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

taka

Ahhh just spotted we have no syrup... :eek:

*wanders off to ponder... :think:*

Yategirl

weezl74 wrote: »

I think you're already doing it yategirl

We'll look forward to your verdict on the tart later see below

Is there anything you'd like to do other than testing recipes? Yep can do this - I'll do the spanish omelette for tomorrows tea if you like? We are not short on eggs!

The main things I think we have need of:

Project managers: who keep me on the straight and narrow and stop me running in too many directions! Everyone seems to be doing this!! :rotfl:

writers and collaters of information: potty with her surveys, IOIWE and Aless with recipecal, howlin who is collecting a step by step guide to key cooking terms and skills, ceridwen with the amazing kit list... there are quite a few more mini articles we could do with someone to compile What other articles are you after?

The additional skill I'm really needing at the moment is probably quite a quiet behind the scenes sort of task.:o I have a fabulous spreadsheet designed by lesley following my dodgy initial attempts :rotfl:, which needs quite a bit of info putting in it still and checking with the latest versions of the recipes. Calories added etc. I'd offer with this but am worried I'd muck it up somehow

Onion tart went down well - we only had skimmed milk so I added a blob of yoghurt to thicken it slightly and I used 40g cheese. The pastry was leftover from yesterdays pie topping and I rolled it thinly to make 1 large flan and 1 small (in a victoria sponge tin) - the onion and cheese stretched over both but I ended up doing an extra egg mix for the small tart. I cut 8 large slices from the large flan (will cut smaller slices next time) and will probably get 6 from the smaller flan. Results 10/10! even ds2 who hates "keith" (as he calls quiche!) ate it all up! DH and ds1 are taking slices for lunch tomorrow

ceridwen

morag1202 wrote: »

The poster you mention is a lady in her 40's who has Aspergers and I know you are right in assuming she meant no offence. In fact, her comments were to ceridwen not you. They were about the kit list and not the plan.

She supports herself through self employment (web design I think) and up until recently lived in a one roomed studio with small fridge and ice box, microwave and hot plate and no room for any other cooking kit. She is inventive in her cooking and fed herself very cheaply.

I think her rather badly expressed point was that if one has ones back against the wall, cooking kit is an unneccesary expense and lateral thinking and improvisation goes a long way to eliminate the need for many things on the list.

Please don't lose heart and doubt yourself.

Weezl...our weezl

Look lass...I saw you come onto my Shirleys kit thread and realised you were trying to "defend me" a bit there:) - and I appreciated the thought..really I did:)

...but....its okay....I sorta know Pastures New (through MSE) and I dont think she meant to hurt...honestly..I frequently find myself agreeing with Pastures' very clear/logical way of putting things and I know she sometimes sees things "through slightly different glasses" to some others - and I winced slightly...but took the comment as meant for good. We can all have days when we dont put things quite as we would have wished to - and I've done it myself before now:o.

Come here Weezl.....right <group hug time>:D.....now DONT WORRY.....:)

ceridwen

OUR WEEZL

.....at a very downright practical level my lass......allow a little leeway to yourself for all that pregnancy insomnia you suffer from...

Anyone who gets as little sleep as you personally have been surviving on for a while is going to "feel things a bit more deeply" IYSWIM - so cut yourself a bit of slack there...

.....and thats an order....

love
Auntie ceridwen
xx

weezl74

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

I am willing Weezl, since I have a box of hot oats sat in the kitchen and H is too young to eat it yet!

You are missed on the Parenting Thread, btw! We want to know how you, Fergie and Kester are doing!

yay! I missed this earlier, thanks Gisi (I posted on the PT:o)

frankie and Gisi, shall we all try white sugar, and re oil, some vegan sites suggest using 80% of the weight of oil that the butter/marg would have been....

How does that sound?

Could be gross!

ps thank you Auntie Ceridwen, I shall go to bed shortly and be a good girl

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks! yes the recipe would be fab So I kinda needed more stock?

Should the peas have mulched down a little more too? :D

Yep Must say,though, yours did look a lot better than mine.... Oh, and your potato salad looked a treat, too - did you dress it while the potatoes were still hot (just trying to work out why mine turned into an oil slick when I tried the potatoes cubed, yet yours looked fluffy and posh !)

ceridwen

weezl74 wrote: »

ps thank you Auntie Ceridwen, I shall go to bed shortly and be a good girl

You do that lass....and a little nightcap (of the hot milk variety:cool:) would be in order methinks.

