Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

lola34

I made the bakewell in a bag last night- it was gorgeous, needless to say no more shop bought bakewell tarts for me

MrsE_2

competitionscafe wrote: »

Some more economy gastronomy recipes here:
http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/Economy-Gastronomy
(May all have been posted already though)

Here is the poached chicken 'bedrock' recipe and tumbledown recipes:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/04/chicken-economy-gastronomy-paul-merrett

:beer:

Brilliant, a few new ones there:D

Reverbe

Whats the book like for veggies. MY flatmate is vegetarian and i'd prob end up eating the same meal for an entire week if I cooked it with meat or fish...

also - I have been wanting to buy the first Gill Holcombe for ages.. keep looking at it in the library and checking it out on my ticket etc but there are 40 pages totally wasted with baking and puddings which is a big portion of the book. (I'd say about a third of the book)I dont have a sweet tooth and it is only me with no mates, family or guests so all the dessert bits of any cookbook are kinda wasted here.

Whats the proportion of baking and puds? The tv shows seem to be so far very heavily on the cakes and desserts which I'd never have any use for.

Scarlett25

Thanks rosieben for looking up the listing in Radio Times :T

Much as I like athletics, I was hoping it was a mistake in my listings mag and that Economy Gastronomy was on again this week! We have to wait 10 whole days to watch the next prog now :eek:

ANY_CHANCE

Sent OH to do a bit of shopping with a list. Hoping to the the narvrin of lamb thing so neck of lamb fillet was on the list he came back with shoulder of lamb fillet 12.82 for 1.2kg!!!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i keep on missing the programme:mad: is there anywhere i can watch the previous programmes?

also you guys are really tempting me to buy the book:rotfl: is it worth it?

westcoastscot

I just watched the second one on the BBC i-player - thought it was really good.
I've ordered the book but it hasnt arrived yet - fancy changing my meal plans a little now my family is shrinking!

blueberrypie

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

i keep on missing the programme:mad: is there anywhere i can watch the previous programmes?

They're on iplayer - the first and second eps are there right now at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m5wtl

Molly41

My son has just made the chocolate cookies minus the nuts with extra white choccy as that what is what we had in the house. They smell like Millies Cookies and are lovely and gooey. My four kids are just waiting for them to cool. There wont be any left soon!!

Ishtar

I've got the book and imo it is fantastic. There's a couple of recipes I probably won't be trying - the beef daube one springs to mind as I can't justify spending that much on beef...and knowing my lot they'll eat most of it in one sitting...:p

But I will be trying loads of the others out.

For me the best part of the book was the positive spin on using up left overs - something that I still need to work on a bit - and on cooking double the amount to freeze and use later (again, an area that needs some work). There isn't a huge section on puddings, but enough to keep you going I guess. (My advice there would be to buy Bake by Rachel Allen - imo another fab book!). If I were veggie I think I'd feel a bit hard done by as a lot of the recipes are meat/fish based.

I think it's currently £9 on Amazon, not bad for a £20 book....

HTH
D.