Join us on the 'Cook through a whole cookbook' challenge!

joedenise

Made my first recipe from my choice of book - Slimming World Family Feasts, of salt and pepper fish fingers & chips. Was really nice.

I used pouting instead of cod as cod is far too expensive.

Denise

emg

I'm loving this thread and off to do the shopping for my first Hairy Dieters - How to Love Food and Lose Weight recipe. The first chapter is all breakfasts and quite easy stuff - I'm going to do the first one for brunch - will report back later!

Kiwisaver_2

I had a chicken to roast today and thought I might as well see what Jamie did rather than do my usual chook stuffed with Paxo and roast until falling apart. :embarasse

So page to 196 of Jamie's MoF 'Perfect Roast Chicken' fortunately I had half an old lemon in the fridge and used some dried thyme instead of fresh. I would never have thought to roast veggies in same dish as the meat, so this was a new one for me. I didn't have celery so threw in some sliced up pumpkin instead. It all seemed like a bit of a faff at the start with veggies having to be prepared before I could get going with roasting the chook, however it made for an easier finish as I then only had to do the potatoes and gravy afterwards.

Verdict It was a winner and whilst I would have preferred my chicken cooked a bit slower and longer, I Love, love, loved the roasted veggies and wish I had done more, as I ate half the carrots while serving up.

I thought I would miss the stuffing and was half tempted to do some separately, but decided to go without and the roasted onion made up for it.

emg

Hairy Dieters - How to Love Food and Lose Weight Recipe 1/79
Toasted Crumpet with Warm Spiced Berries, Yoghurt and Honey.

Ok, I've done it! To be fair, this first one can hardly be called a recipe, they do make you scoot the berries round a pan with a bit of spice but essentially the majority of the cooking is done in a toaster!





Nothing in this one I wouldn't normally eat so a really easy start for me. Tasted quite nice, not sure I would bother warming the berries another time though. The next recipe is a homemade museli and I might put that together today to eat during the week. 5 more breakfast recipes to go!

VJsmum

I am going to use the dinner lady's cookbook, which should mean that DS will eat most of it.



First recipe tonight "lemon chicken and pea risotto"

emg

That's a great choice VJsmum, especially if you have to convince kids to eat what you cook. I had that book out from the library a while ago and the recipes all looked yummy!

cheerfulness4

I'd not heard of the Dinner Lady book. Might order that one from the library, too.

Kiwisaver - some years back I tried a J Oliver recipe for garlic, thyme and lemon roast chicken. I never thought in a million that my beloved traditional roast chicken could be removed from its top slot in our week but it toppled down when we tried Jamie's recipe. Delish!

emg - those fruity crumpets look right up our street. How did you cook the berries?

meg72

Kiwisaver wrote: »

I had a chicken to roast today and thought I might as well see what Jamie did rather than do my usual chook stuffed with Paxo and roast until falling apart. :embarasse

So page to 196 of Jamie's MoF 'Perfect Roast Chicken' fortunately I had half an old lemon in the fridge and used some dried thyme instead of fresh. I would never have thought to roast veggies in same dish as the meat, so this was a new one for me. I didn't have celery so threw in some sliced up pumpkin instead. It all seemed like a bit of a faff at the start with veggies having to be prepared before I could get going with roasting the chook, however it made for an easier finish as I then only had to do the potatoes and gravy afterwards.

Verdict It was a winner and whilst I would have preferred my chicken cooked a bit slower and longer, I Love, love, loved the roasted veggies and wish I had done more, as I ate half the carrots while serving up.

I thought I would miss the stuffing and was half tempted to do some separately, but decided to go without and the roasted onion made up for it.

I have been cooking for 50 years, always peeled and boiled my veg, only recently discovered the delight of roasted veg, now just bung it all in, don't even peal now. I still roast potatoes separately though to get them really crisp.

emg

emg - those fruity crumpets look right up our street. How did you cook the berries?[/QUOTE]

Literally just pushed them round a pan on medium heat with a teaspoon of mixed spice until they went a little bit squishy. Took 5 minutes tops!

cheerfulness4

emg wrote: »

emg - those fruity crumpets look right up our street. How did you cook the berries?

Literally just pushed them round a pan on medium heat with a teaspoon of mixed spice until they went a little bit squishy. Took 5 minutes tops![/QUOTE]

Brilliant, thanks! That could well be my breakfast tomorrow.