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over a year ago
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I'm a from scratch kind of cook, but sometimes its quick and convenient to open a packet or jar and use it as a base for meals.
For example, modify a jar of salsa by chopping coriander and fresh tomatoes through it, or adding extra basil or peppers to a pasta sauce. xx |
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Real cooking is from scratch but I can't abide culinary snobs.
There are some fantastic aids out there, such as curry pastes ( not sauces)
I go for chopped onions now though I don't like the way they taste acidic if not used on the day of purchase.
I go for prepared veg ( NEVER cooked )
Meat has to be cooked at home. Cooked meats bought in are never the same and so many flavours lost.
In some cases produce like tinned toms, grapefruit, pears and sweetcorn are better in recipes than fresh.
Like Jane. I buy and cook according to everything else that is being juggled but warming a ready meal isn't cooking..... mind you some effort goes in to planning a healthy ready meal .... from carbs , proteins n veg ...plus a carefully chosen pud.... |
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Kate said she was bored the other night so went in the kitchen for an hour or so. She made a batch of meat balls, which we had tonight with mix of homemade sauce and Ragu sauce. She prepared a load of salad leaves, tomatoes, spring onions, red onions, etc and put in sealed tubs in the fridge. Today she made me a lovely chicken salad, with left overs from sunday lunch and preprepared salad, touch of mustard and honey dressing, and jobs a goodun  |
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"I'm going to granny and laines for tea then"
And welcome, my son's the chef...I taught him from young to forage and feed himself... He often goes to a friends, the guys get together for a drink a game of cards or a match on telly, and he cooks all of them a big roast dinner.  |
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i made a very large chille yesterday.. going to last me days..
cheat though.. use swartz mix tinned tomatoes beans and tomato soup bit of salt n pepper chille powder got enough to eat for a week... ill have to freeze some... |
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over a year ago
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Probably a 70/30 split as ive never learnt to cook and never really got into it, just not confident enough. Thats not to say i live on microwave meals as i dont, in fact rarely buy them, i just buy, for example a ready made pie as opposed to making it from scratch |
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"my daughter is doing a catering course...she brought home a lovely bread and butter pudding today  "
omg my gran used to make that for me when i went to visit her, covered in thick homemade sweet custard mmmmmm lovely |
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"my daughter is doing a catering course...she brought home a lovely bread and butter pudding today "
i tried making bread n butter pudding.. it was shite lol...
dont know where i went wrong.. grrrrr |
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im a bung it all together kinda girl..
other day i had some diced beef, frozen peas, freshly sliced carrot, onion, and i diced up half a se and carrot (so fresh ingredients) but then added a Colemans casserole mix to it and left it in the oven cooking for 3 hours.. at the 2 n half hour mark i then added some dumplings (packet mix and add water job) to it
Still count as cooking? |
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"im a bung it all together kinda girl..
other day i had some diced beef, frozen peas, freshly sliced carrot, onion, and i diced up half a se and carrot (so fresh ingredients) but then added a Colemans casserole mix to it and left it in the oven cooking for 3 hours.. at the 2 n half hour mark i then added some dumplings (packet mix and add water job) to it
Still count as cooking? "
Yep! does in my book, and if you and your wee one are eating meals like that, pat yourself on the back for managing to find time to make it.
Frozen or fresh veg, still getting your portion of 5 a day. xxx |
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From scratch most of the time, however, I do use ready-made chilli pastes, as life is too short to grind up the chillis, herbs and spices! 
From time to time, I may open a tin of something, usually soup, like Campbell's (now re-branded as Bachelor's) condensed Chicken soup, which is one of my favourite comfort foods when I jazz it up with chilli oil and chopped spring onions!
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Yep! does in my book, and if you and your wee one are eating meals like that, pat yourself on the back for managing to find time to make it.
Frozen or fresh veg, still getting your portion of 5 a day. xxx"
Awww thanks laine! I often make chunky soups/ casseroles/ stews.. i love veg (shame i also like carbs too or id have a body like yours lol) but its easy prep and we both eat it together..
wanna be a propper mummy and 'cook' sounds daft but jar food tastes like crap  |
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"From time to time, I may open a tin of something, usually soup, like Campbell's (now re-branded as Bachelor's) condensed Chicken soup, which is one of my favourite comfort foods when I jazz it up with chilli oil and chopped spring onions!
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I didnt know they were re branded! learn something new everyday! |
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I seldom cook during weekdays, and bulk cook during weekends instead.
I would portion the bulk into separate containers and freeze them until required.
Just need to cook and add some starch like pasta, rice, potato etc., and some veg, and I'll have a main meal at lunch time at work.
In the evenings, I snack from the fridge/ladder etc... |
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Yep! does in my book, and if you and your wee one are eating meals like that, pat yourself on the back for managing to find time to make it.
Frozen or fresh veg, still getting your portion of 5 a day. xxx
Awww thanks laine! I often make chunky soups/ casseroles/ stews.. i love veg (shame i also like carbs too or id have a body like yours lol) but its easy prep and we both eat it together..
wanna be a propper mummy and 'cook' sounds daft but jar food tastes like crap "
I like my carbs too, my body is like this because I inherited the racing snake gene from my mother, no effort needed by me to maintain it...... I stuff my face then lace on a corset...guaranteed to make every woman look voluptuous, big or small.
