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Four Parts:Creating a Strong Bond with Your Hunting DogLetting Your Hunting Dog Explore OutsideUsing Treats to Train Your DogTeaching Hunting Specific SkillsCommunity Q&A
Short training sessions can be very effective when done frequently enough and properly. If you want to train your dog to hunt, give the short training sessions a go to begin with, in order to familiarize the dog with the concept of following something worth eating. After your hunting dog is used to this, you can move on to more advanced hunting dog training.
Part 1
Creating a Strong Bond with Your Hunting Dog
1Spend quality time with your dog. Hunting dogs and their owners need to have a special bond that is built on mutual trust and respect. In the beginning, you'll need to start building this bond by spending time with your dog. Pet your pup to make it happy. Show your dog some affection by petting it and spending time with it. Let the dog know it is your companion.[1]
- Take the dog with you places and put a bed for it in your bedroom to sleep in at night.
2Feed your dog regularly. Establish a regular feeding routine for your dog. If your dog learns to rely on you for its meals, it will trust you in other aspects of its life as well. This means that your dog will listen to you more effectively and follow commands, which is a very important skill for hunting dogs to learn.[2]
- Feed your dog once in the morning and once in the evening, following the advice of your veterinarian.
3Take your hunting dog on walks. Your dog needs plenty of exercise, especially if you want it to develop into a good hunting dog. Strengthen your bond with your dog by taking it for walks. This will let the two of you spend more time together while also teaching your dog to follow commands – like walking on a leash and following your lead. These skills will be important in the field, so you need to help your hunting dog master them early on.[3]
- Most hunting dogs need about 30 minutes of exercise every day, depending on the breed.
Part 2
Letting Your Hunting Dog Explore Outside
1Take your hunting dog outside. Let your dog familiarize itself with the great outdoors by taking it outside on short excursions. Let it smell the foliage and run around off leash (if you can allow your dog to safely run off leash). This will help your dog get used to being outside like it will be when you take it on hunting trips later.[4]
- Try to take your dog specifically to places you intend to hunt so it can get accustomed to the landscape. This will help your dog be less distracted once you actually take it hunting.
2Encourage your dog to swim. When you take a dog hunting, your dog may have to run through some creeks, rivers, or streams – or even swim out into a lake. To help your dog feel comfortable with this, you should encourage it to encounter water from an early age. Teach your dog to swim by taking it to places you can help it learn to swim. Try it at a swimming pool.[5]
- Don't push your dog too hard at first. You may need to pick it up and carry it across the water the first few times. Let your dog go at the pace it wants.
3Teach your dog to go off-leash. Help your dog learn how to go off-leash by training it, teaching it to come, teaching it to stay, and by using positive reinforcement.[6]
- You'll need your dog to be trained to go off-leash if you want it to work for you as a hunting dog.
Part 3
Using Treats to Train Your Dog
1Buy an appropriate training treat. Gather a really drippy treat, like a small slab of raw meat, lunchmeat, or cheese dipped in water. Do not dip meat in water as this will dilute the smell. Let the dog smell the treat and figure out that it wants to eat it.
- Eventually, you'll be able to transition to using dry treats. But you'll probably need to start off with wet treats to entice the dog even more.[7]
2Begin by using a treat on a string. Have someone hold the pup at the far end of your lawn or a large field. Put a long string on the drippy treat. Standing next to the person, let the dog smell the treat. Drag the treat along the ground – around obstacles and under bushes or crops. Make sure the dog can still smell the treat, but have the person holding the leash keeping the dog put.[8]
- Be careful not to let the dog catch the treat yet; you want to make your dog practice following the scent.
3Let the dog find the treat. Leave the treat on the ground at the end of the trail, but make sure you remove the string. Come back to the dog and unleash it. Let your dog follow the scent trail until it finds the treat.[9]
- Once the dog finds the treat, reward and praise it accordingly.
4Repeat this process. Do this in many short sessions, gradually moving to dry treats as the dog gets better. Frequency is more important than length of the training, as the dog will soon see the pattern and begin to expect, then know, what to do next.[10]
- Focus on short, but frequent, training sessions that will help your dog learn how to react and what you expect from it.
Part 4
Teaching Hunting Specific Skills
1Get your dog used to gun sounds. When your pup is very young, try to make as much noise around it as possible. Start slow so as not to scare your pup and build your way up to louder noises. You want your dog to grow up being accustomed to a variety of loud noises, voices, and sounds.[11]
- Once you are ready to start training your dog in the field, start bring the gun with you on walks. Then move forward to firing some shots while the dog is far away in the field looking for birds.
- Continue this practice while you keep getting closer and closer to the dog.
- Begin with a quieter handgun (like a .22 pistol) and then work your way up to a louder shotgun.
- Make sure your dog sees your guns on a regular basis before you start training it for hunting. You don't want the first association the dog has with the gun to be the loud noise it makes.
2Work on retrieving game. To start the transition from treats to animals, you'll need to spend some time practicing with your dog. Hide some birds in the open field and let your dog track them on its own. Allow your dog to bite and play with the bird the first few times so that it gets used to the sensation of the bird in its mouth.[12]
- Once your dog has started getting used to the procedure, you can incorporate some gun shots in to the tracking routines so that your dog begins to associate the sound of the gun with the hunt for the birds (or other animals).
