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_Brian

10YO Daughter has music exam tomorrow.

She’s been practicing her three pieces since last September.

4pm yesterday we got a text that the teacher gave them one piece that was wrong one. Really good teacher, just a bad mistake.

Emergency class this morning and practicing all day.

Be glad when it’s out of the way.

Birdnuts

Say my name wrote: »

Oh jeez, I couldn't thank that.

They're like 3 giant Chucky dolls.

Don't thank me - Thank Beavis and Butthead who introduced me to those scary Primus lads in the early 90's:D

_Brian

Bit of home made bread for lunch.
We use both a bread maker and traditional oven recipes. Make bread 3-4 times a week somwe never buy bread anymore.

I like messing about with the recipes adding nuts and seeds and different proportions of flours.

One thing I really think works with kids is home cooking but keeping tweaking the foods about, I think they are more open to new and different foods that way.

naughto

_Brian wrote: »

Bit of home made bread for lunch.
We use both a bread maker and traditional oven recipes. Make bread 3-4 times a week somwe never buy bread anymore.

I like messing about with the recipes adding nuts and seeds and different proportions of flours.

One thing I really think works with kids is home cooking but keeping tweaking the foods about, I think they are more open to new and different foods that way.

Where do ya get the time do ye not both work off farm

_Brian

naughto wrote: »

Where do ya get the time do ye not both work off farm

We do but once you get the feel for it it’s quick. My wife is a whiz and has taught me so much about proper simple home cooking.

Have home made soup in the slow cooker for later. Few packs of frozen veg, slow cooker for 6 hrs, hand held blitzer and serve, the amount of potato added dictates how thick the soup is. This has two packs of veg, a mixed medaly and a lentil mix for some protein. The vegans will love me for this dinner.

Slow cooker is a boon for busy houses,

Edit: our farm is small, usually 20 bucket reared sucks.

Water John

Brian I think you should start an online blog, 'A Farmer Cooks'.
Plenty chancers at it and you're the real deal.

visatorro

_Brian wrote: »

We do but once you get the feel for it it’s quick. My wife is a whiz and has taught me so much about proper simple home cooking.

Have home made soup in the slow cooker for later. Few packs of frozen veg, slow cooker for 6 hrs, hand held blitzer and serve, the amount of potato added dictates how thick the soup is. This has two packs of veg, a mixed medaly and a lentil mix for some protein. The vegans will love me for this dinner.

Slow cooker is a boon for busy houses,

Edit: our farm is small, usually 20 bucket reared sucks.

Slow cooker is brilliant. Any idiot (me) can fire a heap of ingredient in and it will come out edible!

Lady Haywire

_Brian wrote: »

We do but once you get the feel for it it’s quick. My wife is a whiz and has taught me so much about proper simple home cooking.

Have home made soup in the slow cooker for later. Few packs of frozen veg, slow cooker for 6 hrs, hand held blitzer and serve, the amount of potato added dictates how thick the soup is. This has two packs of veg, a mixed medaly and a lentil mix for some protein. The vegans will love me for this dinner.

Slow cooker is a boon for busy houses,

Edit: our farm is small, usually 20 bucket reared sucks.

Your family is what i aspire to be if I ever settle down
Such a fabulous home life, the pig rearing is something I wish i could do but will be a few years yet before i get to it.
What lucky girls you have!

Reggie.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Your family is what i aspire to be if I ever settle down
Such a fabulous home life, the pig rearing is something I wish i could do but will be a few years yet before i get to it.
What lucky girls you have!

Can't see that happening

Lady Haywire

Reggie. wrote: »

Can't see that happening

Neither can I if I'm honest :pac::D

Say my name

Tie down your kangaroos sports!

Orange wind warning out for tomorrow.

whelan2

visatorro wrote: »

Slow cooker is brilliant. Any idiot (me) can fire a heap of ingredient in and it will come out edible!

Had a close one with my slow cooker, I got the lead caught in between the cooker and the lift out bit. Outer cable was melted when I realised

_Brian

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Your family is what i aspire to be if I ever settle down
Such a fabulous home life, the pig rearing is something I wish i could do but will be a few years yet before i get to it.
What lucky girls you have!

