Dr Gloom

interesting. i've never made a tomato-based sauce with lemon juice before. isn't it super acidic?

The slow transition to we won't be signing anyone, be grateful we haven't sold anyone is now complete fucking joke innit. sad thing is there have been several players made available this window that would have improved our first team. shame we aren't competing at the higher end of the market these days.

adding posh olive oil at the end after you've cooked the sauce is lush. i sue cheap extra virgin olive oil to fry the onions and garlic then a glug of the young posh stuff at the end

Nice one. Glad you enjoyed it. Like I say it's dead easy to modify it to make a different sauce. Well thats your next cookery lesson, to post a few varieties, particularly with cream (bye bye diet). Also when we go to our local Italian they do a dish called chicken Alexandria. This is a chicken breast covered with a delicious creamy curry / spicey sauce containing prawns. If anyone has a recipe for this sort of thing I would get major browny points. Hard to describe it really. Nothing like chinese or indian just a lovely thick creamy curry flavoured spicey source?????? nowt wrong with cream. seriously. too many dieters cut fat. you shouldn't fear it. your body will actually burn fat for fuel quicker than it will burn carbs. better to cut refined carbs (like white bread and pasta) and eat a little butter, cream. plus plenty of good fats like olive oil, raw nuts and seeds.

frog in a blender by the looks of it

have we ever had a tricky winger that hasn't been frustrating?

he's got it all bar the final ball, the crucial bit in other words.

snack on something if you're hungry mate. just make it some natural yoghurt with some fresh fruit or something or some raw nuts and dried druit rather than going for crisps or a mars bar from the vending machine. i always have stuff like that in tupperware boxes in my desk for snacking in between meals. eating often is really important, just make sure it's the right stuff. and keep up the good work

they don't come around too often. you have to enjoy them when they do. i'm chuffed we've got this lad in You've really cheered up the last few months or am I imagining it? despite what most on here would say, i'm really not that much of a doom monger. my username change was really just an attempt to poke fun at those who say all i ever do is whinge. it's easy to be gloomy more about nufc more often than not but you've got to enjoy signing a genuine class player when it happens.

these aren't particularly embarrassing pics lads. raise your games

have a bowl of muesli every day for breakfast and plenty of fresh fruit and veg. if that doesn't help, consult your GP

Owt you recommend? I love a good homemade soup. Pea and basil is a good one I did recently (base of onion/carrot/celery/garlic), veg stock and peas / petit pois (frozen is fine). Season, add torn basil leaves near the end and serve with parmesan and nice bread. Lush. hmmm. you're right, there's nowt like soup this time of year. i like to do a green soup that sounds pretty similar - broccoli, whatever leaves you've got lying around in the fridge, celery, maybe peas, bit of green chili, veg stock then melt in gorgonzola and parmesan at the end and blitz it all up till its smooth. scooping the scum off the top and putting it through a sieve will make it even smoother. lush also roasted butternut squash blitzed up with veg stock and cream until its smooth and velvety with a bit of nutmeg. pure comfort food

i'm off for a session of circuits and boxing with my trainer. i get nervous about these sessions - almost died after the last one. i never push myself quite as stupidly as hard when training alone.

one tip on the seasoning for a tomato sauce is chuck in the salt at the end or it can muller the tomatoes

i haven't got the patience required for baking. it's too much of an exact science with all the precision measurements, scales and fancy schmancy finishing. cooking is more about chucking handfuls of stuff in and tasting until it's right. i enjoy that whole process much more. far less mechanical than baking.

spuds and rosemary are a match made in heaven i like doing wedges roasted in the oven with garlic, salt, rosemary and chili flakes

do you prefer 1.6 meters and strawberry blonde?

the only one i would consider using these days is the lloyd grossman tomato and chili but even then, only when i've got no time to spare - i'd much rather take the 20 minutes needed to make my own. dolmio is student-tastic. not good

SSN reckon Bolton favourites to sign SWP. Shame. Seems bizarre that we're set to miss out again after brum beat us to bentley. two wide players available, both of whom would improve our squad, going to mediocre rivals - arguably smaller clubs that are prepared to pay more than us these days.

i'm loling at all of them on this page. excellent stuff

I doubt it

Jonathan Pierce new anchorman with Digger Barnes main pundit. Nailed on