Weezl and friends Phase 3 - sitting pretty with Kitty

shanks77

hornetgirl wrote: »

I haven't tried the panzanella, so this is just a thought, but yes, 4 slices of bread does sound rather a lot!
I don't know whether this is just me, but we have found with a lot of the recipes that there is way more pasta or rice, for example, than we would normally eat, so we have just downsized accordingly

We are the same here at chez shanks. Followed the recipes to the letter the first time then had so much left over that we adjusted the portions accordingly from there on in. At least Shirl and Kitty wont go hungry though

artybear

Tut Tut Tut Weezl

weezl74

dear everyone who tried the panzanella, I'm so sorry I am mortified. :oHere you all are on a money saving website and I am wasting your perfectly good food. I do hope people will forgive me?
I have now changed the website recipe.

aless02

weezl74 wrote: »

:rotfl:

are they really rough aless?

see ferg's always been a bunged up boy so lentils for weaning were an advantage

I'll be cursing it with kessie I'm sure :rotfl:

We had 1/week before food and now 1/day after food but the past couple days have seen 3-4/day and they are NOT FUN. I won't gross out everyone else, but let's just say the window in his room needs to be opened afterwards. _pale_

System

weezl74 wrote: »

it seems the recipe is vastly more bread than I intended

Oh, dear me, how funny! :-) I'm jolly glad I didn't make a full batch, with a whopping 1.5kg of bread! No wonder I couldn't find a bowl big enough! :-)

You asked about the olive oil -- yes, definitely a flavour thing. This dish seemed to be shouting "drizzle some extra virgin olive oil on top" at me. I guess it's the tomatoes and garlic that does it, although perhaps it's just that the rapeseed oil I'm using doesn't taste of very much.

We're all rather enjoying the recipe testing. Especially when it turns out that we have inadvertently made a quantity that would feed Goliath and all his cousins ;-)

System

Actually, now that I come to think of it, if the quantity of bread in the recipe is so very different to the version I tried, then you can safely ignore our comments on flavourings because the tomato/vinegar/basil/garlic etc will go much, much further with a smaller quantity of bread. We might try the panzanella again sometime, in the correct proportions (but not this week, because my menus are already planned).

weezl74

Avocet wrote: »

And then I thought of using the microwave to heat up what was left on our plates. This greatly improved it (to our mind), and we quite like it hot. In fact, we all livened up a bit and everyone finished their plateful quite cheerfully. Nobody has gone back for seconds, though, which is rather telling in a house with a 16-year-old boy in it.

shall I say 'can be served hot or cold' on the recipe and maybe others will follow suit?

weezl74

Avocet wrote: »

Actually, now that I come to think of it, if the quantity of bread in the recipe is so very different to the version I tried, then you can safely ignore our comments on flavourings because the tomato/vinegar/basil/garlic etc will go much, much further with a smaller quantity of bread. We might try the panzanella again sometime, in the correct proportions (but not this week, because my menus are already planned).

oh that's great! I was hoping you would, but no rush, give everyone a chance to recover :rotfl:

NualaBuala

Just wanted to say sorry I haven't done any testing yet. My M.E. type symptoms have been playing up so I've being eating extremely unfrugally with ready meals (on special offer obviously). Hope to do some proper cooking as soon as I feel a little better.

Oh, and thanks for the giggle over the bread quantities! :rotfl:

twinkle_star_2

Right, having not looked at the site for while I now have a suggestion for what to do next (although it may already be in planning).

A 'What to cook/do when' guide.

I was just looking at planner 2 thinking about doing the entire plan and trying to figure out what I'd need to cook before starting. I know there's a batch cooking ideas bit but I think maybe there could be a more formally laid out plan. Something like:

Before you start:
Bake bread
Make walnut pate
Make seed spread


Saturday
Breakfast: Pancakes
Lunch: Pea Salad
Dinner: Nut roast

To do: make meals, soak chickpeas for Sunday, bake carrot cake for week

Sunday:
Breakfast: Porridge
Lunch: Walnut pate and bread
Dinner: Tomato and olive pudding

To do: cook chickpeas and make two types of hummus for lunches , cook meals, make up weeks sandwiches

I think this would help the planner be a little less overwhelming for those who aren't used to planning ahead or cooking things like chickpeas (which take forever) from scratch.