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

Sounds like a good evening to me.

I wouldn't have thought of panckes for breafast either, but there wasn't anything else in the house that morning and we were hungry. Having done it once it then became traditional to make sure there was enough batter left for breakfast.

Toad in the hole - now I know what I want for tea on Saturday.

It came out relaly well the toad in the hole I could hav ecooked it a bit longer, but I like the batter when its still a bit 'gooy' thats not a good describption, in the middle I've still some milk left, adn I've still half the sausages left, so I could* do it agian tonight, but I might do something with spuds and sausages instead suppose I could just drink the half pint of milk, or make batter for pancakes

I like the slightly soggy bits round the edges of the sausages.

Why would you want to drink the milk when you could bake with it?

What could I bake with it though? I'm not relaly big on experiance when It comes to baking, asides making pasta and pizza bases and bread (years ago), and cheese straws (years ago), and a cake (yonk and yoonks ago) so, what should I bake with it? (I don't think I've hardly any self raising flour left at th emoment just plain flour I think)

Well you could make some oat bread.

1 cup of milk
2 beaten eggs
2 cups of flour (plain)
1 cup of oats
2 tablespoonds of golden syrup
1 teaspoon of baking poweder
1/2 teaspoon of bicarb of soda.
1/2 teaspoon of oil

Mix it all together, need it into a loaf and then bake. Now the problem arrises - I leave it in the bread machine and the timing and temp are all done for me.

Cook in the oven at a bread like temp until it's cooked.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

YOu could make custard slices, or you could make some biscuits and use a splash of the milk in them.

custard slices I don't have any custard or baking powder, or treacle I do have some porrage oats though and plain flour and eggs and sugar cubes and suet

Do you have any butter or marg?

I've some loverly butter and a tub with a little olive oil spread in it I just thought I could* use the milk to make a cheese sauce and do it with some pasta or something I've sausages that I'll probably ahve tonight and i was gona do them with my oven done olive oil skin on potato chip/wedges things possibly with garlic and spices on the spuds so I guess I wouldn't be needing a cheese sauce, less I did the sausages with pasta instead or used bacon or something or made something other than cheese sauce with the milk

Maybe you could use the milk to make pancakes?

well I had the batter I made yesterday but di d the toad in teh hole with it instead I could.... I doubt I'll use it tonight though how long does milk keep (you can tell I'm someonw who never normally has milk in can't you?)

A week generally, or at least that's how long the milk I get from the corner shop lasts.

Mine gets used up in cakes, and porridge long before that though

Porrage! I can make porrage with it cause I don't use milk in tea or coffee and don't make cakes and such like I hardly ever have milk in, so when I do porrage (which is very very rare), I do Grule (only using water) but I can make some tomorrow morn with milk now, if only I can remember the ratio of oats to liquid.... I think its one part oats to either two or three parts liquid, oh heck I can just bung it all in together who bothered measuring stuff anyhow

one part oats to two parts liquid. I use milk for both of those as I like my porridge milky with a bit of butter

I'm trying to remember, have been a while ago anhow, what I used to put on porrage when a Kid; I'd probably not had it since before I was 14 until last year (I was 27)) sugar is normal, I like it with salt too as I am a strange person sometimes pepper works well too (obviously if goign the salt route rahter than the sugar route) But I'm sure as a kid we used to put somethign sickly sweet on it, treacled
? syrup? oh maybe not

So many things to have with porridge.. I prefer dark muscavado sugar and butter . Otherwise, you could put in honey, golden syrup, cinemon works well too

Ooo I remember that sort of sugar; we used to get tons of it when I was a kid (when Dad worked for British Sugar ) I don't think I have any of those things in my house; I relaly don't have a very sweet tooth anymore and I've purposefully tried to keep away from sweet things in order to reduce my calory intake I only have sugar cubes in as I needed them for some cocktails I made a few years back

I always have at least six type of sugar in my cupboards . I like muscavado because of its almost liquorice flavour , doesn't taste as sweet somehow. I don't worry about my calorie intake, my tendancy to think mountains are best viewed from the top sorts that one out quite conveniently

I like savory stuff too much to be able to give it up, so the sweet stuff I keep clear of, and I don't relaly miss it now at all I ocationally buy a cake from teh bakery less than one a month probably less than one every two months, and maybe once or twice a year I get craving for choc and just buy a giant bar of expensive proper choc and scoff the lot till I feel physically sick only way to do it I think

I tend to have at least 6 types of suger in my cupboards . My sweet tooth only goes so far though, icing is far too sweet for me . I love a really strong ginger bread or a tea loaf though . Brownies are good walking food, I only tend to eat chocolate to get me up a hill