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By The Dinner Service: I've just made... (1 Reply)
Saturday 06 September 22:57
a huge white loaf. It looks amazing and gorgeous. Going to have it for breaksfast with Morrisons Brittany Butter with Sea Salt Crystals. Feeling very proud. My sister came for dinner and I told her I'd done her favourite pudding. "Great" she said, "Apple Crumble". It was a New York Vanilla Baked Cheesecake with Poppy Seeds.
Fortunately that was gorgeous too. Feeling happy again.
DS XX

By Liz from Cumbria: Is anyone else suffering February "blahs" in September? (3 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 19:53
I'm sick to death of rain, rain and more rain. I've cooked up a storm (including baking) but I'm fed up of thinking what can I do for a change. OH is getting on my wick (not his fault really - I know it's me being irritable).
If it's still raining tomorrow, I think I'm going to go and jump in the biggest puddle I can find (and I don't have any wellies) and splash the whole world!
Tell me I'm not alone!

By Elpe: Gü jars (6 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 18:06
If you buy those little desserts, do you just throw the empty jars in the recycling box or have you found uses for them? I currently have several in the freezer with small amounts of herbs from the garden and two are in the fridge with left overs. I also find I use them to pop prepared shallots in till I'm ready to cook them as the plastic top keeps the smell contained. And they're useful for cracking eggs into. I'd welcome any other ideas. x x

By The Dinner Service: Sorry Gravy Queen (14 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 16:03
Sorry abut my inane ramblings. Most days this is the nearest thing I get to a conversation with the outside world. Bit choked up about your comment. Sorry to everyone else too. Didn't realise I was quite that boring. Feel great now. :-(
DS X

Part-time courses? (7 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 16:00

I`ve scoured our local tech brochure for something interesting like pasta making, bread making etc, and there`s nothing! I paid for a a12 week course in papercraft only to be told yesterday that as only 4 people had shown interest they probably wouldn`t be running it!

Back to the drawing board. Anyone doing anything exciting this term?

By Dolly: Cookery book win... (6 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 13:45
I entered a comp sometime ago and yesterday received Phil Vickerys "A Passion for Puddings" cook book as the prize....lovely surprise....
Dolly
:0)

By Anna.

sour dough bread (1 Reply)
Saturday 06 September 12:53

I have just recieved an email from Dan lepard who is hosting a workshop in London on how to make sour dough bread. I have put a link to the website below in case anyone is interested.
Anna

http://www.cookeryschool.co.uk/workshops_2.html

By The Dinner Service: Do you call it tea or dinner?..... (24 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 10:21
I fluctuate between the two which confuses my boy no end. I tend to think of it as tea if we eat quite early - 6 or before and dinner if it's later, but no hard and fast rule. I'm very inconsistent about it. The REAL poshies I have cooked for call it supper which no doubt some of you do as I'm sure you are far more sophisticated than me (or should that be "I"?) My boy insists that can't be right either as supper is something like a glass of milk and a biscuit at bedtime. I don't care what it's called as long as it tastes good!
DS XX

By The Dinner Service: I'd never cooked Bulghur Wheat before... (4 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 10:15
I've only ever soaked it in cold water for use in Tabbouleh which I'm not a big fan of as the wheat is just too chewy. Last night realised I'd run out of couscous so ended up cooking bulghur wheat and it was really delicious. Needs plenty of seasoning, oil, herbs or whatever but it was so nice with my Flash Fried Moroccan Chicken which was gorgeous, easy peasy and quick. All in all a really nice tea.
DS XX

By Jo Hill, Editor: Win a year's free shopping from Tesco! (6 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 08:32
Have you seen our latest competition - well worth entering in these cash-pressed times I think! You do have to register to get entries but it's not one of those where you then get loads of spam mail as a result.

By Jo Hill, Editor

Food and wine workshops at NCFC (2 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 08:31

Have heard that these are now to be called Food and Wine Workshops with Alex Mackay. Delia will no longer be in attendance at them, and the cocktail man won't be there either, but I've been told that Alex will be doing a Ready, Steady Cook! type demo too:

Alex is going to do a brand new bonus demo whereby he will draw on his experience from Ready Steady Cook and make a dish or two from a surprise bag of ingredients. Audience members will be invited to come up with a dish and then one person will be chosen to cook with Alex.

Thought you'd be interested to know about this!

