igorgetmeabrain wrote:

£800 for a bicycle!?!  Are you in training for the olympics?

I paid double that for mine. Who want's to touch me?

Do you not worry, when you park it, that when you come back to it later, you'll discover that some cretin has stripped it for parts or something?  That's one reason I own a shit bike - no one in their right mind would try to nick it.

Material wealth is of no real consequence to me, though I've never had much of it to be fair.

Ooh, I was given a bottle of Superstition for Christmas, lovely drop. I have a bottle of Aberlour which is still sealed, I can see it making its merry way into the flask.

On the Vini Albali Tempranillo the neet. I'm no wine buff but it's in Asda's 3 for £10 and it's not too offensive. I may consolidate it though with the last dram or two I have left of Laphroig.

Hawaiian pizza with some mozerella on top, garlic bread and some mozarella and tomato salad with ginger beer.

Good man. I honestly cannot remember the last time I had a ready meal, fresh is best. Heating up a drop of Covent Garden soup in the mic doesn't count.

ahh just ordered a Dominos. Firezza don't deliver to my new place which is unfortunate.

Yeah but i dont really mind doing them on the hob.

Can, its brocolli.

Seriously though, you are right kow the microwave is great for veg but the sheer amount of room it takes up on the side isnt worth it for me. Not having one also removes all temptation of eating ready meals from it

They really are and tbh way more hassle than just making the stuff in the first place

Jesus!

Right Nick, get that recipe up, I'll make it for the parents this week.

Make sure you get good ribs, or it's probably not worth all this effort.

Firstly I just smeared that weak yellow mustard called French's all over the rack. Saw this on the http://bbqpitboys.com/, who definitely know what they're doing. Then pressed in the rub:

2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
2/3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup paprika
1/4 cup seasoned salt such as Lawry's
1/4 cup Smoked Salt
1/4 cup onion salt
1/4 cup celery salt
2 tablespoons freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons pure chili powder
2 teaspoons mustard powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

Wrapped it up tight in cling film and left in the fridge for 4 hours. Before cooking you want to take it out till it's room temp again.

First stage of cooking in smoking. You could make your own pretty easily- you just need a deep metal pan. Put foil on bottom, place wood chips in, place metal tray on that, place rak on that, and cover with lid. You could just buy the one I have: http://www.amazon.co.uk/cameron-stovetop-smoker-instruction-recipe/dp/B002PI39BM

Here's mine at this stage:



Medium/low heat in there for 2 hours.

When it was near done, I preheated the oven to 110 degrees C, and prepared a little braising liquor by heating up fresh apple juice, splash of cider vinegar, and two sage leaves form the garden. I poured this, about a small cup full, over the rack which I'd transferred to a glass dish, and sealed tightly with foil.

After an hour in there, all it needed was some direct heat to create the 'bark'. Preheated the griddle to high, and got my squeezy sauce bottle ready to paint and turn a few times:

Sweet and Smoky Barbecue Sauce

2 cups ketchup
1/4 cup molasses
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1/4 cup worcestershire sauce
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons prepared mustard
1 tablespoon dry mustard
2 teaspoons liquid smoke
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper

Once it's had time to caramalise each spreading of sauce on each side a few times, you just need to rest it then spearate into ribs. This fed both of us, with a rib left in the fridge for instant eating when I get home.

My mum does, she just uses a bread tin and the oven (and some bready ingredients, obviously), but I don't know it.  I could ask when I see her next.

I have now got these graze box things and I have picked at the berries in them since getting to work. They are yum. I only had a flapjack, a cookie and a coffee all yesterday, rather odd.