3Teach your dog hunting specific commands. One of the most important commands to teach a hunting dog is the "hold" command. This means that the dog should hold the prey in its mouth until you come to physically remove it.[13]
- Begin teaching your dog while it is right next to you. Tell your dog to "hold" until you are satisfied. Keep moving farther and farther away each time you practice. The dog should only stop holding when you have reached its location and have taken the prey out of its mouth yourself.
- Once he has mastered this command, you can switch to "release" which will indicate to your dog that you want it to drop the prey out of its mouth.
- Be sure to use positive reinforcement while teaching this command.
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- Before improvising any training technique, always think it through first.
Things You'll Need
- Treats
- String
- Leash and collar
- A helper
Sources and Citations
- ↑ http://www.petcha.com/spend-quality-time-with-your-dog/
- ↑ http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/2016/05/three-key-tips-for-training-a-gun-dog#page-2
- ↑ http://www.thelabradorsite.com/dog-recall-the-about-turn-walk/
- ↑ http://www.gundogmag.com/training/first-year-tips-for-training-a-hunting-puppy/
- ↑ http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/mans-best-friend/2012/08/pro-tip-how-train-dog-afraid-water-swim
- ↑ http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/5_3/features/5440-1.html
- ↑ http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/game-changers/gun-dog-training-how-transcend-treats
- ↑ https://www.georgehickox.com/about_george_hickox_bird_dog_training_tips.html
- ↑ http://leerburg.com/usingtreats.htm
- ↑ http://www.gundogsupply.com/ecollars-article-14-3-more-than-just-pushing-a-button.html
- ↑ http://www.doublepranch.com/how-to-train-a-gun-dog-for-hunting-wildfowl/
- ↑ http://www.gundogsupply.com/sws-gun-shy.html
- ↑ http://www.gundogmag.com/training/first-year-tips-for-training-a-hunting-puppy/
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Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho told BBC Sport, in his post-match interview after Saturday's loss to Crystal Palace, the Blues' Premier League title aspirations are over.
Since when are we in the habit of taking the Portuguese's words (h/t ESPN FC) at face value?
While certainly undermined and dented by John Terry's unfortunate own goal at Selhurst Park, Chelsea's title challenge is relatively unchanged.
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The Citizens provide the largest question mark surrounding Chelsea's title race. Finding five points for them to drop is a difficult—but not an impossible or improbable—task.
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Contest Halls (Japanese: コンテストホール Contest Hall) are buildings where Pokémon Contests and Pokémon Super Contests are held.
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In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald
In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, there is a Contest Hall for each of the four Contest ranks. In these halls, there is one reception counter (two in the Lilycove City Contest Hall) and Berry Blenders for making Pokéblocks. There are also photo frames for the winning Pokémon. The following is a list of locations that have a Contest Hall and the rank they hold:
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In Pokémon Emerald, all Contests take place in Lilycove City, as the halls of Verdanturf Town, Fallarbor Town and Slateport City were replaced by Battle Tents.
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In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, all Super Contests are at the Contest Hall in Hearthome City. In addition to the traditional reception counter, two counters can be found in this hall: one for linked Super Contests and another for practice sessions. The Berry Blenders are gone, as Pokéblocks are replaced by Poffins.
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Drought-stricken Australia should heed a warning from a new study that shows a series of massive droughts killed giant kangaroos and other "megafauna" in south-east Queensland 40,000 years ago, according to researchers from the Queensland University of Technology.
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Dr Price said the layers of fossils in the dig area at the Darling Downs were not consistent with some theories that humans had wiped out megafauna.
"Some scientists believe in the 'blitzkrieg' megafauna extinction hypothesis which blames humans for over-hunting these giant marsupials," he said.
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Unfortunately, gardening takes money to purchase what I need and I'm not old enough for Social Security. Life is so not fair! Guess I'll keep dreaming of a day when I have unlimited time to play in the dirt. Until then, I will keep reading and picking other gardeners' brains for ideas.


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I have a child custody agreement that states when my ex is out of town on business I am awarded 1st choice to keep the child before he offers to someone else. However he never tells me, until I find out from someone else. Can I take the papers to his employer to require to make me aware?
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You might not get very far going through his employer (after why should they get in the middle of your and his family issues) I am assuming he has knowledge of when he is going to be out of town and it is not a spare of the moment decision. I think a better solution would be to file contempt charges against him. Contempt is basically disobeying a court's order. I don't know if the court would do too much to him the first time, but if it is a continued habit he will face some extremely harsh punishment by the Court. Good Luck.


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We are traveling in India with Sarwat & Shailesh, Hamang and Shikha, our hosts extraordinaire. We visited the last few days at a fancy place in the north en route to the desert. where tents will be our abode for several nights. I am looking forward to the quiet, the starry sky and cool nights.
