenings when you don't want to cook.
The OH gave me a good tip when filling the Ziplock bags. It's to fold the bags over, like a sock, so it stops the sauce getting all over the zipper part or the outside of the bag, something that always does my head in.
Why she only decided to tell me now I'll never know! :rolleyes:
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The OH gave me a good tip when filling the Ziplock bags. It's to fold the bags over, like a sock, so it stops the sauce getting all over the zipper part or the outside of the bag, something that always does my head in.
Why she only decided to tell me now I'll never know! :rolleyes::)
We women would think that sort of thing is obvious
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Dizzyblonde wrote: »We women would think that sort of thing is obvious
Ha. It does seem ridiculously obvious now, and I'm sure everybody does it that way, but it was a revelation to me.
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Dizzyblonde wrote: »We women would think that sort of thing is obvious
What made this a gender issue? 0 -
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the beer revolu wrote: »What made this a gender issue?
Just the fact that his Mrs had to tell him
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Dizzyblonde wrote: »Just the fact that his Mrs had to tell him
I'm sure some men know these things too
Sorry, it's just that this default attitude of women are stupid/great or men are stupud/great that so many people, both male and female fall into, even in a jocular fashion, is one of the many buttons that sets me off.
It must be a man thing 0 -
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the beer revolu wrote: »Sorry, it's just that this default attitude of women are stupid/great or men are stupud/great that so many people, both male and female fall into, even in a jocular fashion, is one of the many buttons that sets me off.
It must be a man thing
Ah no I was just joking, I'm not a member of that club 0 -
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I think I posted in here before I moved to London a few months ago to work as a demi-pastry chef in one of a rather well-known chefs restaurants. Well today, our autumn/winter menu went live which will lead us right up to our festive menus. I'm delighted to say that some dishes that I played quite a part in the development of went live today; including quite possibly one of my favourite dishes I've ever served.
Chocolate, chestnut and pear
Chestnut mousse on a feuillitine base, with chocolate cremeux, compressed pear and pear sorbet. To say I'm delighted with this dishes final form would be an understatement.0 -
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