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Peanut Cookies

Ingredients:

* 1 egg
* 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
* 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 cup vegetable oil
* 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
* 1 cup chopped roasted peanuts

Preparation:
In a mixing bowl with a hand-held electric mixer, beat egg; blend in brown sugar. Combine flour,…[Read more]

why do i get the feeling im being lied 2 :evil:

excited

@fat bob wrote:

@thin ice wrote:

does any one know how to make cheese on toast :roll:

Shout at the woman… apparently its her day! :D

:lol: i think if you shouted at her ued end up wareing the cheese on toast rather than eating it :wink: :lol: :D

trying to book a hotel in manchester nightmare everywhere is fully booked lol

Chocolate and beetroot cake

Ingredients
100g drinking chocolate
230g self-raising flour
200g golden caster sugar
100g dark chocolate, minimum 60% cocoa solids broken into pieces.
125g unsalted butter
250g cooked beetroot
3 large eggs

Preheat oven to 180 C / gas 4. Butter and flour a 18cm (7in) round cake tin.

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Chocolate Almond Cake

Ingredients
200g high quality plain chocolate
125g butter, softened
125g caster sugar
4 eggs, separated
200g peeled and finely ground almonds

Break the chocolate into pieces in a bowl and set the bowl over simmering water to melt the chocolate, stirring occasionaly.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.…[Read more]

just for a change from Carrot Cake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0&feature=more_related

Don’t Stop Believing Journey lyrics

You’ve heard the expressions “stinking drunk” and “stinko” (“stinking” has been used in English to express disgust since the 15th century). No creature alive is stinkier than a skunk. Because “skunk” rhymes with “drunk,” the two words are a natural match.
The term “drunk as a skunk” is, as you guessed, simply a good example of our love of…[Read more]

PAY ON THE NAIL……..In the Middle Ages ‘nails’ were flat-topped columns in markets. When a buyer and a seller agreed a deal money was placed on the nail for all to see.

zebra Crossing

Keep it going Angelbabe some of us love reading it

thanks Blosom will do

Wonder where “talking out of your arse” originated from. Laughing

ive oftened wondered that myself :D

MAD AS A HATTER…Some people say the phrase comes from the fact that in the 18th and 19th centuries hat makers used mercury nitrate in their work. Exposure to this chemical does indeed send you mad. .

However according to some people the origin of this phrase is much older. Hatter is a corruption of the Saxon word ‘atter’, which meant adder or…[Read more]

enjoying my cupppa tea on my morning off

@Melody wrote:

Angel I enjoyed your post.

Thanks and keep them coming :)

thanks Melody

@(f)politics? wrote:

I’m enjoying this thread thanks AB :D/ and hows ted ? :lol:

glad ya enjoying it ted is good thnx :wink: :D

@jen_jen wrote:

Well reading here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12634535 which has more info, it would seem to be a miracle of modern healthcare techniques. The baby isn’t showing any signs of brain damage and looks healthy and happy, as does her mother :D

Whenever people say things like “maybe they should have left it alone” or “nature should…

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not looking for any thoughts in particular jen
i was just wondering if ppl thought it was a miracle
or if thought docs should have left alone
im unsure how i feel to be honest
i was just interested in what others thought

ON TENTERHOOKS…..After it was woven wool was pounded in a mixture of clay and water to clean and thicken it. This was called fulling. Afterwards the wool was stretched on a frame called a tenter to dry. It was hung on tenterhooks. So if you were very tense, like stretched cloth, you were on tenterhooks.