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I have a hand mincer and want to make my own mince without all the nasty stuff that seems to be in ready prepared mince. What cuts of meat are appropriate to make good quality mince that melts in the mouth after only being cooked for a short while at reasonable prices? For example my local...

Elderflower Champage Special treat late spring early summer - cool home made elderflower champagne - as sweet as you like and BA:ohmy:NG - lots of fizz!

Elderflower champagne Its time to make the most of the last elderflowers here in the UK but where i always thought the recipe for elderflower champagne resulted in a non-alcoholic volatie drink I have seen recently on Hugh Fearly Twittering's River Cottage Spring that his method brews to...

Chocs Away In the UK the hotelchocololat is wooing the hearts of chocolate lovers. Their prices are steep but the selection available is splendid. Munchtastic!

Sticking my neck out here I couldn't resist stirring the wrath of DC mods but this video features a cowbell, a mosque alarm clock and a bicycle puncture repair kit Ali ali akbaaarrrr

No big deal.. I still use a simple "habitat" board - brown wood (unknown) but falt and easy to take care of. Cho Chop SLICE>

Garlic press?? Micro Plane???? When I did my C&G 7061/2 the method for garlic prep was with the knife. What's going on with all these gadgets? Washing up - ecologically unsound and what a palavar. Chop Chop CRUSH SMEAR - that's the way.

Marmalade won't set I too have had this many many times - I squeeze the gue out of the pips n stuff but no set. is it that by the time the set on a saucer happens the marmalade has been boiled to buggery? Solution - heresey - PECTIN. :closedeye

Pectin and jam I find soft fruit jams really need a shot of pectin - I don't know if you can get hold of a product called Certo which is apple juice fortified with pectin. I even stick a slug of Certo into marmalade - set guaranteed!

Sure is one busy site - I love it already

always suppor the local independant food places - local market stalls - super fresh scrummy fodder

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Fresh out the oven flakey pastry Cornish Pasty. Munchtastic!

Don't forget in "ISO 9000" it stands for Internatinal Standards Organisation.

Awwwwww Hot diggerdy - the link's gone