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There's a similar looking egg in the cookbook 400 Best Ever Budget Recipes, though they keep the yolks a little less set.

Place eggs in a pan and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil and cook for four minutes. Remove, then drain and rinse in cold water. Shell and set aside.

Fill a wok one-third full of oil and heat to 180 C/350 F (or until a cube of bread dipped into the oil browns in fifteen seconds).

Using a slotted spoon, lower the eggs, one at a time, into the hot oil. Deep fry 2-3 minutes, or until lightly golden. Remove and drain on paper towels.

The link to the fennel and kale bowl doesn't go to that website, but directs back to this page.

Be aware that the phrase "gypsy brewing" may be offensive to Romani peoples.

Crockpot + freezer. Dump a load of things into the crockpot in the morning, then in the evening throw together a salad to go with it (and/or a quick grain dish or bread), and there's dinner.

Figure out what dishes work for you, and can be thrown together quickly. I find that getting out and measuring as many of the ingredients as I can before cooking helps speed me along.

It's not with lentils, but I do a vegetarian version with roasted butternut squash, braised kale, and the usual mash on top.

Heavy spice in dishes helped preserve them and covered up the taste of rotting food prior to refrigeration, which is why they're especially common in hot countries. It wasn't a trick for keeping cool.

This isn't really a decluttering idea, because then when you need to use it as a drink tub you've got to find somewhere to put all the things you've been storing in it. Plus, unless you would otherwise throw them away, using them for things in your home (which you probably already own and have some sort of place already) isn't any more green than storing them in a closet.

The real trick is to convince your children that the best thing ever is to be trusted with ironing. My mom did that and I spent a good chunk of my childhood asking to iron the napkins and tablecloths.

I still love to iron, though that's more about it being a great release for those of us with OCD tendencies.

I use mine all the time, especially since I have severe chronic pain in my hands and can't use a hand mixer at all.

I have the larger size, which I think is really worth getting if you're going for it. I've used the smaller size and it always ends up annoying me.

Seriously though, most people won't use it enough to justify the purchase. My sister uses hers for making whipped cream every few months. She's had room for it on her counter in every place they've lived but I've seen her more than once leave it sitting and pull out a hand mixer to make cake batter (this was INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING since she'd had hers for a few years before I got mine).

Putting water in the bottom makes it a huge battle to create decent gravy.