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barnslou
ORIGINAL: krunchie frog

ORIGINAL: barnslou

ORIGINAL: barnslou

Course you can.

Gravy tip.

Teaspoon mustard, dollop of jam ( pushed through a sieve ), butter, flour, herbs, season. Mix, add stock ( ladle at a time ), mix the lumps, add the pan scrapings( best bit ), mix, settle, scrape off fat.....Done !!

The jam and mustard adds a lovely dimension, and flour obviously thickens it.

Try it, you won't look back.

I find gravy reduced from red wine is just too rich for me. Plus if i'm cooking with wine i get pi**ed.

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try is Krunchy Frog, plenty of thick gravy !!

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I shall have a bash :)


Upto the word SEASON you fry up in a pan, you should end up with a lump binded together, also add a little onion and garlic in too. Adding a little stock at a time and use a whisk to turn the lump into a smooth paste, add remaining stock, after a while of re-heating the flour will react and thicken the gravy, just like bisto but tasting good.

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Posted: 2008-10-16 15:28:26
jacqs
ORIGINAL: barnslou

ORIGINAL: jacqs

just after some ideas :thumbsup:


If you want some ideas i will pass them on to you, Christmas dinner can be prepared quite a few days in advance. The trimmings, food that is, can be a little fiddly, but it's so much better than bought.

My two top tips is learn how to make your own gravy, never use Bisto, and learn how to make yorkshire's (use 3 - 4 eggs ), the frozen ones are really tasteless.

Just realised i haven't sent you the film yet, will get onto it !!!

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Many thanks! looking forward to it.
I agree with your suggestions re not fillinf the cavity with things you are going to eat. Another good idea is to cut an orange in half, and place in trh cavity, rub butter over the outside of the skin, roast upside down for half the cooking time to keep it moist . Use a litle of the spuds hot water to get the good stuff of the base of the chicken pan and add some terryaki to the gravy, butter to make shiny and smooth and flour to thicken. Makes a nice change....
Posted: 2008-10-16 16:24:06
jacqs
I live any new ideas for cooking, I do make almost everything from scratch,
even at xmas, perhaps we should start a a new topic with ideas yum yum.. :thumbsup:
Posted: 2008-10-17 13:50:11
krunchie frog
Want to hear what I made the other day?

Ok you get some pitta bread. And you get some chocolate. Then you slice the pitta bread and put the chocolate inside.

Then you put it in the oven for a couple of minutes.

Then you take it out and eat it.

I am a culinary genius! Lol
Posted: 2008-10-17 14:28:05
barnslou
Simple but delicious.

I have a thing about chocolate though.

Did anyone watch the program on C4 called Willies Wonky Chocolate Factory.

I won't use anything else now as the chocolate is THAT GOOD, although you do need to learn how to cook with it. More,butter,cream,sugar is needed to sweeten the chocolate enough to suit everyones pallet.

A perfect use for this is to grate some into a chilli, it gives it a subtle flavour and a beautiful deep colour.

And how about this, if you are making a rich chocolate cake, like a chocolate fudge add a grated beetroot in too, sounds odd, yeah, but again it gives it a subtle flavour and a deep colour and gives the cake a really moist texture.

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Posted: 2008-10-17 16:47:50
mistakenplane
Anyway, slightly back on topic...

Im going to ask people to not buy me things but donate. People close to me who would buy me several gifts Id say one donation though.

I really like UNICEF's useful gifts, and will reccomend ones under £20. There are some great things like 100 cups of milk for £18, 8 kilos of energy biscuits for £11, 10 blankets for £20.

Id MUCH rather the money went to help people out!
Posted: 2008-10-17 17:06:08
jacqs
thats a smashing idea good for you
Posted: 2008-10-20 10:35:31
Daisy2002
ORIGINAL: mistakenplane

Anyway, slightly back on topic...

Im going to ask people to not buy me things but donate. People close to me who would buy me several gifts Id say one donation though.

I really like UNICEF's useful gifts, and will reccomend ones under £20. There are some great things like 100 cups of milk for £18, 8 kilos of energy biscuits for £11, 10 blankets for £20.

Id MUCH rather the money went to help people out!


I like this idea too.

When my brother-in-law got married last month i wanted to buy him a oxfam present... chickens, goats that kinda thing or a tree.
My husband thought his 'now wife' would be insulted if i bought them a goat as she's from india or somewhere like that

:confused2:

They wanted everyone to donate towards their honeymoon.
Sorry if you can spend 6k on catering alone then you can jolly well pay for your own honeymoon. The food was so rubbish & my kids couldn't eat any of it.... curry far too hot & the other 2 options have peas & nuts in them which my son is allergic to.
Posted: 2008-10-20 10:46:51
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