Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

Wee_Bargain_Hunter

thriftlady wrote: »

BraMuffin Recipe? Is that measured in cups?:D

Oops! Title changed. Thanks for the laugh thriftlady. Feel like I'm coming down with something and this is the 1st laugh I've had all day! wbh

rosemary54

thriftlady wrote: »

I am genuinely interested in why people think changing something will make a recipe not OK or cause it to fail in some way? How do you know that your modification might not be even better than the original recipe, or at least better to your taste? Why rely on someone else's idea of what will taste good?

I'm not saying there is no place for recipe books -far from it, I love 'em:D but I love using them for inspiration rather than as a set of instructions.

Obviously you can't substitute a tin of sardines for strawberries, or marmite for chocolate:rotfl: And you do have to be careful with cake recipes, but even those are open to adaptation -adding nuts, different kinds of dried fruit, frash fruit etc, just don't tinker with the basic batter mixture. Use your common sense and improvise -it is much more economical;)

the old lady on that sit com with dawn french as a vicar did!!!sorry senior moment can't for the life of me think what is called...too much sun and a glass of wine in the garden to blame!!!

thriftlady_2

rosemary54 wrote: »

the old lady on that sit com with dawn french as a vicar did!!!sorry senior moment can't for the life of me think what is called...too much sun and a glass of wine in the garden to blame!!!

The Vicar of Dibley! Letitia Cropley, yes, I confess that's who I was thinking of.

pavlovs_dog

I've only read the first 120 odd posts so i'm not sure what turn the discussion has taken since then, but i've just sat down to watch episode 1 on iplayer, and I have to say i've really enjoyed it.

no, there's probably nothing here that anyone who's followed OS won't already know but the format is friendly and approachable (vital for the target audience - people who are terrified of the kitchen) and i really like the presenters (Allegra has made me giggle several times).

I've been inspired to try recipes that i've never attempted before and i'm very much looking forward to watching the rest of the series

craftynutters

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j My darling husband has just come back from Mr Ts and he has bought me the book for :D£10:D:D
I was telling him I was thinking of ordering it at the weekend and when he saw it he decided to treat me
guess what I'll be doing at the weekend
:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

MrsE_2

craftynutters wrote: »

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j My darling husband has just come back from Mr Ts and he has bought me the book for :D£10:D:D

I was telling him I was thinking of ordering it at the weekend and when he saw it he decided to treat me
guess what I'll be doing at the weekend

:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j

Oooooooo its £10 in Tesco:D

I will get a copy too:beer:

craftynutters

Don't you just love husbands sometimes

Butterfly_Brain

Next programme (Eps 3) is on 26 August.
:mad: Why is sport always given priority over decent programmes that people actually want to watch!

Churchmouse

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Next programme (Eps 3) is on 26 August.
:mad: Why is sport always given priority over decent programmes that people actually want to watch!

Because lots of people like me love sport, and it's live, and economy gastronomy isn't going anywhere, it will still be there next week I have ( to my amazement) enjoyed the first two episodes, both of which I watched on iplayer. If you take a lot of the views on this thread many, many people have watched it and not enjoyed it, finding the budgets too big

geordie_joe

Churchmouse wrote: »

Because lots of people like me love sport, and it's live, and economy gastronomy isn't going anywhere, it will still be there next week

And the TV companies record the sport, so it will still be here next week too. Come to think of it, they could simply delay broadcasting it for an hour, I doubt it would make any difference to the outcome.