I have over 15 chopping boards, all with their own uses. Wooden crimping tool. Potato ricer. Unusual nutcrackers. Petit four forks, posh cutlery, fish cutlery, afternoon tea service (£8 from a charity shop). And knives, I have a thing for knives!
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on the plus side, I've made the decision to stay with the council, and the deciding factors were:
I don't want to work for a private company This is the first decision I've made in 47 years that I've made for me and me alone. I hope I made the right one!
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The amount of changes and risk assessments we have to do is just unbelievable but it has to be done. I don’t think people understand just what’s involved.
One thing though, please don’t think that we give out food that looks like the recent photos in the media. That would certainly not leave my kitchen. But this is what happens (in my opinion) when you start turning schools into academies and employing privately run companies to provide school meals.
There’s a reason businesses are in business and that reason, is to make money. Education (again, in my opinion) should not be based around making money, that shouldn’t be a deciding factor in the provision of learning - and that includes the provision of school meals.
One thing on their side is that Mr Rashford keeps mentioning “families”, sorry Mr Rashford, but it’s not up to government to feed families, this is a handout for the CHILDREN who would otherwise be fed at school, never (except in extenuating circumstances) have we ever been responsible for feeding families.
I do have it on good authority that the voucher scheme will be started again, but it will be at national government level, not local authority level.
I really feel for any family suffering at the moment, and I consider myself damn lucky to have and keep my job, but I’m already pushed to the limit, I’m tired, I worked semi-frontline as a school cook throughout this pandemic, and I’m now looking at a tax rise next year AND NO pay rise next year after already taking a less that advised pay rise last year to ease the financial burden on the council. How much more can I take?
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I get a better rise if I use silicone baking pans. At work, I whisk the eggs first, then the milk then the flour, I use veg oil and I don’t preheat it. Then straight in the middle of a hot oven.
Hubs does them at home as he uses metal trays and lard, and makes them better than I do.
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Well, I started therapy, then started knocking the house to bits, then I have a decision to make about work, laddo went downhill, and I don’t seem to have time to scratch my ass anymore!
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If you want to go full on almond, you can change the bakewell tart recipe to ground almonds instead of semolina, but the almond essence could work just as well.
Treacle has a taste a bit stronger than golden syrup, although there’s no reason why syrup wouldn’t work. I don’t have a Mississippi mud pie recipe but I do have one at work for vegan brownies, which is fat-free but sugar rich and sticky sweet. You can now get syrup in squeezy bottles too.
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I’ve just finished one called sea in a bottle, I’m now doing one of the New York skyline for my new bedroom.
Oooo work started on the new bedroom, we are knocking two bedrooms into one to create a lush new big bedroom for me and hubs. With room for a dressing table (heaven).
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