LOL. No. I couldn't bring myself to do it.You were wearing jeans and a floppy crop top, yes?
I am trying to get a free fridge but no one is buying it.
The shed paint is the wrong type of pink
LOL. No. I couldn't bring myself to do it.You were wearing jeans and a floppy crop top, yes?
The best gadget I ever asked for for the kitchen is my popcorn popper. I could never get mine right in a pan; they either burned or stewed in oil. The only other gadget I'm planning on is a Kenwood Chef with blender and food processor additions.Depressed. Want popcorn. Buy a bag of the ready made stuff or at a push the micro stuff. There is no way I would do any dishes. It’s a thankless task at the best of times but how insurmountable does it seem when you are down.
When I’m down it’s about al I can do to make up fish fingers and chips for tea.
I have one too. Best thing ever.The best gadget I ever asked for for the kitchen is my popcorn popper. I could never get mine right in a pan; they either burned or stewed in oil. The only other gadget I'm planning on is a Kenwood Chef with blender and food processor additions.
yes! That is the exact feeling I’m getting from it. But it’s not cosy and inspiring. Just stressful and offputtingThe way she writes about the book you’re currently reading being written, hitting the deadlines etc is so weird. It’s not a pleasant read and too meta. Apart from not really making sense it only amounts to “look at how I suffered to bring you this book” anyway. It’s like she’s taking inspiration from Nigel Slater’s kitchen diaries but has managed to get it totally wrong. And on top of that manages to make it all about herself rather than the food or her son. Again. No one cares how crap you are with deadlines.
I'm obsessed with this woman. Her videos are works of art. Sooooo relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt1ALOshjxDhoWL8b71_u-gCan you recommend any particular YouTubers? This sounds really relaxing
Rhea y is good as Is Tina’s life , they often have subtitles in English but even when nit it is so relaxingNighty Night/Human Remains are brilliant, Julia Davis is disgustingly amazing!
Yes, my next fridge freezer will hinge on the left so it opens towards the kitchen end of my kitchen/dining room. Currently it opens the other way so I have to squeeze between the table and sideboard to get anything out but the engineer said that it's an expensive pain to swap over so only do it with new ones.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.
Most of my recommendations will have been around a while now, I haven't bought a huge number of cookery books recently. I think Nigel's Kitchen Diaries are a wonderful read, as are both Tender volumes I have. I love his writing. Fuschia Dunlop's Sichuan Cookery/Land of Plenty is amazing, lots on ingredients/methods and lovely little stories of her time in Sichuan (it's also on my mind as am cooking from it tonight). How To Eat by Nigella is still my favourite cookery book ever. Elizabeth David's an Omelette and a Glass of Wine is my favourite food read though, more opinions and stories than recipes, and just beautifully written.Does anyone have any good recommendations of cookbooks that are also a nice read? Feel like treating myself
Here's a smacker for you you sweet thang xAnd of course @Flumps deserves a special mention for being a seed pervert like me.
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Great post, I’m looking forward to reading the recommendations.Does anyone have any good recommendations of cookbooks that are also a nice read? Feel like treating myself
She's got a few things right in this one.Well, well well what have we here then! View attachment 133819
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Sounds awesome! I shall have to check it out.Oh yes - love it. Also, her recent thing, Sally4Ever I think is on Sky. Her usual brand of funny / dark / filthy.
This isn’t surprising given how depressing her Twitter is! I find it interesting that her Twitter header photo is a book endorsement from Matt Haig. He’s well liked, unproblematic (as far as I know) and I have a lot of empathy for his struggles having MH issues myself but he’s so depressing. I kind of like him but even when he tries to be positive it feels tinged with sadness, though compared to JM I’d describe him as happy go lucky. I wonder if her next identity is going to be mental health advocate, just like Matt? Or has she already claimed thatJust read some of the book intro, Christ it's like she just threw a Thesaurus of Wretched Depressing Words at it. Reads horribly and seems like she's just used it as another opportunity to drive home just how 'ill' she is and how hard she has it. There's nothing comforting, or reassuring in that at all.
I have severe depression, that culminates in cyclic episodes, approximately every 4-6 weeks (it's one of a couple of disorders but I won't go all Monroe on you). One of my go tos when things are bad is to chuck Ina Garten on the telly . She's warm and comforting and non triggering. Watching her cook chicken for Jeffery is a nice simple distraction for a bit . Reading Jack's words gives me the opposite feeling.
That reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) military evaluation "has reached rock bottom and has now started to dig" for some reason.Jack’s book will be neither - she has as much depth as a paddling pool and her writing is awkward and bland
Any of rachel roddy! Might be slightly biased as I used to live in Rome ( where she lives) but her writings great and really good recipes tooDoes anyone have any good recommendations of cookbooks that are also a nice read? Feel like treating myself