Weezl and friends Phase 3 - sitting pretty with Kitty

Bigjenny

Hi snowedunderitall

I bought a silicone loaf pan from Poundland but it is smaller than a 2lb loaf tin, it was also quite saggy, I put it inside a normal metal tin to give it some support.

The bread comes out easily from a silicone pan.

HTH

hornetgirl

aureol212 wrote: »

thanks aless. Does anyone know how easy it is to grow shallots? I really like them and if growing would be cheaper...

Shallots are simple to grow. You plant them as sets, just the same as onions. We grew them once, but haven't bothered since as I find them too faffy to use. The growing part was no trouble though

kindofagilr

question

HM pizza

It says on the website this makes a triple batch so 12 pizza's

So does that just refer to the dough amounts? or does it mean for all of the recepie?

Or is:

For the tomato sauce
300g onions, sliced into rings
3 teaspoons garlic powder
6 cans chopped tomatoes
30g tomato puree

freshly ground black pepper
250g cheese to sprinkle

That bit per time you eat it if that makes sense?

weezl74

kindofagilr wrote: »

question

HM pizza

It says on the website this makes a triple batch so 12 pizza's

So does that just refer to the dough amounts? or does it mean for all of the recepie?

Or is:

For the tomato sauce
300g onions, sliced into rings
3 teaspoons garlic powder
6 cans chopped tomatoes
30g tomato puree

freshly ground black pepper
250g cheese to sprinkle

That bit per time you eat it if that makes sense?

it's a good question! and yes that topping should be for all the pizzas hence the enormous amount of tomatoes! xxx

kindofagilr

weezl74 wrote: »

it's a good question! and yes that topping should be for all the pizzas hence the enormous amount of tomatoes! xxx

Thanks thats what made me think, hold on this is a lot of tomatoes lol

So do you make the whole batch of pizzas and topping etc, then do you cook the bases then freeze them?? and freeze the topping once its cooled down?

Greying_Pilgrim

Murrell ((((hugs))))

Weezl/Allegra this question will probably make me seem really stoopid, so bear with me..... but the Toad in The Hole (meat sausage) is going on the xmas menu right? Are you planning that the xmas menu will be included in the £100 monthly budget, or are you thinking that maybe people are going to have a little set aside to afford xmas goodies or will it be 25% of the monthly budget iyswim. The reason for asking this seemingly daft question is that I realise that in Kitty's budget there is no room for expenditure on soya yoghurt (and I'm very much afraid I'm not sure how much soya yoghurt costs - is it much dearer than conventional?), but if you were planning food for a special occasion then the budget would cover what needed to be bought.

I fully realise that I may well have followed the thread but not totally understood the concept. I thought that Kitty's planner would be suitable for vegans, but wasn't wholly about being vegan (I mean no offence by that to any vegans reading). I thought it was as much about not compromising and at the start of the project, 'barn eggs' seemed to be a stumbling block for some on ethical grounds and FR eggs are more expensive making them difficult to include in a budget planner.

I suggested the vegan TITH (for consideration) because I thought that it would enable you to have some parity between the planners for xmas. Or it could be used as a stand alone recipe once our Kittys and Shirl's had gained confidence with cooking fabulous meals with less dosh. I really do apologise if I've totally got the wrong end of the stick, I only wanted to contribute to what I think is an absolutely superb project.

Shuffles back to lurkdom.......

pinkie_pie

Morning

I've have a few questions - I'm really sorry if they're irrelevant as I'm obviously way behind everyone else I'm making the carrot cake but not marmalade as I don't have any jars - do I need the rest of the orange for anything such as the marmalade? I think I had 5 or 6 oranges delivered, I know I'm meant to be using 3 more for carrot cake during the month, and I know carcasses are used for the marmalade, do I need to save this carcass? Can I freeze it? Sorry I've got all in a muddle

pinkie_pie

And another one (sorry!)
Allegra - on your batch cooking for day one, plus on another post about this too, you've put to bake two loafs of bread, or if you bake one you'll need another on Thursday. However, on another post Weezl's said that the plan gives 5 slices of bread per person a day (I did read that right didn't I?) which would mean at 15 slices a loaf it needs 1 and a third loafs of bread a day? Am I right or completely wrong lol

Bigjenny

Hi Snowedunderitall

Yes the orange carcasses need be be saved for the marmalade, and they can be frozen.

HTH

Allegra

snowedunderitall wrote: »

And another one (sorry!)
Allegra - on your batch cooking for day one, plus on another post about this too, you've put to bake two loafs of bread, or if you bake one you'll need another on Thursday. However, on another post Weezl's said that the plan gives 5 slices of bread per person a day (I did read that right didn't I?) which would mean at 15 slices a loaf it needs 1 and a third loafs of bread a day? Am I right or completely wrong lol

Not two loaves, Snowed - two batches, each consisting of four loaves. These are the quantities and frequency for a family of four, if there are fewer of you I'd recommend do a single batch on the first batch cooking day then see how long it lasts, then work out from that how often you'll have to make them in the future

If you rely on a BM that can only produce one loaf at a time, you would have to have it going couple of times a day on occasion for a family of four or more, plus you'd have more waste where you could not get a proper slice off the bottom due to the paddle hole. That's why I ended up retiring my BM - sometimes there is actual method in my madness

Greying, I'll get back to your question once I've talked to the brain. AFAIK though Weezl is not producing a full veggie/vegan Christmas planner, just a main veggie alternative for the day itself. This is not due to the discrimination against veggies and vegans, but purely due to the time constraints, as each planner requires a humoungous amount of techie work, the majority of which is done by one overworked mother of two cute tiny boys, so when a decision is made what to go for first, the reason that swings it is always "which option will help most people" and that, I'm afraid, does happen to be meat-eaters

Nothing, however, is ruled out for the future, as long as it meets the budgetary constraints, so please keep the suggestions coming, and please do not feel ignored or marginalised if they are not taken up immediately - it really is purely a matter of time ! So no shuffling off to lurkdom if you have something to say - we do read, and we do listen