Get yourself laced in one, mind you'd need a reinforced bit on the bust. xx |
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From scratch but there are some things I can make, but would never go to the trouble as its cheaper and less time consuming to buy the ready made ie puff pastry and curry pastes.
Jamies meals in thirty minutes is a great concept but I think a lot of people who have been out of the house working all day can face the cooking but not all of the clearing up afterwards. He uses dozens of pans - which most of us cooks tend to do. I'll cook all day and every day as long as someone volunteers to clear up after me. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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I always do it from scratch..
pick up my own menu from the drawer..
dial the number all by myself..
awaits answer..
'home delivery please... chicken curry and boiled rice thanks''...
waits 20 mins and answers door..
fuck its tiring work that cooking malarky.
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Get yourself laced in one, mind you'd need a reinforced bit on the bust. xx "
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Make that a corset with steel bones.
For the volumptous laides, plastic bones are likely to bend where stressed, whereas steel bones don't bend.
It does take a bit of time to get used to wearing steel boned corsets due to their stiffness. However, the result is well worth the pain IMHO!
They give me an instant shape of at least 4in waist reduction. More if one is "squigy".
I have been advised to lace up not so tightly at least 30min beforehand to allow the body to adjust itself. This way, one can tighten a bit more than without the conditioning phase.
Corsets UK has some decent ones at good price, and they have a 3 for 2 offer. |
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cant afford ready meals with 3 kids of my own to feed and 2 others I cook for 5 nights a week.
I tend to cook in bulk though. massive pot of bolognaise sauce and freeze in bags, curry's and other stuff. My slow cooker gets lots of use. have recent taken to baking a fair bit too.
I'm enjoying it but the wasteline objects a bit |
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One of the great joys of cooking is bargain hunting in the supermarkets.
I have learnt when my main supermarket marks down the food, and am a regular visitor near closing time.
Some of the staff know me by name, and they look after me well! |
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"I always do it from scratch..
pick up my own menu from the drawer..
dial the number all by myself..
awaits answer..
'home delivery please... chicken curry and boiled rice thanks''...
waits 20 mins and answers door..
fuck its tiring work that cooking malarky.
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ahem....homemade mushroom soup? |
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"ahem....homemade mushroom soup?"
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Nah, New Covent Garden's Wild Mushroom Soup is great, just add a dash of double cream and/or sherry, and one can pass it as homemade!  |
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"cant afford ready meals with 3 kids of my own to feed and 2 others I cook for 5 nights a week.
I tend to cook in bulk though. massive pot of bolognaise sauce and freeze in bags, curry's and other stuff. My slow cooker gets lots of use. have recent taken to baking a fair bit too.
I'm enjoying it but the wasteline objects a bit"
love my slow cooker but...if I could recommend any kitchen addition it would be a halogen oven that stands on the wokrtop. Mines on at least twice a day. It uses a third of the fuel of a full size oven and its not one of those gadgets you buy and shove into a cupboard when the novelty wears off. Its like a huge glass bowl with a lid you can cook anything in it that a conventional oven does. Excellent for cooking for one excellent for cooking for a family.
One of the hairiest things for timing and speed is a cooking a full english - I put the sausage bacon and black pudding in the halogen it needs no attention while you cook eggs and mushrooms on cooker. It even makes toasties! |
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"ahem....homemade mushroom soup?
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Nah, New Covent Garden's Wild Mushroom Soup is great, just add a dash of double cream and/or sherry, and one can pass it as homemade! "
Ask View for his recipe. |
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ok heres a random one,, i make this thick stodge,, but not sure if its a soup or stew
Lentils, Carrots, Se, Potato, Leek, Onion and a Vegetable jelly stock thinggy... and leave it cooking til its a mush. Sometimes i'll add neck of Lamb for flavour if i find some whilst out shopping
Soup or Stew? |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"ahem....homemade mushroom soup?
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Nah, New Covent Garden's Wild Mushroom Soup is great, just add a dash of double cream and/or sherry, and one can pass it as homemade!
Ask View for his recipe. "
yup............ I is ok at making that.
love mushroom soup x |
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"ok heres a random one,, i make this thick stodge,, but not sure if its a soup or stew
Lentils, Carrots, Se, Potato, Leek, Onion and a Vegetable jelly stock thinggy... and leave it cooking til its a mush. Sometimes i'll add neck of Lamb for flavour if i find some whilst out shopping
Soup or Stew?"
If you can eat it with a fork it's stew...you need a spoon it's soup lol xx |
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"has to be all from scratch, that way you don't get any crap in your food.
Good job I love to cook, and will turn my hand to most things. (Cooking wise)"
im starting to learn (very slowly) cos theres loads of salt in baby foods,, and dont want my lil one to have all the aditives |
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"ok heres a random one,, i make this thick stodge,, but not sure if its a soup or stew
Lentils, Carrots, Se, Potato, Leek, Onion and a Vegetable jelly stock thinggy... and leave it cooking til its a mush. Sometimes i'll add neck of Lamb for flavour if i find some whilst out shopping
Soup or Stew?
