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The General Chat Thread

Faith

We've built up a nice little community here, so I think it's no harm to start a chat thread. Use it for whatever you like - cooking and recipe related questions, or just to chat!

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Faith

Loire wrote: »

As much as I'm beginning to love food and understand it a bit more, I don't think I would ever do it professionally - it would become a chore. Knowing how hard it is to feed my family day in, day out, mucho respect for feeding the masses, especially when they are paying for it.

A small little coffee shop when I'm older could be fun, but I would hate to depend on it financially.

Same. People often suggest I should open a bakery or go on baking shows, but I'd hate it. I bake to relax (and cook). I'd hate to be under pressure doing it, and I'm so self critical that it would kill me.

If I had all the money in the world, I'd have a dog sanctuary and petting zoo, and I'd have a tiny cafe as part of it where I'd bake my cakes every morning. But I'd never want to do it on a big scale, or rely on it financially.

The Black Oil

Anyone ever move a rusting oven?

Fixable? As in, rusting around the bottom - internals are fine.

Oven Pride's back in stock, oh such excitement. :pac:

gg2

Ok so I finally got me some shin beef to make a curry!! So now I need a delicious recipe!! Hit me with the good stuff!

The Hill Billy

Vindaloo, maybe?

I would adjust the cooking times & temp though to get the best out of the shin.
Cook on 160C for 90 minutes, then add the spuds & cook for a further 80 mins at the same temp.

the beer revolu

There is a fantastic beef rendang recipe on here somewhere if you search.
Shin is ideal for this.

The Hill Billy

Minder's beef rendang?

IvyTheTerrible

I made a couple of jars of red onion marmalade at the weekend from an Aldi recipe someone posted on this forum, just had some now in a sandwich, it's lovely and flavoursome!

Gloomtastic!

Does anyone else get more excited about cooking a curry than most other meals? Or is it the anticipation of the eating? Either ways I can't bloody wait!

GalwayGuy2

I have never, in all my life, made a nice curry.

The Hill Billy

Check out the different curries in The Cooking Club. Some are quite foolproof if you take your time & follow them step-by-step.

gg2

The Hill Billy wrote: »

Minder's beef rendang?

Thats the one!! I wonder if you could make it without the lemongrass... cus I'm not that keen on it....

The Hill Billy

Sure. Maybe try a squeeze of lime instead for the sourness. If you don't fancy that either - no big deal.

Faith

Jesus lads, I thought we'd never get back to talking about our dinners! I actually had to talk to a boardsie in real life instead

iwantmydinner

Massive batch of cottage pie nearly ready to be portioned up. I r so looking forward to lunch tomorrow!

Hermione*

I'm cooking a big pan of chickpeas, kale, roast sweet spud, chorizo and caramelised red onion, flavoured with ginger, cayenne and lots of black pepper, for lunches.

Animord

Faith wrote: »

Jesus lads, I thought we'd never get back to talking about our dinners! I actually had to talk to a boardsie in real life instead

This.

I nearly had to start tweeting my food instead, and I really don't want to go there.

Dizzyblonde

I'm making brown bread and a big pot of vegetable soup with barley to keep me in lunches for the rest of the week. So far we've bought very little meat and are eating our way through the freezer for January.

the beer revolu

The Hill Billy wrote: »

Minder's beef rendang?

That's the one I had in mind, alright.

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

I have never, in all my life, made a nice curry.

Are you using curry powder? I've never in all my life tasted a nice curry made with curry powder. There are some pretty good pastes available or, even better, get yourself some fresh whole spices and a good recipe.

gg2 wrote: »

Thats the one!! I wonder if you could make it without the lemongrass... cus I'm not that keen on it....

You could make it without but I would urge you to try it with. There is no one feature spice in this recipe. Rather they all blend over long cooking into an overall flavour without any one spice standing out. It's such a good curry.

Animord

Is there a cheapie / budget cookery thread anywhere that I can't find - I can see the sticky but the links are all to old threads?

Anyway, the BBC just sent me this - Budget cooking and I thought it might be good inspiration for people for January.

IvyTheTerrible

Animord wrote: »

Is there a cheapie / budget cookery thread anywhere that I can't find - I can see the sticky but the links are all to old threads?

Anyway, the BBC just sent me this - Budget cooking and I thought it might be good inspiration for people for January.

I like the blog "A Girl Called Jack", she's a single mum who started a blog to show how to eat well on a limited income. There's some great recipes on there.

Loire

Anyone get those days where you just couldn't be bothered cooking?

Today is the day. Don't know what it is and I know I'll be rearing to go tomorrow. Perhaps it's that I haven't drank much since Xmas (easy fix

.

Anyway, I was inches away from buying a microwave meal in Tesco this evening (they have a hoisin duck that's amazing to be honest, and the healthiest list of ingredients I've even seen). Anyway I persevered. I'm making chicken & muchroom pie from the bbcgoodfood website. Hope it turns out ok.

EDIT: just looked out the window....full moon, that'll do me for an excuse!

Animord

Loire wrote: »

Anyone get those days where you just couldn't be bothered cooking?

Today is the day. Don't know what it is and I know I'll be rearing to go tomorrow. Perhaps it's that I haven't drank much since Xmas (easy fix .

Anyway, I was inches away from buying a microwave meal in Tesco this evening (they have a hoisin duck that's amazing to be honest, and the healthiest list of ingredients I've even seen). Anyway I persevered. I'm making chicken & muchroom pie from the bbcgoodfood website. Hope it turns out ok.

Well aren't you the good fella?

I felt exactly like that and I bought a burger and made chips. Chips out of a packet and the burger was from Supervalu.

And this is how I feel about it. :P

Loire

Animord wrote: »

Well aren't you the good fella?

I felt exactly like that and I bought a burger and made chips. Chips out of a packet and the burger was from Supervalu.

And this is how I feel about it. :P

Thanks! That's just what I need. (Gonna open a nice beer too though just to be sure!)

Dizzyblonde

Loire wrote: »

Anyone get those days where you just couldn't be bothered cooking?
Today is the day.

Strangely enough it often happens to me on a Wednesday and I'll want a takeaway. I resisted tonight and made chicken curry with rice - and some oven chips just for a bit of excitement!

Loire

Mrs Loire just came in a gave me a big hug..all happy now

iwantmydinner

Well Wednesday is the toughest day of the week for me, I had cottage pie to heat up though. It's so good.... Of course I also have what's left of the bottle of cab sauv from the making of the cottage pie

Mrs Fox

Loire wrote: »

Anyone get those days where you just couldn't be bothered cooking?

Yeah, it's called Saturday night takeaway/eat out in this house.

Animord

I have changed my mind. I bitterly regret having eaten that burger. How much salt do they put in those things?

I have drunk the best part of a litre of water since dinner and we all know what that means... if anyone wants to chat at midnight, three am and again at six-ish, feel free, I will be up. :mad:

Faith

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Strangely enough it often happens to me on a Wednesday and I'll want a takeaway. I resisted tonight and made chicken curry with rice - and some oven chips just for a bit of excitement!

We've had the same meals today

. I made a thai red curry with chicken thighs, cooked low and slow. Served with rice, but sadly no oven chips.

MissFlitworth

Loire - I'm having frozen Lidl Bami Goreng right now laced with jalapenos, feta and, em, jalapeno brine (I'm gross). Everything was just too much hassle tonight.