Can I have advice too.
1. How do you know if it's infatuation or love.

2. How can I get my hair to grow faster.

3. I have some mackerel fillets in my freezer and I have no idea what to do with them. Any recipes.
( girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:02, 21 replies)

Right...
1) You wait, and see if it lasts.

2) Tie weights onto it, and hang upside-down.

3) Don't eat them, fish is horrible. Use them to lure cats, then eat the cats.
( Cawl, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:08, closed)

3

cook potatoes and mash and cool
boil the mackerel in milk until it's all falling apart
drain off milk and mash fish into the potato (throw milk away)
add lemon zest, lemon juice, chillies, spring onions and capers
(try and keep it fairly dry to stop it falling apart later)
make into fishcakes
fry in sunflower oil or bake in oven
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:08, closed)

Thanks MM.
I never thought of fishcakes. Yay! guess what I'm having for dinner on Saturday.
( girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:10, closed)

hmmm
1. if you want to be with them and think of them constantly, if your heart aches with longing whenever you're apart, if you'd die to protect them, then it's love. if you fancy them rotten and want to shag them senseless, it's infatuation.
2. get a trim every 6 weeks and a scalp massage to stimulate blood flow once a week. probably won't work, but neither will anything else.
3. throw them out and go to the chippy.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:11, closed)

Much obliged BGB
Let me know if you have any other freezer related trauma.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:13, closed)

ah
1. You just know.

2. You can't. Get extensions.

3. Defrost them. Throw them away. Eat cake.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 19:55, closed)

I think I like HLT's recipie for the mackerel the best so far
As for the other 2 questions:
1. Don't ask me, I've been divorced twice.
2. I have short hair, sorry. But my kids are trying to grow theirs long. We just trim every few months and use really good shampoo/conditioner. I do a scalp massage on them every few days. So far so good, but their hair probably hasn't grown any faster for the effort. Go for the extensions....or a nice wig.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:00, closed)

Mackarel
make great catfish bait.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:07, closed)

Hmmm
1. Love takes time to grow and doesn't go away. Infatuation hits you hard, blinds you to all faults and then disappears once they fart or pick their nose in front of you.

2. Forget about it - always seems to work for me.

3. Chop up some garlic, herbs (any you like), dried chillies, salt and pepper and lemon juice, put it on the mackerel, barbecue it.
It's a Jamie Oliver recipe and I can recommend it - every time I've done it people are impressed...but maybe that's because I've subsequently got drunk and showed my knickers.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:32, closed)

I might try that recipe...
but without the knicker showing.
( girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:34, closed)

I think the knickers add a certain
je ne sais quoi.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:36, closed)

@chickenlady
I dunno, I think we'll need some photographic evidence to go with that statement.

*hopes*
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:38, closed)

@ TRL
Ha!

I'm not falling for that old once again!

I fell for that ages ago...and linked a pic to me in my knickers from my blog...you wouldn't believe the amount of traffic that created...and the amount of offers I got from lurkers.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:41, closed)

@Chickenlady
I'll be on my own so it's mackerel sans knickers.
( girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:42, closed)

Meh
1. Love hurts more. Not in a smutty way I mean.

2. Eat the crusts from your bread... or is that supposed to make it go curly?

3. Get mackerel fillets, wrap them in foil after marinading them with lime, lemon, and orange juice, put garlic, chili and pulp of lime lemon and orange in with the fillets. Add dash of salt and pepper. Wrap em up. Bake.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 20:52, closed)

...
1) If it's infatuation, you'll swallow.

2) Stimulate the scalp.

3) Mackerel, cold, with hot mashed potatoes. Mmmm.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 21:18, closed)

^^
Any recipe with mashed potatoes is a winner in my book.

It's love then : )
( girlinthehole, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 21:19, closed)

1
If you admire them from a distance and have a crush, it's usually just infatuation. If you're spent some time together and got to know eachother and you suspect or know the other person is (I say 'is', and not 'would be if they knew you better') feeling the same way, it may be love.

But there's no barrier between infatuation and love - it all seems to be in the mind. A friend of mine once fell deeply in love with a girl who felt the same way about him. Five years later, they got married, and then five years after that, they divorced. So would that mean that love is just mutual infatuation? The only conclusion I can give is enjoy what you have.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 25 Jun 2008, 22:14, closed)

.
If you have to ask then it's not love.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 25 Jun 2008, 22:27, closed)

2
Wear a hat more often! It'll protect your hair from all the rain/sun/air pollution/wind and general crap that batters it daily. Ok, you will get hat-head, but make sure it's a nice one you could happily wear without feeling like an utter tit who's got lost on the way to the wedding.

Meh, and it can be love, but that won't always be enough to keep you together...
( Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 0:33, closed)

A quick recipe for you
1 can butter beans
2 rashers smoked streaky bacon
tablespoon good mayo
desert spoon creamed horseradish

place the raw fillets skin side down on a lightly buttered baking tray. Mix the mayo and horseradish with a teaspoon of lemon juice and spread over the top of the fillets. Sprinkle with a light dusting of paprika.

Cook under a roaring hot grill until the topping starts to brown and bubble (about 3 mins)

Cut bacon into chunks and fry. when browned and crisp, add butterbeans and heat through. Season with salt and pepper and a small twist of lemon.

Server the fish on top of a mound of butterbeans.

Garnish with a little chopped chive or dill

A perfect light supper, 5 mins to prepare, 5 mins to cook.

Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc are the best wines to go with oily fish.
( RadG Drinking Mojitos in the sun, Thu 26 Jun 2008, 11:33, closed)