Recent content by Douzer77

Fantastic work Katie,

Morning all, long time no post for me :angel: I'm looking for help with a butterless sponge cake if any bakers here have one. Have tried one from Youtube but it flopped the minute I took it out of the oven. I'm well able to make queen cakes with butter, flour and eggs but would love to master...

Thanks for that, have gone as far as MSC suggested so all ready to go into fridge untill Sat morning :chef:

Hoping to start my stew tomorrow (thurs) and then finish it off of Saturday all in the slow cooker. Will do all the normal things, dredge meat in seasoned flour, brown on pan, then add tomatoe puree, some anchovy puree, dab of worchestire, stock, bay leave etc. My question is if I cook it for...

On a final note, boiled potatoes for usual 10 mins this morning, once they had cooled popped them into fridge. Heated oil in roasting dish round 5 then potatoes went in and were ready in 35 mins. Turned out perfect, was very pleased. So either way I'm happy with my roasties :chef:

Wrap in damp kitchen paper and then into a plastic sealed container kept in the fridge. Change the damp paper once a week, they will last at least 3 weeks. Have kept loads of different herbs very successfully like this. Hope this helps :chef:

Ok the verdict - potatoes were lovely, cooked in 45 mins, but certainly not as crispy as I would usually have with the par boiling and banging round first. In this side of the world (Ireland :wink:), all our tv chefs (inlcuding the English channels with the likes of Jamie Oliver, Nigella etc)...

OMG have been roasting potatoes for the last 20 years and have always always always parboiled :ohmy: Each normal potatoe is cut in 4 and the smaller ones 1/2 or 1/3 so they are all roughly the same size. Will certainly be happy to give the no boiling a try.:chef:

Evening all, Have friends coming over for roast dinner on Sunday so hoping to get prep done early in day. When roasting potatoes I normally par boil for 10 mins, let sit in steam for 5/10 min, do the banging round in the pot to roughen the edges then into oven in oil/meat juices for 45/60...

Roast leg of lamb, roasted potatoes and green veg, yum yum

Happy Sunday everybody :smile: Have a half leg of lamb slow cooking in the oven for the last 3 hours, not planning on taking it out for another hour but was just wandering what the internal temp should be when its done. I know if I was going for a normal faster roast it would be 170f for...

Thanks a mill for the responses, went with my original plan for my first one but think I may make another one next weekend for my sis so will try one of the other suggestions. It will be very interesting to see how it turns out on Christmas day ! Philso, was just having a look at your post, I...

Going to attempt my first Christmas pudding :smile: Ingredients are as follows 200 g currants 200 g raisins 200 g sultanas 150 mls sweet sherry 175 g butter 175 g brown sugar 4 eggs 150 g self raising flour 100 g breadcrumbs 20 g blanched almonds juice 1 orange rind 1/2 orange rind 1/2 lemon...

Happy Happy Happy birthday, hope you have a fab day :)

Have put a rub on them and have left them overnight in fridge to marinate. Whats the best way to cook them? I'm hoping to put them in the oven. Do I need to cover them? Can I cook all 20 at same time on 2 different shelves or am I better off doing them in batches? Do I need to extend...