For my birthday we dressed up & went to a castle for dinner—candlelit under the stars, a private setting on a terrace where a thali— or traditional indian dinner-- served by a small bonfire with doting staff, was serene and other-worldly. We'll fly to Delhi & drive to Agra to go see the Taj Mahal before heading back to Mumbai at the end of next week. Traveling with Indian people who are now American, but grew up here, was probably the only way I was ever going to experience India. Their love of their motherland, welcoming and generous family, alongside insider understanding and cultural knowledge has brought understanding and appreciation we'd be hard pressed to find on our own. And of course spending some open ended time with people we love has all woven together to create a relaxing and adventurous time.
|Heading out for my birthday dinner, wearing my very first sari
As an itinerant homebody, in some ways I dreaded being away for nearly a month, but I seem to be holding up just fine. Each day I am taking in the overwhelming contrasts of beauty and poverty, colorful saris amidst heaps of garbage, cows, goats and camels and even the occasional hulking elephant wandering in the city streets, seemingly happily grazing on trash piles and rubble! On a drive earlier today, scores of miniature monkeys lined the roads, begging for food, carrying babies on the chest and jumping on our cars! The sight of 3 or 4 or 5 people on a motorcycle, helmuts nowhere in sight, ladies sitting side saddle with meters of sari materials potentially flying in the breeze, creates a countryside dotted with color, zipping by as we drive past the random ramshackle stalls next to the golden temples, everywhere foods piled high, treats frying in woks the size of a bean bag chair, trucks loaded with people 15 or 20, hanging on by a loose handle, cows sitting on the road near the edges or in the middle, chewing, chewing, trucks painted by hand with bright colors and hay stacked precariously high and wide teetering down the highway; honestly, I am not sure what holds it all together. The first world has crashed into the developing world here and there is no making sense of most of it.
And here in this mayhem and beauty, I have completed another rotation around the year and turned a solidly growing number of 57....and happy, happy to be alive! Thank you for your kind wishes to celebrate the day! I swam for an hour this am in a warmed-by-the-sun infinity pool, overlooking the mountains, to the sound of so many birds I have never seen before. As I wrote about in a new year's message about Paul baking his first time ever leg of lamb, I wondered what my "leg of lamb" would be as I cajoled us all to find something new to try, novel to experience. This is definitely one for me. After 2014, I have made sure to stay in the habit of saying YES to experiences in life, especially ones Paul wants to do, and like this, ones I have never even considered! He is a perfect partner traipsing everywhere with me, both on this earth & in this heart.
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Christian Aid has welcomed the ceasefire between Gaza and Israel but warns that some people have been badly affected by the latest conflict.
The development agency is calling upon all sides to reach a "lasting, comprehensive and just" peace.
The truce was brokered by Egypt on Wednesday and brought an end to eight days of deadly conflict.
However, Christian Aid was critical of the international community, saying that the current crisis was the "tragic" consequence of the failure to take adequate action after the last major attack on Gaza nearly four years ago.
Janet Symes, Christian Aid's Head of Middle East said that if the ceasefire holds, it could be the first step to meaningful negotiations which she said "have to take place to bring real change to the people of Gaza".
Christian Aid launched an appeal earlier this week to provide urgently needed medical supplies and food, as well as psychosocial support to those most in need.
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"August" travels back to the year 2001, when the world was in the midst of a dot com revolution. It was a time when anyone who had some financial backing, a rotund sense of business bluster, and the thinnest of internet purpose could make a killing, branding themselves as the latest must-have application during the online gold rush. As we all know, it didn't last for long.
As the founders of the internet company Landshark, brothers Tom (Josh Hartnett) and Josh (Adam Scott) have turned their once minuscule basement idea into a hot New York commodity, with Tom leading the charge employing his ruthless business demeanor and slick, slacker appearance. However, when the market starts to turn downward, Landshark finds itself weeks away from its stock-payoff nirvana, but with little cash flow to speak of. Panicking, Tom fights to protect his investment, but finds himself slowly losing his cool. Now with a dreary corporate offer on the table for the company, Tom has to decide between his eroding dreams and the reality of his failing business, which has damaged his relationship with his family (including Rip Torn) and ex-lovers.
Austin Chick, who directed the enterprising sex drama "XX/XY," looks to evoke a robust era of dot com tragedy with "August," when the money flowed like water, ego was in unlimited supply, and America was just a few unknowing steps away from 9/11. It's a captivating time and place, and "August" gets the viewer into the mood with the concentrated snap of Tom's quicksilver business acumen as the character rolls through his day as though blessed with the ability to walk on water, selling himself (rooted in trends and a buzzsaw personality) with more persuasion than his beloved company.
As this harbinger of internet revolution, Hartnett has some difficulty staying ahead of the screenplay. Faced with a grueling role that requires a swift tongue and an imposing sense of boardroom bravado (scored with a beguiling industrial symphony by Nathan Larson), Harnett fails to articulate Tom's intoxicating presence. It's not a terrible piece of acting, just not a dazzling one as promised early in the film.
Moments with Tom verbally dressing down his competition or piling on the internet lingo with the polish of a seasoned vet ring remarkably false, sounding more practiced than second nature. Hartnett is better with a lukewarm pass at romance with actress Naomie Harris, here playing an estranged remnant of soul who can't quite keep a safe distance from his tempting brand of relationship poison. Anything that keeps Tom (and Hartnett) from spewing tech-culture bile and referencing "Un chien andalou" (now there's a groaner Chick and writer Howard Rodman should be ashamed of) is a good thing.
"August" is strictly a character piece, leaving behind an empty sensation of suspense when word of Landshark's demise slowly seeps out to the competition, further alarming Tom. Because Chick is solely invested in Tom's developing misery and not the rise and fall of an internet company, the film fails to hold much interest beyond occasional broad bits of inhospitable behavior. Bitter interactions with Tom's parents and the concerns of Josh, well played with nuanced frustration by Scott, keep the film alive when tech gobbledygook dialogue and obscure stock-option turns of the screw take center stage for most of the picture.
