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Well, this is interesting, well done @helensaramay for taking on the stollen challenge, and @porl69 for being ready to take it on.

One of my grandfathers, and his brother, were from the Italian alps, and came to England working as chefs, so there is obviously a connection between climbing, and baking cakes, and therefore the diving connection seems obvious too.

I barely cook at all, I didn't inherit that gene, and I get vertigo, so I don't climb very high either.
 
helensaramay said:
Using vertigo as a reason for not cooking reminds me of my grandmother.
She used to tell us she wasn't a good cook because she was hard of hearing.
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Vertigo is the reason for not climbing, bad genes is the reason for not cooking. Actually, it's because I don't like washing up, but there is no reason to assume that isn't genetic.
 
helensaramay said:
It wasn't that she didn't like it or didn't do it. (There wasn't the option of pre-prepared meals in those days and they didn't have enough money to eat out.) It was that she wasn't very good at it.

There is a family story of the first time my Dad went to my Mum's house to meet her parents.
My Nan decided to cook curry - she served boiled meat and rice with curry powder in.
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Sounds perfectly fine.

My mother wasn't very good at cooking either, she would always cook a cake at weekends, and it was always soft in the middle, and she often put way too much salt in vegetables.

I'm not sure whether she liked or not, it was done because it had to be done, which is a shame.

I don't use ready meals myself, I just shove some meet, and vegetables in the oven for dinner, and they usually taste fine, and make a low effort salad for lunch, and overnight oats for breakfast, minimal effort, with maximum rewards, works fine for me.
 
Hi all :)

This talk of cake has got my tummy rumbling... It's about now i'd be thinking about baking the Christmas cake too, so a good reminder.

Woke at 4am with a 10.4 beep on the G6 so did a correction and woke at 8.8, BG level continued to drop even with a bite of daughter's toast on board and no insulin so went for a 5km run starting at 6.8 and finishing at 4.8, having only eaten a few nuts it's been climbing north since.. looks like today will have it's ups and downs..
 
porl69 said:
Yeah I have seen them in Lidl/Aldi. BUT the challenge is to make my own.
@helensaramay does it keep for long? Don't know why I asked that as I dont think it will last that long anyway lol
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It's an enriched bread dough, so base the keeping potential, without any preservatives, as being akin to bread. Making baby versions, or sliced and frozen would be the way to go, I'd have thought.
 
Morniling perforated peeps!

@Fairygodmother - I upload from my phone and iPad, and I run all my photos through an app called Vintique, with the setting set to save the photo at the lowest resolution for uploading. Bit of a faff, but it works.

On the cooking front, teenager wanted pancakes for brunch yesterday, so he made standard flour/egg/milk jobbies for him and the husband, and I made these beauties using pea protein powder, eggs, baking powder and almond milk. Seasoned with lemon & yuzu juice and a sprinkle of erythritol, they came in at 6.5g carbs for the lot. And were delicious! While I love cooking and am moderately good at it, I can’t always be bothered. That’s when the frozen stuff I’ve batch cooked previously comes in so handy - or a salad with some sort of cook cooked fish out of a packet! Failing that, I’ve got a lot of pickled eggs! Most shop cakes etc are made with butter and milk, so no matter what their carb count, I still have to make my own.

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Madame is currently behaving suspiciously well, rather like my teenager. While I appreciate the smooth ride in both respects, I’ve got that nagging feeling it’s all about to go :cat:-up!

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First responder training starts on Wednesday, so I’m doing the last couple of online modules I need to finish today. NHS IT is a right PITA to navigate...
 
My 4 little eyes light up when I read about cooking :p and those pancakes look gorgeous @Mel dCP

I guess I'm a little odd for a bloke as when I've lived with a lass I've generally cooked, saves on sugar poisonings and such :p and "I aren't eating that" never bodes well for domestic bliss.... My last ex once served silverskin onions in a curry and I knew then it wouldn't last, my boy reckoned she did it so I'd carry on cooking :p not that I'm reckoned to be very fussy about food :p

Odd lunchtime, 6.8 so no food but I've had my basal injection, I've my poached egg to eat yet but it'll be a late lunch/pre gym meal I reckon. I've a new Humalog script to collect today so I'll change cartridge when I collect it and see if anything else changes :)
 
Mel dCP said:
Morniling perforated peeps!

