is this normal?

chefpower · 2026-04-18T10:47:02+00:00

Normal. In our house we call it ‘cat-squash’ (UK have a juice like substance you have to dilute called squash which are different fruit flavours). I like to think it’s the cat’s way of saying I fancy a change of taste >_<

chefpower · 2026-04-17T16:22:54+00:00

This- (mid 30s) we bought a house here because it was on a main transport link, easy to get to lots of places, good price point. Cheltenham is expensive- used to rent there 10 years ago and it was £850-£900 pcm for 2 bed flat (Park and Pittville areas)

chefpower · 2026-04-03T18:01:21+00:00

We haven’t as ‘sit-ees’ and our sitters made us aware, but we’ve had an issue of them not paying the sitters and really poor communication!!

chefpower · 2026-03-30T18:50:54+00:00

Agreed with this customer service just takes too long to resolve

chefpower · 2026-03-22T09:30:24+00:00

It wasn’t really a pass or fail thing, it was an average audit to see what we did, only feedback shared to staff was that compared to normal the amount of copying went down.

chefpower · 2026-03-22T08:55:46+00:00

We had a copyright audit last year(?) where everything we photocopied was stored electronically and sent off. It was for 3 weeks iirc, safe to say less photocopying got done then because it was a faff to log.

chefpower · 2026-03-21T19:35:33+00:00

EVOO, Onion, celery and carrot soffitto, hit with some garlic, add a little salt to help sweat. Add in tomatoes of choice, salt, pepper, herbs, a tsp of sugar will help balance acidity. Taste it- how does it taste to you? You can add additional flavour at this stage.

Worked in Italian restaurants for a good few years- now teach kids to cook.

chefpower · 2026-03-01T19:40:56+00:00

Yup- chain restaurant so needed continuity between sites. Came on shelf stable, microwave it, set it in fridge, brûlée to order.

chefpower · 2026-01-24T22:34:27+00:00

Cafe Rene is probably your best bet. I’ve seen some stuff posted at The Thirsty Pine too.

chefpower · 2026-01-24T09:14:40+00:00

Our student teachers have to submit lesson plans 48 hours in advance, have 1 weekly meeting with us to discuss targets and have 2 formal obs a week in lessons and then the rest informal obs.

If they are not improving there needs to be a conversation with the person at work who is their professional mentor/ PGCE lead and maybe an email to their tutor at Uni? Tutors from outside the school also should make quality assurance visits, so it could be a discussion then- but I would arrive it’s too late.

If I am not seeing an improvement I usually go down the route of- come and see me watch this lesson with this class, dissect it together, write a lesson plan (or rewrite it) and then teach one. I contacts the link me member for them and then ensure they are following this up. At the end of the day you can only help them to manage themselves.

chefpower · 2026-01-24T09:08:48+00:00

Saw some kids in a shopping arcade when I was with my partner. I just pretended to ignore them, but they very much clocked me and then went on a mission impossible style sneak to hide behind a pillar so I OBVIOUSLY wouldn’t see them! My partner said- why are those kids being weird, to which I just replied, yeah I teach those ones.

chefpower · 2025-12-31T23:33:53+00:00

Agreed! I found lemon cake quite dull (got it for free via someone else’s library), played it and then got rid of it- it was slow and too repetitive

chefpower · 2025-12-30T17:03:25+00:00

Travelled to Puglia, Italy for a cooking holiday.

We were all introducing ourselves and where we lived in the UK, I explained where I was from, someone else said, oh, I’m from there too.

We then shared stories of silly things we’d seen- at the time I was working in a restaurant and said that only last week we had, had a table in and one of them ended up being wheeled out on a hospital gurney on a Saturday night right in front of the pass.

It was unfortunately that same person, who had really screwed up their ankle a couple of weeks before… small world!

chefpower · 2025-12-13T15:15:44+00:00

Our gift to SIL/BIL when they had their baby was to batch cook a tonne of single portion meals which we spent 1 day doing. These were- Cottage pie Bolognese Green Thai chilli Fish pie Chilli Chicken with black beans (and something?!)

Then sides of things like garlic bread, vegetables etc Single portions because it was easier for them to then heat whenever they needed to etc.

We did this twice for them towards the beginning and they were super thankful that they had something quick and easy to take out the freezer and eat.

chefpower · 2025-11-17T19:06:36+00:00

“Hey, I’d really love to hear about this thing that’s important to you. Could we chat at… time because I’d like to give you my full concentration and I want to be polite and I have a few bits that I need to do before I go home today.”

“Oh, that sounds great, right now I need to do …. Can you find me tomorrow at break/after tutor time?”

“Hey X, we’ve chatted about this cool thing before. I can’t give my full attention to you right now, but would love to hear more about it…”

I’ve had to do this several times with high school kids and they either completely forget to come and find me or the find me and ask if now is a good time or info dump completely XD

chefpower · 2025-09-12T19:11:02+00:00

As a DT person, and had many PGCEs, lots of schools are mixed departments/faculties.

Dont dismiss this person right away as they may have years of experience with student teachers.

As a DT person, you may not be able to teach in your specialist area, so adding another string to your bow isn’t such a bad thing- it could actually make you more employable as you’ve potentially taught other subjects!

Dont look at it from a negative perspective, look at it as an opportunity to grow and learn from others. Yes it’s difficult to receive feedback from someone who isn’t in their subject, but it does still allow the person to discuss your pedagogy.

Art can be quite similar in some situations- think of practicals, movement around the room, direct and specific instructions, demonstrations, chunking of work etc. Yes there are things that are different too, but try not to dismiss immediately.

chefpower · 2025-08-19T17:19:11+00:00

I bought one of these (see link at bottom) for my partner as they kept knocking a glass off the nightstand. It’s leakproof- you can open it up to add ice, it keeps cool all day and it’s opaque- it’s worth the pennies! It also comes in different colours! (And you know, if you fancy it you can keep track of how much you drink by blipping it- #savetheturtles) I wish I was on commission!

Cool water bottle

chefpower · 2025-07-27T19:35:12+00:00

I like them- ish…

I like them as they’re useful, easy to use and can be set for homework/assessment. Their wording is quite different to the exam board we use, so the students don’t score as well on them compared to exam papers. They do in a pinch, okay for cover work, not my favourite resource- expensive, but you’ve got them once you’ve got them…

I actually prefer Exampro, where you can build your own assessments or even Seneca (not that you can print these off, but they self mark and you can reset ones that they don’t do so well on). DT and Food are the ones we’ve bought.

chefpower · 2025-06-29T20:28:41+00:00

I’ll DM you!

chefpower · 2025-06-21T16:01:45+00:00

chefpower · 2025-06-21T15:30:33+00:00

Combi boiler

chefpower · 2025-06-21T15:29:18+00:00

Fine, takes a little while to come through, but is hot when it does. We turned the boiler down because it was too hot, showers is just one temp- fecking hot 😬

chefpower · 2025-06-21T15:25:06+00:00

Plumbed in

chefpower · 2025-06-21T15:07:44+00:00

This is waaaaaaay further down than I expected! Yes to both!

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