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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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OK, since all the cool kids will be out having 'fun'...
I intend to stop eating so much crap and cook properly ocassionally. Properly in my book means not supernoodles or pasta for every meal.

So, since you lot are gourmands, please could you help me with recipes. They need to be
a) easy (I am a shit cook)
b) fairly quick (I am lazy)
c) fairly healthy (I am fat)

EDIT: actually it's no surprise I'm single.

Alternatively - YOUTUBE DISCO! favourite song of the moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_6-OdsFmLQ
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:50, 140 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
Cook things in batches and freeze individual portions.
That way, you spend less time cooking, and you'll have a nice meal every night.

For indian food, I use this site as a point of reference.

www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/index.htm
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:53, Reply)
That's what I was also considering now I have a freezer
curries look good, but aren't they tricky?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:55, Reply)
Not really tricky, as long as you invest in all of the right herbs and spices.
And you cook it carefully so as not to burn them.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:56, Reply)
I tend to cheat and buy a ready made sauce
but then jazz it up with a load of stuff. However, I did get a curry book for my birthday so I shall delve into that at some point.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:57, Reply)
I don't like most of the stir-in sauces

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:00, Reply)
That's why I chuck a load of stuff in, really.
On their own they can be a bit bland but as a base for doing something with a bit more kick they're useful.

I've taken to adding roast potatoes and fresh mint to curries; it's fucking ace.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:05, Reply)
in my world
herbs = oregano, spices = ginger and curry powder. Perhaps this is another area to improve on....I shall get a SPICE RACK!
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:57, Reply)
If you have to buy all of the herbs and spices in one hit it'll be quite expensive.
But once you've got them, they'll last you ages.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:59, Reply)
Basic herbs and spices are cheap as fuck in Aldi and the like, though.
Granted the range is limited but you can get the basics for less than 60p.

Also worth checking the reduced fresh herbs in Asda and the like. The amount of times I've picked up bunches of sage, basil, parsley and coriander and such for a couple of pence is staggering. Get 'em home, chop 'em up and freeze.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:03, Reply)
Oh OK
I'll probably grow some too,
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:05, Reply)
Stir fry innit?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:53, Reply)
I can totally do stir frys
as long as I can remember to have the ingredients in the house at the same time
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:56, Reply)
To be honest
you can buy a pre-prepared pot of stir fry veg for a quid, and they go a long way.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:59, Reply)
aww, babes x

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:55, Reply)
cheers for the almost real sympathy
now post a link to some music, dammit

unless you like shit music
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:58, Reply)
DARLING
Try and get hold of Delia's How To Cook series, they're absolutely ace and will teach you all the basics to improve your confidence in the kitchen. Plan what you're going to cook the day before so you can get ingredients www.amazon.co.uk/Delias-Complete-How-Cook-collection/dp/0563539070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329505225&sr=8-1
I think I said this to you before but if you don't end up enjoying yourself while cooking and eating you won't put the effort in, so put some good music on and dance around the kitchen.
Look up a good store-cupboard list like www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=26480
Also www.studentrecipes.com/ and www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/favourites/easy/
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 18:59, Reply)
*bookmarks*
that cupboard list is handy

it's the planning that's part of the problem
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:06, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR4mTqq80I8
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:00, Reply)
*dances defensively*
(in the club I used to go to, the industrial goth dudes got quite dangerously angular to this song)
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:09, Reply)

I have loved this since I first heard it. I think it's almost perfect.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:15, Reply)
I quite like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAi4lJil-k
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:02, Reply)
We have a DELETER in our midst.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:04, Reply)
Ladies and gentleman I bring you the latest internet gaming sensation...
WHERE'S CHOMPY?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:06, Reply)
It was TD and his broken link.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:06, Reply)
Oh well if the link was broken that's OK.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:07, Reply)
And now he's vanished.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:10, Reply)
Yes it was me
I deleted a post. I AM FREEFAIR!
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:11, Reply)
Behind the times TD.
Chompy's the resident thread deleter these days.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:12, Reply)

FREEFAIR BARRYMORE
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:12, Reply)
I'd bunged on a link to Bad Company
But it wasn't working. Quality control, not deviance.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:15, Reply)
and as if by magic....

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:14, Reply)

I don't know if I want to go a party tonight. I think I might stick the xbox on and kill some baddies. I'm pooped.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:17, Reply)
I think you need to go to a party
What will you gain by being a dull shut-in?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:19, Reply)
Internet validation?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:19, Reply)
Which is worth....?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:21, Reply)
Fuck all really.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:21, Reply)
No, not in this small village of internet personas

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:25, Reply)
It's a bit quiet in here.
I think I might wander off for a bit.

