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Posted: Wednesday, 04 April 2007 |
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Possibly the wrong website to be asking for suggestions. Recommend switching meat to cool half hour before 5.30 then it's crowbar time.
Ronald Raeburn from Brue
Well, I would turn the temperature down, or even off, for a start! ;-)
Anne from IBHQ
Such quick and practical advice. Looks as if you folks had experience with this kind of situation. I now see why Aga and Rayburns are such favorites: the handles certainly look sturdy. Good luck Barebraes: slide a knife in and use as lever (don't go too deep at one time); then use another knife (or fork) to pull it towards you some more, etc etc.
mjc from NM,USA
Can you insert a flat bladed knife atween the door and the door jamb? If so you might be able to shimmy it open.
Hermit from Sanday
The firemans due home at 5.30 so I have asked him to bring his fire axe to Break the Glass in Case of Fire. The roast potatoes will have to be served frozen tho
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Turn off the power at the socket if it's electric?
Annie B from the usual
i've just realised something-annie from ibhq must be the only sane person to answer a blog!!! ( i'm going to make a lot of friends with cracks like that)
carol from themorningafterathunderstorm
or maybe its the duck coming back to haunt you
carol from themorningafterathunderstorm
Barebraes, did you manage to take a deep breath, relax and enjoy the pork? What did you have for trimmings (my mouth is watering already, and the glottis is going faster than the TGV)? # By the way, have your trees budded/leafed out? How are they doing? Planting any more this year or are you out of space? Any flowering (fleury) trees? # Hope your fireman did not use his axe on the oven door in a desperate grab for pork (however succulent).
mjc from NM,USA
But surely barebraes you have to hand a hammer-wielding maniac...
Flying Cat from ancient blog files
what happened - you ok? roast pork ok? cooker - fixable - dare I ask - house ok?
scallowawife from in anticipation of a happy ending
That mjc - he's just such a trencherman...
Flying Cat from an admiring glance
Yes all is well the fireman came home just in time to save the day and Tea was a little late but still edible. We planted a few more willows and waiting for them to burst into bud, I now have a cooker with a makeshift handle so Duck is back on the menu (watch out ducks )
Barebraes from Shapinsay
P.S. Thanks for all the suggestions by the way
Barebraes from Shapinsay
This incident that you tell of, did happen to mine goodself one before, I can't remember quite what we did, but a nut and a screw, did seem to aid things, that was until the glass door shatterered one fine evening. You may be in the early stages of the curse, that has followed me the past 20 years or so, I'll be glad to pass on anything in the future. I cannot tell what the cursesare, as there may be little adults reading ( although according to the Beeb's newspoll a few months back, our young can't read very well ) this. Good Luck, I should never have put that, I'm sorry once it's there, it's there, no taking back, a bit like Scabby Queen ( a card game which I often win, no lose )
Tws from Dedja View
Has the 91热爆 done a full risk analysis about the use of IB as an emergency advice service in case of potential fire hazards? Should public information films about fire safety be amended to say, 'Get Out, Stay Out, Call the Fire Brigade Out and only then contact Islandblogging'
Annie B from the usual
I'm sure Mr. B. enjoyed his roast pork with the frozen potatoes. "Frozen" - Barebraes, in your flutter (?!), you let out the damning evidence. Frozen (NOT FOREIGN also, I pray ?) potatoes, from the cook that made the Dagenham Evening Star culinary section famous?! Is that possible!?
mjc from NM
more a gourmet/gourmand than a trencherman, I hopahopahopa.
mjc from NM,USA
Yes I admit it they were Aunt Bessies.
Barebraes from Shapinsay
No!!!!!!! Not Auntie Bessie's? I'm shocked, SHOCKED barebraes...surely you grow your own what with all that spare time you have on your paws........
Flying Cat from in awe and shock
FC, have a guess with what implement Barebraes (and her hunk ?) mashes those imported frozen potatoes? To add injury to insult (may be the other way around), the implement in question is doubtless made in China, not in one of the rusting English steel mills. Tsk, tsk, Barebraes: hope you resolve to do better. I am starting to wonder whether Barebraes does her shepherd's pie with imported NZ lamb as well...
mjc from NM
There is very little room in my very small 3 ring electric cooker with knob missing from the glass door and the fact that I can only have 2 rings on at a time for fear of blowing all the lights in the house so to create a masterpeice a al Barebraes I have to cut corners and yes I do admit to pulling the wool over Mr Bs eyes with Aunt Bessies Roast Tatties. There a confession from Barebraes, not a thing that happens often
Barebraes from Shapinsay
frozen - FROZEN - roast potatoes - where are your standards? your principles, your morals? you are encouraging the demise of good honest food, encouragin the supermarket and convenience food, the growth of plastic tasteless food, edible imperialism indeed. Bake your own for goodness sake - healthier and cheaper as well as being easy. Mrs Beeton says her hair has gone a little greyer after readin your blog.
scallowawife from In Mrs Beeton's book
Didn't Mrs Beeton recommend catching her hair first? I think that's what she said...
Flying Cat from cookery nook
Mrs. Beeton should keep a spare bottle of hair coloring, for when the roots start showing up, and the overall coloring (what is she anyway, dolly parton platinum blonde?) starts fading. Can't blame everything on Barebraes. Anyway, she has been to confession three times already (serially i.e. one after another, same day, same place, to the bafflement/amusement of Father confessor. Barebraes was not going back to Kirkwall from Shapinsay THREE separate times just for confession!! After all, there must be limits even to the need to do penance!!).
mjc from NM,USA
Oh Dear I have stirred up a hornets nest with my Frozen Tatties. Don't you Jug Hare FC ? I must use the same hair stylist as Mrs B , my roots are showing tooo
Barebraes from Shapinsay
I have been told that on the Continent (the other side of the Channel), during the war, many a German (or American or British) have eaten what they thought was hare/rabbit. Unfortunately (or fortunately) dogs are not much in demand in France as a comestible, but it appeared that the feline population went down dramatically in certain areas of la jolie France. The foreigners quickly learned to count the ribs before putting fork to mouth (either the cat or the rabbit has one more rib than the other: I am not sure which). Oh well, the good old days.
mjc from NM,USA
Ssshhhhhh dont tell FC
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Good old days eh?
Flying Cat from an immensely HARD stare.
mjc: my father-in-law told me that once during the war,he cooked two cats and his friends thought they were rabbits.i remember looking at marmaduke(i only had him at that time)and burst into tears. but when i think of the other horrors are certain high class hotel in singapore used to have on their menu(and probably still does) eating a cat is pretty cool
carol from france,
re the roast spuds, why didn't you cook them in the chip pan???
carol from in rainy france
The sauce makes all the difference
mjc from NM,USA
Well you know I hadn't given that a thought, Thanks Carol Hope that the sun shines soon in France
Barebraes from Shapinsay
barebraes,sometimes i parboil the spuds,heat the chip pan drain the spuds and chuck them in-in 8 to 10mins the'yre done-my son and late hubby prefered them that way instead of trad. roasted ones
carol from stillraininginfrance
I don't kno about ribs but my mother would never buy a headless rabbit. It's the teeth, apparently, that differ from cats.
fleapit from Norwich
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