[GingerNinja]

Looks great @ewelsh but red bush tea 🤢 and milk in red bush tea, double 🤢🤢

😆

 

[Jaf]

Oh heck. So grateful you've brought the almond subject up @ewelsh .

I have white blossom almond trees and pink blossom almond trees, so does my friend. Just this month she's roasted some nuts...the pink blossom ones. They are also called bitter almonds and are deadly!! Apparently cooking them kills off the cyanide but she has been eating raw ones too. 7 raw nuts can kill a child. Blimey it's scary. I've spoken to her, she's safe!

Thing is I knew this years ago, but had forgotten. Nature is dangerous.

 

[SbanR]

What are you doing with the pulp @ewelsh
Almond biscuits/cake??

 

[ewelsh]

What are you doing with the pulp @ewelsh
Almond biscuits/cake??

No I am putting it out for the birds, I just need to find a way to make it into a sort of fat ball, perfect for winter x

 

[huckybuck]

Oh heck. So grateful you've brought the almond subject up @ewelsh .

I have white blossom almond trees and pink blossom almond trees, so does my friend. Just this month she's roasted some nuts...the pink blossom ones. They are also called bitter almonds and are deadly!! Apparently cooking them kills off the cyanide but she has been eating raw ones too. 7 raw nuts can kill a child. Blimey it's scary. I've spoken to her, she's safe!

Thing is I knew this years ago, but had forgotten. Nature is dangerous.

Note to self to buy a pink blossom almond tree for the garden. Mr HB likes nuts…

 

[BarneyBobCat]

Mrs BBC wanted burger and fries....

 

[GingerNinja]

No I am putting it out for the birds, I just need to find a way to make it into a sort of fat ball, perfect for winter x

Apparently you can dehydrate it and grind to use as almond flour!

 

[GingerNinja]

I managed to cook a sensible single portion of mash potato tonight...... you cannot imagine the disappointment 😆

 

[BarneyBobCat]

Mrs BBC wanted burger and fries for tea last night

 

[Jaf]

Gross gross, grossly, grossiest gross. Potatoes gone liquid. Not vodka. Would not recommend.

 

[BarneyBobCat]

Gross gross, grossly, grossiest gross. Potatoes gone liquid. Not vodka. Would not recommend.

Have you been on the sherry Jaf?!

 

[Mrs Funkin]

I had sherry last night at our tapas night at a friend’s - two sorts of light (much too dry for me) and then a dark, syrupy one which was much nicer. One of our friends works in wine, so she always gets fancy stuff. I don’t drink wine so she doesn’t know what to do with me!

I then was ex-communicated as I said I preferred Harvey’s Bristol Cream

 

[DolomiTTe]

I had sherry last night at our tapas night at a friend’s - two sorts of light (much too dry for me) and then a dark, syrupy one which was much nicer. One of our friends works in wine, so she always gets fancy stuff. I don’t drink wine so she doesn’t know what to do with me!

I then was ex-communicated as I said I preferred Harvey’s Bristol Cream

Not really a fan of sherry, unless it's in a trifle (I love sherry trifle)! I used to like it when I was a child, but went off it as I got older.

 

[Mrs Funkin]

Mmmm sherry trifle. Love it.

 

[BarneyBobCat]

Nice simple tea of pasta with tomato sauce and mascapone served with freshly baked garlic bread

 

[Jaf]

No one wants my potato vodka recipe then?!? I looked it up, there's cooking and yeast involved too normally.

After tidying up, and special trip to the bin, I did manage to make a fabulous cottage pie, enough for 5 extra servings. Reheats lovely.

 

[Mrs Funkin]

That’s great @Jaf - are you feeling more confident about trying things at the moment? I was proud of husband last night, he ate three olives (he dislikes them greatly), two of which were on a stick with a fresh anchovy fillet (which he has never had but strongly disliked the thought of), topped with red onion salsa verde thing. Lovely! Well to me - not him but still, he tried it

We just had savoury mince and mash, essentially deconstructed cottage pie. Delicious!

 

[BarneyBobCat]

I've tried olives but find them disgusting. I've ate anchovies in things but couldn't eat one on a stick

 

[Ali71]

I've never eaten an olive, I just imagine them to be oily and bitter. They seem to be so popular!

 

[Mrs Funkin]

Only oily if they’re in oil @Ali71

Keep trying them @BarneyBobCat - I never liked them, then suddenly did. A fresh anchovy fillet is a totally different beast to tinned.

Only bother with green olives though, black ones are horrible