General Chat

I like something a bit different now and then but for most of the time I do fairly traditional British. Today's was brisket of beef which I wanted to slowly pot roast in a nice gravy. At home I throw in any old stock I've got in the freezer, a slurp of red wine if there's any already open and so on.

I did eventually find a tiny bit of cornflour at the bottom of a packet, a rather damp looking Knorr stock cube and a small jar of Bovril that looked as though it had been there long enough to grow roots. So I mixed a bit of this and a spoonful of that with some water, put the piece of beef on a bed of carrots and leeks, poured this mix over the lot and said a quick prayer. We've just eaten it, the meat was tender and the gravy surprisingly tasty :-D

If I don't plain cook OH won't eat :-D :-D :-D :-D. He does not like quote Foreign stuff unquote

Do you put nutmeg on top Sharron and form a skin...if so,can I Come and scrape the dish after you've served all the portions? :-D

People act as if I am talking about cocaine when I say I am making a rice pudding because , apparently, that is not 'healthy eating' because they put a bit of butter or some condensed milk or something in theirs.

My rice pudding, cup of rice, 3pts of milk, bit of butter, some sugar or sweetener(from Aldi), mucho vanilla and some cream if there is some in the fridge, costs about £1 I think, and does a good eight to twelve portions.

The same people will buy a little pot of Muller rice because it is 'lite' and pay more than ten bob for it. I think it is 'lite' because they use semi-skimmed milk, the same as I do.

Wetherspoons have stopped doing a roast on Sunday too. I want old fart food like that. I don't want burritos and wraps.

When I go to Australia I have to take Bi*to gravy granules as they don't like the equivalent ones there.
I said that I always made the most delicious gravy with meat juices vegetable water ,flour,or cornflour,and gravy browning....think they have to have it easier than that now.
Can't always get gravy browning these days... :-0

I certainly don't think they make gravy anymore Vera.

Recently I went to buy some gravy browning and the shop assistant didn't know what I was talking about :-0 :-0 :-0

I am staying at son's house with granddaughter while he is away. Son and his partner are excellent cooks and have a kitchen full of every possible exotic spice and sauce, lots of different oils etc, but can I find a bit of flour to thicken some gravy? Can I heck! Grrrr..... :-|