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Most useful culinary shortcut (lighthearted)

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Sallywally1 Mon 20-Oct-25 22:54:23

Frozen mashed potatoes! Five minutes in microwave, add some butter and you have delicious mash. Especially useful to someone like me with arthritic fingers which make peeling spuds so difficult nowadays.

Any more?

ViceVersa Mon 27-Oct-25 16:05:08

Every supermarket sells them. You can also get them in tubes.

Pittcity Mon 27-Oct-25 16:09:55

Small jars like this.

MayBee70 Mon 27-Oct-25 18:18:50

Astitchintime

Here’s a recipe for a very simple but super delicious dessert.

One cup of hot water
One cup of plain Greek yogurt
One packet of sugar free jelly - I used raspberry.

Whisk together and chill for a few hours. Makes a fabulous mousse style dessert…….no idea how long it would keep in the fridge though, we ate it that evening after dinner.

I’ve been buying jelly recently to use up some frozen fruit in the freezer and have added yoghurt to it. I like a few chocolate sprinkles on the top, too. I do like milk jelly!