Official Cooking Thread

[zlastboss]

ur veggies are overcooked lens

prolly taste good any way

[Guest Lens]

"overcooked" hasn't entered my vocabulary yet. but sayfe for comments

[Grafter]

i want to make a pie, like a steak and ale pie

but i want it to be like in the chip shop, u kno where the pastry is all the way around

only recipes i can find only has pastry for the top

what kind of pastry do they use in chip shop pies, are they using suet?

[BLACK VICTIM]

bolognaise goes with everything just yesterday i put some in a crispy pitta bread with lettuce n spring onions, bit of ranch, cup of tea, damn nigga!

[Guest Lens]

shortcrust @ Grafter

[Grafter]

thanks

[charliechalk]

Yesterday thought I'd try something new so we had duck thigh roasted with garlic and rosemary, sweet potato mash and green beans. Duck was ok, wouldn't rush to buy it again though. Today it's tomato and mixed herb pasta with tuna and red peppers and garlic bread. Would take a picture but then people will think I'm a weirdo.

[Guest Lens]

no, pics are normal for the thread, feel free.

[Dubby]

I need a proper camera, everything looks like crap from my HTC phone

[Dubby]

Anyone know a good tomato sauce (for pasta) recipe? As cheap as Ragu is I wanna start doing my own sauce.

[Guest WAVESURFER]

Dice up half a red onion, fried in a little olive oil until soft, add in a minced garlic clove and cook a little (make sure it doesn't burn). Tear up some basil leaves and throw em in (or some dried oregano), immediately followed by a tin of plum/cherry tomatoes. Season with salt, black pepper, and balsamic vinegar. Break up the tomatoes a bit with a fork/back of a spoon. Let it reduce until you get the required consistency.

Boom. Simple tomato sauce.

You can add chili, peppers, cream or whatever else you might like, and if you want it smooth, you could blend it a little, but that's yr basic tomato sauce recipe right there.

[Dubby]

Baked Salmon + rice + fried onions and yellow peppers

[kurious]

looks balanced props

[Guest Esquilax]

Made some choco bites the other day

Milk and dark choc, butter, golden syrup melted down, then add crushed crunchie bar and salted peanuts

Were real nice

Tried to make soda bread as well

Phailed

[Yuri]

Made some choco bites the other day

Milk and dark choc, butter, golden syrup melted down, then add crushed crunchie bar and salted peanuts

Were real nice

Tried to make soda bread as well

Phailed

soda/rye bread >>>>>>>

[JGGB]

Some souther fried chicken I made

Had it with jalapeno hot sauce/ mango chutney as the dips and a bit of coleslaw.

My first attempt at spinach

Boiled it in chopped tomatoes with onions and mushrooms, stirred in some tinned sardines, tasted nice

[Grafter]

spinach was soundin good til the sardines

[JGGB]

I didn't neg you, but nah man these sardines in tomato sauce. My gran brought them up to uni for me, didn't even know what to do with them, didn't think I liked them.

Tasted good in spinach. Stirred it into pasta the other day too, was like tuna pasta but a slight variation.

She also brought me corned beef and I had no idea what to do with that ether but found this recipe for summat called Bully Beef http://www.jamaicans.com/cooking/meat/bullyb.shtml

[Grafter]

thats the only way how i cook corn beef if an when i have to

its good

[Dubby]

What can a cook to freeze that can then be cooked from frozen in the oven?

[Grafter]

shepherds pie

lasagne

fish pie

chicken and mushroom pie

you can freeze soup

[Dubby]

not a fan of the microwave tbh, everything is guaranteed to taste at least 50% less of a taste after passing through it - I'm looking for things to cook in the oven from frozen

[Grafter]

the things Ive listed are possible to do as you have requested

[Dubby]

hmm, even rice tbh, but if you've got gravy to warm up on the hob I guess its not as bad, although the texture still suffers

thanks Smadds, lasagne sounds most enticing but can't be an everyday thing considering the levels of cheese, but I get the whole pastry trend of things

[Skenghis Khan]

f*ck a microwave.