@Fairygodmother - I upload from my phone and iPad, and I run all my photos through an app called Vintique, with the setting set to save the photo at the lowest resolution for uploading. Bit of a faff, but it works.

On the cooking front, teenager wanted pancakes for brunch yesterday, so he made standard flour/egg/milk jobbies for him and the husband, and I made these beauties using pea protein powder, eggs, baking powder and almond milk. Seasoned with lemon & yuzu juice and a sprinkle of erythritol, they came in at 6.5g carbs for the lot. And were delicious! While I love cooking and am moderately good at it, I can’t always be bothered. That’s when the frozen stuff I’ve batch cooked previously comes in so handy - or a salad with some sort of cook cooked fish out of a packet! Failing that, I’ve got a lot of pickled eggs! Most shop cakes etc are made with butter and milk, so no matter what their carb count, I still have to make my own.

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Madame is currently behaving suspiciously well, rather like my teenager. While I appreciate the smooth ride in both respects, I’ve got that nagging feeling it’s all about to go :cat:-up!

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First responder training starts on Wednesday, so I’m doing the last couple of online modules I need to finish today. NHS IT is a right PITA to navigate...
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Hehe.....loving the purple on Spike :) And those pancakes look soooo good :)

Just alarmed on the Pebble double arrow down on a 3.6 Libre the same, so finger prick to a Lo.....Feel perfectly fine....jelly babies to the rescue. Will hold off for dinner till my BG returns to normal. How/why??? God knows. That one is going to baffle me all day
 
Alison54321 said:
I think if people enjoy food, and cooking, it's great, but I don't like food snobbery. Cooking is not everybody's thing, but I'm sure we don't have any of that here.
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I loathe cooking I'd sooner have toothache......
Oddly I can actually cook but I really don't like doing it and if it wasn't for my wife I would have faded away by now.....:happy:
Not keen on cake either and that's nothing to do with me being a coeliac.

Approximately 5 years ago my father in law was taken ill and my wife took her mum to the hospital to see him.
I cooked roast lamb and all the trimmings and everyone cleared their plates.......
That was the last time I cooked.......

Tony
 
Tony337 said:
I loathe cooking I'd sooner have toothache......
Oddly I can actually cook but I really don't like doing it and if it wasn't for my wife I would have faded away by now.....:happy:
Not keen on cake either and that's nothing to do with me being a coeliac.

Approximately 5 years ago my father in law was taken ill and my wife took her mum to the hospital to see him.
I cooked roast lamb and all the trimmings and everyone cleared their plates.......
That was the last time I cooked.......

Tony
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I'm rather good at cooking too, made a lovely Christmas cake a few years ago, but I just don't like doing it. I like food, but I just don't like all the messing around involved in cooking it.
 
I hate washing up. I’m pretty terrible at housework in general, I’m just not domestically minded, despite my late adoptive mum’s best efforts - she was houseproud to an OCD level. My bio-mum is a slattern just like me, I suspect it’s genetic!

I think I like cooking because a) I like to make things and b) it’s basically a science experiment!
 
Alison54321 said:
I'm rather good at cooking too, made a lovely Christmas cake a few years ago, but I just don't like doing it. I like food, but I just don't like all the messing around involved in cooking it.
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Yes I suppose I should have said I like eating food but not cooking it.

Tony
 
I used to cook way more in the past, especially when I worked in the labs, bit like Mel, it was all an experiment. :angelic:

I also used to make bread on a regular basis as well but not done that for a year or two, don't know why stopped, should get back into it.:writer:

I do remember making bread one day and kneading it like crazy but I could just not get to a point where it would prove, I was also hypoing at the time and got very frustrated.:arghh:

It took about half an hour to clean the dough off me, out my hair, off the cupboards, wall and ceiling :hilarious:

Did restart a bit later and all worked OK :)

We do have a dish washer in our house, however it is sometimes argumentative and stroppy, because it is me and actually don't mind doing it, shame about the rest of the house :rolleyes::hilarious:
 
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