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dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 16 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

radish tops are pretty good in saag

if one scrapes the goo and seeds from a vanilla pod for cakes or puds add each pod as it becomes available to a jar of vodka to make extract

Slim



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 16 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Eat kiwi skins. The fuzz isn't as bad as you'd think, it adds to your fiber intake, and you intimidate your enemies.

I actually do eat kiwi skins on the rare times I'm given a kiwi

dpack



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 16 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

fuzz is a matter of taste

Slim



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 16 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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dpack



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buzzy



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The French, so I am led to believe, refer to Kiwi Fruit and souris vegetale - vegetable mice. Does eating the skins cause you to cough up pellets, as it does to birds of prey?

Henry

jettejette



Joined: 01 Jun 2013
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

buzzy wrote:
The French, so I am led to believe, refer to Kiwi Fruit and souris vegetale - vegetable mice. Does eating the skins cause you to cough up pellets, as it does to birds of prey?

Henry

What a party trick! That might be the best reason for eating kiwi skins! 🐁 🐲

dpack



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 11:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

"stale" spices that got forgotten in a basket or draw are rather nice on a bbq to both flavour the food and often repel bothersome insects

cinnamon that is too old for adding to rice etc works especially well,cardamom is a bit odd but ok with sheep and chillies are best avoided(mweep better than cs)

gregotyn



Joined: 24 Jun 2010
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yes 'sceptic' tank, Hots . My tank seems to work, but I don't know how or where it is exactly, as it is sighted on someone else's property and there has never been a complaint in about 15 years, so I suppose it works! And as it is a sleeping dog it can lie!

Slim



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

gregotyn wrote:
My tank... is sighted on someone else's property...


Now that is an impressive legal accomplishment

Nick



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Slim wrote:
gregotyn wrote:
My tank... is sighted on someone else's property...


Now that is an impressive legal accomplishment



It's very common. Tanks are old and a pain to move. When people flog off a bit of land, and someone else builds on it, the waste pipe, and/or the tank sit in someone else's plot. Just need a line in the contract to allow access for repairs & emptying.

Lorrainelovesplants



Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

yup, our is on someone else's land. We have whats called 'an easement' - we can (as long as we tell them) go and empty/repair it. (which we had to do last spring as the outflow had blocked with silt).

Slim



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I get it, I just have a hard time imagining anyone willfully buying land with someone else's septic on it. May be an artifact of presumably more available land here.

buzzy



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 28, 16 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dpack wrote:
"stale" spices that got forgotten in a basket or draw are rather nice on a bbq to both flavour the food and often repel bothersome insects

cinnamon that is too old for adding to rice etc works especially well,cardamom is a bit odd but ok with sheep and chillies are best avoided(mweep better than cs)


Yep. Brings back tearful memories of a restaurant where the next table had some sort of sizzling curry/chilli dish. My friend and I were gasping and coughing and weeping until we begged the staff to open the windows.

Henry

jettejette



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 16 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I put the bits and pieces from mulling wine on the fire afterwarrds to continue that lovely Christmassy smell!

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