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

weezl74

another thought though...

y'know all this 'stuff' that goes along with Jamie books though? Isn't it that stuff that means it's ok when a jamie recipe goes wrong?

Like the whole, young, trendy, flat in London/house in the country with a gardener called brian, beautiful wife and 3.5 children. And posh ingredients, from Jamie's Italian friend Genaro.

It's just all so unspeakably glamorous. So when it goes a bit wrong, we're still eating the sexy dinner made using the glamorous ingredients out of the beautifully shiny recipe book with gorgeous photography.

But when you'r following 'cheap family recipes' that you just found on google one day, and their bog standard cheapy bread made from smart price flour goes wrong....

Do you see what I mean?

I'm not being self-deprecating so's people will big me up, I just wonder if we are not as failure-proof as Jamie, because he comes with a whole lot of (rather beautiful) baggage, which we don't.

weezl74

aless02 wrote: »

i should get my DH to cook some recipes,weezl. He's very much a follow the recipe by the letter and NON intuitive cooker. He gets very frustrated if recipes don't go exactly right and seems at a loss on how to self correct. My complete opposite, really!

If he was willing Aless, that'd be great. Do be on hand though to rescue, as you've got my address and I don't want a burnt pie coming as hate mail thru my letterbox

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

another thought though...

y'know all this 'stuff' that goes along with Jamie books though? Isn't it that stuff that means it's ok when a jamie recipe goes wrong?

Like the whole, young, trendy, flat in London/house in the country with a gardener called brian, beautiful wife and 3.5 children. And posh ingredients, from Jamie's Italian friend Genaro.

It's just all so unspeakably glamorous. So when it goes a bit wrong, we're still eating the sexy dinner made using the glamorous ingredients out of the beautifully shiny recipe book with gorgeous photography.

But when you'r following 'cheap family recipes' that you just found on google one day, and their bog standard cheapy bread made from smart price flour goes wrong....

Do you see what I mean?

I'm not being self-deprecating so's people will big me up, I just wonder if we are not as failure-proof as Jamie, because he comes with a whole lot of (rather beautiful) baggage, which we don't.

I disagree again.:eek:

But really finding it hard to formulate thoughts today, sorry.

I feel that a recipe is a recipe and if it goes wrong then the person who has cooked it has done something wrong. The glamorous-ness (like my new word??) of Jamie/Delia/Nigella doesnt make me think their recipes will work better than any I get off a bbc website or the O/S board.

But I maybe very niave and already under the influence of the corporate advertising...who knows:cool:

shanks77

Allegra wrote: »

I'm here, Shankletons, beavering away in the background Watcha having for dinner tonight, then ?

Some fish that i bought on a whoopsie so still being frugal. Have had 3 of the planner meals this week so feeling quite pleased with myself. What about you?

weezl74

shanks77 wrote: »

Some fish that i bought on a whoopsie so still being frugal. Have had 3 of the planner meals this week so feeling quite pleased with myself. What about you?

Hi shanks

Am I the only one who thinks of Frank Spencer when someone says they're having a whoopsie?

He was always miffed that a cat had just done a whoopsie on the carpet...

aless02

weezl, fwiw his actions would be identical to arty's if a recipe went wrong. When he's cooking, i ban him from speaking to me, b'c he winds up using me as a crutch and then i usually end up doing most of the cooking! He's got some busy days coming, but i'll try and pin him down in the next week or 2

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

The glamorous-ness (like my new word??) of Jamie/Delia/Nigella doesnt make me think their recipes will work better than any I get off a bbc website or the O/S board.

bear with me arty!

Do you not feel ever so slightly more.... hunts for the right word 'oooh I'm liking my lifestyle today' ish when eating a Jamie recipe than an old-style one?

I'm not being feisty, I'm genuinely intrigued. Cos even though I am frugal mcdougal compared to a lot of my chums, I do get a bit of a buzz when we go to Liverpool to see our pals dave and lorna, and dave knocks up a mexican thing a la Jamie and we shop for it in waitrose.

I'm just not sure I can ever make shopping in asda for shirl's chicken and onion pie have quite that level of va va voom!

weezl74

right ho arty. Sorry if I came across as critical of that lifestyle. I meant to say I liked it too. And also that I wonder if it protects shirl from walking away when there's failure.

But I think I didn't explain myself very well, I'm sorry.

For the record, I don't think 'oh how frivolous!' when people buy nice food. (Just in case people think I think that because of the way I post sometimes :))

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

right ho arty. Sorry if I came across as critical of that lifestyle. I meant to say I liked it too. And also that I wonder if it protects shirl from walking away when there's failure.

But I think I didn't explain myself very well, I'm sorry.

For the record, I don't think 'oh how frivolous!' when people buy nice food. (Just in case people think I think that because of the way I post sometimes :))

Sorry that was a bit of a rant:o

Nothing to do with you at all, after all you have fancy nail varnish:rotfl:. More to do with a thread I have just read on Old Style which has angered me:mad:.

Could you explain the bit I have bolded please as I am not sure I understand?

shanks77

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi shanks

Am I the only one who thinks of Frank Spencer when someone says they're having a whoopsie?

I think you were but we prob will all start thinking of that now. (unless there are some who are too young to know of Frank in which case i will feel really old)

Right nagging list again not sure how far you have got with things but they are not ticked off so here you are:

1 Still waiting for info on Omega 3 to go onto planner
2 Make clear on the Tart Tatin if the onion weight is peeled or not
3 Adding Tias ideas for leftover chicken to the planner
4 A step by step instruction on how to poach a chicken (though Arty may be up for this as i understand she hadnt done it before so her words may help Shirley better)
Is the recipe for Croation Salad going anywhere on the planner?
5 Please correct the spelling of Marmite on the Shepherdless method for goodness sake its driving me mad:)
6 Any further on the emergency shopping planner you were collaborating with Pinkhaley on?
7 You were going to put WHY? boxes beside the oil the same as you did for the oaty cereal.

Thats it for just now the rest of the list is being done by the rest of the gang (not me) and it is all ongoing with nothing urgent to be done.
Let me know if and when you do something or if you decided to abandon an item and i will tick it off my list and stop bugging you about it. xx