Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

Butterfly_Brain

Economy Gastronomy? £45 for a salmon :eek:

NickiM

Hmm, bit confused as to why some of the recipes i.e. the rabbit casserole were given when one of the daughters won't eat it.

Enjoyed the programme though...well am enjoying it so far

flissh

Delia has a recipe for choc fondue thingy. Tried it once but cooked it a touch too long and it did not have the runny middle. It does seem a little tricky, but would love to try it again.

I really enjoyed the prog. I missed the first two.

debtmuncher

MrsE wrote: »

I haven't had a deep fryer for years.

I made Onion Bhajis last night, in the oven with spray olive oil, I think maybe I need to cook the onion before I make the bhajis doing it this way.

didnt she cook the onion first then added it to the flour mix?

debtmuncher

NickiM wrote: »

Hmm, bit confused as to why some of the recipes i.e. the rabbit casserole were given when one of the daughters won't eat it.

Enjoyed the programme though...well am enjoying it so far

one of the daughters was a veggie. still need to cook the meat for the rest of the meat lovers!:p:D

MrsE_2

debtmuncher wrote: »

didnt she cook the onion first then added it to the flour mix?

I don't know.

I didn't do theirs last night, I did a slimming world recipe last night.
But I will try their next time & oven bake.

MrsE_2

NickiM wrote: »

Hmm, bit confused as to why some of the recipes i.e. the rabbit casserole were given when one of the daughters won't eat it.

Enjoyed the programme though...well am enjoying it so far

I wouldn't eat rabbit:eek:

But we do love a bit of salmon:D

MrsE_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Economy Gastronomy? £45 for a salmon :eek:

What I didn't understand was if he was told to buy £25 worth of salmon & could only find a £45 salmon, bring it home & freeze half, no problem;)

I buy whole & half salmons whenever its on offer & freeze it (in portions).

blueberrypie

thifty wrote: »

were these people for real? First time I have watched the show and could not believe how much money they were spending a week, big family but surely no-one with a big family in the real world spends that much money?

We are a bigger family than that, and we spend a *lot* less on groceries than they did. And while I'd love Allegra and Paul to come and jazz up our meals a bit, it wouldn't make for such good television - no wads of "cash saved" to wave about, for a start ;-)

(I must admit to being a bit irritated by Allegra's comment that the mum couldn't be "as good at cooking as you are at procreating" - grrr, who said the two were mutually exclusive?)

But the programme never promised to be a demonstration of a minimum budget - it sets out to reduce the families' food budgets, and it's doing that.

MrsE_2

blueberrypie wrote: »

But the programme never promised to be a demonstration of a minimum budget - it sets out to reduce the families' food budgets, and it's doing that.

& I for one am glad its not.

I want gastronomy & if its economy then so much the better.