Presented in anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio), "August" retains the gritty heart of period New York City vibe. Grainy, but with solid color reproduction and permissible black levels, the DVD does justice to the jittery nightlife world of the film.
The 5.1 Dolby Digital mix is reserved, but plenty of room is made for Larson's exemplary score. Dialogue and soundtrack cuts are adequately separated, but most surround activity is reserved for the musical moods. A 2.0 track is also available.
English SDH and Spanish subtitles are included.
A Theatrical Trailer for "August" is included on this DVD, along with peeks at "Miss Conception," War, Inc.," "An American Crime," "Blood Brothers," "Meet Bill," "King of California," "Sukiyaki Western Django," "The Neighbor," and "Transsiberian."
When Hartnett's performance is more mussed-hair obvious and indicatory than truly insightful, there's little dramatic meat to devour in "August." A third-act scene with David Bowie as the ultimate corporate shark is a nice button on a monotonous, distanced movie, but it's not enough to impart "August" with a lasting shot of inevitable industry horror. The feature has an appealing perspective on a distinctive topic, but just not enough gas to fuel the drama to satisfying lengths.


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Following my post about the JCB building the runway near the top of the Walna Scar Road I've now spoken to the council to find out what's going on.
The council have been given funding to repair any damage from last years floods so the section of Walna Scar they are repairing is where one of the becks washes across the road (leaving it nice and knarly). They do then intend on moving further up and grit stoning/smoothing out some of the knarly bits at the top ('particularly where paths on the grass have been formed because it's so rough to walk on').
It's a comfort to know that it's not work to make it passable by 4x4's but unfortunately it's one of the busiest tourist routes and one families can use to get to the top of The Old Man of Coniston and that's where the councils priorities lie. It's still going to be a challenge to get up there but not so much of a challenge to get down until it all washes off again in the next few years.
I've let them know that a better priority would be the bridle way from Broughton Moor around Dawson Pike/White Pike where it links on to the Walna Scar road having nearly lost myself and my ride to a hub deep bog up there !
**** me I sound like a bloody councillor !
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Following my post about the JCB building the runway near the top of the Walna Scar Road I've now spoken to the council to find out what's going on.
worrying. I was up there last week, looks like it might end up like a bloody fire road from top to bottom.
Noooooo. That's one of my favourite downhills of the lakes!. Have the walkers not got enough footpaths to go on without ruining the bridleways ?.
I was up there in June and ended up talking to a party of blind walkers
If the work is helping make it that more accessible, I'm all for it TBH
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Abstract The optimal R&D investment in product innovation of a profit-seeking monopolist is characterized vs that of a social planner in a spatial market with transportation disutility, under full market coverage. It is shown that the planner's incentive to innovate is always weaker than the monopolist's, since the planner trades off the minimization of the social cost of transportation against the cost of R&D.
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NEW YORK — The National Board of Review, widely considered a harbinger of the Academy Awards, has chosen "The Social Network" as the best film of the year.
The NBR lavished a total of four awards on the film, naming David Fincher best director, Aaron Sorkin's script best adapted screenplay and Jesse Eisenberg best actor. Eisenberg plays Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in the film, which has won critical praise and earned more than $180 million worldwide at the box office.
In the past three years, the National Board of Review winner has twice gone on to win best picture at the Oscars: "No Country for Old Men" in 2007 and "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2008. Last year's winner was "Up in the Air."
The National Board of Review, a group of film historians, students and educators founded in 1909, is one of the first notable groups to announce its picks for the year, beginning in earnest the long drumbeat of critics groups and guilds that will name their own choices ahead of the Oscars on Feb. 27. Its robust backing of "The Social Network" will only add to the movie's reputation as an awards front-runner.
NBR President Annie Schulhof said she expects "The Social Network" will "stand up over time and appeal to many generations."
"With 'The Social Network' you had very strong elements that were very much appreciated: the direction, the writing, the acting, its great storytelling," Schulhof said. "That spoke to the very diverse landscape of the National Board of Review."
Lesley Manville was named best actress for her performance as a desperate middle-aged secretary in "Another Year," Mike Leigh's British drama about friendship and aging.
Best supporting actor went to Christian Bale, who plays Dicky Eklund, the junkie former boxer and older brother to Mickey Ward (Mark Wahlberg) in David O. Russell's "The Fighter." Jacki Weaver won best supporting actress for her role as the matriarch of a blue-collar crime family in the Australian drama "Animal Kingdom."
Ben Affleck's Boston crime drama "The Town" — which features Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner and Jon Hamm — was chosen for best ensemble cast.
Shut out entirely was "The King's Speech," the drama about the struggles of King George VI (Colin Firth) with stuttering. It has been seen by Oscar prognosticators as the movie most likely to contest "The Social Network" for top honors. (The group did list "The King's Speech" as one of the top 10 films of the year.)
"Toy Story 3," Pixar's third installment in its beloved franchise, won best animated feature. Best documentary went to the "Waiting for 'Superman,'" which details the U.S. education system and puts hope in charter schools. Best foreign language film went to "Of Gods and Men," the French drama about Cistercian monks fighting fundamentalism.
One of the group's most surprising choices was picking Chris Sparling's "Buried" script for best original screenplay. The film, an exercise in minimalism, stars Ryan Reynolds as a contract worker in Iraq taken hostage and buried alive in a coffin — the cramped setting of the entire movie.
