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Favourite Meal to Cook?

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  • thriftlady wrote: »
    Making jams and chutneys is very satisfying too.

    I love Jam, especially on crusty bread or cream crackers for when you crave something sweet.

    Is it fairly easy to make? Don't suppose you could give us a 'basic' recipe please Thriftlady??
  • sali_mali
    sali_mali Posts: 1,967 Forumite
    I enjoy making meals that you can vary each time - pastas, omelettes, sauces (like bolognaise). I like making things up as I go along! very satifying when it comes out looking and tasting lovely. Although a bit of a pain when I try and remember how to make it again a few weeks later :rolleyes:
    Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. Oscar Wilde
  • I don't get that much satisfaction from making meals as it is impossible to find anything that everybody including a rabid meat eater and a veggie like. I love baking though and I think queen of puddings has to be my favourite, oh and meringues.
    Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:

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  • scheming_gypsy
    scheming_gypsy Posts: 18,410 Forumite
    got to be my chilli, everybody who's tried it has always asked me to make it again an again and take some home with them.. probably cos i won't tell people i know, how i make it :p
  • pennineman
    pennineman Posts: 1,973 Forumite
    Just baked one of my favourite meals: sausage bake.

    Just a few of our butcher's special sausages (lots of herbs etc.), one baked potato chunked, one large onion chunked, one apple chunked. All in dish that just holds them and then a tablespoon of sunflower oil or similar drizzled over. Plus mixed herbs. Then 40 mins at Gas mark 5, then turn the chunks, then 40 mins at Mark 6.

    Do some peas to add when cooked.

    Delicious and very easy to make. :cool:
    Where now?
  • I'm with the others on this - i enjoy cooking for the process, rather tham the end result!

    However, my personal "challenge" at the moment is perfecting my brother's cannelloni recipe. My brother and his (now) wife prepared it for the family at their engagement dinner, and my OH has ranted about it ever since. I got the recipe, but it never seems to go quite to plan.

    the first version was awful, but I am getting better at it - the problem is that it requires major preparation - it takes hours to cook all of the elements, and then you have to put it togather and cook it in the oven. So. it's not something you can knock up in an evening!

    I love preparing it, and although I feel like I am running the gauntlet of comparison every time I cook it, which can be gutting after the hours of preparation, I love the challenge!!! One day, I will beat my brother, and then I'll probably never ever be able to replicate it again!!!

    MM
  • I love Jam, especially on crusty bread or cream crackers for when you crave something sweet.

    Is it fairly easy to make? Don't suppose you could give us a 'basic' recipe please Thriftlady??

    I'm with thriftaldy on this, too (btw were we sisters and not told about it?!).
    My absolute fave is rhubarb and strawberry jam: one of those combinations which is far far more than the sum of its parts - and economical too - AND you can't buy it in the shops! Winner all round, I say....
    Is it home time yet?
  • I'm with thriftaldy on this, too (btw were we sisters and not told about it?!).
    My absolute fave is rhubarb and strawberry jam: one of those combinations which is far far more than the sum of its parts - and economical too - AND you can't buy it in the shops! Winner all round, I say....

    So can you give us a recipe for jam:o please:D or is it an old family recipe you'd rather keep to yourself.
  • So can you give us a recipe for jam:o please:D or is it an old family recipe you'd rather keep to yourself.

    Here it is...
    1lb rhubarb
    11/4lb strawberries
    3 tablespoons lemon juice
    2lb sugar

    cut rhubarb into 1" chunks, put in pan with whole strawberries and lemon juice and cover with sugar. Go and sunbathe for a couple of hours. (I've also left this overnight and it has come to no harm). Heat slowly until sugar is dissolved, then boil until setting point is reached. Cool slightly, stir to distribute fruit, spoon into hot sterilised jars and seal down.

    Re rhubarb: don't use the expensive new pink forced stuff, but equally don't use the last of summer ancient green treetrunk stuff: the ideal is new shoots of rhubarb that have come through at the same time as the glut of strawbs - for obvious reasons!!)

    Enjoy!
    Is it home time yet?
  • Oooh, this thread is making me hungry :D I adore cooking and spend hours out in the kitchen .... it's so hard to pick a favourite. I enjoy dishing up roasts because we all sit down together to eat so it's a high point of the week. Spag bol with plenty of red wine and basil (because I can polish off the rest of the bottle of wine!) ... lasagne because it's DH's favourite ... soup ... oh, how do you pick?! Don't even get me started on puds! No wonder I've got a big bum! :rotfl:
    Learning how to save money with 5 little ones ... help!! :p
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