Jeff the Chef

You could use beef suet (Atora) instead of butter/margarine, makes a nice pastry for savoury pies. Basically 50% fat to flour ratio, and a little water/milk.

Ingredients 250g plain flour 125g butter, diced, and kept cool in the fridge 1-3 tbsp milk or water pinch salt Method STEP 1 Sift the plain flour into a large bowl or the largest bowl of a food processor. Add the diced butter and either rub in with your fingertips, or, if using a food processor, pulse until until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the salt and mix again. STEP 2 Gradually add the liquid by starting with 1 tbsp milk or water, then adding a little more until the mixture comes together to form a dough. STEP 3 Tip the mixture onto a surface and gently bring it together with your hands, then shape into a disc. STEP 4 Wrap in cling film and chill for at least 20 minutes before using.

I have no doubt that we have been visited by aliens from another world but they took one look at us and said F/that they can't get on with themselves what chance have we got. There is also the Fermi Paradox which first came to light in the 1950's, well worth a read. My favourite theory is whenever a civilisation has evolved enough for space travel they have exhausted the planets resources before conquering the technology required or they simply fight among themselves until they collapse out of existence.

N A A F I, for all the ex Squddies out there ????

As an ex-poker player there is no such thing as bad luck, only variance, anything can happen and it frequently does.

You've not met the wife then ????

S--t happens

I tried the same experiment with a 620cl bottle of Chang in a brand new measuring jug from Macro, even took a picture on my phone so I could show the result but then it looked so good I had to drink it, sadly my computer skills for loading said picture on to laptop are lacking so I can't show the result.

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Pies, steak and kidney, steak, chicken and mushroom, and I like a decent pork pie with pickle.

Having taken the Thai driving test for a car from scratch I can fully understand why there are so many accidents here, a complete lack of training being the number one reason imho. You couldn't get me on 2 wheels ever over here.

I did, very illuminating, now I get how this all works, I think. Thanks

Post of the month, well put Bob

200 cigs for 100baht, bottle of Scotch 160baht, all from Myanmar at Mae Sot

Could be any number of things, when they changed the coolant did they flush the system? Suspect a dodgy thermostat, blocked radiator or worse case scenario a cylinder head gasket on the way out.

Take 1 medium onion, peel and finely chop, sauté gently with a knob of butter, add a few sprigs of sage, de-leaved and chopped, add 4oz of fresh breadcrumbs, add more butter if needed. Clean the little rascal inside and out, then stuff above mixture where the sun doesn't shine. Place inside a pre-heated oven for 1 hour, baste every 20 minutes until cooked.

Bunnings is a Aussie version of Asda, Aldi, Tesco

Obviously not a Brit, bangers and mash, with onion gravy is a fortnightly treat for me, done right never had any complaints from many Thai and Europeans friends who have had it. We do not mash peas, they are dried marrowfat peas, larger than the normal frozen peas, with more flavour, they have to be soaked overnight with bi-carbonate of soda, then boiled and simmered to get the correct consistency, Great for another northern England delicacy Pie and Pea suppers and for Pea and Ham soup.

Plus 1 on these Nuremberg sausage, best I've found that are easily available.

Good to see the international community hasn't lost it's sense of humour, what's next, Russia to be nominated as world peace envoy.

A waste of time, what you can't get in your mouth is wasted

Well I could because I am a handsome man, who can breathe through his ears and have a long tongue.

No, I'm his Nemesis ????

Shall I bring a Cleaver, I have a good one from when I was a Butcher? Pigs will be happy no matter what the flavour is ????

You're always going have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently, the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together, when you got your six pieces, you got to get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now, is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sieving through pig <deleted>, now, do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig".