Be Excellent To Each Other

It looks like a large, beetroot-vomiting snail is crawling over your plate.

Nothing beats a big sloppy pile of greasy soggy chips. Slurp

Fucking terrorists. Food-grade saltpetre is rarer than rocking horse shit, because people apparently might buy it to make bombs with. I have bags of the stuff to put in the fishtank (apparently terrorists don't keep fish) but it's not food grade so fuck knows what else is in it and I can't use it.

Wankers.

If you're making what I think you are, leave it out - mine was OK.

If not, this appears to be an alternative: http://www.sausagemaker.com/11200instac ... 15lbs.aspx

You know when you said "Leave it out, I'll let you know if I get ill"? Yeah.

I ordered some curing salt in the end.

Mohh!

You will have to get your butcher to order it for you but 3kg of the stuff for £10 http://www.scobiesdirect.com/ItemInfo.a ... No=OC30140

Craster, earlier today.

Mrs Grim... has written what we're going to eat each night on our shared Google Calendar

Are you allowed to choose "Not attending" if it's something rubbish?

I'm now a slow cooker convert bought me http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... ss_product last week and it's really rather wonderful.

Just done tonight's dinner.

Chicken crown marinated in rosemary and garlic (Fry till the skin is crispy)
Potatoes
Carrots
Chicken stock
Maggi+herbs+salt/pepper

sling in slow cooker and it will be done for 5 of the clock

Maggi?

Slow cookers are excellent bits of kit - though mine is a little redundant now I have the water bath.

Maggi sauce is an Asian condiment, sort of like soy sauce, but not.

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Excellent sauce, a little like Worcestershire but more ooooomaaaarrrrrrrmmmeeeeeeee.

Assuming she doesn't mean the Maggi Pot Noodle things, of course

Interesting. Never heard of it, a little research suggests it's a vegetable based bouillon. I'll pick some up.

Get some "normal" and some "hot", as they're quite different.

Yum! There's something awesome about a product listing 'flavour' as one of its ingredients.

Flavour AND artificial flavour!

I had some LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE on my toast this morning.

It's the condiment of science.

I've been throwing together a lot of wholesome, veggie-packed soups lately, and regret not having made notes of what I was putting in them. Some were quite splendid. Does anyone have any good recipes for similar things?

Schedule disaster has already occurred, due to my late return last night we had to have the Tuesday meal on Monday!

I made a variant of Pete's OP omelette last night.

It was mucho tasty, but I think I sliced the spuds too thick as they were still a tiny bit hard. Also, next time I need to add more seasoning.

Thanks to this post, I've spent about half this working week messing about with Google Apps on my domain, and now Hel and I have shared calendars. Cheers, Grim...!

Shared calendars are surprisingly useful.

At 9pm on a Tuesday pretty much every device in the house (two laptops, my work PC, my server, two phones and the iPad) all light up at once to beep at us and say "Put the bins out!"

SMS reminders hours/days ahead are going to be ridiculously fucking useful.

lol you tart

Are they good then? Big slow cooker user me but I don't think we could fit a water bath in the kitchen too.

So, meal one of Resourceful Cook complete, at a cost of £1.22 per person

Made this.

Ended up looking like this:

(but more in focus)
And it wasn't bad at all.

Tomorrow is this, at a bank-breaking £1.78 per head.

Just one dish to go then we have finished our first week of resourceful cook, pretty bloody good! Just deciding on the plan for next week now.

Must be BeeX's Resourceful Cook night!

I made their ginger and aubergine curry this evening. It was tasty, but I poured too much liquid in and really, really should have measured out the curry powder and garlic rather than shaking the tub and thinking 'that looks right'. Oh, and using a non-stick pan would have been a Good Thing too. Still, early days!

Good lad. Keep it up.

Tonight I made balsamic glazed roast chicken breasts with ratatouille. It was good.

We should all get posting rights to Objection! Salad and we can post pics from the recipe side by side with our own creations.

I was too tired to shop tonight so will try and do my big shop tomorrow using the Resourceful Cook shopping list.

Just the name of that costs more than £1.22 per person

I had weightwatchers food.

Well, if any of us need to lose some weight, it's Mali.

Hmm. The balsamic glaze was in a bottle from Sainsbury's, and was a few quid, but I only used about a fifth of it. Apart from that, it was two chicken breasts, two pieces of bacon, and an onion for the meat; plus two courgettes, two yellow peppers, an aubergine, and a handful of cherry tomatoes for the ratatouille. Not particuarly extravagant.

I wish I liked leg meat in chickens. I much prefer to filet them myself, as the quality and moistness always feels much higher, but it's an awful waste buying a whole chicken only to use the breast meat. Annoying.

I should try that resourceful chef site. I always tend to shop for and plan each meal individually, and due to Miss Malabar's ridiculous fussiness invariably have to cook for one person. The two combined makes me incredibly wasteful with food money, and I need to sort that out.

Grim..., that meal looks like you got ripped off.

That's what I thought, but it was surprisingly nice, and there was a lot of it.
I'm not convinced I've ever eaten couscous before, but it wasn't bad.

My worry is that these meals won't fill me up a lot and I'll end up snacking later on in the evening.

You could probably double the amount of carb for about four extra pence, of course.

Yeah, but then you muck the recipe up and EVERYTHING'S RUINED!!

I quite like the idea of those Nigel Slater recipes where he's all "oh, not got any ginger? bang a vanilla pod in instead" or "no chicken? fuck it, use beef."

Well, not quite that extreme, but mucking around a little bit and not measuring quantities etc.

Quite - assuming you're not doing these meals for calorie counting, there's probably not a damn thing in there that particularly needs to be measured.

No bread? Let them eat cake!

Well, I've only had that one, but it was fine.

I'm doing a big shop tonight. For great justice!

We looked at the resourceful cook website today and made our first meal from it tonight. We chose the takeaway meals menu and tonight we made the beef burritos which were a lot like a home made fajita kit only nicer. Really enjoyed it, I think that if we end up getting bores of resourceful cook then this one will enter our meal circulation
Not sure what we're making tomorrow, maybe a carbonara or the chicken tikka masala. It's nice to know our meals for the week are planned now and I don't have to go by the supermarket on the way home from work.
I forget who it was who first mentioned the website (I watched people chat about it but didn't click the link 'till today) but a big thanks to them, it's so easy to get into a routine of making the same dishes on a regular basis even if those are dishes that other people think are quite unusual for their routine. So to add some more tasty meals to our repertoire is great!

No problem. Glad that a few people are finding it useful.