Sofia Coppola was chosen for a special filmmaking achievement award for writing, directing and producing "Somewhere," her lyrical depiction of a Hollywood actor (Stephen Dorff) questioning his lifestyle during a visit from his young daughter (Elle Fanning).
The NBR also sought to highlight a number of newcomers, citing Jennifer Lawrence of "Winter's Bone" for breakthrough performance and "Restrepo" co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hethington as debut directors.
The group gave French animator Sylvain Chomet and the late filmmaker Jacques Tati the "spotlight award" for "The Illusionist," Chomet's animated adaptation of an old screenplay by Tati.
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The National Board of Review also cited three films — "Fair Game," ''Conviction" and "Howl" — for their annual "freedom of expression" citation. The NBR will also grant critic Leonard Maltin its William K. Everson Film History Award.
The group's top best films of 2010 are: "Another Year," ''The Fighter," ''Hereafter," ''Inception," ''The King's Speech," ''Shutter Island," ''The Town," ''Toy Story 3," ''True Grit" and "Winter's Bone."
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easiest cake recipe ever:
weigh some eggs
use same amounts of sugar flour and butter
add flavourings. (old bananas work well)
bung it in the oven til it's done.
Using a tin with the correct dimensions is key unless you're a super cook who can do all sorts of jiggery pokery with the temperature and cooking time.
If it's too big the cake will cook too quickly and if it's to small the cake will be too deep and take too long to cook.
I find sponge cakes cooked in electric ovens can be moister if you place a tray of water at the bottom of the oven.
My question is...
I love cakes and bicuits (hence the baker's tummy), but i'd love to have a lot of yummy recipes which are tasty and easy to make but not expensive and full of fat and sugar.
Is this possible? Must include at least 2 chocolate recipes and not just cheat and use artificial sweeteners.
mollyroger - beetroot is gooorgeous. Boiled and then baked and seasoned...mmmmm
Mind you, ours are organic and fresh from the garden, and if i so much as suggested using them in a cake DH would murder me [boast]
BUY pre-cut circles of baking paper for cake tines (they come in all different sizes.) I don't know about you but the thought of the tin-lining palaver puts me off the idea of knocking up a quick cake more than the rather soothing weighing-and-mixing part.
Or, on riany days, set any of your DCs who are bored and capable to making a stock of paper circles for future use - very educational with all that simple geometry and pencil-and-scissor control involved. They can sit at the breakfast bar and work on it while you do something else nearby, filling their little heads with kitchen-lore.
Then you can reward them with hunks of warm sponge fresh from the oven.
Things to remeber.
Muffin Batter should always be lumpy.
Follow recipes Baking is a Chemistry not an art class.
i have a ginger cake recipe from mil that i can't divulge its so bloody tasty no amount of waitrose vouchers can make me.
1 - When making a banana loaf, steep some sultanas in a little orange juice then add them to the mix last. Gives a deliciously springy and moist texture and enhances the banana flavour.
2 - When a recipe calls for vanilla essence, use vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste instead for a softer, less artificial flavour.
3 - For extra flavoursome muffins, add half a teaspoon of salt to the mix. Strange but true.
4 - Buttercream icing is delicious but can be a little heavy on cupcakes. Add a little lemon juice to your buttercream mix for a lighter, slightly tangy, morish icing for vanilla cupcakes.
Great standby toddler tea - make a batch of plain white bread dough (I use the one from Jamie Oliver's Naked Chef), knead once and leave to rise then shape into small pizza bases and freeze uncooked. Make a batch of basic tomato sauce (tin toms, onion, garlic, whatever herbs are around) and freeze that in icecubes or small portion size tubs.
When you need tea in a hurry, defrost one sauce portion, smear onto frozen pizza base, add whatever toppings are to hand (grated cheddar is fine if nothing else to hand, frozen roasted peppers are great) and cook at max temp for 10 mins.
Much healthier than shop bought pizza and better portion size.
When decorating fairy cakes use the unbleached 'golden' icing sugar before adding small drops of colouring - it gives them a sophisticated 'vespa scooter' colour range, or a slight 1950s aura.
Oh, and don't follow Nigella's instructions to either BOIL ganache cake covering, or mix bicarb to boiling water before adding to cake mix (in the lemon ginger slab recipe): you will end up with a split and grainy icing, or a flat cake because the raising agent fizzed prematurely, respectively.
Very easy & economical chocolate fudge cake.
4oz SR flour sieved
1 tsp baking powder
4oz softened butter/margarine
4oz soft brown sugar
1 heaped tbs cocoa powder
1 - 2 tbs boiling water
2 eggs
Put cocoa powder in mixing bowl and add boiling water, then mix to a paste. Add other ingredients and mix with food mixer for a couple of minutes until light and fluffy.
Divide between 2 lined/greased 7" cake tins.
Bake at 350 F/ 170 (?) C for 20 minutes.until cooked.
1tbs cocoa powder
4 oz icing sugar
scant 2 oz butter
2 oz caster sugar
3 tbs water
Put water, caster sugar and butter in small saucepan, bring to boil slowly, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
Sieve cocoa and icing sugar into bowl. Add boiling mixture and beat with wooden spoon until well mixed. Leave to cool.
Sandwich cake and ice top with this mixture. (NB you can do this when the mixture is still slightly warm and is like thick pouring cream or wait until it has cooled to a more solid butter cream)
My daughter has a love/hate relationship with bananas and either adores or detests them on any given day so we often have a glut of overripe ones to use up. This is always great as it means I can make banana bread.