*wanders off*
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:25, Reply)

pooped BARRYMORE
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:19, Reply)
This is what I was going for before
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sKdiWlLR8

It's been in my bonce all day and it is superb.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:28, Reply)
TD - the Domestos of O/T
Guaranteed to kill all threads dead, without hope of recovery.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:46, Reply)
sorry
I wandered off to work on the 'carrying all the books upstairs' project I've been working on.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:56, Reply)
I've decided to order a curry.
More news as it happens.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:47, Reply)
This might be a thing I do this weekend to mark the end of half term
Today I went in search of a nearby cafe to make a regular place to visit. I found an OK place, but I forgot that the little not-quite-town centre round here is not exactly salubrious
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:57, Reply)
I'm really not the one to ask
as I am also all of those three things.

This is my current favourite housework 'choon'.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:57, Reply)
AHH! *flashback*
For some reason a bunch of the popular girls from my school* sung and danced to this, which was CLEARLY trying to outdo me and my friends' band where we wrote our own songs. Stupid popular girls

*primary school - I think we were about 9
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 19:59, Reply)
I seem to remember some kind of convoluted dance
but I, again, wasn't one of the popular girls.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:00, Reply)
I was a popular boy
But this was 1977, or thereabouts.

Shouldn't you girls been dancing to Wham?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:04, Reply)
Not really my scene.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:11, Reply)
Next post upside.
It's K's birthday and K is ace.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:17, Reply)
nah
I was a proto-hipster telling everyone that The Beatles were where it's at and to shove their boy band nonsense.

OK, so I loved Culture Club and Adam and The Ants more than anything
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:21, Reply)
Hay b3th, anyone given you a fixed penatly notice yet today? 'cus I'm looking at one all mighty fine.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:24, Reply)
Hahahahah!
bender!
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:30, Reply)
Tee Hee, how are you doing?
I super impressed my manager at work today and I almost asked out the girl in waitrose, she was packing the bread away and we were talking for like 10 minutes and after I got my stuff, I went to say bye to her and we were talking for a bit longer.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:43, Reply)
Dude, you are so in.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:54, Reply)
^ This.
Gonz had it on a plate.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:57, Reply)
If he hadn't chickened out, he'd probably by wetting his wick RIGHT NOW

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:00, Reply)
Dayum, next time, slowly-slowly-catchy-monkey.
I got a semi-date on sunday with that GP lady, I'm not entirely sure if it's a date, and I'm not treating it as one, but I should have a good time.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:02, Reply)
I thought she was HOT for your ROD?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:06, Reply)
Talking of ROD
It sounds like Gonz is close to getting his Rodney damp.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:11, Reply)
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:14, Reply)
Wetting his wick, getting his Rodeny damp - either way, I hope he wears his wellies.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:16, Reply)
It's what all the cool kids are doing these days.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:19, Reply)
So I've heard.
Hey, you know the 'Weston Eye' well we've got one in Bristol now.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:21, Reply)
NO WAI!

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:21, Reply)
I'll find a link to it.
I've not been on it, but so I understand, you can see dispair for miles and miles.

There you go. It looks shit.

www.thisisbristol.co.uk/New-big-wheel-attraction-Bristol-spin/story-15197994-detail/story.html
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:27, Reply)
I love that the picture has a really dull view

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:28, Reply)
Fuck off.
That's like a Manhattan skyline as from as Bristolians are concerned! :-)
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:30, Reply)
I don't recognise that bit

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:31, Reply)
It's certainly no Weston.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:34, Reply)
Thankfully.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:35, Reply)
It certainly does.
You can't even see the pier from it.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:29, Reply)
Have they finished building that tall bit on the pier now?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:30, Reply)
What tall bit?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:31, Reply)
I thought they were building some observation thing at the end of it?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:35, Reply)
I don't know nothing about that.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:37, Reply)
Well you next go there to dust, ask them.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:39, Reply)
*makes note*

