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Which ingredients do you make and which do you buy?
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Nooooooooo!I'm a bloke so everything shop purchased tastes better than I could ever make it !
My OH was like that, but he cooks (somethings, sometimes) now and I'm really proud of him - he even told me the other day he could get x amount of meals out of 800g of mince
, and asked if he could cook it for me from scratch 
Can't really think of anything that I prefer shop bought - food just tastes much better to me when it's HM - but I do buy some things for ease of use, such as puff pastry for a steak pie. Much easier than standing there knocking it up yourself.0 -
In Champys' household pretty much everything is home-made, we grow our own veg and I even frown on using stock cubes as there is usually HM stock in the freezer.
However: have to admit that I do not like the taste of my HM mayonnaise. I have no problem getting the consistency right, but the taste, well, it lacks 'oomph' somehow. I buy a Belgian or German-made one in the shops that tastes loads better. I don't like French or English made either.
But there must be a trick to remedy this. If anybody on this thread can help me improve my mayonnaise I promise never to buy it ready-made again! And I would be very grateful."Remember that many of the things you have now you could once only dream of" - Epicurus0 -
Another vote for pastry. I'm a reasonable cook but have never been able to make decent pastry. I don't buy it very often so it doesn't cost much more than HM.0
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I much prefer home made generally but I'm not that good at curries and I've never managed to get anywhere near sainsbury's chinese sticky ribs - fab -u-lous!Just call me Nodwah the thread killer0
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Aunt Bessie's (small) ready made Yorkshire Puddings, just pop them in the oven in the last few minutes, I stopped making these myself a long while ago.
Also ready made pastry, but that's all.Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.0 -
We have an existing thread on this question; I'll merge this thread to keep ideas together.
Penny. x:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:0 -
I tried to make my own honey - kept falling off the flowers so gave up!0
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bump bump - too good to lose!0
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