Really quick ( and then just bunged in the oven) and as I recently discovered when my scales broke you don't have to be too careful when measuring out ingredients as it always seems to work.
I cream together about 75 grams marge or butter and 100 grams sugar ( any, muscovado nice if you've got it), beat in three eggs with a whisk, add three ripe mashed bananas and some vanilla extract if you have it, then sift in about 300 grams self-raising flour. Bake in a 190 c oven for 50 mins (check a knife inserted comes out clean). A (relatively) healthy treat, also great toasted with butter for breakfast.
When I'm pushed for time and the fridge is short of food, I find fruit pizzas a really easy, tasty dessert that my toddler loves!
I keep my cupboards stocked with ready-made pizza bases which can then be used to make savoury pizzas or desserts.
Simply cut up whatever fruit you have to hand (apples, cinnamon and raisins go well) and layer over the pizza base. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Bake 10 - 15 mins at ~200 C, until the dough is crisp and the fruit has caramelised.
I like to serve with a dollop of ice-cream or creme fraiche. Yum!
Granny's fruit cake
An absolute fail safe recipe that anyone can make.
4oz marg
4oz sugar
8oz SR flour
4fl oz milk
2 eggs
10 oz mixed dried fruit
1 tsp mixed spice
Handful of glace cherries (optional)
Sling in all in the mixer and mix it up. When done stir in the fruit by hand or it will end up being chopped to bits by the mixer, same goes for the cherries.
Pop it all in a 2lb loaf tim, use a liner or grease it with some marg first. Pop it in the oven for about and hour to an hour and a half at 170 degrees C, or until it is golden on top and a cake tester comes out clean.
Soda Bread - a great basic to have up your sleeve when you run out of bread.
450g plain flour
1tsp salt
1 level tsp caster sugar
1 tsp bicarb
approx 350ml buttermilk (or use soured milk - just ordinary milk with a dash of vinegar/lemon left to sit for 5 mins)
Combine dry ingredients in large bowl, gradually mix in milk until soft dough forms - do not knead.
Shape into a flattened round about 5cm deep, slash cross in the top.
Bake in preheated oven at 220C for 15mins, turn down to 200 for further 30 mins.
You can add herbs, spices, cheese etc to dry ingredients.
If you are reviving the 'lost art' then definitely start with muffins. As long as you remember to combine all dry ingredients and then add all wet once and mix carefully until just combined, you can't go wrong. They take 5 mins to mix, don't need an electric mixer, 20mins to bake, are delicious, healthier than cakes, and way cheaper (and better) than bought muffins.
Freeze (individually wrapped - I buy 'value' rolls of small food bags for this) any which don't get eaten immediately - put them (still frozen) into lunchboxes and they will thaw in time for lunch, or microwave for 30 seconds for instant snacks.
..plus children like making them too!
Scones are the simplest, quickest and most satisfying things to make but the instruction in most recipes to knead the dough is misleading. You must mix the ingredients very lightly together and not knead at all.
Keep the dough in a thick blob and cut out your scones, I use a small glass to do this.
Remix any left over bits agin very lightly. Your scones will be high and light.
Serve warm with butter and honey, clotted cream and jam or warm minutes out of the oven with just butter. Mmmmmmm
Making your own cakes is so relaxing - and so easy! I'm not artistic but necessity forced me to start making my son's birthday cakes when we found out he had a peanut allergy when he was three. Nine years on, they still don't look like a masterpiece but they taste ten times better than the dry, tasteless shop-bought cakes. My five year old did most of the mixing when we made his twelfth birthday cake the other day.
These days I can make and bake a cake within about 40 minutes (cooling included.)It's a good job too as I now work full-time. I NEVER use a mixer; I melt the butter in a pan first, then add the sugar, then the flour, then beaten eggs. I don't have scales either; I used cups and a bit of judgement. Here is quite a simple one that tastes absolutely delicious:
Three quarters of a 250g slab of butter (60z)
3 eggs
Three quarters of a cup of sugar (6oz)
1 and quarter cups of SR flour (6oz)
Teaspoon baking powder
Grated rind of one orange
Bit of milk
Preheat oven to gas 5 (180). Melt butter in pan then put in bowl. Add sugar and beat. Add flour and beat. Beat eggs in cup then pour in. Grate orange into mixture. When it is all beaten, you may want to add a little bit more flour, or a bit of milk, to get your perfect cake consistency. Pour into greased cake dishes and bake in centre of oven for about 20 minutes.
When cake is baked and cooled, put straweberry jam in middle then make chocolate butter icing to cover it. I melt:
Large Aero (cooking chocolate not nut-free)
Dessertspoon of butter
Desserspoon of icing sugar
I mix these in a pan then pour over the cake so it runs down the sides.
The icing takes a bit of practice. As you can tell, I do this more by feel than exact measures!
This is a delicious, moist cake. Enjoy!
home made chicken and leek pie
Either use leftover chicken or use diced chicken breast
500gms chicken
4 rashers bacon - chopped
4 leeks sliced around 1/2cm
15 ish mushrooms
1 pint chicken stock (may not need all)
250ml milk
plain flour
ready rolled pastry (or be brave and make your own) have tried this with shortcrust pastry and puff pastry and works well with both
put oil in pan and add leeks and bacon
cook on low heat for around 20 minutes or until leeks tender. add chicken and a few tablespoons of flour.
