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

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

Hi guys

Im back and very grumpy, bus issues and hotness grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Mr arty's out all evening so I can help/advise/discuss/chat with anyone who wishes me to do so. Maybe nothing heavy though??

I thought last nights chat went really well, loads of great ideas and we managed to keep on topic relatively easily.

xx

poor hot arty

there is something actually, you mentioned that a number of points about batch cooking in the thread I started on old-style were new and helpful for you. So that QOS and I can incorporate them, can you please have a re read of it and C+P the ones which are particularly fab into a document/post?

Fortunately it's not a large thread

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

poor hot arty

there is something actually, you mentioned that a number of points about batch cooking in the thread I started on old-style were new and helpful for you. So that QOS and I can incorporate them, can you please have a re read of it and C+P the ones which are particularly fab into a document/post?

Fortunately it's not a large thread

I can indeedy do that:D

Now dilemma do i watch dr who without mr arty or wait till tomorrow and watch with him........decisions decisions.....

weezl74

ps I totally agree about last night, even in the world of work where theoretically people would be more professional than a happy band of volunteers I don't think it's usually so easy to keep things on topic

I also felt it unites us more as a team?

artybear

I am confused by Dr Who. Anyone else?

HowlinWolf

I have had a mass shopping and batch cooking day. I am hot and exhausted! Kitchen smells nice though

artybear

HowlinWolf wrote: »

I have had a mass shopping and batch cooking day. I am hot and exhausted! Kitchen smells nice though

What did you make??

artybear

divide your list up into dishes of similar types so that you don't, for example, contaminate your baking with onions!
plan to do the more delicate flavoured stuff (so baking really ) first
work out the temperatures that each recipe needs to be cooked at, and start off with the lowest, so you gradually heat the oven up
think about the order in which you make things in terms of minimising washing up. When baking I do vanilla sponge first, and work my way up to chocolate and then dried fruit. With a good silicone spatula I can get away with very little washing between batches!

A lot of helpful points have been made already. A couple of things for once the cooking is done – how/where is it going to be cooled & how/where stored?


I think these were the ones that stood out weezlxxx

HowlinWolf

lamb chilli, shepherds pie, stuffing, stewed apple, apple cake and cherry ice cream. I was too tired to start the cheese and bacon lasagne so that will have to wait for tomorrow along with the chicken pies

Allegra

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

I am trying again with the coriander. The first lot were puny and went straight to seed

Afraid coriander tends to do that ! The only thing I've found so far that works to an extent is to sow them very thickly - packets of seeds you buy for sowing just do not give enough seeds to sow them thickly enough, buy them from an Asian supermarket if you can and sow loads; cut as soon as they start forming leaves; and keep in the shade.

And still they go to seed really quickly, but at least you should have had plenty of leaves cut by then. Then as soon as they start going to seed, sow another lot, save seeds from the first lot and sow again. They are quite labour intensive in comparison to other herbs - I'm afraid I have rather fallen behind with mine, am just left with a lot that's gone to seed...

Allegra

artybear wrote: »

I am confused by Dr Who. Anyone else?

Yeah, my DD She "got it" to the point of being satisfied by it eventually though.

I thought that was more like it after last week's offering - a totally nonsensical romp with cracking backing music and a fez.

And I did suffer from leaky eyes a couple of times.

I expect we'll be seeing a fair bit of River Song in the next series....