What are your jeans doing today?

[Double 0 Soul]

Porter Brook i think there's a photo in the neighbourhoods thread

It's very sweet and sticky, probably better with a coffee

[Duke Mantee]

Looks a nice deli - good selection of British and Irish cheeses (our IJ Mellis sells many of the same)

Did a quick read of that Brunost - adding cream to the boiling whey seems to me a similar method of making ‘caramel’ (Dulce de leche) from a tin of Carnation condensed milk

Edited February 27, 2021 by Duke Mantee

[Double 0 Soul]

Folks were still eating Carnation condensed milk sandwiches or condensed milk on toast when i was a kid, i think we still had rationing in Sheffield till 1986

[Duke Mantee]

5 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Folks were still eating Carnation condensed milk sandwiches or condensed milk on toast when i was a kid, i think we still had rationing in Sheffield till 1986

Toast?! You had it easy. I used to have to get up out of my shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and lick the road clean with my tongue. I had half a handful of freezing cold gravel to eat, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when I got home, my Dad would slice me in two with a bread knife.

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

[Double 0 Soul]

Same but without shoes

[Dr_Heech]

1 hour ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Folks were still eating Carnation condensed milk sandwiches or condensed milk on toast when i was a kid, i think we still had rationing in Sheffield till 1986

I thought the influence of condensed milk sandwiches was a Tiswas thing? 

[Double 0 Soul]

I think it was war food originaly Chaz, it was issued to troops, they would add it to tea as a milk and sugar substitute and spread it on bread, metal detector weirdo's often find dumps of condensed milk tins on battle fields, in the trenches and such.

[Dr_Heech]

Ah, right ho.

Watched 5 minutes of your Cruising, with Jane McDonald. Irritating and too middle class for my liking. Plus l'm a land-lubber. Hate boats/ships etc 

Never realised there's a whole massive  community of minted 'retired' people (retired from what tho?) who literally go from cruise to cruise all year round. Like they almost live on cruiseships.

Sod that.

[Double 0 Soul]

Never watched it myself, i imagine its like a combo of Triangle, Opportunity Knocks and Loose Women

If you could ever imagine anything so hideous..

[Maynard Friedman]

It’s not currently a very popular pastime.

[Double 0 Soul]

Check this crazy shit out.. yesterday my mrs asked if i could call at the bank on my way home and get her some £££ out so i swung by the atm outside Tesco nr work, there was a woman already at the cashpoint and another woman crouched on the floor rumaging through her bag, they were reasonably well dressed so not smackheads, i heard the woman on the floor mutter something about 'fucking mask' at which point the woman at the cashpoint turned around and said 'oh sorry love, do you need the cash point?' i was just hanging back... the woman on the floor tipped out her bag onto the pavement, still muttering shit says to her friend at the cashpoint 'can i borrow your mask? the woman took off her mask and gave it to her friend who put it on her own face and went into Tesco, what the fucking fuck!!!

Edited February 27, 2021 by Double 0 Soul

[CSL]

I spent a few months in Norway in my youth. I'd forgotten about that brown cheese until seeing Double O's post just now. It was certainly some weird stuff. Memories...

[Dr_Heech]

Well.. over the last 3 days.

Gave myself another opportunity to try out the drystone walling for a week to see if l could go back to it full time after 15 years doing things at my own pace (l only wall for a few weeks a year at the golf club). I am beginning to realise that it is a younger man's game (or at least a more fitter middle aged guy lol) and much harder to go back to than l had anticipated. My back was really fucked after doing the capping.

Could l really do this all day every day without severe repercussions??

Dont answer that

 

Edited March 18, 2021 by Dr_Heech
Spelling!

[Duke Mantee]

You might’ve got a lot more done if you didn’t spend so much time taking pictures of your handiwork ...

[Dr_Heech]

7 minutes ago, Duke Mantee said:

You might’ve got a lot more done if you didn’t spend so much time taking pictures of your handiwork ...

What the hell are you talking about

[buler]

Work with your brain. Have fun with your hands and your back (or on your back...).

[Duke Mantee]

@Dr_Heech  ... and your head fills the gap you haven’t built

Edited March 17, 2021 by Duke Mantee

[Dr_Heech]

7 hours ago, Duke Mantee said:

@Dr_Heech  ... and your head fills the gap you haven’t built

I've always had a big head, so at least it's good for something 

[beautiful_FrEaK]

I love carrot cakes!

Not the classic recipe though?

[beautiful_FrEaK]

Yeah, I somehow discovered baking for me. Special thanks to my wife for helping me

Today: Today Japanese cheesecake 

preparing the baking form

Gently mix the ingredients in a water bath 

Mix the stuff with the separate egg white

Pour it in the form

Bake it slowly in a water filled oven

 

Done, gonna eat it later

 

[Thanks_M8]

^Great BF! What recipe did u use? Need to get that cake right one day!

[beautiful_FrEaK]

I think it was the first recipe that popped up after I googled it  
The cake tasted good but wasn't as homogenous as it should be, probably we weren't good enough in folding in the egg white.

[Double 0 Soul]

I sometimes get sucked into those Korean youtube chanels where they make lovely looking sweets from a simple mix of (homemade) condensed milk, rice flour, potato starch and/or cocoa powder, i keep meaning to try it..

[julian-wolf]

Gefilte fish last night / matzo brei this morning

Tastes like childhood

[Double 0 Soul]

13 hours ago, julian-wolf said:

Tastes like childhood

When i was a kid if i wanted a sweet treat i would get a teaspoon of sugar and caramalise it over the gas stove till the spoon had a hard sugar glaze, i would then suck the spoon.

We had it rough up north!

[beautiful_FrEaK]

A little walk through the Hegau on a Sunday. Alps can be seen on the horizon 

My local "fortress"

And another small castle

[smoothsailor]

7 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

When i was a kid if i wanted a sweet treat i would get a teaspoon of sugar and caramalise it over the gas stove till the spoon had a hard sugar glaze, i would then suck the spoon.

We had it rough up north!

melted a plastic plate that way, and burned my mouth real bad

[Geeman]

9 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

When i was a kid if i wanted a sweet treat i would get a teaspoon of sugar and caramalise it over the gas stove till the spoon had a hard sugar glaze, i would then suck the spoon.

We had it rough up north!

Spoons!?

You had spoons....

[MJF9]

Glorious day at Saltburn-by-the-Sea in the dark grim north

Oh the freedom...

[lance]

Very nice, MJF9, Happy Easter everyone!