Weezl's phase 1- recipe testing and frugalisation- come one, come all!

ceridwen

taka wrote: »

Hmmmmm... I think my Mum has that one! :T I may well raid her cookery book stash when I go round there tonight - there are loads of 70s and 80s "wholesome" type veggie cookbooks. :j I was so happy to find this one in a charity shop a couple of years ago - I pretty much grew up on food from this or similar books.

I definitely had an unusual food upbringing (and a fair bit of bullying as a result). My family stopped eating most meat before I started primary school (only fish and the sausages my grandparents would give us on holiday as a treat survived a bit longer in our diet! ) We stopped all meat, poultry & fish before I hit secondary school age. I can't remember what any of it tastes like anymore. :eek: I never had school dinners at primary school as there was never a veggie option.

I didn't tend to get many invites round to others for tea and if I did no-one ever knew what to feed me - well all except one of my best friends who would invite me round all the time as it meant they got to have Pizza which they usually didn't get to have! :rotfl: I didn't find out shepherds pie normally had meat (we always had a lentil/carrot/onion/celery one) in it til a particularly embarassing meal at a neighbours house!

I'll be up for trying some of the veggie stuff this weekend if I'm feeling a bit better (and can actually taste stuff again ) .

Whew! - Well I couldnt resist it...I've just checked Amazon to see how many copies they still have of the Doreen Keighley book - there was shedloads of them this morning - the 52 at 1p etc ones and other editions as well. Every single last copy has gone......:think:

Well - there might be some more available in the future....:cool:

EDIT: Just checked to see which book it is you highlighted - up came Cranks - oh yes....one of THE leaders in the field back then...

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

Si! Grazie! 'Scuse spelling



I don't mind saying at all C!

I was part of just a handfull of children who came from a village near a large town. The village itself is quite middle class in money and values and culture, and the town is more working class.

I'm aware these are stereotypes, and I don't mean to rile anyone, but my granary bread sandwiches spread with philadelphia cheese and some chopped up celery, with a pot of plain yoghurt and some muesli to sprinkle in it, was so vastly different to my class mates white bread ham sandwich, packet of cadbury choccie biscuits and walkers crisps that I think they felt I was quite the alien amongst them. I understand that now.

I was also a little geeky and had a really advanced vocabulary for my age, and my mum didn't agree with fashionable shoes or tarting up the school uniform.

So it was pretty inevitable I would attract some comments and criticism really! :rotfl:

I do know what you mean weezl and I wondered whether it was summat like this. Your parents were "in the right" with what they gave you to eat - much healthier - and IMO much nicer. But - lets face it Weezl - your classmates would have "had a go" anyways from what you say - so I certainly wouldnt just put it down to the diet you had compared to theirs. The bullying I had was for a rather similar set of reasons - and my parents didnt/dont eat a healthy diet and my mother deliberately decided that I was to eat standard school meals (same as everyone else) - but I still got bullied for that similar set of reasons anyway :mad: (ceridwen sits here wishing both yours and mine all that they deserve:D). Can I use that phrase here that I never use ITRW of "I feel your pain".....oooooh....goes off wincing visibly...but I have certainly been where you were...:cool:

weezl74

veggie burger version 1 Mr weezl's feedback



Photo and recipe originally weezl's (sorry I have to put this now after a PM with MSE forum team about copyright rules etc...:o)


He loves it! Would definitely have it again. He thinks I need to up the bean to potato ratio, because the taste is very veggie burgery and nomnomnom, but the mouthfeel is more like a hash brown. Although he did say we could just call them spicy veggie hash browns and serve them as is and bob et al would wolf them down!:):):beer:
served here with HM bread, carrots and HM ketchup, I'm hoping shirley can make some bread rolls to go with them

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

I'd spotted the pluspints it's like chickpea gate again! Do you think more folk are reading this than we know?!

Yes...actually....:rotfl:I was only sitting there at work today thinking "I wonder if Weezl has any idea JUST how many people ARE reading this thread - and just who one or two of them are" :whistle::hello:....I'd be rather interested to know myself...but I have this sorta feeling..:D

....goes off thinking "naughty ceridwen...very very naughty ceridwen....now go and get your own dinner....."

shanks77

Hi i am going to make the pork and apple burgers tomorrow. They were on the original list when i went to Asda and i bought the ingreds especially. This will be a very honest opinion as i have a thing about meat and fruit together (ham and pineapple is tolerable but lets not talk about duck with plums or oranges:rotfl:) but will give it a go all for the sake of Bob and Shirley. With the rest of the mince i will make chilli with rice and peas and report back with costings and opinions and if there are any surveys for these if someone can point me in the direction i will be happy to fill these out as well. Maybe will try the "Carbonara" this weekend as well as i have all the ingreds in.

Lesley_Gaye

Fivenations wrote: »

I've read that Sherry Vinegar makes a passable substitute for Balsamic.. Bear in mind that real Baslamic vinegar is very expensive and tatses nothing like the sub £5 bottles we normally buy. You're talking £20 plus for the real thing. I've only had it once in Italy and it blew my tastebuds away.

Balsamic is fab stuff, I use a £15 bottle one. Worked out how much 1 tblsp is once, it was so much I've blocked it out!

I use 1 tblsp in a lovely sweet potato and red lentil soup, and that 1 tblsp makes all the difference.

And in vinaigrette like Ceridwens, yummy. I have a seedy mustard in it as well, so it whisks up all thick.

The reason it blew your taste buds away Fivenations is that it has a taste called umami. Our tongues can discriminate between sweet, sour, salt, bitter and umami. Umami is a mouth filling deeply savoury taste found in things like (good!) balsamic vinegar, parmesan cheese, porcini mushrooms and Marmite and is very fashionable at the moment!

Lesley_Gaye

Fivenations wrote: »

What about Pasta Alfredo? Will that fit?

Re the gluten free products.

If you need gluten free products because you are coeliac, you can get many things via prescription. My brother has this condition and gets all his bread, pasta, flour and biscuits via a prescription season ticket.

Juvela flour is only available this way and makes very passable pastry and cakes. Haven't tried it for bread, that's the hard one of course

weezl74

Lesley are you a fan of Jefferey Steingarten by any chance?

ceridwen

Right - I'm back...dinner is cooking aways....

...and I've been pondering away whilst chopping and stirring.

It may be that some of the people viewing this thread arent actually viewing it for food-related reasons at all - never mind....hello anyway...:wave:

There may be a few people viewing this as an example of that fashionable work concept of "team work". Actually - I'm on a few other "teams" in other contexts...but this thread is actually a very good example of teamwork. We are all in here..playing to our strengths and contributing what we personally are best able to contribute - we are "the Rainbow Spectrum" in action. Every colour in a rainbow is necessary to make that rainbow - every different type of talent is necessary in a venture like this and I think we are doing well - at having attracted a range of talents of various different descriptions and...yep...doing a pretty good bit of team work:D:T

weezl74

shanks77 wrote: »

Hi i am going to make the pork and apple burgers tomorrow. They were on the original list when i went to Asda and i bought the ingreds especially. This will be a very honest opinion as i have a thing about meat and fruit together (ham and pineapple is tolerable but lets not talk about duck with plums or oranges:rotfl:) but will give it a go all for the sake of Bob and Shirley. With the rest of the mince i will make chilli with rice and peas and report back with costings and opinions and if there are any surveys for these if someone can point me in the direction i will be happy to fill these out as well. Maybe will try the "Carbonara" this weekend as well as i have all the ingreds in.

Thank you shanks:A, I'm excited to hear your verdicts :T:T:T:T:T