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By Liz from Cumbria: Been summonsed .... (2 Replies)
Monday 08 September 18:02
...for jury duty. Have to report to Carlisle Crown Court at 9:30 on Monday 3rd November. My first response was "butter"! However, on reflection it's my civic duty and hopefully, I'll get to mooch around the city if I'm not called immediately. The records office isn't too far away from the courts so I could indulge in my genealogica hobby. Maybe doing my civic duty won't be so bad (fingers crossed.)

By Liz from Cumbria: Yummy (I hope) leftovers (2 Replies)
Monday 08 September 17:56
Yesterday we had lamb shanks, slow simmered in red wine and red onions, along with colcannon and veg. The lamb shanks were lovely but I hadn't realised how large they were and neither of us could finish our shanks. Today, I've stripped the meat from the remains and added par boiled diced potatoes, carrots and leeks, added the red wine gravy and the onions put it all in a pie dish and popped a pastry topping on. Hopefully it will be good, it certainly smells good.

By Crafty Cookie: Sorry I Have Not Been Around Much (5 Replies)
Monday 08 September 16:05
Been revolting and busy catering..........

By Rob!!: hi all (13 Replies)
Monday 08 September 11:50

By relaxed cook: Winter warmers (6 Replies)
Monday 08 September 11:45
Well the mullet stayed in the freezer - I just didn't fancy it. But instead I made lancashire hotpot with lamb shank on Saturday and then on Sunday proper roast chicken with roasties and bread sauce (I love it) followed by blackberry and apple crumble and then Stilton. Talk about bedding in for winter! I also got my winter clothes down from the loft and put away all my summer stuff - most of which I didn't wear this year because it just wasn't warm enough to be wafting round in white linen skirts etc!

By Lilablu: Dalia not Delia (3 Replies)
Monday 08 September 10:38
Can anyone help, my dalia's have been wonderful this year but what do I do at the end of the flowering. Should I dig them up and replant next year like daffys or just leave them in.....help LB

By YELLOWTOES: fao cake eater (6 Replies)
Monday 08 September 02:25
i just posted a crazy cake receipe for your cake bible from
1800s made w/ old cake pieces or cookie crumbles or
both and soaked w/raspberry jam and rum and absinthe
made for duke alexis of russia when he visited new orleans u can also use muffins and crumbled pie crust''
i hope u will try it

By Dolly: Cheesecakes for Biggs.... (6 Replies)
Sunday 07 September 16:04
Biggs,
Just in case you don't return to earlier thread, I have suggested the Key Lime Pie in my profile but the Super Rich Cheesecake is also very good and I forgot about the Baileys Cheesecake (photon on picasa) but if you want the recipe for this one I will have to go find it, didn't realize I hadn't posted onto profile...
Dolly
:0)

By The Dinner Service: Question for Dolly.... (12 Replies)
Sunday 07 September 15:44
..if the doctor told you you had the galloping gunkies and you couldn't eat any more cheesecake ever, which one would you eat as your "last cheesecake supper"? Just thinking about you as I am having a piece of the one I made yesterday. made some blackcurrant and raspberry coulis to go with it and it is wonderful..............

By WOODPIGEON: Marks & Spencer reductions (7 Replies)
Sunday 07 September 12:55
Did anyone know that M&S are now reducing their food that is on its last sell by date. I certainly didnt. passed through the food hall at Milton Keynes mid-afternoon yesterday on the way to first floor and noticed several assistants with yellow stickers! Got some good bargains including a large Oakham chicken which we are having for lunch today. Must be a sign of the times as I have never know them to do this before, I asked one of the assistants about it and she said they had been doing it for a few months now to cut down on the waste that would have previously just been dumped. Couldnt believe it, Tescos yellow stickers yes but M&S never! but wont complain.

By Sam, worthing west sussex, uk: Quiet today (11 Replies)
Sunday 07 September 12:15
you all in bed reading the sunday's?????

By The Dinner Service: I've just made... (14 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 22:57
a huge white loaf. It looks amazing and gorgeous. Going to have it for breaksfast with Morrisons Brittany Butter with Sea Salt Crystals. Feeling very proud. My sister came for dinner and I told her I'd done her favourite pudding. "Great" she said, "Apple Crumble". It was a New York Vanilla Baked Cheesecake with Poppy Seeds.
Fortunately that was gorgeous too. Feeling happy again.
DS XX

By Liz from Cumbria: Is anyone else suffering February "blahs" in September? (8 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 19:53
I'm sick to death of rain, rain and more rain. I've cooked up a storm (including baking) but I'm fed up of thinking what can I do for a change. OH is getting on my wick (not his fault really - I know it's me being irritable).
If it's still raining tomorrow, I think I'm going to go and jump in the biggest puddle I can find (and I don't have any wellies) and splash the whole world!
Tell me I'm not alone!