By Yummy: Off on my Jollies (5 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 07:01
See you all next week. Bon Appetit , Yummy :0)))

By Liz from Cumbria: Delia's Chocolate Beer Cake - the verdict....
Friday 05 September 20:11
It's absolutely stupendous! Not a "sweet" cake, which suits me down to the ground but rich and satisfying and very definitely moreish. OH says I haven't got to make it too often because he'll end up like a blimp. I actually took a photo so will send to DQ to put onto the gallery. Have to admit that my photographic skills are not brilliant, but ...
I would definitely recommend this but if you prefer a sweeter cake, it maybe wouldn't be for you.

By The Dinner Service: Spent nearly all day... (3 Replies)
Friday 05 September 19:18
springcleaning my "bible"- typing up new recipes to go in; getting rid of a few I've gone off; printing them all out from scratch; filing them; wiping all the pages. Been putting it off for months. Now for the shopping list.......

By Sam, worthing west sussex, uk: softie southern sasonac!!! (10 Replies)
Friday 05 September 17:57
have had to relent and put the heating on!!!

By Country Girl at Heart

What can I do with him! (4 Replies)
Friday 05 September 17:36

We have a tree bursting with lovely Worcester eating apples, more that we can manage so I don't mind the blackbirds having their share, but my husband has just gone out and BOUGHT some Braeburn apples from Tesco's because he prefers them. Honestly! Am I over-reacting here, or would you feel frustrated too?
Country Girl at Heart

PS, he says he will eat them in an apple crumble or pie, so guess what we will be having this weekend!

By relaxed cook: courgettes (5 Replies)
Friday 05 September 16:47
Sorry this should probably be in recipes but just a quick one - know a lot of you at this time of year have a glut of courgettes and at the weekend my pal made this delicious and dead easy side dish: She took enough courgettes for six of us, sliced them as normal and layered into a little baking dish. She then poured over 2 eggs beaten with a small pot of single cream with S&P and then topped with grated parmesan - baked for about 30 minutes. Really lovely and much easier/lighter than a white or cheese sauce. I would think you could add breadcrumbs to the parmesan to great effect also.

By relaxed cook: cooking this weekend? (10 Replies)
Friday 05 September 16:16
Anything exciting planned? We caught a big grey mullet last weekend which is in the freezer - have never eaten or cooked it before but apparently a bit muddy in taste. Thought would start some rosemary roast potatoes, add some chopped red onion, black olives, sundried tomato and fresh tomato after 30 minutes, then 15 minutes after that stick the fish on top for 20 mins, all with lots of olive oild and garlic.

By choccygill: Does anyone else get excited? (19 Replies)
Friday 05 September 13:28
I have just made a bananna and toffee loaf,it is cooling as i write,it smells divine might have to try a warm slice.Am I a twit as I always get excited when I try a new recipie!
Choccy X

By Lainey307: Things that go missing....via 4 paws (16 Replies)
Friday 05 September 13:27
Afternoon all. Picking up on crumbs thread on FF's Old Favourites Re-visited I have 4 cats that are all little fiends if they think we are not looking.....one loves anything with cheese, one is mad for homebaked bread, one mad for hob nob biscuts and one pines for chilli....! I also have a friend whose cat loved water chestnuts and liking yoghurt pots tops. Any more fiendly 4 pawed stories?

By nanny ogg: Hello janjam (12 Replies)
Friday 05 September 12:55
"Dymuniadau gorau gobeithio eich bod yn teimlon well"
xxxxxxxxxxxx

By Mr Cod

Hi (9 Replies)
Friday 05 September 12:20

Its been a while since I have been on here so, hello again!
I must say that im now an expert at making an Achar Gosht Curry, the worlds finest spicy dish :-)

Mr Cod xx

By Fondant fancy: Old favourites re-visited (14 Replies)
Friday 05 September 09:56
Looking though my freezer yesterday for inspiration for last night's supper, I found some sausage meat tucked away. I had quite a lot of eggs, so I made Scotch eggs which I hadn't made for ages. That got me thinking of other old favourites so then I made a Bakewell tart.
I love trying new things but sometimes you forget how good the old ones are too.
What haven't you made for ages?
M

By YELLOWTOES: new orleans beignets (5 Replies)
Thursday 04 September 23:55
for all you englishmen and ladies who haven't been to new orleans to eat i just posted my receipe for french
market beignets hope you;'ll try them do u know at one
time back in 1700's their were no women in the town and
the french sent a boat of nuns there? ur history today yt