h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Mind if I invite Terri too?

BRB

Invite sent

BTW did you know I wrote this?

A11454491

No, Gb, I am just about to read it. Thank you i have been trying to get off hoo too for nearly an hour, but it is too interesting - or am I just nosy? Hmm! Better not answer that!

Websailor

Excellent article as usual Gb,. I have bookmarked it under health. Really must now before I get interested in something else!!!

Take care

Websailor

"I'll beetroot two ewe."

Great article......but no mention of Borscht? Never actually made it myself; one of those "i will get A Round Tuit one day" things; but if it involves beetroot it must be yummy!

zdt

Christiane makes Borscht, and I am sending the article to her, as we have both discovered recently that the juice etc. is good for high blood pressure!!

Websailor

Websailor, where did you get the thread info? I'm still learning to use the h2g2 system and have a couple of times wanted to provide a ready link to other postings.

I just take it from the address bar in my browser but you can leave the BBC address off as you are already in Hoo Too. Is that what you meant?


Websailor

Yup, knock myself on the head (figuratively, not literally). Sometimes just don't see whats right in front of my eyes. Thanks.

By the way, does h2g2 have a cookbook, recipes, cooking tips guide? For example, see F79529?thread=By the way, does h2g2 have a cookbook, recipes, cooking tips guide? For example, see F79529?thread+5248597 (my web browser doesn't show the terms after the ones given. Which web browser are you using?) Or in My Space: Easter Egg Salad...

Mine is Safari showing this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F79529?thread+5248597

There's load of recipe and cooking guides - just put what you are looking for in the h2g2 Search box. That should give you a starting point.

Websailor

Just 'Cooking' brings up a load of stuff, and I reckon almost any dish title or foodstuff will reveal more.

Websailor

I started learning to cook at seven years of age. My mother attending college, if I wanted to eat, I had to learn to cook (also had a number of younger siblings). My first essay was boiled rice. Took me several trials before I got the water to rice ratio down to two and tenth measures of water per measure of rice, boil till water level is level with the rice, occasionally stirring, cover and allow to steam covered ten minutes while covered. Gels nicely when chilled.

My next adventure was baking. After systematically working through the cook book recipe by recipe, I eventually had the basic cake, cookie and pie recipes down to formulas and was inventing my own recipes. I've never gotten any complaints.

As the years went by, besides my Grandma's 47 course Texas style cuisine, I also learned Mexican, Italian, Chinese and French cooking along with miscellaneous other recipes.

Did some restaurant during my late teens, first in a casino restaurant in Nevada under an Austrian food and beverage manager, next in a top of the line gourmet Chinese restaurant with traditional family dinners afer work, when they brought out things like oxtail soup and thousand year eggs that didn't appear on the guest menu. Later had to quit that on account getting persistent skin rashes on prolonged and regular exposure to the kitchen environment, and well, the workload was brutal.

And by the by, thanks for the tips on h2g2.