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Don't people do "plain" cooking anymore?
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SuffolkVera | Report | 8 Mar 2016 17:35 |
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..... :-| |
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Von | Report | 8 Mar 2016 17:55 |
I certainly don't think they make gravy anymore Vera. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 8 Mar 2016 18:02 |
When I go to Australia I have to take Bi*to gravy granules as they don't like the equivalent ones there. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2016 18:09 |
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. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 8 Mar 2016 19:07 |
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 |
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LaGooner | Report | 8 Mar 2016 19:13 |
If I don't plain cook OH won't eat :-D :-D :-D :-D. He does not like quote Foreign stuff unquote |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 8 Mar 2016 19:25 |
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. |
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Denburybob | Report | 8 Mar 2016 19:38 |
Quick and easy chicken pie: Some leftover cooked chicken, diced, put in a pie dish with a tin of Campbell's condensed chicken soup, (don't water it down), Cover with ready made pastry and bake for about 40 minutes. If you wish, put a few button mushrooms in the microwave for a minute or so and add to the mixture before cooking. |
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Sharron | Report | 8 Mar 2016 20:25 |
I grew up until I was six in the fifties with a grandmother who was a brilliant cook. Having been a vege since the seventies, I have spent a lot of time working out how to replicate the dishes I missed. |
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Cynthia | Report | 8 Mar 2016 20:52 |
A woman after my own heart Vera :-D |
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LadyScozz | Report | 8 Mar 2016 22:38 |
My DH loves lamb shanks. |
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Tawny | Report | 8 Mar 2016 22:58 |
People after my own heart. Tonight was chicken with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and New Potatoes. Steak or chicken and mushroom pie, stew and a roast every Sunday. We have to make homemade soups too. Usually chicken, lentil or Scotch broth. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 8 Mar 2016 23:39 |
Yuk every time the Eurostar comes out of the tunnel I get this sinking feeling at the culinary disasters to come ... Thank goodness I live in Holloway. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 9 Mar 2016 00:03 |
We usually have a roast on Saturday for dinner (evening)........quite often a leg of lamb, with rosemary and GARLIC. :-D If I do roast beef, the roast potatoes usually are cooked with a couple of cloves of GARLIC. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 9 Mar 2016 07:13 |
my "little" brother often emails me, asking for recipes "like mum used to make". |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 9 Mar 2016 09:58 |
I count garlic as an everyday ingredient. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 9 Mar 2016 09:59 |
There’s nothing wrong with Plain Cooking – you’re more likely to savour the true flavours of the dish if it’s unadorned with garlic, herbs or spices. Once you get used to meals that have those additions, you lose the ability to identify the subtle, natural flavours. |
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Kay???? | Report | 9 Mar 2016 10:49 |
Garlic is the devils food.-vile smelly stuff........yuk.so eating out is limited as it seems no one is able to cook without it,,,,,,,,,,or peppers and other horrible tasting things. |
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Sharron | Report | 9 Mar 2016 12:37 |
I love garlic and onions and don't mind fresh herbs. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 9 Mar 2016 12:43 |
My mother was a lovely cook and her pastry was wonderful. |