Hi there again!
With suddenly no one around to help one day I decided to prepare some meal. I’ve manage to do cutlets which I reckon as my personal achievement.
And what is yours?

Scrambled eggs. Thats it i'm afraid :(

My best achievement in cooking? Probably a cheese toastie :D

I cooked bacon stroganoff for Chris last night.... It was yummy!!!

I made ravioli from scratch at the weekend. Impressed myself!

Jamie may well be a fat-tongued mockney herbert but I can't fault his recipes - every egg a bird.

edit: I don't mean SheffieldForum's Jamie, to be perfectly clear!

Originally posted by Fantomas
Jamie may well be a fat-tongued mockney herbert but I can't fault his recipes - every egg a bird.

edit: I don't mean SheffieldForum's Jamie, to be perfectly clear!



Thanks everyone. But who is mockney herbert?
Sorrie me is verry weack wiz English stil ;)

I made me a very tasty Ossetrina Pod Syrom the day.
Delicious.

An ex G/F of mine taught me this recipe.

* 500 g sturgeon.
* 3-4 yolks.
* 1 cup sour cream.
* 1 tb butter.
* 1/2 cup dried and finely ground bread crumbs.
* 1 cup cheese grated
* 2 tb vegetable oil.
* 1/2 lemon.
* salt, greens.

Boil sturgeon in the pan with carrot, parsley root, bay leaf, pepper and salt for 15 minutes. Cut sturgeon into slices, salt them and put on the fridge for 2 hours.

Blend yolks of hard boiled eggs with sour cream and butter.
Put fish slices in the pan, pour the liquid on them, sprinkle with dried and finely ground bread crumbs, lemon juice, vegetable oil.

Cover the top with grated cheese. Put the pan in the hot oven for 20 minutes. Decorate with lemon and greens.
Sturgeon is served with fried potatoes.

For someone who did Home Ec at GCSE level and passed my cooking is highly amusing :D but I can bake for England... sometimes I have massive baking frenzies and churn out many bun and pastry items.
I make a mean vanilla sponge with jam sauce, and a superb chocolate cake, a top millionaires shortbread and apple crumble to go crazy over. :banana:
The only savoury items I can do is Quiche and stir-fry :thumbsup: I once managed a chicken chassuer but I put metal casserole dish in microwave :loopy: :? was still nice tho, no immediate side effects :roll:

I love cooking! I can cook most things, and enjoy experimenting. my fav dish I like doing at the moment is morrocan chicken (its got tahini and almonds in the sauce) which is served with cous cous.

I love having dinner parites and cooking 3 courses for friends. My friends seem to love it too funnily enough. Does this make me mad or sad!?!

ooh, have you got a recipe for that morrocan chicken - it sounds yummy.

I'm okay at cooking, not so good at baking - I don't like following recipes, you see, i like guestimating.

My best meal is prob chicken in honey and "stuff" served with courgettes, peppers and rice.

Made bread and butter pudding for the first time ever last week, it was great.

oh look i've made myself hungry again, bah!

i'm crap at cooking but look ok doing it 8) :P

I am OK at some types of Spanish/Mexican cuisine.

I love cooking so much - me and my other half even fight over whose turn it is to cook because we both want to do it! We tend to watch the food channel sometimes for ideas, and re-invent a lot Jamie Oliver/Rick Stein recipes to our own tastes as well as just making stuff up on the fly. My latest cooking craze is homemade vegetable soup - I think I've got the recipe down just right now! We cook just about anything - Chinese, curries, Thai, Italian, Greek and I love cooking for other people too.

I like to bake too - my other half is particularly good at bread and I'm better at doing things like pastries, cakes and the like. I've got a gorgeous recipe for the best brownies ever - it's a shame they're a million calories each considering the recipe uses a 200g bar each of dark, milk and white chocolate, half a small bag of sugar and a full pack of real butter!

Having made myself out to be a bit of a foodie, I have to admit that one of my favourite meals is alphabites and fishfingers ;-)

Originally posted by angel_b
Having made myself out to be a bit of a foodie, I have to admit that one of my favourite meals is alphabites and fishfingers ;-)

There are times (usually when hungover) when a fish finger butty with lashings of ketchup is the only way forward.

Or maybe that's just me.

Originally posted by Fantomas
There are times (usually when hungover) when a fish finger butty with lashings of ketchup is the only way forward.

Or maybe that's just me.

No, not just you - fishfinger butties are the food of gods! I sometimes prefer a squirt of saladcream on them to ketchup though... it seems to go so well with fishfingers. Sweet chilli sauce and HP fruity sauce are also good alternatives. Just a light scraping of butter/marg on the bread too so the fishfingers will melt it and make the bread go nice and soggy!

