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

Sian_the_Green

weezl74 wrote: »

Coolio, look forward to more verdicts later, and your method, you always explain really well

Are you sucking up to me Weezl? Is there something you want me to do? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Will be on later with full verdicts but yes, vegan pastry was good, don't refridgerate it though, makes you cross when you get it out and it doesn't roll out and you have to add more water to make it stick and then it gets too sticky and you need to add more flour and it still won't roll out and you shape it by hand... Just a suggestion, I am obviously always calm and serene... :cool::o

poohbear59

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks

Poohbear, aless and frankie, how much milk shall I allow for the omelette?

taka, the more accurate the better with the weighing, sorry it's a bit pedantic sounding but I don't want to shortchange shirley

About 1/4 pt for 3-4 eggs is what we would use.

I would seriously suggest frying the potatoes and adding to the omelette before cooking. It is much more popular in our house made that way than serving it with potato salad. It may of course be a man thing:D So please feel free to correct me on that.

ETA I took so long to post I missed your other discussion on milk and potatoes.

poohbear59

I have a question about the risi e bisi please.

All my peas are precooked and in the freezer to save time. They are in 250g bags. Does anyone have any idea how many bags I should use to make the risi e bisi. I want to make it tonight for my hungry men and don't want to be too mean with the peas.

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

Lesley which veggie burger recipe did you use for your (exceedingly helpful:A) spreadsheet revision last night? xxx

Recipe tester feedback:

Fergus would like to say that for a growing toddler in the making, the apple curd stirred through breakfast yoghurt, is *lunge for the spoon before daddy has it out of the bowl* type yummy

I used the one from your blog, but not at all sure it is the current version

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

lesley: is there a clever way that the spreadsheet can alert me once I've done a tweak that takes us into minus numbers of remaining stock? like all the text going red or something?

also is there a way I can adapt the formula which totals the food spend to not include the spices that shirl's stocking up with prior to starting the month?

xxx

in the excel version, minus numbers are red and display as -1234 as well, but the red formatting doesn't carry over to Googledocs. Have just checked and loading it back from Googledocs to Excel has taken that formatting off too.

If you are using the sheet in Excel, select the whole column, press format/cells/number. Set decimal places to 0 and negative numbers to the red -1234

for the spices - if you want to show the spice as an ingredient, set the price to 0, or just don't enter it as used

or if you mean add it to the cost of the recipe, but not the grocery bill. Have the spice(s) entered on the bottom of the ingredients list and alter the formula in H63 to stop before it includes those bottom rows

weezl74

poohbear59 wrote: »

I have a question about the risi e bisi please.

All my peas are precooked and in the freezer to save time. They are in 250g bags. Does anyone have any idea how many bags I should use to make the risi e bisi. I want to make it tonight for my hungry men and don't want to be too mean with the peas.

It's currently a generous bag per person poohbear, have you got enough?

I've just made it and think a bit of garlic is needed too,

HTH xxx

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

in the excel version, minus numbers are red and display as -1234 as well, but the red formatting doesn't carry over to Googledocs. Have just checked and loading it back from Googledocs to Excel has taken that formatting off too.

If you are using the sheet in Excel, select the whole column, press format/cells/number. Set decimal places to 0 and negative numbers to the red -1234

for the spices - if you want to show the spice as an ingredient, set the price to 0, or just don't enter it as used

or if you mean add it to the cost of the recipe, but not the grocery bill. Have the spice(s) entered on the bottom of the ingredients list and alter the formula in H63 to stop before it includes those bottom rows

Brilliant! Lesley you're opening up a whole world of spreadsheet geekery to me that I never knew before

Thanks a million

poohbear59

weezl74 wrote: »

It's currently a generous bag per person poohbear, have you got enough?

I've just made it and think a bit of garlic is needed too,

HTH xxx

I have 3 x 250g bags so that will have to do. There are only four adults here now so I am not too much short. Mine can be another frugalised version.:D

I only have one tiny clove of garlic left but I will definitely use it tonight.

nopot2pin

weezl74 wrote: »

good oh!

Potty what is it about the potato salad that's not very nice? Is there a way we can tweak it? Just wondering if Bob et al might feel the same as you....

xxx

I am a bit of a potato salad snob
There, I have said it :j:jOhhhhh, I do feel better now
Nowt to do with the recipe, just me.
I am very very fussy with potato salad :cool:

weezl74 wrote: »

oooh oooh I thought of another one! put all the veggies on the side and have a poached egg!

Tee hee cheeky weezl

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

weezl74 wrote: »

Fergus would like to say that for a growing toddler in the making, the apple curd stirred through breakfast yoghurt, is *lunge for the spoon before daddy has it out of the bowl* type yummy

Has he filled in a survey ?:p


Right, I am off to do my omlette
I was gonna just do a one person portion, but have decide now to do for two, and the rest can be for Ron

weezl74

nopot2pin wrote: »

:D
I was gonna just do a one person portion, but have decide now to do for two, and the rest can be for Ron

because you met him on a monday and your Heart stood still (dah do Ron Ron?)

Ronald McDonald?, because it costs under a pound?

Reagan? because without the cheese and eggs it'd be Vegan?

because meal planner 4 is for potty and ron (it's a great month, they don't need food, just plenty of surveys...)