The Great British Food Revival ** updated for series 2 **

bees**knees

Another one here having the bacon and mushroom cauliflower cheese tonight ! Going to try the Saag aloo with roasted gobi curry too - went off to get some ingredients this morning ( didnt find the BLACK mustard seeds however).
Enjoyed the programme and will watch the rest of the series - prefer it to Masterchef if Im honest. Sad that sales of cauli have dropped so much - has been a staple vegetable all my life.
Anything that encourages people to eat British seasonal foods and try British recipes gets my approval.

Any

I have to say I also very much enjoyed the fact that they go onto the fields and stuff... had no idea cauli gets cleaned straight on the field!

GetRealBabe

Hi

I enjoyed the sordough bread making. Each loaf cost £3.50:eek: So glad I make my own.:j

Hopefully this programme will encourage more people to make their own bread.:)

anguk

Another one here having cauli cheese tonight.

I'm not surprised cauli isn't sold so much now, have you seen the price of it in the supermarket! I bought a huuge one from the farm shop for £1.50 but I needed to pop into Tesco for some cat litter and had a look at their caulis, £1.50 for a tiny little thing that would barely feed one person! :eek:

The farmer on the show said that the supermarkets don't want big cauliflowers, I don't understand why? Unless it's so a family has to buy 2. :mad:

jayward

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I have the dough for the sandwich loaf proving atop the Rayburn :j

There's far too much water in the recipe, so I'll add it more cautiously next time

hi ,just thought i would ask how the bread turned out

Penelope_Penguin

jayward wrote: »

hi ,just thought i would ask how the bread turned out

It's grown hugely after the second rise :eek: Just firing up the Rayburn, so will report back when it's cooked

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i bet the sales of cauli's will go through the roof this week:rotfl:

it woud be really nice if this had a knock on effect for the farmgate sales and independant green grocers etc, not just the supermarkets...

re what was said on the programme, the nice big value for money cauli's are sold at markets etc, not the supermarkets...

so to be very mse see what the prices and sizes are like in the local markets....

My local market ( well 5 stalls and 2 of them are fruit and veg..lol...) is tomorrow, so will see how much they are there

Penelope_Penguin

jayward wrote: »

hi ,just thought i would ask how the bread turned out

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

It's grown hugely after the second rise :eek: Just firing up the Rayburn, so will report back when it's cooked

Delicious - nom, nom Nearly all gone now, so I'll make more tomorrow :T

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anguk wrote: »

Another one here having cauli cheese tonight.

I'm not surprised cauli isn't sold so much now, have you seen the price of it in the supermarket! I bought a huuge one from the farm shop for £1.50 but I needed to pop into Tesco for some cat litter and had a look at their caulis, £1.50 for a tiny little thing that would barely feed one person! :eek:

where my brother lives in France he told me that a decent cauli costs around a fiver:eek: so its treated with great respect and used in a main meal instead of meat often I love cauliflower and would happily eat it on its own.I made my DD a vegatable lasagne and substituted the aubergines for chopped cauli and she loved it.But I bet your right the minute a 't.v. chef ' gets a bee in their bonnet about a vegatable or food item it flies off the shelves and the supermarkets cotton on to shoving the price up.Sadly its not the small farmer who benefits .I try to buy as much as I can from a farm shop if possible as I know its not been in the shop that long.There is a fab one just outside Faversham called Macknades and I shall be going there next Tuesday as its not far from my sis-in-laws and I double up on visiting her and having a good look around her local farm shop

BitterAndTwisted

I'm so glad this programme is being made: one of the things I think is so shameful about this country is the difficulty in buying proper bread anywhere. It's one of the things that our Continental brethren don't understand about us, that we actually buy that factory-produced steam-baked stuff. I'm on a really restricted budget and I never buy it. The only thing it's good for is making toast and other breads make much better toast anyway.

I'm sure the programme will engender interest in proper bread but I fear that it might be too late. The last family baker in my area closed ages ago but they were a sort of half-way house between factory-bread and an artisan product in any case. I used to buy their sour-dough and it really tasted like ordinary white-flour bread to me but just carried a heavier price-tag.