Cook until chicken coloured (ie no longer pink if raw, if using leftovers go to next step immediately)
Turn up heat to half heat and add mushrooms
when pan hot add half stock and the milk. cook for 10 minutes adding stock if looks low.
Put in a pot and add pastry and cook in an oven at 180 for 40 minutes comes out delicious.
I have also made this with savoury choux pastry and it is yummy but much more time consuming so please email me if you want that recipe
I also have a fab pumpkin cake recipe which even children love which i have adapted to be carrot cake too.
Instead of a normal lemon syrup sponge, try using lime juice instead of lemon and add some dried chillies - about half a teaspoon. makes a really delicious cake with a bit of a kick! Make sure you warn any children though!
You don't need a recipe for sponge cake!!!
Weigh the eggs you want to use (2-3 for a cake or a dozen buns, more for more cakes)... measure out the same weight in caster sugar, self raising flour and butter. Cream butter and sugar then add the eggs and flour gradually with a few drops of vanilla essence and bake at 200 degrees until the cake bounces back when tapped on top.
Voila! No need to dig out the recipe books and no panicing that you have the 'wrong size' eggs
my best recipe is also my most-used and simplest
emergency biscuits:
1oz sugar
2oz butter
3oz plain flour
beat sugar and butter
stir in flour
roll out and cut out (or, better, get kids to do so)
10min gas 4
ice afterwards, or sprinkle with caster sugar while warm, or tart up by adding orange zest / dried fruit / choc chips
if you do them in small shapes and ram a cocktail stick into each before baking they make good 'lollipop biscuits' to serve stuck in a grapfruit at parties
or make holes in them and hang on the Christmas tree.
or sandwich together in pairs with Nutella
OK, tried and tested
1 1/2 ozs cocoa powder
4 ad a half oz plain folour
1 and a half tspns bakig powder
punch salt
5 and a half oz caster sugar
8 and a half fl oz vegetable oil
2 tsps vanilla essence
3 beaten eggs
10 oz pureed cooked beetroot (boiled or roasted)
4 oz plain chocolate.
grease 7in round tin, oven 190deg C
Sift dry ingredients into a bowl
add everything else.
pour into cake tin, bake for 50 mins or until skewer comes ot cleabn.
Allow to cool and smother cover in chocolate butter icing or chocolate sauce (butter, dark chocolate, icing sugar and cream melted together)
watch your children eat it and try not to shriek ''hahahahah! You just ate beetroot!''
I do molie!
I use apple juice instead of wine in the cooking if I only have nice wine in. Tastes okay.
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he name Johnson was brought to England in the great wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066. It comes from the given name John and the name literally means "son of John." The given name John is derived from the Hebrew name Johanan, which means "Jehovah has favored." The name was extremely popular in the Middle Ages as a result of the numerous connections between the name John and the Christian Church. Early records of the name Johnson in the chronicles of England show that the ancestors of the bearers of this name were of the Norman race. The name appears in England from about 1066 A.D., and its history is interwoven within the majestic tapestry which contains the history of Britain.
Professional researchers used such ancient manuscripts as the Domesday Book (compiled in 1086 by William the Conqueror), the Ragman Rolls, the Wace poem, the Honour Roll of the Battel Abbey, The Curia Regis, Pipe Rolls, the Falaise Roll, tax records, baptismals, family genealogies, and local parish and church records to establish that the first record of the name Johnson was found in Lincolnshire where they had been granted lands by Duke William on his conquest of England in 1066.
The name, Johnson, occurred in many references, but from time to time, spellings included Johnson, Joneson,and many others. Scribes recorded and spelled the name as it sounded. It was not unlikely that a person would be born with one spelling, married with another, and buried with a headstone which showed another spelling. The Normans were commonly believed to be of French origin but, more accurately, they were of Viking origin. The Vikings, under their Jarl, Thorfinn Rollo, invaded France in about 911 A.D. After Rollo laid siege to Paris, the French King, Charles the Simple, finally conceded defeat, granting northern France to Rollo. Duke William who invaded and defeated England in 1066, was descended from the first Duke Rollo of Normandy.
The surname Johnson emerged as a notable family name in the county of Lincoln. Many of the ancient and leading houses of the Johnson family name claim descendancy originally from the house of FitzJohn in Normandy, particularly that of one of the leading branches and oldest, that of the Johnsons of Ayscough-Fee in the county of Lincolnshire. They branched north to Scotland at the beginning of the 13th century. By 1296 Wautier Johnson of Berwickshire rendered homage to King Edward 1st of England, on his brief conquest of Scotland. Adam Johnson was a Scottish prisoner of War captured by the English, was discharged from Newgate Prison in 1375. Sir Nicholas Johnson was Burgess of Ayr in 1503. To the south the branches of Johnson proliferated particularly in the English counties of Durham, Northumberland, Bedfordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, and London. Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Sir Nicholas Johnson.
The surname Johnson contributed much to local politics and in the affairs of England or Scotland. During the 12th century many of these Norman families moved north to Scotland. Later, in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries England was ravaged by religious and political conflict. The Monarchy, the Church and Parliament fought for supremacy. The unrest caused many to think of distant lands.
In Ireland, settlers became known as the "Adventurers for land in Ireland." They "undertook" to keep the Protestant faith, occupying the lands of the Irish. In Ireland this distinguished family settled in Ulster in the 17th century. The democratic way of life of the New World beckoned many. They sailed aboard the fleet of sailing ships known as the "White Sails."