Ha.
There a fair bit roaring goes on too

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Had a close one with my slow cooker, I got the lead caught in between the cooker and the lift out bit. Outer cable was melted when I realised

Jez that was close.

_Brian

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Your family is what i aspire to be if I ever settle down
Such a fabulous home life, the pig rearing is something I wish i could do but will be a few years yet before i get to it.
What lucky girls you have!

My family think we’re weird to be honest.
Youngest is ten and was chatting to my brother who was asking about French campsites as they are thinking of going.

She explained about her favourite campsite because the local village has the best fruit and veg shop that we cycled to, we got odd looks !

Bullocks

_Brian wrote: »

We do but once you get the feel for it it’s quick. My wife is a whiz and has taught me so much about proper simple home cooking.

Have home made soup in the slow cooker for later. Few packs of frozen veg, slow cooker for 6 hrs, hand held blitzer and serve, the amount of potato added dictates how thick the soup is. This has two packs of veg, a mixed medaly and a lentil mix for some protein. The vegans will love me for this dinner.

Slow cooker is a boon for busy houses,

Edit: our farm is small, usually 20 bucket reared sucks.

Looks a mighty job. Can you fill it at say 6 in the morning and have it ready to eat for 6 in the evening? Is there a timer to stop it cooking too much or can it be timed to come on later in the day?
The wife works 2 days a week here and that would be handy. I usually bring the young lads for pub grub those evenings or cook pork chops if I'm home early enough

visatorro

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Neither can I if I'm honest :pac::D

The pigs or the settling?!

Lady Haywire

visatorro wrote: »

The pigs or the settling?!

Pigs are far more likely than the settling

_Brian

Bullocks wrote: »

Looks a mighty job. Can you fill it at say 6 in the morning and have it ready to eat for 6 in the evening? Is there a timer to stop it cooking too much or can it be timed to come on later in the day?
The wife works 2 days a week here and that would be handy. I usually bring the young lads for pub grub those evenings or cook pork chops if I'm home early enough

There’s no timer.
Yea that would work fine. I’ve often thrown soup on 11pm for lunch next day, just let it bubble awaynand blitz when required.

We do full chickens, roasts if heef, hams, brazed steaks, chicken curry, bollenese, all sorts.

I have some trotters our by feomnthempigs im going to try.

charolais0153

_Brian wrote: »

My family think we’re weird to be honest.
Youngest is ten and was chatting to my brother who was asking about French campsites as they are thinking of going.

She explained about her favourite campsite because the local village has the best fruit and veg shop that we cycled to, we got odd looks !

I wonder why.:D all this homemade bread stuff reminds me of the lad that'd come into school and dip his fancy italian bread into olive oil :p

_Brian

charolais0153 wrote: »

I wonder why.:D all this homemade bread stuff reminds me of the lad that'd come into school and dip his fancy italian bread into olive oil :p

We shouldn’t use olive oil here in Ireland.

Rape seed oil is healthy, high burn temp so it’s good for cooking and best of all there’s a company in Donegal growing and pressing it here in Ireland supporting Irish farmers and jobs !

Rows Grower

_Brian wrote: »

We shouldn’t use olive oil here in Ireland.

Rape seed oil is healthy, high burn temp so it’s good for cooking and best of all there’s a company in Donegal growing and pressing it here in Ireland supporting Irish farmers and jobs !

Brilliant crop to support bees too.

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

There’s no timer.
Yea that would work fine. I’ve often thrown soup on 11pm for lunch next day, just let it bubble awaynand blitz when required.

We do full chickens, roasts if heef, hams, brazed steaks, chicken curry, bollenese, all sorts.

I have some trotters our by feomnthempigs im going to try.

Some people plug it in to a plug in timer. Stew is nice into it too and the glazed ham for St Patrick's day

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Some people plug it in to a plug in timer. Stew is nice into it too and the glazed ham for St Patrick's day

I’d never thought of a timer.
We would usually be eating straight from it so hadn’t felt the need.

_Brian

Looking at a mincer/sausage maker on Amazon. Like the idea of making our own sausages.

Odelay

_Brian wrote: »

Looking at a mincer/sausage maker on Amazon. Like the idea of making our own sausages.

Ah now you’re just showing off:0 head off down to supermacs like a normal family.

