It’s just a pipe dream. She likes the idea of playing the bountiful host at a hugely successful restaurant which the blue-tickers flock to in their droves, to sample her delightful slops and to hang on her every word as she tells her tales. She’s not thinking of the bloody hard work that running a restaurant entails. And in reality, who would really want to eat her food? It all looks so gruesome.
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I honestly think she has no intention of opening any such eateries. This is just another "fuel my ego" demand, she wants to see how many people think she SHOULD do it, so she can claim there was petitions and demands for it but of course she's severely busy. Same with the implications about writing books and all that pish. Just get a feckin job will you.
If she really wanted to open a restaurant, it should reflect her *cough* values. We're facing massive job losses, so she could set up a restaurant that hires people who've been made redundant, or perhaps even long-term unemployed. Hiring homeless people would be even better. Cooking cheap, filling fare that's affordable when people don't have the money to go out to eat as much. Certainly not bowls of purple cabbage risotto with pickled beans.
Of course, she'd have to admit this idea has already been done by people much more dedicated than her, and to varying degrees of success, including by THAT MAN. His Fifteen cause was genuinely lovely and I'm sad that it failed - but, of course, opening a restaurant is one of the riskiest things you can do, even if you're hugely wealthy and a well-respected chef. Jack would fail completely.
Of course, she'd have to admit this idea has already been done by people much more dedicated than her, and to varying degrees of success, including by THAT MAN. His Fifteen cause was genuinely lovely and I'm sad that it failed - but, of course, opening a restaurant is one of the riskiest things you can do, even if you're hugely wealthy and a well-respected chef. Jack would fail completely.
I've never used a slow cooker so I don't actually know - but I can't see how a jam is going to thicken in one? Isn't it just going to come out as overly sweetened slop?
Yes! Exactly this! Or at the very least partner with one of the many charities across the UK who use hospitality skills and training to help people get into employment.
There are sooo many community development initiatives that she could found, and it would even solve her so called financial woes. She's just a lazy untalented bint and the more I think about it, the more I feel like she's acting out a very well thought out pre-meditated character, simply to direct traffic to her Patreon account.
Yes, absolutely x
It will just be a greengage sauce - probably pretty tasty because, y'know, it's fruit and sugar, it's hard to go wrong. But it won't be spreadable in the way that jam is. I imagine she'll get round this by finding it SO delicious, she just eats it with a spoon
Jam making is one of my things. There is no way that you could get the temperature high enough to get the rolling boil you need to get a good set.
(Homemade jams, chutneys and curds are what I give for Christmas gifts. It is what I can afford and it always seems to be gratefully received. )
ETA why would you bother with a slow cooker anyway? It takes no time on the stove top. My picked from the riverside apple and blackberry jam is bloody lovely. Bramble jelly made too, but not yet sampled. I am waiting for some greengages. My partner lives in a part of the country where there are loads of abandond greengage orchards. They were abandoned when they went out of fashion. No Waitrose for me, whispered or not. Hope that isn't too much of a help with the triangulation.
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It wouldn't (she'll lie about it, if it's ever mentioned again though) I have done an American style apple butter in the slow cooker before, which worked really well.
What a lovely idea! Last year we made up hampers as gifts for people. Made a point of only purchasing the items from local independent places and mainly from the artisan markets. I might need to throw in some home made chutneys in this year's efforts.
It won't thicken. It needs to be boiled for the chemical reaction to happen. Similar reason for not putting wine in caserole in SC. It won't boil off.
if anything it will make it more runny. Unless she keeps the lid off, which means the SC won't work properly.
She could reduce it in a pan on the hob afterwards but then why cook it in the SC in first place?
The whole point of a SC is that you keep all the juices IN the food. I can understand cooking fruit in a SC to get flavour out, but the original juice plus condensation will water it down....
Someone suggested this-jack has liked it. How about setting up a non profit restaurant (
)? Earthling Ed set up unity diner-brilliant place, all the profits go to animals. Jack could do the same & just take a reasonable wage? (Obviously never going to happen, those sideboards won’t buy themselves).
)? Earthling Ed set up unity diner-brilliant place, all the profits go to animals. Jack could do the same & just take a reasonable wage? (Obviously never going to happen, those sideboards won’t buy themselves).Attachments
I make the jars look good with circles of cloth cut from a tea towel, hand written labels and try to use nice shaped jars. It looks very professional even if I say so myself, one might even call them fancy!
I made membrillo once (quince jelly), but it was a lot of hard work for very little product. It was lovely though. I can see why it is so expensive to buy.
She could make it a panio restaurant were people could come and sing and play and when she has the time she could come out and warble her own renditions to her adoring diners. Sounds like a dream.....Someone suggested this-jack has liked it. How about setting up a non profit restaurant (
Honestly though I do think she should work in a kitchen before she even considers running one. She needs to get a decent feel of a busy kitchen before she can run one.
Wonder if she’s just a savvy haus frau (like us all 
) trying to get the cost per use of that blender down - seemingly nothing is safe from its blades.
Plus now court is cancelled this restaurant can be the spot for our IRL soirée, BYOImmodium darlings x
) trying to get the cost per use of that blender down - seemingly nothing is safe from its blades.Plus now court is cancelled this restaurant can be the spot for our IRL soirée, BYOImmodium darlings x
funny thing is you know, we have a local group who cook for the homeless a few nights each week in one of the town car parks. She could get involved in that.Someone suggested this-jack has liked it. How about setting up a non profit restaurant (
I though that you said she could make it a potatoes restaurant. I was thinking it could be where she serves potatoes cooked in a multitude of ways while she reads aloud her seminal piece, formally known as potatoes.
Haven't they got enough to cope with.
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That two she is by her own admission a jack of all tradesI though that said she could make it a potatoes restaurant. I was thinking it could be where she serves potatoes cooked in a multitude of ways while she reads aloud her seminal piece, formally known as potatoes.
Haven't they got enough to cope with.
I‘m a manager in FE (Beware triangulation) and this is a hell of a few weeks and about to get worse, my early morning grunkas are saving meSorry you’ve had a bastard of a week as wellStill, onwards and upwards eh? There’s slop to be made and fruit to burn
Or just dunk that grubby finger in it, a la the anchovy butter of days gone by?Yes, absolutely x
It will just be a greengage sauce - probably pretty tasty because, y'know, it's fruit and sugar, it's hard to go wrong. But it won't be spreadable in the way that jam is. I imagine she'll get round this by finding it SO delicious, she just eats it with a spoon
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