
ze veekend ist hier, wunderbar.
off down to my sister's for the weekend for a quiet break in the country, well needed after this shitcunt of a week. up to much?
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:04, archived)

( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:11, archived)

Any suΔ£gestions.from.the resident foodie? I have loads.of nommmy ribs and steak
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:17, archived)

It's the fucking tits:
imgur.com/bcp9Aoh
It's basically a home made version of this:
jesspryles.com/hardcore-carnivore-black-rub/
I do ribs with the 3-2-1 method:
heygrillhey.com/3-2-1-ribs-perfect-fall-off-the-bone-ribs/
Haha, you won't throw them in the 'dusty bin' I can assure you!
I make a rib glaze out of shop bought bbq sauce let down with apple cider vinegar, added hot sauce and rum/bourbon, brush it on right at the end or the sugar will burn
ur welcs bruv
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:34, archived)

this stuff is far from cheap in itself, but it's well worth getting and goes a long way:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124232985041
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:13, archived)

( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:15, archived)

Lidl own brand barbecue sauce is bery good so is tje Aldi one
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:45, archived)

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Activated-Charcoal-Powder-100-Pure-Food-Grade-Natural-Coconut-Shells-25g-1kg-/283640507855
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:46, archived)

pat your steaks dry with kitchen paper, season, then leave (uncovered) in your fridge on a grill rack for as long as you can (a good few hours, overnight ideally), removing from there 1hr before cooking - the crust you'll get is amazing
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:44, archived)

( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:18, archived)

I always forget when 'the season' starts - mind you I only know one guaranteed spot. Hang on - it's near Winchester where I'm going this weekend, get in. Don't suppose the mrs will be best pleased if I make her go trespassing instead of chilling in country pubs though
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:36, archived)

She's fucked off to Llandudno with her new boyfriend. Hope she fucking stays there.
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 12:52, archived)

I'm hoping this new lad has his own place and asks her to move in with him
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:08, archived)

then measure up for the splashback and sort out the drawings in Adobe Illustrator. There's a firm around the corner who will feed it into a CNC machine to cut what we want out of a sheet of aluminium composite. Excited but nervous as I'm a measure, cut, swear, cut again, measure again, throw it away and start from scratch kind of person.
Saturday we've got a ZipVan booked to get all our stuff back from storage so by the end of the weekend we ought to have a kitchen once more. I've missed the dishwasher...
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:33, archived)

( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:36, archived)

we've done a lot of work ourselves so it's ... okay. The original walls in this place are 5cm thick and filled with kind of rolls of cardboard - the days before building regs when the tories were pushing cheap house building like mad. Anyway, we wanted a proper fire door between the kitchen and the living room so we added some studding, insulation and plasterboard, fitted a new door and frame (fucking palaver, the door sizes in this house aren't standard so had to widen the gap). We got it plastered at the same time as the extension, not gonna try THAT myself.
I put ceiling lights in the old part of the kitchen too. They look ace.
The floor we put down in the extension isn't perfect - the screed the builders laid isn't bang-on and we didn't have time to go to town with any self-levelling compound. I guess a few years down the line we could maybe pay someone to do a proper job but it's fine for now.
This is why I was miffed about the living room floor, we thought of maybe replacing it in a few years with something nice, if it gets replaced now with like-for-like it won't really be ideal. The money to cover the cost would be though...
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:43, archived)

( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:45, archived)

they'll ask me to complete a form, forward it to their insurers who may send an adjuster out to assess the cost of repairing it. It's a big firm, they probably have this issue from time-to-time and just follow a procedure.
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:47, archived)

making a big corner-shaped dent in the floor. It's gone straight through the very thin wood on the top so I can't see it being repairable and by rights they should replace the whole lot. I mean, it was Β£7 a square meter from B&Q and it's hard a hard time of its 8 year life but that dent is right by the front door and worse than any other damage that's its sustained. We were hoping to wring another 5 years out of it.
( , Fri 10 Sep 2021, 13:37, archived)