Base price

Bullocks wrote: »

Looks a mighty job. Can you fill it at say 6 in the morning and have it ready to eat for 6 in the evening? Is there a timer to stop it cooking too much or can it be timed to come on later in the day?
The wife works 2 days a week here and that would be handy. I usually bring the young lads for pub grub those evenings or cook pork chops if I'm home early enough

The reason that they don't have a timer or delayed start is due to food safety - you could have chicken sitting in it for hours (at room temperature) before it starts to cook enabling nasty bacteria to grow and multiply.

_Brian

Odelay wrote: »

Ah now you’re just showing off:0 head off down to supermacs like a normal family.

Seriously... I dont think we ever had any chance of being normal

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

The reason that they don't have a timer or delayed start is due to food safety - you could have chicken sitting in it for hours (at room temperature) before it starts to cook enabling nasty bacteria to grow and multiply.

The bottom oven of an aga cooker is also like a slow cooker

MickeyShtyles

_Brian wrote: »

We shouldn’t use olive oil here in Ireland.

Rape seed oil is healthy, high burn temp so it’s good for cooking and best of all there’s a company in Donegal growing and pressing it here in Ireland supporting Irish farmers and jobs !

Good few doing it, Brian.
Derrycamma in Louth press their own on the farm.

_Brian

MickeyShtyles wrote: »

Good few doing it, Brian.
Derrycamma in Louth press their own on the farm.

Thats it..
Grinds my gears to see Irish chefs on TV using olive oil when we have a perfectly suitable alternative here that supports irish an industry and jobs..

whelan2

If I hear the word brexit or backstop once more I might just crack

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

If I hear the word brexit or backstop once more I might just crack

Brexit

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Brexit

Fook off

emaherx

Reggie. wrote: »

Brexit

Don't be childish!

emaherx

Backstop!

blue5000

Hard to believe the world wide web is 30 years old today. I think it started out with US army tanks on manoeuvres where all the tank crews needed to know where all the other tanks were on the battlefield.

ganmo

blue5000 wrote: »

Hard to believe the world wide web is 30 years old today. I think it started out with US army tanks on manoeuvres where all the tank crews needed to know where all the other tanks were on the battlefield.

was is not the egg heads under Switzerland in cern that developed it?

patsy_mccabe

ganmo wrote: »

was is not the egg heads under Switzerland in cern that developed it?

Was it to stop the electrons crashing into each other. :rolleyes:

Suckler

blue5000 wrote: »

Hard to believe the world wide web is 30 years old today. I think it started out with US army tanks on manoeuvres where all the tank crews needed to know where all the other tanks were on the battlefield.

No - this ->

ganmo wrote: »

was is not the egg heads under Switzerland in cern that developed it?

ganmo

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

Was it to stop the electrons crashing into each other. :rolleyes:

no so that the egg head's chat wouldn't be scrambled

foxy farmer

When culchies get confused
One talking about GPS and the other talking about WWW.
Still 2 wonderful developments.

Lady Haywire

Mmmmmm shiney. I'm going to start doing a whelan on everything

wrangler

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Mmmmmm shiney. I'm going to start doing a whelan on everything

Best of luck with it, I don't know why they don't put proper hose reels on them,
Very awkward to roll up those high pressure hoses, even short lengths

blue5000

Suckler wrote: »

No - this ->

My bad:o

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

Reggie.

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Mmmmmm shiney. I'm going to start doing a whelan on everything

Yeah they all say that and it never leaves the shed

Muckit

You'd want to use that yoke as you are hunting the cattle out of the pen or else forget about it!
Or else keep for cleaning car and around the house.

Lady Haywire

Shed has never been washed since it went up here :pac: So that's first on the list! Plus a load of concrete around the house which has that slipery slime from trees on it. And the trailer!
After that I'll just wash what's needed!!

Albert Johnson

wrangler wrote: »

Best of luck with it, I don't know why they don't put proper hose reels on them,
Very awkward to roll up those high pressure hoses, even short lengths

Best of luck with the above, any harm to ask how much? It's on my very long list of things that need adding to my tool collection.

Lady Haywire

Albert Johnson wrote: »

Best of luck with the above, any harm to ask how much? It's on my very long list of things that need adding to my tool collection.

Got it in the sale at Ganlys last week, was 499, down to 349 (apparently)
Seems to be a decent enough one anyway!