In North America, settlers bearing the Johnson name or a spelling variation of the name include: Widow Johnson who settled in Virginia in 1623; followed by Alice in 1635, Abraham in 1648; Albert Johnson settled in Maryland in 1682; Benjamin Johnson settled in the Barbados in 1660; Bridget Johnson settled in Quebec in 1825; Charles Johnson settled in Providence R.I. in 1823. The family also settled in Pennsylvania, California, New York, and Massachusetts in the 19th century. In Newfoundland, Thomas Johnson settled in St. John's in 1666, Thomas Johnson came to Quidi Vidi in 1680, and James Johson was in Lower Island Cove in 1768. Many bearing this name were registered as United Empire Loyalists, including George, Sir John, James and Laurence Johnson. From the port of arrival settlers joined the wagon trains westward. During the American War of Independence some declared their loyalty to the Crown and moved northward into Canada and became known as the United Empire Loyalists. In recent history, prominent bearers of the Johnson surname have included: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English lexicographer, writer, critic, and conversationalist, best known for his "Dictionary of the English Language" in 1755, Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), American, 17th President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) (1908-1973), US Democratic statesman and 36th President of the USA from 1963-69, Caryn Johnson (b. 1950) American, original name of actress Whoopi Goldberg, American jazz musician, James Price Johnson (1894-1955) American jazz pianist, Amy Johnson (1903-1941), English pioneering long-distance aviator, Lucy Johnson (1922-1990) American, original name of actress Ava Gardner, Michael Johnson (b. 1967) American, gold medal winning sprinter, Robert Johnson (1911-1938), American, influential blues singer and guitarist, Earvin (Magic) Johnson (1959-), famed American basketball player, Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786-1867) Eng/Am philosopher, Dame Celia Johnson (1908-1982) English actress, John "Jack" Arthur Johnson (1878-1946), American pugilist, Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867-1902) English poet, Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) English novelist, Philip Cortelyou Johnson (b. 1906) American architect, as well as Richard Mentor Johnson (1781-1850) American democratic politician, 9th Vice President of the United States.
Name Variations:
Johnson, Joneson, Jonson, Joynson, Johnston.
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A Handbook of Mottoes; C.N. Elvin - 1860.
English Surnames; C.M. Matthews - 1966.
A Dictionary of English Surnames; P.H. Reaney - 1958.
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While it pains me to say this, this album is much less consistent than it's predecessor, "Metal Magic". And while the better songs on here are of twice the quality than those of the first album, the filler on this album prevents it from earning a near perfect score.
But lets look at the good things first. The production on "Projects in the Jungle" is a huge improvement over the debut, which was horrible and felt really rushed. Here, the band has clearly taken some time to give it album style production, rather than the almost demo-like feel of the debut. The songs here sound crystal clear, definitely an improvement.
Moving onto the music itself, some of the songs on here are absolutely amazing. The music sounds so much tighter and more professional now, with Terry Glaze really showing his capabilities as a vocalist. Diamond Darrel is really starting to pump out the riffs now as well as some great leads and solos, nicely backed by the rhythm styling of Rex and Vinnie. From the hair metal anthems of "All Over Tonight" and "Heavy Metal Rules" to the full blown speed metal tracks like "Out For Blood" and "Killers". Remember the track of the first album? That song was also a full-blown speed metal number held back by a crappy synth intro. The title track here has no such drawbacks, full of thrashy riffs and catchy vocal lines that you'll find yourself singing along and banging your head to the second time you've ever heard them. Definitely the heaviest track the band have done up to this point. Also worth noting is the more mid-paced song "Like Fire". While nothing particularly exciting compared the to previously mentioned songs, it is certainly undeserving of the skip button.
Sadly, the same can't be said for the rest of the album. Notice something missing so far from this review of a hair metal album? Yup, that's right, ballads. The previous album has one ballad, which, while slightly forgettable, wasn't completely horrible. When it came on, you found yourself thinking, "Oh, this is the ballad. I might skip this". On this album, that thought will enter you're mind as well. And shortly after this one will appear "Didn't I just skip this song?" and when you get to the last track "Isn't this the same song again, except with the intro from "Street's of Rage"?". Needless to say, these thoughts, and more importantly, their accompanying songs will begin to wear tedious. The skip button on you're CD player will break due to overuse. The album will slowly sink to the back of you're collection, only occasionally being taken out to listen to the good tracks, and you will have to suffer the ballads thanks to your broken button. And it's not just because they're ballads that they are crap, it's because they are the most forgettable ballads ever written. "18 And Life" this is not, nor "Home Sweet Home", or even "Every Rose Has its Thorn". Unlike those songs, these ones won't stick in you're head. I can barely distinguish between the lot of them. The first two ballads on the album are also exactly the same length…hmm…
There is another song on this album, but this will merit the first assault on the skip button. It is nothing more than Diamond Darrel's attempt at Eruption. Forgettable.
You may or may not have noticed that I have actually spend more time talking about the four bad songs on here than the six good songs, which leads me neatly onto what angers me most about this album. If the band had decided to focus on writing good metal songs – a thing they clearly can do -, instead of trying to fit into the then-current trends by over loading the thing with lame ballads that all sound the same, this album would easily get a near perfect score. They could have created one of the greatest glam metal albums ever, but they didn't. They held back.
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