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Digging: My mum grows some ornamental flowers as pesticides next to her vegetables . I know tagetes stand next to her tomatoes and near some cabbage ( the smell makes deer avoid it)

TriCook: Our ravens at the landfill has started to kill seagulls for food. They are clever buggers.

Yay for making food look boring! I should win an award! Anyway that is fried chicken filet, not a whole one I have sliced in 5 "patties" per filet, cooks quicker and I only use 2 for 2 adults, 1 kid and a lunch box. Pomme duchesse, I made half of the four serving recipe and we had left overs, I love it. Soured mustard sauce , is one of my favorite things with chicken and some trees since our daughter is in her Beaver period, yes she says she is beaver and eats the blopli trees and I dont argue with a 2½ year old who want to eat vegetable.

Digging: Sounds like the little house my sister had and yet she manage to get 4 kids + 3 cats and a husband while living there, now they moved to a larger house. I have 800 square feet, standard size for a 2 bedroom, 1 kitchen, 1 bath and one living room apartment, I am lucky I dont pay extra for heat or water but my landlord being stuck in the greenest city in Europe ( dont know why we won that award) tries everything to make it more green to live here. Recycle for a tenant is easy, by law there should be a " environment" building for recycling and everything has its bins and if you have something you dont need there is a corner for that too. But every village has a few recycling points and I know where ours are. My toilet paper is recycled newspaper and in theory if I want to I could drink my household cleaner and eat my detergent, it is just pine oil soap and for stain remover I use gall soap.

How much disposable items are you using while cooking? I try to use as little as possible and not waste, but I am not perfect. Most of my cookware is old and of good quality and there for seen as green, I know my skillets are since they all are over 50 years old and therefore their negative footprint has become a positive one. Will these be recycled or end up on the landfill? Recycle I have to recycle as much as I can or I get fine from my landlord. Yes I do slip up sometimes or cant figure out where things go but plastic, tins, cartons, paper and glass I try to recycle and some go to burnable/ landfill and I try to use bio degradable bin bags. How much energy does it take to cook your meal? I dont know, but I guess my lovely "county" soon will tell me. Could you change for a better option? Use less plastic would be ace, I am trying to figure out how. Food, ingredients: How much is organic? Not much, since I cant afford it, but my eggs are at least free range and part of the year outdoors, so I guess that is better then nothing. And my daughter only drinks eco milk, she doesnt like the taste of the others. How much of the left overs will be used? I try to use up everything for lunch the next day if possible. How much food do you through out that could have been eaten? I be honest, that happens but I try to avoid it and I try to use up things before they go bad. Will it be compost or end up in the landfill? Compost, it will be come bio fuel for the buses in town, how ever we dont get any benefits from it, still expensive to take the buses in this area compared to others. Could you change one habit that would make your dinners more environmentally friendly? I been pondering this all day and I am still pondering. Sorry for the misspelling of compost and composed, little bit hard to think when a 2½ year old is singing and bouncing and hunting dad.

And with green we mean Environmentally friendly. A very simple question but hard to answer, so lets break it down. Cooking, utensils, pots and pans. How much disposable items are you using while cooking? Will these be recycled or end up on the landfill? How much energy does it take to cook your meal? Could you change for a better option? Food, ingredients: How much is organic? How much of the left overs will be used? How much food do you through out that could have been eaten? Will it be composed or end up in the landfill? Could you change one habit that would make your dinners more environmentally friendly? Sorry for the rough translation this was what my " county" gave me for Christmas, how to cook green and a calender about using the resources we have sustainably. It made me think. I answer as soon as I yet again have time.

Thanks! That be Sunday's dessert if I have eggs!

Oh Torta di Noci, havent had that since oh god well dont know when. Gulios used to make at Christmas with ginger and cinnamon instead of lemon. If you find it I would be happy. Ritz cracker are expensive here, but I see if I can find them.

Every British holiday except Parkin contains dried fruit, my Scottish mother in law say it sometimes is like everything can and will be celebrated with some form of fruitcake.

Chocomom: Big new years party 18 years ago , the people doing the dessert brought 1 packet of store bought cookies and vanilla sauce powder.... dont know what they where thinking and this was for 30 people. I was the poorest and I did the main and they where the richest in the bunch and well they are not my friends any more. Dessert was how ever saved, some one ran to the local gas station and manage to find ice cream lollies for every one and this was when ice cream lollies normally only existed during summer.

Looks like our kassler with bone in and I check the home page and it is fully cooked so SV would just be pointless. Fry it in a pan for 5 minutes on each side and then serve with gravy and potatoes and vegetables. IF I get Kassler this month we are making Finnish carrot bake with kassler or baked cauliflower and kassler and that should work for this too.

Had forgotten about pithiviers, I have a recipe on the same idea but with hazel nuts somewhere and also bake well tart. How could I forget those! Oh and now for the walnuts, what do do with 3 pound of walnuts I have left?

Butter gives the softest moistest cakes, oil and margarine are about the same.

If the butter is melted then you can change straight of for oil, butter 100 gram butter = 100 ml oil.

Sounds yummy. Is there any nuts pies or tarts that doesnt have nuts in caramel?

I just made angelfood cake that was sickly sweet, not even the kid wanted to eat it.

I know you can change fat for apple sauce, but I dont remember how, it been about 20 years since I did it last.

Paul: I am picky about my neeps, they should have a fresh smell like crisp apple and cabbage and when they dont smell like that, they are not being used by me.

I have used a romertopf for bread and yes in need to be soaked first and then oiled or it sticks. It isnt a no knead bread but a cornloaf and well the recipe must have been off since the bread became as big as the pot and not on a positive way.

So what is a standard pecan pie??

I have alot of nuts and almonds left from Christmas and I want to do a lovely pie with them, how ever I cant find a recipe that makes me go WOW. I need something with less sugar then nuts, I just dont want a ton of sugar and a few nuts, but I am open for toffee and caramel flavours. Can you please help me? And as always no citrus, no coffee and no rose water/ oil.

They have proven that sugar have nothing to do with if kids get hyper in groups or not, it actually a natural behaviour that kids get wined up because their brains has to processes so much, I find that 7 pm would be great, most people since it is a Saturday would most likely let the kids stay up and it is up to the parents to parent their children. Keep the champagne, find a alcohol free option and have a fun time. I have 3 kids , one age 2 and 2 in their twenties.

I have a few of these metal bowls, this the small one, I have a larger on too and that is what I use, they are sturdy, easy to clean and I have never had a problem with the bread rising

JohnT: nope, she is not joking, which is sad and gnu is still used in Sweden. I was ponder to make pear and ginger pie but they didn't have right pears.

John, looks yummy. My friend in South Africa, sent me a message saying WOHO I got goat on the grill. She is mostly living on gnu and zebra normally. So have a lovely New years eve. We had apple pie for dessert today and it is the best pie I ever done, the new pie tin makes everything so easy.