Weezl and friends Phase 3 - sitting pretty with Kitty

artybear

aless02 wrote: »

Arty, I've made the calzones several times now and they aren't ever nearly that pretty!!

In other news, IWM on Saturday! :eek: Is everyone ready?

Oh shucks Aless you make me blush!!!

Im ready for IWM but our tube line is down so need to leave early to get the bus gar!!!!

We should find a definate place to meet so im not taking to strangers lol:rotfl::rotfl:

SusanC_2

shanks77 wrote: »

Hi sorry not been posting much but RL is getting in the way but i have kept up with the reading so its not like reading war and peace.
Can anyone help with some ideas with what to do with gooseberries. I have never cooked with them before. I have about 2lb of green and red ones so anyb ideas gratefully received. Also have beetroot so again ideas please. Not pickled as ex and i not fans.
TIA and hope to post more over the next few days xx

Gooseberry crumble and beetroot muffins.

hornetgirl

Sorry, slight change of plan so won't be doing the nut roast tonight. I got to work this morning and my boss gave me a big parcel of ribs left over from a barbeque she had yesterday, so will be having those instead. Hope everyone who has the nut roast enjoys it. I might do it on Wednesday instead.

weezl74

Hi everyone, after tomorrow morning I won't be able to publish any edits to the site until around 30th august

Shanks has kindly agreed to keep a list for me so it doesn't get overwhelming, so to help shanks, as you're testing, please can you put in another colour any suggested improvements to the recipes

Many thanks. I'll have access to mse but no skype or web publishing.

auditbabe

Meeting on 11th August 2010



· Wheezl asked for any comments on the diagram which is located on line at MSE, everyone agreed it was very good.

There was a discussion on priorities and future ideas. The following was decided as our priorities.

1. We can do a press release about our activities;
2. Nutrition boxes to each recipe
3. Fishing articles like how to frugalise a recipe
4. Joel ... work on a planner for him.


· Discussion on the face of CFR. We need a spokesperson for the group as of yet nothing has been decided. The person who takes on this role could be in the media limelight and this could reflect on the family life.

· Wheelz and Lesley designed a spec to describe the job the theory is when anyone's got 10 mins they go to dropbox, do one and leave it for Wheelz to publish. The nutrition is going to need 2 types of volunteer.

· Wheelz asked for volunteers and she asked Hev assist on nutrition as Hev said she has plenty of free time


· Here's one of our standalones: http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/recipe-toadinthehole.html This idea seems popular with all the team. Allegra: asked for standalone recipes include recipes for grow-your-own gluts and foragers to be classed as low priority for now. The recipes will be using the food from the planners but with some small extras such as sausages.

· Artybear asked about have a recipe creator on the site. Weelz is open to the idea. Hopefully Mr Arty would design it for us. Volunteers’ are badly needed in all aspects of the project.

· Weelz needs to work on website and should delegate more.

· We also need more volunteers’ for the testing of the recipes.

· A lot of team felt they were unable to give a definite amount of time and didn’t want to let her down by not being able to keep to deadlines.


[FONT=&quot]The meeting closed at 8.45 pm[/FONT]

Allegra

First of all, a quick backtrack a day or two to the raisin scones - I'll keep it brief cos I have an inkling something did not go quite right with this one as I have absolutely no recollection of using the ready oats in preparation of this, so quite what I did instead.... Anyway, the scones are fine - not as nice as scones made with milk and butter (or indeed buttermilk) are, but bearing in mind the frugalness of these, they are fine. They do the job



BTW, !!!!!! has just gone off to have one, "Just to prove I like them" he says

Speaking of doing the job, that was also our verdict on the lemon cordial - my blender wasn't quite up to the job of making the liquid "really smooth", which might make a difference, but as it is, it's drinkable, you get your vittie C, all good.

Onion houmus, on the other hand - gosh, that's another thing I could just keep eating 'til it's gone ! It is nearly gone, anyway :rotfl:I am trying to stick as close as I can to Kitty's distribution of meals and snacks, but as it's just me eating some of the things, I also have to bear waste management in mind, which is why I have fallen behind a bit, especially when it comes to snacks - so BNS tart, for instance, hasn't been made as yet (I made it before though and we liked it, so I'll be fitting it in at some point), and I won't be making red lentil pate this week as I still have loadsa spreads to get through.

Whilst we are on the spreads, just a quick recap on what I've had so far - walnut spread fabulous (that touch of sugar juxtaposed with the garam masala, pure genius), seed spread nice as ever (I been a fan since Shirl), olive tapenade perfectly edible but does rather pale in comparison with other nice goodies on offer; red pepper houmus pretty darn good too.

Okay, moving on to today's cooking - ginger loaf batch. That was pretty nice and straightforward now I've come to terms with the size of the flour mountain and the fact that I will have to bake in two goes due to loaf tin and oven space issues - this is the first time I made instant oats-enriched bread, and I thoroughly aprove - ginger loaf not tasted yet, so more on that later.



And finally, Nut roast.

Now, I think you can always tell when my heart isn't really in it, because things go 'orribly wrong, and that was the case tonight, I'm afraid As I've never really met a nut roast I liked before, I was quite apprehensive about it, and perhaps had rather unrealistic expectations - I expected to end up with something rather loafy at the end of it which could be turned out of its tin and cut into slices - instead I got something that, despite being in the oven for more than an hour (as it refused to achieve cohesion), had to be spooned out on to our plates in the end. Still, one thing I can say about it - unlike any other nut roast that crossed my path previously, it was decidedly not dry.



Bubble and squeak disintegrated in their frying pan, as usual, but I could not even summon the strength to be aggrieved about that by that point.



So when it came to eating it, I really was rather prejudiced about it, and ready to be unimpressed.... But once I tucked in, the little bar steward really grew on me, and I polished it off quite happily. The flavours work marvellously well together, and it's a decent-sized portion even for big eaters like us (I made the full batch of nut loaf as I wanted to minimise the potential for things going wrong if I got distracted whilst halving quantities, and we still have half of it left).

weezl74

this is probably not the best thing for me to say to my lovely testers but avocet and allegras adventures with kitty are quite literally making me laugh out loud!

ps am particularly glad it had a happy ending. I so totally expected you to hurl it at me when we meet *eeeeeeep*

artybear

Allegra

Im really not willing to try the nut roast but you seem to have liked it so maybe...just maybe I will give it a go!!

Also very very nice picciesxxxxxxxxxxxx

weezl74

really arty? why's that? I can do different photographs if you think it'd be more alluring.

artybear

Nut roast just conjures up bad dried food from when i was a veggie Weezl. Nothing to do with ur pretty picture