Jack's hair looks like it has time travelled in from the mid 90'sAre we looking at the same picture?
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Token lady bassist in a 90s indie band vibes.Jack's hair looks like it has time travelled in from the mid 90's
Nailed it!Token lady bassist in a 90s indie band vibes.
Although I still stand by my earlier assessment: poundshop Shirley Manson.Nailed it!
I really try not to comment on people’s appearances (mocking terrible face tuning aside) but is very very hard to not say/think anything bad when you see that orange hair cutI actually feel a bit horrible now making fun of Jack's appearance.
They really do bring the worst out in me sometimes
It’s on the government website, public info in a spreadsheet. https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...-through-the-coronavirus-job-retention-scheme (Hope the link is allowed, sorry Poca if not)Spotted this piece in Private Eye about who has been making claims for furlough money. They’ve been doing some digging. Anyone know how to access the list?
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It’s been found and posted on the thread before & confirms bootstrap ltd have furloughed one employee. So Jack’s claims that Jack’s paying Caroline out of Jack’s own pocket isn’t quite true, however it is likely Jack’s doing Jack maths and where Jack’s paid so much in VAT on Cotswolds co and John Lewis goodies that the money has come back to Jack therefore is and always was Jack’s very own?Spotted this piece in Private Eye about who has been making claims for furlough money. They’ve been doing some digging. Anyone know how to access the list?
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That looks very different from Jack's picture where you have lovely large chunks of granola! It would have been the cheapest smart price oats she used (not a criticism as that's what someone who is an extreme budget cook would do) and they are pretty tiny.Dearest cabal, I awoke this morning feeling like making granola. I have shunned my usual choices of cocao/sea salt and other maple syrup based delicacies &, in a quest to prove once and for all that I’m not Jack Monroe, tested a Jack Monroe recipe.
The choice: peanut butter granola. I immediately regretted this when I had to skim through some guff about her liking peanut butter but not owning a toaster.
The recipe calls for 30ml of unspecified oil (I used rapeseed as I only had that or olive), 4 tablespoons of peanut butter (again unspecified but I used Wholeearth crunchy as that was what I had in-fancy but no palm oil 🦧), 4 tbsp of golden syrup and (here’s the issue) 300g of rolled porridge oats.
Were the oats supposed to be rolled or porridge? I had no idea. But conveniently I only had around 150g (164 to be precise) of rolled oats so made the rest up with porridge oats <insert Tom Cruise gif>.
Followed process to the letter as follows.
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From here the recipe was no longer a success. 300g was simply too many oats. Had I been making this myself without doing a recipe test I would have stopped at 200g and had reasonable clusters of granola. As it was I persisted.
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I placed it in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. The recipe did not allow me to check on the granola or turn it so I did not (whilst this felt like stupidity I imagined I was a poor squiggle with no coolinary experience).
When it came out I can confirm that there were still too many oats in the recipe.
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I consumed a little with milk (oat) as the recipe suggests and it was incredibly bland with an odd aftertaste but the odd bit that had taken up enough peanut butter was okay. It certainly wasn’t inedible. The flavour was, unsurprisingly, better when served with a banana and some vanilla Alpro yoghurt.
If you make it (I recommend you don’t), put in fewer oats and only use rolled oats (perhaps remove the porridge bit from the recipe, Jack?) & it would be better.
To those waiting for the cinnamon granola...don’t.
It’s part of a celebration of 20 years of the Observer food monthly so I assume she had some warning about it/knew it was coming when she agreed to do the interview, but it still must have been a punch to the gut for her. I thought her answer was lovely, and really just that she was brave to agree to do it at all when there was the overlap.Going slightly tangentially (sorry, Poca!), reading that Mom feature -
Did nobody think to google what happened to Nigella and her family twenty years ago before sending the first email?
Those replies could have been said absolutely nicely and without any concern - or they could just as easily have been sent through gritted teeth at another idiot not doing their research or, as I think she hints in one of her replies - through tears.
' This interview is refreshing because it focuses on process instead of offering us yet again, the writer's rehashing of their subject's biography ' I think?Please can someone post trifle defenders tweet and mom's reply? Getting FOMO
Also, I am not Jack because I only have 1 phone
I love Shirley Manson so much!Although I still stand by my earlier assessment: poundshop Shirley Manson.
Fear no more.Please can someone post trifle defenders tweet and mom's reply? Getting FOMO
Also, I am not Jack because I only have 1 phone
You only have one phone! You ok, hun? Let’s start a crowdfunder to get you your forever penultimate second phone.Please can someone post trifle defenders tweet and mom's reply? Getting FOMO
Also, I am not Jack because I only have 1 phone
MENDICANTS.Spotted this piece in Private Eye about who has been making claims for furlough money. They’ve been doing some digging. Anyone know how to access the list?
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Question - why do we squiggle the squiggles if they have their tweets set to public?Fear no more.
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