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:40, Reply)
Good.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:43, Reply)
I thought this song was really really dark, and now I've seen the video, it's even darker still, it's probably the darkest song I've heard.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBFEBeOTGXc&ob=av2n
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:07, Reply)
I tried to watch, but I can't handle more than
a few seconds of that kind of pop music
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:37, Reply)
I donno if it would be considered pop music.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:44, Reply)
UPDATE!
I've had curry.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 20:56, Reply)
More news as it happens.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:00, Reply)
and I have finished arranging all
my books on shelves
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:03, Reply)
Arranged how?
Alphabetically?
By size?
By colour?
Enquiring minds need to know.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:07, Reply)
Cavy has put her ladybird books in numerical order.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:10, Reply)
I couldn't
can't count past 10
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:16, Reply)
just on the shelves
it's kind of grouped into sizes, and the photography section is down stairs while gardening/cookery is in the kitchen, craft is in the art room and fiction and misc non-fiction are upstairs.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:16, Reply)
What have you got in the bathroom to keep you company during a really big dump?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:17, Reply)
Our downstairs loo has all the Where's Wally books, and a large selection of trivia/miscellany books.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:18, Reply)
I'm not really a bathroom reader
If I were, I'd just take whatever I was reading at the time
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:18, Reply)

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/35iteo/
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:20, Reply)
pff!

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:26, Reply)
is it bad that I am watching room 101
just because Josh Groban is hot?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:49, Reply)
Not at all
Because he is.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:50, Reply)
man, he would totally get it

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:50, Reply)
I'd switch it off if I were you Captain.
Apparently he puts you in Room 101.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:52, Reply)
how could you say that?!

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:53, Reply)
I've got no idea who he is.
And I was being mean for a bit of a laugh.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:56, Reply)

www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=josh%20groban&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=3916l6405l0l6671l11l11l0l4l4l0l130l684l3.4l7l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=U80-T9DFPIac8gOukPiQCA&biw=1280&bih=930&sei=V80-T4T8FoWQ8QP4hPCPCA

*drool*
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:58, Reply)
I've still got no idea who he is.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:00, Reply)
He's a singer.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:02, Reply)
I'm listening to HMHB at the mo.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:02, Reply)
That describes the population of my house that isn't me.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:04, Reply)
So your husband and dog are both listening to HMHB?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:04, Reply)
No silly.
The rest of the population of my house:
Half man, half biscuit.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:08, Reply)
hahahahahaha
What's your favourite HMHB tune?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:09, Reply)
I honestly don't think I could name one.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:10, Reply)
This is shocking. And Roota likes you?!?!?!???!!!!

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:11, Reply)
She has to. It's teh law.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:13, Reply)
You should embrace the biscuit.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:13, Reply)
I do.
Regularly.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:14, Reply)
Not the dog.
The band.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:15, Reply)
Why would I want to embrace a band
when I have a perfectly good dog right here?

I thought you of all people would understand that one...
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:17, Reply)
Hmm. I see your point.
I wonder where Cavy went?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:19, Reply)
She probably slid off her chair
thinking about Josh Groban.

Also, I wonder where Gonz went.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:20, Reply)
He probably slid off his chair thinking about you and Waitrose girl.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:20, Reply)
I say!

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:21, Reply)
Or he might be doing something else.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:22, Reply)
i went to feed the pigs
Homer needed his arse mullet brushed, he hates that.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:27, Reply)
An arse mullet doesn't sound like a good look.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:29, Reply)
he just has long hair which
for some reason has a kind of undercut at the back - perfect for dragging through the muck, then hiding under the other hair
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:36, Reply)
And he's funny, too.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:00, Reply)
He so would.

; )
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 21:56, Reply)
I'm moving back over here

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:23, Reply)
We were in danger of sliding off the chair
As they say.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:24, Reply)
You ever get the feeling you should be doing something more interesting?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:26, Reply)
I stayed in this evening because I'm off out tomorrow.
And I went out last night.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:28, Reply)
Damn.
I don't have that excuse.

We did go out for a ruby last night, though.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:31, Reply)
And given the company I'm keeping tomorrow evening, I'll need to be well rested.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:31, Reply)
Yeah, I wouldn't leave them alone with your drink.
Or your eyebrows.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:34, Reply)
I'm a bigger cunt than they are!
It's quantity of consumption that concerns me.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:35, Reply)
I hink we're going to need photographic evidence of the debauchery
Just for blackmail purposes. And general mocking.
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:38, Reply)
I'll take some photos then.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:39, Reply)
ruby?
I have a party at my house next weekend. That's as exciting as my social calendar gets
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:32, Reply)
Seemingly my invite must have got lost in the post.

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:34, Reply)
it's the larper's party
then there's one for work mates. Then umm... hey! look an eagle!
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:35, Reply)
Ruby Murray
Curry, innit?
(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:36, Reply)
is it?

(, Fri 17 Feb 2012, 22:36, Reply)

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