the takeaway secret

pulliptears

Ive found my cookies tend to be very soft, but when left out to cool they do harden up nicely.

gtx

Chocolate cheesecake mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - already knew it was very rich so we only had half portions with some fresh strawberries ( I will get my kids to eat more fruit and veg, I will, I will;))

Didn't make chicken noodle soup - majority vote was for sweet and sour chicken balls. Except we had turkey balls , just don't tell the kids they don't like turkey:rotfl:

It was another success - I added peppers, onoin and sweetcorn to the sauce (I will get more veg in them, I will, I will) but ds doesn't like sweet and sour so had the white kebab sauce leftover from last night ( I only made 1 portion but for us it was quite alot) and he said it tasted even better than last night, so I had a dip (would have been rude not to, right?) and he was right the garlic seemed to have more depth but not as harsh a flavour - hope that makes sense.

Don't think I've thanked the OP but truly heartfelt, sincere thanks are being sent right now - we thought takeaway food was off the menu forever but now with a few little tweaks here and there alot of the recipes in this book are going to fine, while they may not taste exactly the same, the stuff out of jars tastes nothing the same - i know that makes it sound like all we ate was takeaways, honestly, it was once a fortnight at the most finances wouldn't allow any more:p but once we couldn't have them ...

take care

gtx

Uniscots97

Made the kebab again with red sauce. Does anyone know how I could pad this out? i.e. could I mix pork or beef mince in with the lamb mince to stretch it out a bit?

sb44

gtx wrote: »

Urgh sb44, I'd forgotten about that, it used to be gross! Still ate it mind
gtx

So did we and still do if I haven't been bothered to make any.

kittycat204

unixgirluk wrote: »

Made the kebab again with red sauce. Does anyone know how I could pad this out? i.e. could I mix pork or beef mince in with the lamb mince to stretch it out a bit?

I pad mine out in the pitta with loads of fresh salad, i wouldn't want to mess with the recipe too much, personally. and slice it as thinly as i can.

pulliptears

I think I've about mastered the Tikka Masala now, getting that spot on is difficult as every takeaway has its own version but I like mine quite sweet and creamy. An extra tablespoon of yogurt seems to do the trick and the last one I made was gorgeous! Just put a bowl in to marinade for tomorrow

kerri_gt

Made chicken donor kebab with red sauce for OH at the weekend - he said it was the best kebab he's ever had...I might have made a rod for my own back lol!

mogwai

Just made my first item from the first book, margherita pizza - mmmmmm sooo good! DH said it was like pizza from italian restaurants, which was the idea!

Great first success, will maybe try chicken donor next..

And the chocolate cheesecake looks super easy to do, may try making these for dinner at sis' house tomorrow.

mogwai

Oo and I costed it up out of curiosity, and it was ~ £0.94 for a normal version, and ~ £1.27 for a low fat version using half fat mozarella which I will prob use from now on..

Per pizza

bread flour 40p per kg 5p
yeast 7g 10p
olive oil tbs 10p
salt, sugar 5p

sauce
tomato can 400g 25p
herbs 10p
garlic clove 10p
use only 2-3 tbsp of sauce so 5p

topping
mozzarella 100g 35p (68p half fat)
1 tomato 14p
olive oil 10p

Total: £0.94

Fed me and DH, lovely!

Melonade

Hi,

Hoping someone can help me out please My brother has my copy of takeaway secret atm but I was going to make some Big Macs tonight. Could someone please post the recipe for the burger patty only? I don't need anything else because if I mess the sauce up (again, wrong gherkins lol) they'll just have to live with ketchup.

I knew I should of stuck to something I know by heart like the meatball subs instead of promising something I've already failed at, silly me