Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

weezl74

shanks, thanks loads for being willing to be the keeper of the do list, I think you will do a marvelous job

So if people can keep writing stuff in red, and shanks will nag me til they get done :rotfl:

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

tell me to pee off if you are tired and sick of 'helpful comments'.:o

yeah, pee off artybear

weezl74

joke!

I love you really

Murrell

I have the pastry in the fridge now. Came together ok. I did use 50ml of oil by mistake as I wasn't looking clearly at my scribble and ended up seeing the 50 bit from the onion line! Anyway should be ok, but of course if it works ok, I will try again with right amounts.

Is the oregano dried or fresh? I won't be actually using oregano. I have dried mixed herbs or I can pick from the garden either parsley, sage or chives. Not sure which one to go with, any ideas?

Sandra
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weezl74

Dearest secretary shankles

please can our list also keep a note of who's doing what? So we have sian the email, allegra batch guide, lesley the nutrition spreadsheet, susan the google geek, poohbear the recipe simplifier, sallygirl, jenny et al the editors, morag the link-maker, pinkhayley leftovers and so on...?

If people feel they have been ignored in the above link please pop up indignantly, and say 'and me I was doing the ...!'

OK and another tasklet before I nip out, would anyone be willing to trawl back for where our recipes have received really nice feedback, and get me a few quotes to put on the recipe pages? (or even quotes about money saved which could go on the costings page...)

Now then potty, loveliest potty, I know you want to help shirley too! I know you are testing recipes with the biddies which is fab What else might you like to have a stab at? Oh yeah, I could really do with knowing how much calcium is in asda smartprice kidney beans, ie the bit they add as a firming agent, it will help to know if we need to include the 'bean juice' in shirl's veggie burgers!

The othere thing, but you'd have to be your best cheeky self to see if you can get away with it, would be to show asda the site, and explain that we have 25,000 page hits within a fortnight of launching(ie so they can see it's popular), but that doing the testing is costing us (well definitely me!) a fair bit of cash, and would they be willing to give us a few free boxes of things like the oaty cereal since we're having to experiment such a lot with it.

tell me to bog off if you think that's too cheeky

weezl74

Murrell wrote: »

I have the pastry in the fridge now. Came together ok. I did use 50ml of oil by mistake as I wasn't looking clearly at my scribble and ended up seeing the 50 bit from the onion line! Anyway should be ok, but of course if it works ok, I will try again with right amounts.

Is the oregano dried or fresh? I won't be actually using oregano. I have dried mixed herbs or I can pick from the garden either parsley, sage or chives. Not sure which one to go with, any ideas?

Sandra
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oregano is dried, so perhaps the nearest thing might be the dried herbs, but they can be a bit funny tasting, so am happy for you to go with fresh. Think sage might be nice, in moderate amounts, since sage and onion is a popular stuffing flavour...

weezl74

PS feeling a bit like I ought to justify myself about the above asda request. I hope people don't think that's unintegrous of me, it's just that the site has cost me above the £300 mark now, and while I don't begrudge it at all, it just seemed a way of not going too over budget

weezl74

now JulieMK also volunteered

So I know you are good at detail julie... How are you at spreadsheets? Do they fry your brain!?

The other task that's a possibility would be to pop shanks excellent list of the cooking and prep times into the spreadsheet that my dad is using which will mean shirley will be able to rank the recipes according to cooking time, which is (I think) a fab feature for a busy shirley...

Anyhoo, let me know if you'd fancy that job, or if not if there's sommat else?


Oh and shanks, I forgot we need to add that wyebird is having a think about the nutrition pages, and CBM is thinking about an interactive questionnaire...


I'm sure there's more Oh I think art is costing the bob and shirl shopping list at today's prices too...

weezl74

contact us now plopped on the homepage for now, pending a menubar tab

Sian, prepare for some emails :rotfl:

weezl74

dear lovely testers of the first month, please would you inspect this list and just make sure this is a fair representation of what equipment shirley will need. Can some items be lost, any others added?

3 saucepans - Argos Value set of 3 - £6.99
Large frying pan - £2.99? (Tesco)99p (if near IKEA)
1 large rectangular baking dish - £1
1 litre Pyrex measuring jug - £1
KNIVES;
- 1 sharp knife for cutting meat )
- 1 breadknife ) Argos value set of knives £3.99
- 1 small chopping knife )
- 1 paring knife for peeling veg. )
1 large casserole dish - £1
large mixing bowl - £0.59 (Asda)(or use washing-up bowl)
1 can opener - 45p (Asda)
2 x chopping boards (1 for raw meat) - £1.49 (Asda)
4 x 2lb loaf tins (Weezl plans on Shirley making a lot of bread) - £1 each
2 baking trays (beg freebie ones nicely from the butcher or use grillpan of cooker)
2 wooden spoons - 20p each (Asda)
Mechanical kitchen scales - £1.97 (Asda)
Box grater - £1
Fish slice - £1
Spatula - £1
Rolling pin - 95p (Asda)(or experiment with large pop bottle filled with water/wine bottle/pushing roughly into shape in "rustic" way a la Penelope Penguin/inner tube of clingfilm or silverfoil)
Storage jars - freebie (recycling containers food came in/plastic "milkbottles"/baby milk powder tins)
Freezer containers - freebie (recycling margarine containers/plastic "milkbottles")
Metal sieve or colander - £1
Pair of kitchen scissors - £1
Set of measuring spoons - £1

optional extras (ideal but not essential)

- wok (for stir-frying/deep frying/mixing bowl/2nd large frypan)
- liquidizer
- soup ladle
- 2nd casserole dish
- steamer
- whisk
- potato masher
- omelette pan (could be used for small fry-ups/tortillas/pancakes - as well as omelettes if they can spare the eggs)
- traybake tin
- silicone baking sheet (thin lining sheet)
- 2 baking trays (if Shirley hasnt been able to get freebie ones from butcher and doesnt wish to keep using her grillpan)
- a flan dish