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Can you live stream your concert, it'll keep me company.

Can't live stream mine although there's Craig David, some x factor winner and a few funk bands on too, which makes my job even easier


Pop down to Embankment, which is where it is

But there all private do's

Thanks Pat, I'll just tell the doorman that we are friends and I'll be let in.

He won't understand you as he'll probably be Polish or Russian.

Only joking Pat, I'll let you into a secret, I'm never going to ever enter Thailand again.
Saying that I'm happy for others to enjoy themselves there.

Whattaya mean by that exactly? Is that some cryptic message?

Originally Posted by DJ Pat

Finsbury Park, the poor mans part of Islington

I used to live in Islington, not far from one of the 'n' Furkin pubs*.

Bout 1/2 way between the Furkin Pub and the old Arsenal Ground.


* Fox, Frog, Fish ... I forget

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Flounder & Firkin I assume, Blackstock Road?

It was better when they played there, now its absolute carnage around Holloway, Finsbury Park with 60k fans about. I'd hate to live round there again. It was tolerable when Arsenal had the 38k capacity

Bugs are back on my mango trees. Tenacious bastards. Time to spray again.

My beef stew was in the oven for 3hrs

My daughter bought me a thing labelled "Magic Cooker". Very expensive.
Basically it's an insulated container that fits a custom thick-bottomed stainless pot.
Brown your meat, throw in veges and spices, add water, simmer for 20 minutes, pop into the Magic Cooker. 8 hours later, soft tender casserole. Good for old chooks, pig trotters etc. Anything that needs long slow cooking. Saves heaps on gas/electricity.
The insulation must be good because after 8 hours the food is still too hot to handle.
Not really magic, though.

My casserole pot weighs about 3kg

I devoured 400g of beef with chips and a mexican beanburger from Iceland


For any foreigners confused:



Chips



Iceland

a mexican beanburger from Iceland

Tesco do a better version

Originally Posted by Maanaam

My daughter bought me a thing labelled "Magic Cooker". Very expensive.
Basically it's an insulated container that fits a custom thick-bottomed stainless pot.
Brown your meat, throw in veges and spices, add water, simmer for 20 minutes, pop into the Magic Cooker. 8 hours later, soft tender casserole. Good for old chooks, pig trotters etc. Anything that needs long slow cooking. Saves heaps on gas/electricity.
The insulation must be good because after 8 hours the food is still too hot to handle.
Not really magic, though.

Similar to a hay box, we used on the farm.

After breakfast we'd braise meat and onions in a cast iron dutch oven, throw in spuds and veges and water, quickly bring it all to a boil, then place the pot into the box of hay, cover with more hay and close the lid before going off to work.

The food was well done by the end of the day, and hot!

No doubt inspired by that sort of thing.
My daughter bought it for me because I used to cook a lamb or chicken curry, and once cooked but not yet falling off the bone, I'd turn the stove off and cover the pot with loads of teatowels and leave it. Not so much to save gas, but because it needed stirring often, and I couldn't be bothered.

Then of course, there's the compost heap cooking....same method as your hay box, but bury in the compost heap, which was naturally hot.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Then of course, there's the compost heap cooking....same method as your hay box, but bury in the compost heap, which was naturally hot.

That should be an interesting subject matter of a separate thread.
Might spur on stimulating discussion - variable techniques, climate locales, and situations.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Then of course, there's the compost heap cooking....same method as your hay box, but bury in the compost heap, which was naturally hot.

That should be an interesting subject matter of a separate thread.
Might spur on stimulating discussion - variable techniques, climate locales, and situations.

Go on then, tell us about the hangi.

Lots of new orchids popping out in the last two days, they seem to like this rainy, gloomy weather that's been the norm for the past week.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

rainy, gloomy weather

I don't know, but I guess it's their adaptation to a gloomy rainforest habitat.

I have 9 orchids now, and they bloom often when I keep up the water, but seldom if I'm lazy.
My orchid in NZ, I was lucky to get bloom once a year.

I brushed pesto and lemongrass paste onto 3 small fillets of haddock and gently pan fried them for about 10mins, turning occasionally

Served with the last of my frozen chips

Food for the wogs

I was once told that "wog" was an acronym for Western Oriental Gentleman.
Opinions on the truth of this?

Derives from "Golliwogg", a 19th century blackface doll.