Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

VINCE CABLE IS THE BIGGEST LIAR EVER TO BE IN A GOVERNMENT HE IS VERY DISHONEST come on you tory back benchers push for a split and let the public
get rid of clegg and cable and is areswipes we may then have a chance ,

looking over the last 30 years at libs their has never been a honest one
they are all liars and power mad it is like a cancer in the party of lunatics

over 100 TORY MPs are now concerned about their jobs and are turning on the cabinet .
they want to now ignore the libs protests ,
and start to bring in tory policys and pull out of human rights
and stop immigration from the eu
watch the big moves soon or they will join UKIP

posted on the 10th post 24860 and you now that I post facts
the tory party is at war the libs have fcuked the r=tory party with their party of nutters CABLE THE BIGGEST DICKHEAD EVER TO HAVE BEEN IN GOVERNMENT

the club last night we have all said we are going to support the UKIP party
we want these immigrants out of our country .and if bringing jobs to the uk means having migrants then stick the jobs up your back passage

TANKER....... please be a bit carefull with your language.

I can see you think pationately with your posts very close to your heart.

It comes over very well.

You dont need to use bad language.

Just got back from Old Trafford. Ohhh what a day, one not to forget.

Thankyou Sir Alex.

sticky - don't ever expect clarity or sense from the village idiot .... he is as he is, and if he wasn't such a total and obvious sozzled buffoon, he would he have joined the likes of mrsi many moons ago

I didnt ask you for your opinion.

cynic
My home made soda bread came out pretty good. Five minutes preparation then in the oven. It was so easy.

Back passage .......... I agree , no need for that language

Haystack,

I was curious how your soda bread turned out?

Have you tried making your own pizzas? If you've got teenagers at home, I can guarantee they'll love them!

I use Jamie Oliver's dough recipe (which is pretty much the basic mix for most breads), and a shop bought jar of passata with onions and basil for the base. The other topping are whatever take your fancy (my fave is tuna, sweetcorn, anchovies, olives and mozarella). After a few attempts, it's easy to produce thin and crispy pizzas with a light and airy crust which are every bit as good as anything out of Pizza Express, and a close second to the pizza joints with the pukka wood-burning bread ovens.

And the best bit - Jamie is a real lard-arse and his dough mix recipe to serve 4 will actually serve about 10! This means that you will invariably have dough left over which you can wrap in cling film and put in the fridge for 3 or 4 days where it will continue to rise. I then chop black olives and sun-dried tomatoes and roll them into the left over dough to bake a kind of Mediterranean style small ciabatta loaf.

What a sport Branson is.

British billionaire Richard Branson strutted his stuff as an AirAsia flight attendant Sunday -- complete with fishnet stockings and figure-hugging red pencil skirt.

His star turn on the flight from Australia's Perth to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur came after he lost a Grand Prix bet with the Malaysian budget carrier's founder.

Hils and Hays,

You will be able to help out Manuel when he reopens his caff.

Surely that was Manuel in Drag.

I have been making pizzas for years. I use 00 flour as the good pizzerias do. My kids prefer them to restaurant pizzas. It just isn't possible to make perfect pizzas due to home ovens. Restaurant ovens cook in 10 minutes at around 320c. They also rest on a very hot surface straight away in the oven. One improvement would be a slab of stone in the oven and the use of a proper pizza shovel. My kid's like my pizzas better than every restaurant except the one owned by my friend. His pizzas are at another level. I have tried using his flour. The chef has even given me a big hunk of their dough, but it still doesn't work properly. The chef and I have come to the conclusion that it is the oven and there is no reasonable solution.

You can purchase round cooking stones for ordinary ovens, about half inch thick about 18"+ diameter.

I use one for cooking bread on.

Also, easy enough to build your own outdoor baking oven with fire bricks and a reinforced slab of concrete and grade heat resistant stainless levels for different heat levels.

Control heat by heat resistant doors opening at different levels.

Save yourself problems by having a chimney.

Built one in the garden of a previous house worked very efficiently and roasted who poultry and also smoked lightly salted meat.

( Stainless steel, try Stainless steel scrap metal dealers, who may cut to lengths you need.)

I would recommend the program just starting on BBC2, The Fantastic Mr Feynman. The story of Richard Feynman, a hero of mine.

See Cameron is encouraging team play over Europe.

Well, I suppose a captain should go down with his ship, especially when the crew are mutinying.

What a party!

Couldn't even arrange a BBQ.

I have a few recipes for pork.

We use rectangles of granite that sit on the oven shelves - I've never tried the round stones you buy in cookware shops because I always figured they were a bit on the small size for a decent pizza. It's the centre of the bases that don't crisp at the bottom. Putting the pizza onto a pre-heated stone allows the base to crisp.

When you see the proper pizza chefs spin and throw their pizza bases around, they're actually trying to make the centres thinner than the edges so that they cook evenly.

I can confirm that it is the oven that makes the difference, certainly where bread is concerned.. I know about these things.