August 2013 Grocery Challenge

NSD here. Breadrolls look amazing! Gonna give them a try after my holiday

Nicki sue - here you go! And Bluegreen - your rolls look yummy! Sheepappar - this recipe requires minimal time, just some space in the fridge!

Basic recipe makes 3 or 4 loaves (not all at once though) depending on how big you want them, this uses American cup sizes, measuring volume rather than weight. Cup measures are available in a lot of supermarkets and in Lakeland kitchenware shop.

In a large bowl pour
3 cups of warm water, add
1.5 tbspn dried yeast, and
1.5 tbspn good salt - rock salt ideally, then
6.5 cups of bread flour (I tend to use a mix of white and stoneground)


Stir the ingredients together with a wooden spoon. That's right, stir, don't knead. Combine everything into a sloppy dough and cover with clingfilm (not airtight).

Allow the dough to rise for about 2 hours at room temperature and then pop the bowl into the fridge. This dough mixture will keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks, so you can choose to bake as and when you need or want to.

So, when you're ready to bake, ideally you'll have left the dough in the fridge overnight. Flour a worksurface or bread board and flour your hands. The dough is pretty sticky so you may need to use more as you go along to stop the dough sticking to your hands. Take a piece of dough from the bowl, a quarter, or a third. Cut it from the rest with a serrated knife. Holding the dough in your hands, stretch the dough across the top of the ball and underneath, turning a little and then repeating. In this way the top of the dough becomes smooth. It seems at this point, just the consistency of kneaded dough, but you are only doing this very gently, and for less than a minute.

Place the dough, in a flattened ball shape, onto the board and allow to rise at room temperature for about 40 minutes. Preheat the oven to 225C. Sprinkle the top of the loaf with flour and score across the top several times with a sharp knife. Bake on a tray or in a buttered pyrex dish (my preference) for 30 minutes, or until golden. Turn out and allow to cool on a wire rack.

This may seem like a lot of steps, but remember you still have enough dough to make several more loaves, and the preparation for each loaf takes a few minutes - mostly you're just leaving it to do it's own thing! Once you've done it a few times it is like second nature.

Hey all, I hope you are all well! Yet again I have fallen from the grocery budget wagon, this time due to moving house, summer holidays and visiting families!

I dread to think of how much I've spent, and also seem to have gotten into a bad habit of buying bargains without actually meal planning! So have two freezers pretty full and full cupboards and still seem to think I've no food!

So I have actually done my meal plan!!! And will really only need fresh fruit, salad and milk! Now I just have to learn to go and buy what I actually need instead of getting distracted while I'm in there!

Since I'm well stocked, I'm aiming for £150 from 9th - 9th

forever_saving wrote: »

A nsd for me today, two days in a row.
Quite a productive day. We dug up one a half rows of potatoes from our allotment. A big potato sack full. We have several more rows to do. Enough broad beans picked to fill up an empty ice cream container, now in the freezer. Half an ice cream tub filled with raspberries from our allotment,also in the freezer. Hopefully this will help with the budget.
Can anyone help with this question. I took out of the freezer today a pack of chicken and a pack of beef, which were already cooked a little while ago. I was cooking a curry with both meats. I only used the beef in the end as there was more in there than i thought. Will the chicken be ok for me to use tomorrow for dinner? It has been in the fridge since it came out of the freezer this morning.
Thank you in advance.
Sorry for long rambling post.
FS

I would say yes ,but if you had it out of the fridge then...

Bluegreen - I was also going to ask for the chorizo risotto recipe, I have some risotto rice in and if we like it I might modify it to try me orzo instead!