If you can eat it with a fork it's stew...you need a spoon it's soup lol xx"
its well stodgey, proper cold weather comfort food. Fork all the way! nom nom |
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"has to be all from scratch, that way you don't get any crap in your food.
Good job I love to cook, and will turn my hand to most things. (Cooking wise)
im starting to learn (very slowly) cos theres loads of salt in baby foods,, and dont want my lil one to have all the aditives"
liquidize a portion of what you have for diner, as long as it's not too spicey. |
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"what is cooking to you?
is it everything from scratch? or are packet & jar mixes acceptable??
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Herbs and spices are acceptable but mostly everything from scratch |
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"Stu......scones!
No1 son made a treacle tart from scratch yesterday.......I think I've eaten half of it already. "
making up a batch of scones this coming weekend.....and some shortbread...met a chef here who suggested making shorbread with semolina as well as flour....am gonna be soooo fat  |
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It depends.. I can cook properly, ie from scratch.. even have my own fruit and veg in garden and greenhouse..
but busy house, 3 small kids, sometimes a few big ones here too.. and I will have jars in.. I tend to mostly for the kids do things like Mash and chicken and veg.. or cottage pie..
Kids and I do love baking though, and I make a fantastic veg soup.. and my stew I get people asking me to pop a bowl down. lol
Katie. x |
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"i love cooking somthing my mum taught me to do, and im a bloke lol"
same here, mu moum was a fabtastic cook and passed on all her knowledge to me
i usually cook from scratch every meal, although if rushed i will use a packet mix or sauce jar but then add my own touches
Someone (cnat see who am afraid) mentioned Dumplings for stew from a packet, the question has to be why?
Just get a packet of suet (Atora) add plain flour, mix with water, the results are a lot better, than the packet mix which has selfraising flour, and baking powder to make them rise, and not much more difficult to make |
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Just get a packet of suet (Atora) add plain flour, mix with water, the results are a lot better, than the packet mix which has selfraising flour, and baking powder to make them rise, and not much more difficult to make"
because its about 19p for a packet and just add water.. Sometimes things are done to make the modern housewifes life easier.. and that is one of them.
Katie.x |
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Just get a packet of suet (Atora) add plain flour, mix with water, the results are a lot better, than the packet mix which has selfraising flour, and baking powder to make them rise, and not much more difficult to make
because its about 19p for a packet and just add water.. Sometimes things are done to make the modern housewifes life easier.. and that is one of them.
Katie.x"
thast very true |
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We both love cooking for each other and friends...its a great way to share life, laughter and smiles...and the creativity is something we both enjoy....
We`ll cook from scratch..but tins n stuff are there, fer those times when lifes manic and busy...
I did mousakka yesterday ....liver n bacon today ...Shaz cooks for a living, so it`ll be nice for her to come home to a cuppa and put her feet up...then when shes settled, share a meal together....
Simple pleasures really ... |
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"i love cooking somthing my mum taught me to do, and im a bloke lol
same here, mu moum was a fabtastic cook and passed on all her knowledge to me
i usually cook from scratch every meal, although if rushed i will use a packet mix or sauce jar but then add my own touches
Someone (cnat see who am afraid) mentioned Dumplings for stew from a packet, the question has to be why?
Just get a packet of suet (Atora) add plain flour, mix with water, the results are a lot better, than the packet mix which has selfraising flour, and baking powder to make them rise, and not much more difficult to make"
aye, that was me who cheated. Its cos it takes about 30seconds to do, and with a one year old running riot in my house and screaming cos ive locked her out the kitchen (gotta love the childgate) id rather be in and back out in a very quick time |
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"Stu......scones!
No1 son made a treacle tart from scratch yesterday.......I think I've eaten half of it already.
making up a batch of scones this coming weekend.....and some shortbread...met a chef here who suggested making shorbread with semolina as well as flour....am gonna be soooo fat "
I use semolina quite alot.
After par boiling my spuds for roasters, i shake um and then toss in semolina.
Makes them extra crunchy
I also use half and half as in shortbread. gorgeous.
Also for dusting things and grilling.
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"i love cooking somthing my mum taught me to do, and im a bloke lol
same here, mu moum was a fabtastic cook and passed on all her knowledge to me
i usually cook from scratch every meal, although if rushed i will use a packet mix or sauce jar but then add my own touches
Someone (cnat see who am afraid) mentioned Dumplings for stew from a packet, the question has to be why?
Just get a packet of suet (Atora) add plain flour, mix with water, the results are a lot better, than the packet mix which has selfraising flour, and baking powder to make them rise, and not much more difficult to make
aye, that was me who cheated. Its cos it takes about 30seconds to do, and with a one year old running riot in my house and screaming cos ive locked her out the kitchen (gotta love the childgate) id rather be in and back out in a very quick time "
was not having a go, more a suggestion, it takes about 20 seconds longer to make
dont have kids but grew up looking after my littkle sis, then looking after her kids when needed aswell so now how hard it can be with a kid around when trying to cook |
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