Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ September 8 2008, 7:21 PM BSTYou can bake though Laura, right? Or did I imagine that!?
It's her job. She has to. By, like, law or something.
Quote: zooo @ September 8 2008, 7:23 PM BSTYeah I can bake bread and stuff. But that's not a meal!
Unless you are Jesus.
Quote: EllieJP @ September 8 2008, 7:13 PM BSTSo what's your speciality dish?
Fry up!
Quote: Aaron @ September 8 2008, 7:40 PM BSTIt's her job. She has to. By, like, law or something.
Thought so!
Quote: Griff @ September 8 2008, 7:41 PM BSTAs Carl Sagan tells us, to make lasagna from scratch, you must first create the universe. How far do you take this? Do you roll out your own pasta sheets? Grow your own durum wheat? Raise your own cattle? Does the noise from your cellar abattoir disturb the neighbours when you have visitors coming?
Oh Griff so little imagination, I've got a mate work on the Particle Collider at Cern.
He snuck me out a supply of the Lasagnae particle. Just get it flying at near light speed into another said atom
Bang! billions of years of evoloution of agriculture, bovines etc in an instant.
The released energy is equivalent to a 1000 Hirsohimas, and the cheese sauce lacks a tang.
But meh close enough.
He's promised me the Espresso particle next. Except that one might tear a hole in the Space Time Continuim.
I also have an abbatoir in my cellar, but that's just for fun.
I like spuds and I can make boiled potatoes. Not very adventurous you might say. But then after boiling them I mash them up and put them back in the pot. I then add a small bit of milk and chopped up scallions (you may know them as spring onions). Serve with some real butter that melts over the mash. This is known as champ.
Sootyj stabs himself in the leg to avoid making potato famine joke.
Any one else make their pasta sauces over a period of hours to get the right consistency?
5 hours. At least.
Quote: Griff @ September 8 2008, 8:00 PM BSTI long for a life where I have five hours to spend on making pasta sauce. (Except if it involves prison.)
You don't have to watch over the process. You can do *something else* in that time and have a lovely meal afterwards. 
Quote: Griff @ September 8 2008, 7:41 PM BSTAs Carl Sagan tells us, to make lasagna from scratch, you must first create the universe. How far do you take this? Do you roll out your own pasta sheets? Grow your own durum wheat? Raise your own cattle? Does the noise from your cellar abattoir disturb the neighbours when you have visitors coming?
There's a crazy recipe for Lasagna on the bbc website. It involves hard boiled eggs. I may give it a go one day when I have a few spare hours.
Quote: sootyj @ September 8 2008, 7:54 PM BSTSootyj stabs himself in the leg to avoid making potato famine joke.
Any one else make their pasta sauces over a period of hours to get the right consistency?
No I've never done that.
I've left tomatoes simmering on a hob for about 40 minutes, but that's all.
Let me know how and why I should spend hours. I love pasta.
I make a mean Chilli, the last one held up 3 banks before being cornered in a slow-motion shout out in Mexico.
But seriously I make an awesome chilli.
Quote: Winterlight @ September 8 2008, 8:45 PM BSTThere's a crazy recipe for Lasagna on the bbc website. It involves hard boiled eggs. I may give it a go one day when I have a few spare hours.
No I've never done that.
I've left tomatoes simmering on a hob for about 40 minutes, but that's all.
Let me know how and why I should spend hours. I love pasta.
4-5 hours on a low light stirring every half an or so.
Some go for 2-3 days.
Or you could just use a pressure cooker.
Quote: Winterlight @ September 8 2008, 8:45 PM BSTLet me know how and why I should spend hours. I love pasta.
Something happens with the meat. It kind of disintegrates. When I'm back home I'll send you the recipe.
Cool. Thanks.
I made a good pea and ham soup a few months back. That was on for about 3 hours. I used a ham hock and the ham just fell off afterwards. It was beautiful.
Quote: dannyjb1 @ September 8 2008, 8:54 PM BSTI make a mean Chilli, the last one held up 3 banks before being cornered in a slow-motion shout out in Mexico.
I'm not a good cook but I like baking and make a lush chocolate surprise pudding.
You make a pretty much normal cake mix but before you cook it, pour a mixture of cocoa, sugar and boiling water over it and while it's cooking, the liquid soaks through the cake a forms a fudge sauce all round it. That's the 'surprise', you see.
*drools self to death*
I'm a one wok man, if I have any ingredients that are 'wokable' in they go and in minutes you have a tasty meal, and only one wok to wash
