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Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 2:54 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Sorry?! You buy bacon? What haven't you tried making your own yet?

Until I own a decent slicer I wouldn't bother.

Ah, come on, they only cost £20. Unless you live in mortal fear of your other half then there's no good reason not to get one.

£20? suitable for parma type thinness?

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 2:55 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Well, should I meet with a strange accident then you know what you can claim from my estate.

Let's see a copy of yer will then...

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 2:57 pm Post subject:

Mary-Jane wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Well, should I meet with a strange accident then you know what you can claim from my estate.

Let's see a copy of yer will then...

Your the legal wiz - can that not be taken as a contract?

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 3:00 pm Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Sorry?! You buy bacon? What haven't you tried making your own yet?

Until I own a decent slicer I wouldn't bother.

Ah, come on, they only cost £20. Unless you live in mortal fear of your other half then there's no good reason not to get one.

£20? suitable for parma type thinness?

Parma ham, yes, but not parma bacon. I generally cut my bacon to about 3mm thick and there's no real problem with that.

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 23385
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 3:01 pm Post subject:
Lamb - from farmshop, thin plastic bag, done with onions from plot and herbs from garden, olive oil from bottle (recycled when it's finished) Potatoes from plot, broccoli from SIL's garden, so no packing. No pudding last night

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 3:22 pm Post subject:

Mary-Jane wrote:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Well, should I meet with a strange accident then you know what you can claim from my estate.

Your the legal wiz - can that not be taken as a contract?

Absolutely not!

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 3:55 pm Post subject:
Morrisons mushrooms in plastic tray annoy me a lot, as they are cheaper (if you buy 2) than loose I do buy the loose ones though unless they are really crap.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 4:15 pm Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

bernie wrote:

...plastic box that the bacon came in, ...

Sorry?! You buy bacon? What haven't you tried making your own yet?

No I haven't - to tell you the truth it is all a bit scary to me all this curing malarkey - I am waiting for Rob to do a bacon package where I get given the meat, the cure and the instructions on how to tackle it.

I do normally get my bacon from the local butcher where you get it packaged in a bit of greaseproof but had this pack in the freezer

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 4:25 pm Post subject:

jema wrote:

Morrisons mushrooms in plastic tray annoy me a lot, as they are cheaper (if you buy 2) than loose

I do buy the loose ones though unless they are really crap.

You mean... You can buy mushrooms? What the hell have I been wasting my time pondering fungi in in fields for?

More seriously, plastic packed mushrooms will rarely be much good. Pick them out from the loose ones, pick bigger ones (they'll usually have more flavour), give them a sniff and exclude any that are sort of off smelling or have a hint of ammonia to them, and make sure that the stems are dry, firm and clean in the middle, on the surface where they've been cut. And, of course, the whole shroom should look fresh and firm.

Mushrooms should be alive. Leave live shrooms on plastic and they sweat, and the sweat becomes home to bacteria that spoil the mushrooms very quickly.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 4:58 pm Post subject:
our local farm shop does a selection of mushrooms that I can pack in to paper bags. Things like chesnut, portabella ( something like that), oyster and horse. Think there are occasionally other ones as well.

moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 5:23 pm Post subject:
Cab, this is grossly off topic, but I love your avatar; the borage flower is really beautiful. I've just picked some for tea! mg x

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Jul 25, 06 5:30 pm Post subject:

Last night we had:

Pork in mushroom, cream and garlic sauce, with baked spuds and misc veg. No pudding (its a weekday!)

Pork - leftover from Sunday, plastic bag
mushrooms, broad beans and courgettes - paper bag, onions - net (recylced as bird-bedding holder) leeks - elastic band, garlic - loose. Broccoli, caluiflour, carrots and potaotes - biodegradable 'plastic'. Cream - Small plastic pot, washed used for freezing things.

hard to improve, unless I can pursuade the butcher to pack in paper, or someone to refill a cream pot for me. Ayyone else find dairy difficult to get from small producers?

Just Jane

Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 140
Location: France

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 06 7:01 am Post subject:

bought quiche - way too much packaging, cardboard box saved for winter firelighting, plastic wrapper put in bin, tinfoil tray saved for cooking small things in on the BBQ, potatoes, courgette & tomatoes from the garden so no packaging, mushrooms in a paperbag from the bio shop - will take the paper bag back & use again, when it gets too manky it'll go on the compost heap, peaches in paperbag from bio shop - recycled as for mushroom bag, wine in glass bottle will be put in recycling container

NB would like to make my own quiches but have never had much success with individual ones and freezing & not enough time to make them before eating on a week night

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 06 7:55 am Post subject:

We had friends around last night - as for produce from the garden well everything is a bit late simply due to my own neglect so atm no tomatoes or peppers as yet and consequently everything came from the supermarket as I haven't had time lately to go to any farmers markets

We had Lime & Coriander Chicken with Mediterrean Roasted Veg CousCous

Chicken - Organic but packaged in plastic trays
Limes, Peppers, Red Onions, Mushrooms, - all in those thin plastic bags you get from the supermarket - all saved for sandwiches
Aubergine - Loose no packaging
Tomatoes - Plastic tray and outer packaging
Coriander - 2 x living herbs - plant pots reused, packaging recycled
Courgettes - Home grown
Couscous - From Single step - Local food co-operative bought in paper bag - decanted into plastic food container
Garlic - from French Market - no packaging unless you count the string on the top of the plait
Herbs - bought in bulk from Julian Graves

Noticed lately we've slipped back into using the supermarket more again - really need to get back on top of our shopping patterns especially now I'm working fulltime again.

Need to sort out an order from Suma......

Joanne

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Wed Jul 26, 06 7:59 am Post subject:

bernie wrote:

Bacon couldn't be easier - all you need is salt, pork and a tub.

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