By Elpe: Gü jars (10 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 18:06
If you buy those little desserts, do you just throw the empty jars in the recycling box or have you found uses for them? I currently have several in the freezer with small amounts of herbs from the garden and two are in the fridge with left overs. I also find I use them to pop prepared shallots in till I'm ready to cook them as the plastic top keeps the smell contained. And they're useful for cracking eggs into. I'd welcome any other ideas. x x

By The Dinner Service: Sorry Gravy Queen (19 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 16:03
Sorry abut my inane ramblings. Most days this is the nearest thing I get to a conversation with the outside world. Bit choked up about your comment. Sorry to everyone else too. Didn't realise I was quite that boring. Feel great now. :-(
DS X

By *Crumbs

Part-time courses? (10 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 16:00

I`ve scoured our local tech brochure for something interesting like pasta making, bread making etc, and there`s nothing! I paid for a a12 week course in papercraft only to be told yesterday that as only 4 people had shown interest they probably wouldn`t be running it!

Back to the drawing board. Anyone doing anything exciting this term?

By Dolly: Cookery book win... (12 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 13:45
I entered a comp sometime ago and yesterday received Phil Vickerys "A Passion for Puddings" cook book as the prize....lovely surprise....
Dolly
:0)

By Anna.

sour dough bread (1 Reply)
Saturday 06 September 12:53

I have just recieved an email from Dan lepard who is hosting a workshop in London on how to make sour dough bread. I have put a link to the website below in case anyone is interested.
Anna

http://www.cookeryschool.co.uk/workshops_2.html

By The Dinner Service: Do you call it tea or dinner?..... (28 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 10:21
I fluctuate between the two which confuses my boy no end. I tend to think of it as tea if we eat quite early - 6 or before and dinner if it's later, but no hard and fast rule. I'm very inconsistent about it. The REAL poshies I have cooked for call it supper which no doubt some of you do as I'm sure you are far more sophisticated than me (or should that be "I"?) My boy insists that can't be right either as supper is something like a glass of milk and a biscuit at bedtime. I don't care what it's called as long as it tastes good!
DS XX

By The Dinner Service: I'd never cooked Bulghur Wheat before... (5 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 10:15
I've only ever soaked it in cold water for use in Tabbouleh which I'm not a big fan of as the wheat is just too chewy. Last night realised I'd run out of couscous so ended up cooking bulghur wheat and it was really delicious. Needs plenty of seasoning, oil, herbs or whatever but it was so nice with my Flash Fried Moroccan Chicken which was gorgeous, easy peasy and quick. All in all a really nice tea.
DS XX

By Jo Hill, Editor: Win a year's free shopping from Tesco! (6 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 08:32
Have you seen our latest competition - well worth entering in these cash-pressed times I think! You do have to register to get entries but it's not one of those where you then get loads of spam mail as a result.

By Jo Hill, Editor

Food and wine workshops at NCFC (2 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 08:31

Have heard that these are now to be called Food and Wine Workshops with Alex Mackay. Delia will no longer be in attendance at them, and the cocktail man won't be there either, but I've been told that Alex will be doing a Ready, Steady Cook! type demo too:

Alex is going to do a brand new bonus demo whereby he will draw on his experience from Ready Steady Cook and make a dish or two from a surprise bag of ingredients. Audience members will be invited to come up with a dish and then one person will be chosen to cook with Alex.

Thought you'd be interested to know about this!

By Yummy: Off on my Jollies (6 Replies)
Saturday 06 September 07:01
See you all next week. Bon Appetit , Yummy :0)))

By Liz from Cumbria: Delia's Chocolate Beer Cake - the verdict....
Friday 05 September 20:11
It's absolutely stupendous! Not a "sweet" cake, which suits me down to the ground but rich and satisfying and very definitely moreish. OH says I haven't got to make it too often because he'll end up like a blimp. I actually took a photo so will send to DQ to put onto the gallery. Have to admit that my photographic skills are not brilliant, but ...
I would definitely recommend this but if you prefer a sweeter cake, it maybe wouldn't be for you.

By The Dinner Service: Spent nearly all day... (4 Replies)
Friday 05 September 19:18
springcleaning my "bible"- typing up new recipes to go in; getting rid of a few I've gone off; printing them all out from scratch; filing them; wiping all the pages. Been putting it off for months. Now for the shopping list.......

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