.....hmmm....thinks......can I get away with "pulling the age ticket" here? Might as well try it:D - "I'm old enough to be your mother our Weezl - so BED - now":rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

(...for sleep purposes...me lass....I know full well your mind can turn in similar humorous directions to mine.....):D

SusanC_2

nopot2pin wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:
Like Lesley, I did a bit of other stuff (C and C++) ten odd years ago, but, not sure I could get my head round it now - and I now feel old, after realising it was that long ago :eek::rotfl:

At least you can remember what it was - I can't remember the name of the script I learned eight years ago.

ceridwen wrote: »

Not being a chemist - I couldnt say whether chalk is the actual "calcium" ingredient in Ready Brek or no - but it wouldnt surprise me if it is:(

Chalk is calcium carbonate (CaCO3 with the 3 as a subscript). Calcium carbonate does come in different froms though - I don't know anything specifically about calcium carbonate but I imagine it is different crystalline structures. (Like graphite and diamond are the same thing but different crystalline structures.)

weezl74 wrote: »

I'd prefer a food processor because it will make shirley's batch cooking days so much less tiring and onerous, but I will allow a stick blender as everyone elses sounds better than my ropey version Is that too wordy for the list C?

Could you put "food processor or stick blender"?

weezl74 wrote: »

C, yes calcium carbonate (the calcium fortifier in all of the above) is also present in chalk, but you needn't worry. It is present in a great many other places in the earth too, some edible, some not. It's in all flour products in the uk (other than strong ground wholemeal). calcium carbonate is the calcium found in the eggshells we discussed a few pages ago.

They're wanting to put folic acid in flour too now.

weezl74 wrote: »

I would test this out but I forbade myself to eat eggs after 36 weeks pregnancy

Is there some reason one shouldn't or is this just personal to you?

I managed to quote someone else by mistake instead of you but I wanted to say that I think you have been doing a great job with this project. Maybe it seems to be going badly because there are more bumps in the road than you expected but personally I would say it seems to have progressed far more rapidly then I would have expected it to. You will never please everyone with the plans and whilst some people may choose to follow the plans exactly, they are free to modify them to fit their own personal preferences anyway. And if I'd been having as little sleep as you have been, there's no way I would be getting all my own regualr things doen never mind running something like this so I think you are doing amazingly!

Murrell

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Just popped in to ask a question Weezl if I may. I've been reading with interest, but don't usually feel I have anything to add.
How "pure" are you making the vegan diet? The reason I ask is that Ready Brek is not vegan friendly, and judging by the asda website their own label kind might not be either (ie it says ok for veggies, but omits anything about vegans iyswim).

*ducks in case I've thrown a spanner in the works and ruined Weezl's carefully calculated plans...

Hi MrsBartolozzi,

By definition vegan products contain no ingredients derived from animals within the recipe or processing. However food is made on the same production lines/same factory as foods containing milk therefore there is some risk of cross contact. A lot of products now have the may contain traces statement, because of people being allergic to milk. "May" means that there might be but there might not be. For people that are deathly allergic to things... This "May" can be the difference between healthy and not healthy, but for people that do not eat things by choice for ethical reasons; I think most people would not worry. Basically unless we grow all our own food by veganic methods, we will always come across traces, but so long as its not a actual ingredient, please don’t worry. (Especially for this plan Weezl)

The statement from weetabix about ready brek is The following do not contain milk/milk products as ingredients but are made infactories handling products that do: • Ready brek Original etc etc. The adsa one is listed on the vegan societies animal free shopper website. I am taking it that the tesco one is the same as the ingredients don’t worry be and its vegetarian.

Hope this explains it a little.

Love and hugs to Weezl, I think your doing a great job.
Sandra
x

ariarnia

SusanC wrote: »

Chalk is calcium carbonate (CaCO3 with the 3 as a subscript). Calcium carbonate does come in different froms though - I don't know anything specifically about calcium carbonate but I imagine it is different crystalline structures. (Like graphite and diamond are the same thing but different crystalline structures.)

I think it's a different isotope as plaster of Paris and some marble is also calcium carbonate.