Jack Monroe #16 Queen of the freezer, bathtime teaser & blue tick pleaser

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Bellybutton lint

Broke 47 bones in her foot?

Jack Monroe Cooks In My Kitchen - Mad About The House

Much excitement in The Mad House last week when the Guardian columnist and food blogger Jack Monroe came to film some recipes for a collaboration with Groupon to raise money for Oxfam, for whom she is also an ambassador. She arrived at about 10am walking on a stick having broken about…
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Petelgeuse

The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments. The joints of the foot are the ankle and subtalar joint and the interphalangeal articulations of the foot.


Wikipedia I know but...
 
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PennyLoafer

What?! Doesn't a human foot only have 26 bones? I am HOOTING!
 
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Veronicaaa

Spent 10 minutes trying to peel a clove of garlic.
 

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Nottonightbabe

FFS there's only 26 bones in the foot, trust Jack my-black-cat's-blacker-than-your-black-cat Monroe to break 47 of them
 
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heretoreaditall2019

That’s a lovely story - if it’s one of the pyro self clean ovens please never use that mode I successfully used it twice & third time it blew the fucking internal door off. It was terrifying watching tiny pellets of boiling hot glass spit out our oven onto the kitchen floor, I thought it could blow up the house tbh. Our Smeg engineer said about 2/3rds of his call outs are over self clean and he actively discourages people from using it! Sorry to put a downer on it but we must protect your oven of peace at all costs xx
 
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Peachy9

Veronicaaa said:
Spent 10 minutes trying to peel a clove of garlic.
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And her 'clever method' is to soak it in hot water for 10mins...sorry what? Just crush the clove by either crusher or knife and the skin will stay whole and can be chucked? Why does she always add so much effort to the most simple things
 
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Bellybutton lint

Snap, was just about to post that.

Peachy9 said:
Why does she always add so much effort to the most simple things
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Especially since she has such bad arthritis. Wonders never cease.
 
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OhhBacon

Eh? Can someone help me out here, I didn’t realise fridges were designed for left/right handed people. I thought they opened in the way that they do with the handle on the side it’s on to fit in to the kitchen.

I have a fridge that I can change the side of the handle but always thought it was so it would fit in with the design of the kitchen...if that makes sense?

I have had owned two houses and the fridges in each have opened on different sides but that’s due to the kitchen layout not my dominant hand.
 

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FrumpyCat

Peachy9 said:
And her 'clever method' is to soak it in hot water for 10mins...sorry what? Just crush the clove by either crusher or knife and the skin will stay whole and can be chucked? Why does she always add so much effort to the most simple things
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It was like when on DKL she said you could do this by putting garlic in the microwave. And Matt said 'for how long' and her face was all 'how the fuck should I know, I've never tried it'.
 
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PoorPatrol

“You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” The Italian Job

Also Jack's fake broken foot wtf! The writer says she carries on as if it isn’t an issue. Erm, that’s because it didn’t fucking happen, hence the non-issue. I wonder how many bones she broke when she was hit by/fell under a train and/or fell on the tracks and nobody helped.
 
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J4n0Z

Cookiecookie said:
I bake a lot more when I'm depressed. It's not even so much that I have a bigger appetite when I'm really bad either, but it's almost like trying to create something which will make me feel again, if that makes sense. Lots more beige food too.
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This makes perfect sense to me. There something very soothing and pleasing about the process of baking. And then you get something nice at the end of it all.
 
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I steal names

I think I've finally lost my mind with the 47 broken foot bones. Oh Jack, you are too much!

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Also, no one, I repeat, NO ONE with any cookery knowledge struggles to peel a garlic clove for TEN MINUTES. Just bash the bugger with the side of a knife.
 
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LennyBriscoe

And coming from someone who only uses stock pots when she’s being fancy, you would think a Smeg wouldn’t be her cup of tea at all
 
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J4n0Z

Surely any fule kno that you can peel garlic by pressing it with the heel of your palm/squishing with a big knife?
 
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Nottonightbabe

Oh blimey! No thankfully I have the get-down-and-scrub-it-yourself model

ETA - just as well actually, I live in a mobile home, fire risk is something that worries me a lot
 
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