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Pizza Base

by MrC on Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:22 pm
4 super thin pizza bases

2 packets yeast (for 500g)
1 teaspoon sugar
1.25 cups of water
1 tablespoon oil
3 cups all-purpose flour
salt to taste

3 cups is about 400g of flour. Work out yeast according to what it says on the packet. In this case it's about two packets.

Mix yeast and warm water in a bowl (40-45 Centigrade)
Add oil and flour and mix till it forms a dough ball.
Nead for about 5 mins
Cover bowl with a kitchen towel, place next to heater while the oven is warming...

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In the beginning....

by sezzlebum on Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:07 am
I'm a cloth convert and now im a cloth addict :giggle:
Aimee was born on August 11th, 2 weeks late, and to begin with we used disposables, i had been curious about cloth nappies but always thought they were to fiddley, probably more messy etc etc

So for the first 6 and a half weeks we used huggies, during that time i researched reusable nappy schemes and found one in manchester, the council offered...

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Living with a child with severe allergies

by ericaj1 on Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:59 pm
On April 12th 2006 we woke up excited, today Jack was 6 months old and starting weaning. I was planning on giving baby rice but I was a poor expresser due to a rubbish manual pump I now know so had no milk to mix it with. I decided to nip out and get him some rusks as these could be mixed with water into mush for him.

We had a busy day so didn't get down to feeding him till teatime ish perhaps a bit earlier. He wolfed it all down and really enjoyed it, within a few minutes though he looked very...

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Well this could get addictive

by smilinglou on Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:58 pm
I thought I'd start sharing some of my little adventures, there's plenty of them since my life can be quite random sometimes. Like today; I got up, got dressed and we went OUT, out of the house!! Amazing right? Yeh see what I mean.
I'd say that's the most amazing day so far but that would be a lie, totally dishonest and I don't like to lie to myself or others so the truth is the other day (I think it was a Monday, but possibly Tuesday) was far more amazing than even that....there was chocolate cake!...

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I totally need to find time...

by loumo on Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:10 am
...to learn how to put photos on here. Is it a link-through-photo-hosting-site situation? Knitting startitis is out of control, I have had to resort to yet another list. I love lists, they make a problem seem easier by breaking it into teeny little obstacles. Course, when the problem is that you cannot move for wool, lists don't help hugely...but I have one, all the same.

On the needles right now I have the BSJ for Kits, a Hello Kitty handbag for Tiny, a fidget for Christmas gifting and a Pretty...

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