It's a bit weird that I love them so much actually, seeing as I hate fish with a passion. Mind, I'm of the opinion that fishfingers consist of factory floor sweepings rather than real fish ;-)

Originally posted by Jayne
ooh, have you got a recipe for that morrocan chicken - it sounds yummy.

I'm okay at cooking, not so good at baking - I don't like following recipes, you see, i like guestimating.

My best meal is prob chicken in honey and "stuff" served with courgettes, peppers and rice.

Made bread and butter pudding for the first time ever last week, it was great.

oh look i've made myself hungry again, bah!

Here you go! Very easy. Very yummy. Best using a big stainless steel pan. (one of those frying pans that is deep and comes with a lid if that makes sense, rather than a saucepan). When you add the spices to the oil, you'll get a paste type mixture, that is right! (I mix all the spices together first before adding to the oil so you add them at the same time) make sure it's not lumpy before adding the chicken. It says 2 tablespoons of tahini, but I usually use a bit more than that. I'm a very organised cook and prepare everything ready before cooking like on the TV!!! That way you can add ingredients when you need to and don't burn anything while you stop to chop something else up!

Enjoy

2tbsp olive oil
2 garlic gloves finely chopped
1 tbsp each ground coriander and cumin
1tsp ground ginger
10 cardamom pods crushed
4 large chicken breasts boned skinned and halved (lengthways)
3oz sultanas (optional)
14oz tin chopped tomatoes
2oz pitted black olives halved
juice 1 lemon
2tsp brown sugar
2tbsp tahini
2oz sliced almonds toasted
fresh coriander sprigs and couscous

Heat oil in large pan. Add garlic,coriander, cumin, cardamom and ginger and fry for 1 minute. Add chicken and sultanas, brown lightly for about 3 mins, coating chicken with spices. Add tomatoes, olives, lemon juice, sugar, a pinch of salt and tahini. Stir well, then simmer for 10 mins until chicken is cooked. Stir in toasted almonds and garnish with coriander sprigs.
Good luck !

Maybe you should start a forum cookbook. Everyone can donate a recipe with a name that encompasses their pseudonym eg 'Babooshkas Bang Bang Beef' and then put them all together and sell it to forumers (very cheaply of course). It could make a few quid for a charity.

Yes, that’s a good idea ;)

Thanks everyone reporting. I feel the desperate urge to take a week off my job again to try all of these.
Food vacation, this is.

P.S. And I still have no clue who is MOCKNEY HERBERT. There’s no such word in my dictionary.

Yeah cooking is a real social event in our house. Babooshka and The Captain (for those who know me) are always cooking. We played another Ready, Steady, Cook last night. Hilarious! As for the cook book...let's get it underway. See new recipe topic in 'Wanted' section. Maybe we can collect one recipe from each forum member here and then when we have 100 or so recipes we can make the book. What say ye?

If you'll decide to publish the Russian Edition of this very promising book (translation and stuff) -- well you know whom to ask.
:wave:

boyf created a strangely nice alltogether curry... I kinda helped in the stirring things capacity :D It sounds gross but it was nice, had in it
2 Onions
1/2 tin sweetcorn
Broccolli
Hefty dollop of Dolmio sauce
Hefty dollop of Sharwoods Rogan Josh Sauce
2 sausages
1 grilled chicken breast
4 mini sausage rolls
1 grated carrot
It was surprisingly good and Im still alive to tell the tale :D :thumbsup:

I have a recipe for italian chicken; chicken cooked in a tomato sauce with mozzerella cheese on top scrummy mmmmm
:thumbsup:

What is good cooking though? I can follow complicated recipes and come out with a good result, but I'm not sure that's quite enough to be called a good cook.

My gf can look at (to my eyes) my empty cupboards and have something amazing rustled up off the top of her head in no time. Hence I think she's a much better cook than I am. I struggle a bit when I have to improvise - getting better though!

Originally posted by Fantomas
What is good cooking though? I can follow complicated recipes and come out with a good result, but I'm not sure that's quite enough to be called a good cook.

My gf can look at (to my eyes) my empty cupboards and have something amazing rustled up off the top of her head. Hence I think she's a much better cook than I am. I struggle a bit when I have to improvise - getting better though!


Yes Fantomas, you are right. The good cook can impress, that's it.

As to those messages ppl have posted here -- well I got impressed just by reading them. Brilliant!

:thumbsup:

I can do a quick meal out of the freezer compartment in the Co-Op and that's my lot as far as cooking's concerned.

But that's enough for me, I don't go for all the fancy beef stroganoffs and all that business, even though I do eat meat.

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