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24.12.2017, 18:29
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| Quote: | |  | | | Chocolate stout or mulled cider? Hmm... | | | | | Both  | | This user would like to thank Swisstree for this useful post: | |
24.12.2017, 18:35
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Chocolate stout! I think I'm going to be  .
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24.12.2017, 18:39
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| Quote: | | | | | Chocolate stout! I think I'm going to be . | | | | | You've not lived. Is marvellous. And locally brewed. Yum.
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24.12.2017, 19:15
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No thanks. I'll stick to a nice glass of port. |
27.12.2017, 10:28
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| Quote: | | | | | I do not like ginger bread and ginger biscuits, but i would like to know what it is like to enjoy and get excited over them... | | | | | I love them sugar reduced and with a lot of pepper and fresh ginger. It is the spice mix that is pleasant, grown up crackers. | Quote: | | | | | FWP: Wot, no recipe? 
Please please please post your recipe - rum favored gingerbread sounds all kinds of awesome! | | | | | Oks - in case anone still has the time to refill the cookie box, here are MC's ultimate gingerbreads
400g flour, 150g icing sugar, 100g melted butter, 2 large eggs, 120g liquid warm honey (i mix it with golden sirup), 1/2 tea spoon of baking soda, a capsule of rum flavor or a big shot of real one, a sachet of vanilla sugar, a sachet of 'pain d'épice' spice mix (a whole one from Manor or 3 tb sp of Coop/Migros mix). Mix it all, let it sleep in the fridge over night to roll out a cm thick dough the next day. Place on the baking paper and glaze witb egg white. Bake 7-9min at 200deg. If you have fresh ginger, grate it and add to the dough.
As you let it cool but not entirely (abstain from eating them all), get a large tupperware ready, slice an orange in it in half, put the gingerbreads in and seal. They are better the next day.
While we are the festivities - I made mulled wine drink that disappeared in a few mins too. MC's mulled wine:
A bottle of white wine, a shot of rum, a bottle of apple cider, some apple juice, 3 star-anis, 3 twigs of cinnamon, 5 cloves, brown sugar, zest and juice from one ripe orange. Warm it (70deg) for a while and take off the heat. Serve it over fresh slices of lemon and a cinnamon twig from the pot.
Happy holidays, everyone!
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27.12.2017, 11:35
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<<'pain d'épice' spice mix>>
what's in it? Can I just use cinnamon, cardamom, cloves instead?
(I googled it on the Migros page, did not find it  )
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27.12.2017, 12:33
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| Quote: | | | | | <<'pain d'épice' spice mix>>
what's in it? Can I just use cinnamon, cardamom, cloves instead?
(I googled it on the Migros page, did not find it ) | | | | | I used the Manor sachet (ginger in it, too, and star anis) Migros has an already pre-mix jar and Coop too. In case you want to mix your own gingerbread spice mix: http://www.marmiton.org/recettes/rec...ces_11087.aspx | | This user would like to thank MusicChick for this useful post: | |
27.12.2017, 12:42
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Surprisingly, I got so much tax refund for 2016 from cantonal office that I don’t know where to spend it!
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27.12.2017, 12:50
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| Quote: | | | | | Surprisingly, I got so much tax refund for 2016 from cantonal office that I don’t know where to spend it! | | | | | I'll pm my account  | | This user would like to thank curley for this useful post: | |
27.12.2017, 16:55
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Three days of vacation left and I have a terrible cold!  | | The following 4 users would like to thank 3Wishes for this useful post: | |
28.12.2017, 13:24
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| Quote: | | | | | Three days of vacation left and I have a terrible cold! | | | | | Same here...wait, is it still a first world problem if someone else has it too?  |
28.12.2017, 15:31
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| Quote: | | | | | Same here...wait, is it still a first world problem if someone else has it too? | | | | | Probably, but I feel better knowing I have a fellow sufferer. Misery loves company and all that. |
28.12.2017, 16:02
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| Quote: | | | | | Probably, but I feel better knowing I have a fellow sufferer. Misery loves company and all that. | | | | | Well, actually fellow sufferer make me feel healthy.
When ever there is something wrong and someone says "yeah, I got that too" it causes me to think "ah, alright then" and interestingly enough it often goes away real quickly
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28.12.2017, 16:46
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Is it me, or is the coffee in Costa Coffee cafes truly awful?
Anyone tried coffee from there on trips to the UK?
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28.12.2017, 16:50
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| Quote: | | | | | Is it me, or is the coffee in Costa Coffee cafes truly awful?
Anyone tried coffee from there on trips to the UK? | | | | | It's not you. I used to manage a site that had a branch of Costa Coffee, and I couldn't drink it without getting indigestion. Put me off lattes for good. So even thought the coffee was free to me, I took my own into work.
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28.12.2017, 16:55
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| Quote: | | | | | Is it me, or is the coffee in Costa Coffee cafes truly awful?
Anyone tried coffee from there on trips to the UK? | | | | | It is pretty bland and meh, not surprising given that the parent company is the Whitbread Pub chain. I much prefer Caffe Nero, one of the few chains that give you a double shot of espresso as standard.
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28.12.2017, 17:48
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Ever since they put the Eurolotto price up to 3.50, claiming we'll have two chances to win now I never won a single penny anymore.
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28.12.2017, 20:58
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| Quote: | | | | | The great thing is: You almost always find someone who says "yeah, me too" | | | | | Well, especially recently. Though, not sure how great it actually is.  |
28.12.2017, 21:04
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I hung out in Deutschland looking forward to practice German, and we did not need it at all. 
Btw, we are a little bit hooked on the Goethe Institute vids, they are weirdly cute.
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28.12.2017, 21:56
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Applied for C permit. It might involve tax repercussions. | |
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