Weezl and friends Phase 3 - sitting pretty with Kitty

Sami_Bee

Julimk wrote: »

Arty – your jams & chutneys look fabulous.

In Oz BNS is called ‘pumpkin’. On Masterchef Oz this evening the challenge was to cook a veggie meal to be judged by 6 ‘Bob’s’ – called the blokey challenge. The ‘pumpkin’ curry won. I’m sure that a BNS curry would fit into Shirl’s repertoire – she already has BNS & garam masala on her shopping list.

BTW if anyone is interested, the episodes of Masterchef Oz that will be aired on Watch on 7 & 8 Nov were filmed in London, with Jamie as the guest chef on Sunday & Heston on Monday.

Jamie made a veggie curry with BNS on 30min meals last week.
His has a lot of ingredients though
http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/jamie-oliver/curry-rogan-josh-meal_p_1.html
For the curry

• 2 onions
• 1 medium butternut squash
• 1 small cauliflower
• 1 fresh red chilli (optional)
• 4 cloves of garlic
• A bunch of fresh coriander
• ½ a 283g jar of Patak's rogan josh paste
• 1 x 400g tin of chickpeas
• 100g prewashed baby spinach
• 1 x 500g tub of natural yoghurt

viv0147

I had a count of my jar today and my total so far is £18.63 so going well I should have a nice amount for my Pontins holiday in May

domesticgoddess789

Hi everybody,

Hope you all had a lovely weekend

I am making the roast onion houmous today for sandwiches/ toast for the week so am looking forward to seeing how that turns out as have not made this one yet. Just got to the end of our third batch of the tomato houmous though so expect this one to be just as nice!

P.S The cheesecake is disappearing at a rate of knots. Definitely make it soon Queen of String!!

weezl74

hello, just going to catch up now

on another thread, there was an idea about an index of all the printable recipes. Do people like this idea? Any demerits? The only possible one i can think of is that it abstracts the meals from their position/frequency within the planners they were written for.

All else in me agrees

Sian, what food did you eat in FD Congo?

weezl74

shanks77 wrote: »

Wow they look great Arty very nomnom. I am sure that people will be delighted to receive that as a pressie.
Meatloaf was good and there is more enough for tomorrow night hope friend enjoys it as well xx

be wary of making the meatloaf do over 3 nights shanks. I have it on good authority it's only gonna taste nice on 2 of them linkie

weezl74

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Weezl - The marmalade I bought has a bitter note to it, might I need to add a touch more sugar to the cake to balance or is the marmalade you used also on the bitter side? I've never had it before so I'm not sure if thats a feature of m'lade or not?:o

hmmmn, tricky to guage, without knowing how our versions compare...

the topping u can try before you pour, and if u are ok with raw egg you could give the wooden spoon for the cake batter a little lick after mixing?! The important thing to bear in mind is that on cooking, cake mixes go less sweet. So aim for a cake batter that is sweeter than you want your end cake to be, IYSWIM?

Sami_Bee

weezl74 wrote: »

hmmmn, tricky to guage, without knowing how our versions compare...

the topping u can try before you pour, and if u are ok with raw egg you could give the wooden spoon for the cake batter a little lick after mixing?! The important thing to bear in mind is that on cooking, cake mixes go less sweet. So aim for a cake batter that is sweeter than you want your end cake to be, IYSWIM?

No probs licking the spoon in this house I survived doing it in the 80's, I'm not worried about 'modern' lion marked ones:cool:

I'm currently collecting my empty jars so I can try a scary jam/chutney/marmalade recipe - not decided what yet! I got sent a code for 20% off 'food storage' on amazon so I was browsing, they are selling empty jam jars for about £1.60 each! :eek:

poohbear59

Sami_Bee wrote: »

No probs licking the spoon in this house I survived doing it in the 80's, I'm not worried about 'modern' lion marked ones:cool:

I'm currently collecting my empty jars so I can try a scary jam/chutney/marmalade recipe - not decided what yet! I got sent a code for 20% off 'food storage' on amazon so I was browsing, they are selling empty jam jars for about £1.60 each! :eek:

Don't forget to try Freegle for jam jars. That is where I found mine.

I am currently awaiting my ASDA order. But can't make my carrot cake etc until my hens lay more eggs. I am not paying for eggs! When I make my cakes I do double quantities and do half with marmalade topping and half without. Then my men can choose the one they like the best.

ETA It is cheaper to buy basic jam and reuse the jar than to buy new and unused

aless02

arty - do you remember how much the IKEA jars cost you? I've just ordered some Lakeland screw-top but I need some swing-top variety as well for something else...your preserves look fab, by the way!!

Julie - don't tempt me! I was an avid watcher of the 1st round of Masterchef Aus, but now we don't have cable TV anymore and I won't be able to see the new one .

maltesers_2

weezl74 wrote: »

hmmmn, well I'm not an authority to talk to mardatha:o, but 7% hydrogenated fat wouldn't personally worry me, as long as I had enough sources of bad cholesterol lowering agents in my diet. I uderstand that oats are particularly good at reducing the amount of harmful cholesterol in the blood?

my brother is a GP and I'm due to chat to him tonight/tomorrow, I'll ask him for any sorces he recommends

I think 7% hydrogenated fat should worry anyone. The dangers of trans fats are not just about 'bad cholesterol' and easily remedied by eating oats, apple, or even Benecol (which contains trans fat:()

What did your brother say?

I so hope he agreed with many of his colleagues calling for a ban.


WHO Scientific Update on trans fatty acids: summary and conclusions
　
The new information was deemed sufficient to recommend the need to significantly reduce or to virtually eliminate industrially produced TFA from the food supply in agreement with the implementation of the 2004 WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. This goal has been accomplished in some countries and cities, by the virtual elimination of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils in the human food supply, replacing them with healthy cis-unsaturated fatty acids.

The UK Faculty of Public Health is urging ministers to eradicate artificial trans fatty acids, known as trans fats, from the British diet. The move is needed to reduce people's risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke, says the faculty, which represents 3,300 doctors and public health specialists in the NHS, local government and medical research.The call to legislate against trans fats is backed by the Royal Society for Public Health,
　
　
On 15 April 2010, a BMJ (British Medical Journal) editorial called for trans fats to be "virtually eliminated in the United Kingdom by next year".[84] This call was supported by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) on 22 June 2010.[85]
　
　
NICE recommends trans fat ban
On June 22 2010 the UK's National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) published its Prevention of cardiovascular disease at population level, which advices, among other measures, a ban on industrially produced trans fatty acids.
This is an important development, and one which may now make a trans fat ban in the UK inevitable. Simply put, it hard for a Government to go against the advice of NICE, without some very good reason for doing so. And in this case, there are no such reasons, good or otherwise.