Rock of 'gages cleft for me, let me hide my fruit in thee - 10/10 club, all welcome :o)

[TooTicky]

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Yes I would do NHS direct Boco, then they will tell you whether or not to do out of hours doctor. I don't like rashes, I would almost always phone about a rash.

TooT believe me, if I could stay, I would... Ds is singing "I really like going to Grandma's, I wish I lived with her"

have fun

behave yourselves (especially as I am absolutely hoping to be checking up on you)

miss me lots

and

be kind to newbies

Avi, we're hoping to go to Kew Gardens at some point - not sure if this will be Sunday afternoon or, if we can stay Sat night with my uncle, on Saturday. Kew is lovely, not least because it has a giant badger sett.

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We last went to Kew 3 years ago when the badger sett and treetop walk were fairly new. I gather they have extended both since then.

You can get there by tube, so it's not hard. Although easier with my uncle who knows exactly how to get there from the station.

Hello 10/10ers.

I didn't think it was a filthy title, TooT, I just thought it was them y'know.

That is a sweet picture, Avi.

Will somebody please come and play s%r3&&le with me?

Do you do email scrabble Lionheart? If so, my email address is a couple of posts down

Got it.

It won't let me, TooT, with that address.

will you all stop describing things as filthy! (filthymindedvixens have feelings you know...even if they're currently being fullmoonfiends )

F&Z I demand that you email me a pic of yourself, as I keep missing them!

Sorry to anyone who missed my brief appearance. If you look on my link, I'm on the campfire festy pic - it's up to you to see if you can guess which person I am

I made bloody cinder toffee last night and have broken a tooth [anger]

And I have been ignoring a sore wrist for weeks and now a ganglion has appeared. I feel 137 quite frankly...

Off to make a chocolate and beetroot cake. Bit scared. Can someone reassure me it will be delish?

poor fmf
dh had one of those removed from his hand two days ago
& ouch at the tooth

chocolate beetroot cake is delicious & very moist & a beautiful colour....i made one for ds's birthday

poor Toot.......I dont think the title is at all rude....but then i am pure of mind

Dooooooooooooooooont Gooooooooooooooooo Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany

Oh poo Do you want to give me your email Lionheart and I will have a go? (If I can find Franny's handy link, that is)

Could somebody post a recipe for the chocolate and beetroot cake please?

The lavender chocolate is very odd and slightly overpowering. Crying chocolate is nicer.

Boco! at Scarlet Fever (how terribly Victorian!)
My friend's dd has just had it and was rather miserable.

I am trying this recipe - I hope it works - it has taken me about 2 hours to boil the beetroot to a puree-able level.

1 and a half ozs Cocoa powder
4 and a half ozs Plain flour
1and a half tsps Baking powder
1 Pinch salt
5and a half ozs Caster sugar
8 and a half fl ozs Corn oil
1and a half tsps Vanilla essence
3 eggs beaten
1 pack or (9oz) cooked beetroot, pureed
4oz Plain dark choc (60% +), broken into small pieces
Method
Preheat the oven to 375F/190C/Gas 5 and grease an (7") round cake tin.
Sift the cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix with the sugar.
Add the oil, vanilla essence, eggs, beetroot and chocolate pieces and mix well.
Pour into the cake tin, put on a baking tray and bake for 50 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

LL could you post your recdipe for future reference please?

Thanks fmf I shall veganise it. And buy some beetroot.

Toot....Vegan recipe

3 medium beetroot
375g unbleached spelt or wheat flour
125g cocoa powder
440g raw sugar
375ml almond oil
125ml milk...soya or rice
1.5 tbsp vanilla extract
1.5 tbsp egg replacer beaten with 16oml water (or 3 eggs)

chocolate icing
.........................
100g dark chocolate,roughly broken
300g silken tofu
3 tsp vanilla extract
2tbsp & I tsp maple syrup

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wash the unpeeled beets & boil or steam for 30 mins,until tender
Leave to cool & then remove skins & whizz to puree
You need about 420ml puree

preheat oven to 170,grease & line a 24cm spring form tin
sift flour,cocoa & baking powder into a bowol
Add sugar & whisk to combine.
In another bowl,blend the almond oil,milk,beetroot puree,vanilla & egg replacer & mix till smooth.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry & stir gently.
Pour into tin & bake for 1hr 30 mins- 1hr 50 mins,until skewer comes out clean.
cool for 10 mins & then transfer to wire rack

to ice,put broken chocolate in a heat proof bowl & melt over a pot of simmering water.
Whizz together with the rest of the icing ingredients & spread over cake when cool.

lovely with raspberries

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fmf...am popping out for half an hr but will post my Green & blacks beetroot recipe when i get back.

Tatties.....oh Tatties......you are a sweetheart
I would never say no to hand knitted hat.....thankyou

I am thinking of a lady of shallot esque pre raphelite aubern wig........what do you think?

oh........breakfast was pear/apple/raisin/cinnamon compote & porridge

lunch was sweet potato,caramelized onion & artichoke tart & big little gem,rocket,watercress,spring onion,tomato,avocado salad.

also ...apples
we went to the farmers market yesterday & rather over bought in the apple department.....the russets are just sooooooo good.

I am here, and the laptop works, which is great. My mother has bought ds a sword. She claims to have "forgotten" I would mind. I don't really know what to say. I am really fucking depressed about the whole thing.

fuck boco - that sonds awful.

you know frany it sometimes seems your mum does these things to spite you - ham up sleeve and coincidence sword would piss me off big time.

Franny, can you claim to have forgotten that you actually need to be 300 miles away tomorrow morning?

Thanks for the recipe LL. That sounds like a special occasion cake - most of my baking is plain'n'simple.
Bugger. Just remembered I have no oven.

lol TT - you have hot water yet?

oh franny.........grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr at your mother...
what does ds feel about it?