What are you cooking this week?

[Jeremy]

MrBen Wrote:

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> *LIKE*

> This is my Saturday sorted and my kind of dish.

Glad you approve. It's supposed to contain tomatillos, but I have no idea where to get them. Maybe adding a squeeze of lime or a couple of gooseberries into the sauce give you the required tartness.

[WorkingMummy]

Thank you EP212! Sounds goooood.

Loving this thread.

[*Bob*]

Recipes are a bit like porn.

You've already got fifty-three copies of Razzle but keep telling yourself copy fifty-four will be a game-changer.

[WorkingMummy]

Yes but quite often there is a game changer. Food this is, not porn. Something new you want to cook regularly, that instantly enters your personal cannon.

[*Bob*]

I suspect at least 97% of every conceivable recipe, barring superficial changes here and here, are already contained within the canon of cookbooks most people own.

I'm the same.. 800 recipes for baking fish already on the shelf but I still scamper to the cooker like a giddy teenager when another recipe for baking fish drops out of Take-A-Break.

[womanofdulwich]

make a basic cheese sauce- quite sloppy- add grated nutmeg and spoon of wholegrain mustard and some just steamed spinach and stir it through.serve with pasta.

[KidKruger]

Well swapping recipes sure beats dog poo, planning permissions, cats, waitrose, noisy parties and needle exchange.

[uncleglen]

Left over cooked chicken from yesterday and a jar of Sainsbury's jalfrezi sauce, boil in the bag rice.

[Huguenot]

Canon rather than cannon.

But even so I'm not sure the usage is quite right - canon means 'measuring stick', and is typically used when making comparisons.

So it can mean 'standard' but not in the sense of 'a standard (normal) repertoire', more in the sense of 'a standard (lofty values) I measure myself against'.

[Annette Curtain]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> Recipes are a bit like porn.

>

> You've already got fifty-three copies of Razzle

> but keep telling yourself copy fifty-four will be

> a game-changer.

Razzle = ready meal ?

[Annette Curtain]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> *Bob* Wrote:

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> > Recipes are a bit like porn.

> >

> > You've already got fifty-three copies of Razzle

> > but keep telling yourself copy fifty-four will

> be

> > a game-changer.

>

> Razzle = ready meal ?

Actually...

Razzle = ?1 ready meal ?

[WorkingMummy]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Canon rather than cannon.

>

> But even so I'm not sure the usage is quite right

> - canon means 'measuring stick', and is typically

> used when making comparisons.

>

> So it can mean 'standard' but not in the sense of

> 'a standard (normal) repertoire', more in the

> sense of 'a standard (lofty values) I measure

> myself against'.

I know what it means. I meant it.

[the-e-dealer]

Pasta with Spinach and too much Garlic.

Chop and Fry too much garlic then add spinach and pine nuts and cook till spinach cooked. Allow to cool a bit add Creme Fresh or Low Fat plain Yoghurt. Eat with Hot Pasta - Yum.

[Voyageur]

Crab, spring onion and egg fried rice with stir-fried mushrooms, baby corn and sugar-snap peas. Umm Yumm.

[Ole]

This is what I cook when I feel guilty for not having proper home made food in ages and when I am back from work late. takes a minute to prepare and usually plenty of leftovers for the following day:

In casserole dish fry 1 chopped onion

Cut pack of sausages in half (or add them whole if so prefer) and brown.

Add whatever veg you have lurking in your fridge (chopped carrots, peppers, parsnips, etc). Stir a bit.

Add can of drained beans (aduki, chickpeans, lentils, red kidney beans - whatever you have in cupboard), stir a bit more.

Add tablespoon of flour, stir.

Add a bit of tomato puree and top of with boiled water (or buillion if you want to go the extra mile, or omit the puree and add jar of tomato passata instead). Add bay leaf.

Bring to boil then reduce to simmer until liquid reduced (usually about 15-20 minutes).

Serve with rice or mashed potato or pasta or quinoa or.....(you get the drift).

[Salsaboy]

Toast.

[Otta]

Has anyone actually looked at this thread and bothered making anything that is suggested?

There are plenty of recipes on the interweb you know.

By actual chefs.

[TillieTrotter]

Refer to my original post please Mr Otta. I said there are a million and one recipes to be had on the web which makes it harder to choose so personal suggestions would make it easier. I have just shopped to make the pork stew and the sausage in cider. So there!

[Otta]

Aw, TT if I'd bothered to read the OP (or any posts in full) I'd have realised that. (and I'd have realised you started the thread, so clearly wouldn't have mocked)

So, where is my invite for the sausage in cider?

[TillieTrotter]

You're always welcome at the ranch. x

[civilservant]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> Canon rather than cannon.

>

yep, it's canon of course, but it can also mean a set of standard works e.g. literary canon - hence, by extension, WM's 'recipe canon'

to avoid straying off-topic here's an 'iconic' quick recipe for dal:

wash one cup of red lentils - make sure the water runs clear to avoid too much of the scummy stuff forming on top

chop an onion, some green chillies, garlic and ginger (how much? as much as you fancy)

optional - chop up any old veg in the fridge and add

put it all in a saucepan with 3 cups water

add half a teaspoon of turmeric and any or all of ground-up peppercorns/tomato paste/ground cumin/ground coriander

boil for about 15-20 minutes - when you're satisfied that the dal is done, add salt to taste

ultimate comfort food when teamed with rice/nan/chapatis and hot pickles

[Huguenot]

No, it doesn't mean a set of standard works, it means a measuring stick, a comparative. Canon cannot be used as a replacement for 'portfolio'.

Unless you don't know what it means.

[Huguenot]

You are, of course, entirely within your rights to redefine whichever words you want to mean whatever the hell you want.

Good for you. You will have redefined the English language to be entirely unportable.

If you would prefer that we all understand each other, then my recommendation is to celebrate the nuance and creativity of your predecessors and stop imagining that some knuckle dragging simian saying woteva they wont weneva has equal value.

BTW, WorkingMummy, you were simply wrong. Get over it. I doubt you will ;-)

[*Bob*]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> No, it doesn't mean a set of standard works, it

> means a measuring stick, a comparative. Canon

> cannot be used as a replacement for 'portfolio'.

>

> Unless you don't know what it means.

Unless of course it's a musical canon, one definition means 'exactly' a set of existing great works which form a standard repertoire.

So culinary canon. And b0llocks.

[*Bob*]

No room for cannons though. We can at least agree on that.