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

weezl74

HowlinWolf wrote: »

Inspired by your doughnuts weezl I have been messing with the paul merritt bread recipe. Cue one large loaf, three small iced buns and 12 apple and spice whirls. Very nice indeed.

how d'you make the spice whirls howlin?

where did you get married? It looks stunning! (as do you!)

HowlinWolf

Wedding was in Piano di Sorrento. Reception in Massa Lubrense, just up and down the cost from the centre of Sorrento respectively. It was very nice just like a really good party with good friends and the food was smashing. I wish we could do it all over again!

I didn't put salt in the dough to start with. So I followed the Paul Merritt until the end of the kneading stage. I split the dough in half and kneeded salt into one half and sugar into the other. Didn't measure, just chucked a handful in. Left to rise as per colonel merritt. Put dark sugar, butter and mixed spice in a pan and melted together. When it was melted I added about 3/4 of a bramley apple diced and just warmed it up. (For shirl this should work with just white sugar, spice and a good splash of water or possibly oil to stop it turning to caramel). Then I flattened the dough out with my hand into a rectangle. I slathered the sugar and apple mixture over the dough, rolled it up long edge to long edge and then sliced into 12 pieces. I laid the pieces flat on the baking tray and left to rise. I cooked as per Mr Merritt but only did 20 minutes after the oven is turned down to 170 rather than the 30 minutes specified.
I have slapped a drizzle of icing on them but they are perfectly nice without.

Bigjenny

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks

Does anyone know what I should say instead of gas mark 1 for a fan oven?

My fan oven book converts gas mark 1 to 130c

Bigjenny

weezl74 wrote: »

I'm wondering if it may be better to go live for kitty without all the costs, just of the meals and without the calories etc, just so's she's got something, a bit like what Shirley had when we first published that?

What do people feel about that as an idea?

I think it would be a good idea to go live with Kitty as you did for Shirley.

Good feedback and sugestions were received for testing Shirl's option, a lot of which has been added. I think the same wiill happen with Kitty's option.

Go for it Weezl:j

Murrell

weezl74 wrote: »

SORRY mURRELL, iT WAS MEANT TO BE WITH THE ASDA FROZEN ROASTED PARSNIPS, (oops caps lock on!)

so they're already cut up, and I think par cooked

I'm glad you made such a terrific success of them though despite that!

No probs. Perhaps adding frozen to the ingredients might make it clear for people picking odd recipes. Also roasting chopped parsnips at the same time as bns is an option, so could this be added as a footnote for those unable to buy frozen parsnips. Not all the supermarkets do these frozen ones. I was going to post my picture, but its just too big, so its on my site if anyone wants to know what they look like. Will go and write about them now.

Sandra
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Lesley_Gaye

did you cry when watching Amy on Dr Who?

next weeks episode should be a cracker

feeling very full at the moment, spent some fun budget and had some tandoori prawns and peshwari nan

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

it says 5 in the row for Lunch. I'm looking at the one you sent me

Are we talking at cross purposes each using the word 'batch' differently?

I'm on about the number which displays next to the amount of ingredients and gets multiplied by it. I thought it represented a number of times a recipe was made in the month.

That's what I meant by a batch. That's the column I was worried about.

Does this help at all and are you able to help me with it at all or should I do something else.

aah, yes, I see what you mean now.

Am having a look at it now

Edit - OK found it. There were a few columns where we had manually put in a divisor for planner 1, and that was still there. Have checked all the cols now and changed a few.

The only ingredients in red now are the bread slices, walnuts, veg oil and pumpkin seeds. The bread slices are 596 short, which is a lot!

Could have adjusted the slices for recipes for humous etc, but not sure how many you intended for some of them, maybe it will reduce down to the right amount when the humous etc are adjusted?

Am pinging it back

weezl74

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

aah, yes, I see what you mean now.

Am having a look at it now

Edit - OK found it. There were a few columns where we had manually put in a divisor for planner 1, and that was still there. Have checked all the cols now and changed a few.

The only ingredients in red now are the bread slices, walnuts, veg oil and pumpkin seeds. The bread slices are 596 short, which is a lot!

Could have adjusted the slices for recipes for humous etc, but not sure how many you intended for some of them, maybe it will reduce down to the right amount when the humous etc are adjusted?

Am pinging it back

thanks, have now adjusted the formula next to the walnut spread ingreds so that it's /5 and now they're making it once which is what I was hoping and now we've no ingreds short :j I just put /5 after the formula and then cloned it for the full column height, does that sound right to you?

bread-wise I'm sure it's that I've over provided, since that would mean they were having 9.5 slices a day which would be 360 cals over their amounts needed daily, which would lead to 3lb of weight gain over the month.:eek:

I think I've realised where I'm going wrong tho, it's how do I represent where sometimes something is eaten as a snack and sometimes as a lunch?

PS I absolutely love tandoori prawns, but I find peshwari very sweet, a bit more like a pudding! But maybe your local indian use less sugar!

weezl74

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