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Posted: March 19th, 2008, 16:51
by Lateralus
HereComesPete wrote:
Even better still, the load of veg at the end of the day, that and a bit of meat in a pan for a bit, put a sauce from a jar or sachet on it, enjoy. That's cheating at cooking as far as I'm concerned and it's damn tasty. I'd hate to use the jar of broth that Delia has, it looked wrong, but a jar of curry/chinese sauce/paste makes life easier and doesn't require a lot of time and effort.

This. I know people *ahem*Mrs Lat*ahem* who used to cook from jars of sauce all the time, but pretty much only added meat. Frying off a bit of onion and pepper at least, then the meat then adding the sauce takes a whole extra 3 minutes, including chopping, and makes such "cheating" dishes far nicer and go further too.
Still not seen any of this Delia programme, but I have no intention to since I value my time too much.
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 17:20
by Dog Pants
I pretty much do the jar thing. I'd do what Lat suggests, but I hate peppers and pretty much every fucking jar says to put in peppers. I end up just putting in onions or nothing (well, meat obviously).
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 6:16
by Dr. kitteny berk
Dog Pants wrote:I pretty much do the jar thing. I'd do what Lat suggests, but I hate peppers and pretty much every fucking jar says to put in peppers. I end up just putting in onions or nothing (well, meat obviously).
As a non-foodie, do you think an adventure book cookbook would help you?
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 8:29
by Dog Pants
It's definately an interesting idea. I reckon people would buy blokes that as a present. I'd give it a go.
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 8:34
by Dr. kitteny berk
Dog Pants wrote:It's definately an interesting idea. I reckon people would buy blokes that as a present. I'd give it a go.
hmm.
maybe worth a few of us throwing something together somewhere.
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 8:36
by Dog Pants
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 11:00
by MrGreen
It's a good idea, I'll certainly give a hand where it's nessicary.
(fnar fnar)
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 11:06
by Mr. Johnson
you should call it "Cooking with 5punk" and put it on amazon.
5. Profit!
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 17:25
by HereComesPete
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 17:00
by Dr. kitteny berk
Condensed Rage:
Houmousse is not a word, and sesame is not pronounced ses a amay
She said piquancy again
Egowank again.
Also, it's not a Store cupboard, IT'S A FUCKING PANTRY YOU STUPID FUCKING WHORE.
Hilarious: "this is how scallops should look, oh, this one's under, it shouldn't look like that"
Dried aubergines looking dried and like shite.
More egowank.
FUCKING DRIED RISOTTO!? FUCKING DIE YOU EVIL FUCKING WENCH.
oh, and if parmesan shavings melt on your food, you've been cooking with thermite again
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 17:09
by Lateralus
And still I am not tempted to watch this. I did watch that Kitchen Nightmares episode about that New York restaurant though - that English manager was a prick.
Posted: March 25th, 2008, 18:12
by HereComesPete
Who? Moose?

Posted: April 8th, 2008, 2:55
by Dr. kitteny berk
FUCKING TINNED FRIED ONIONS.
~Methodwank~
Scarily, No real rants for the pie. not keen on bought pastry, but still.
~Egowank~
Jar of roasted peppers

Oh, FFS. tin of sauce. how much effort would it have been to lob 2 tins of tomatoes and some herbs in there?
~Egowank to Eye of the Tiger~
Chilli with a cunting stupid name. Looked basically decent until...
Me wrote:Oh, FFS. tin of sauce. how much effort would it have been to lob 2 tins of tomatoes and some herbs in there?
~Egowank~ (marco is getting skint, but makes a good point, only delia will ignore it)
More pre made pastry (and something that looked really, really bad)
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 15:56
by HereComesPete
feeling lazy so have this
recipe.
notes -
I started with this recipe but I couldn't be arsed with roasting the garlic, use puree or just slice some thinly and put it in the mix.
I leave it marinading a lot longer than one hour generally.
I also put a bit of chilli in the marinade, just because.
The recipe seems to suggest galangal and ginger are easily interchangeable, this is lies. I have both from bart, the jars of goo in sunflower oil, but buying galangal is mostly unnecessary, use ginger, be happy.
London broil isn't even a cut of meat, stupid merkins. It's top round roast and it's fairly lean and tough. I really don't know why it suggests rib eye and then this cut, they're very different and cook completely differently. If you've got the money go for the rib eye. If you want to save a bit then get this cut and beat it up a bit and marinade it longer.
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 16:39
by Roman Totale
I always marinade stuff for about three times longer than the recipe says - it never seems long enough the time they recommend.
Posted: May 9th, 2008, 6:30
by Dr. kitteny berk
Posted: May 9th, 2008, 14:33
by Dr. kitteny berk
Posted: May 20th, 2008, 22:09
by Dr. kitteny berk
I tried
Ramsay's balls today. seemed very decent.
Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 3:22
by Dr. kitteny berk
Just made some
lemon curd, Decent recipe, most tasty in the making, should be good once set.
Healthy too

Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 6:59
by Lateralus
I make lemon curd quite often, it's probably one of the easiest things in the world to make, and better than every one from a jar I've every tried apart from possibly the Duchy Originals stuff. I use an old Delia Smith recipe from her Complete Cookery Course, but I imagine her modern take on the recipe would be *Buy jar* *open jar*.