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Suelin
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England
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 Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 5:06:50 PM
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What are the dishes that you just cannot, no matter how hard you try, get right? To start off, I can't for the life of me make Yorkshire pudding. I've tried it all ways round but it always goes like leather and is flat. Thank God for Aunt Bessie's And just don't mention noodles What's your Achilles heel??
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mittens
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 6:03:35 PM
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| Mum is hit and miss with yorkshires... they're either like mountains or pancakes! When I was little she'd save the flat ones and put them in my packed lunch with jam on a pass them off as biscuits!! They were nice though!I'm a tin of tuna and salad girl at the moment! Although I make a mean omelette! |
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bexr
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England
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NUTTER
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England
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Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 6:45:35 PM
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Pastry ive tried everything!!
My mum who is a fantastic cook has on several occasions stood beside me and we have made some each with me following her >> hers amazing mine cardboard!!!
Now i just get my mum to make it for me !!! |
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Judith S
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Wales
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Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 7:00:40 PM
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Chilli.....I always seem to make it too hot for OH to eat! Years ago I ruined a pressure cooker cooking chilli - OH wouldn't allow me to buy another one |
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Gemma
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 8:28:41 PM
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Cakes of any description. Definitely inherited my mother's genetics in that department!
Make a mean cocktail though...... |
 
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sabinelenny
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England
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Posted - 09 Jun 2008 : 10:06:44 PM
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Hi Suelin!!!
Yorkshire puddings EASY! I can do it with my eys shut
1 mug of plain flour
1 egg
milk
cold water
sprinkle of salt
beef dripping
put on oven to 200C put dripping into pan
mix above ingredients to consistency of double cream, ensure you have bubbles on top to beat air in
ensure fat very hot in oven
put mixture into tin
reduce heat to 180C
hey presto Yorkshire pudding!!!
Funniest thing is I am from Germany
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Evie
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 03:25:33 AM
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I find most things difficult to cook!!! Probably a lot of it is that I don't have any enthusiasm for cooking, by the time I get home from work it's around 7 pm and I just want something quick and easy so usually have a microwave meal, especially as I live on my own so only have to worry about cooking for me.
I do like cooking cakes and biscuits though, probably because I like eating them!!! LOL |
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Honeyb060674
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 06:54:04 AM
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Bog standard RICE! Ok if you want the pudding variety...but if you are looking fro something to go with Judiths mega hot 'ring of fire' chilli FORGET IT! Always ends up a gloopy soupy mess in the bottom of the pan  God bless Uncle Ben thats all I can say! |
      
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Pixie
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 10:09:39 AM
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I can't fry an egg - scramble, omlette, boil, poach yes - fry No. Why????
Also can't do Yorks - Aunt Bessies if we do have Yorks |
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Merlot
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 10:55:54 AM
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Now see, I can do all kinds with an egg but getting a boiled one right is a nightmare. I can't stand them if they're the least bit snotty, induces vomit like noises and gagging from me, so I palm them off onto OH. For me, they have to be a perfectly set white but with a dippy yolk which is why I always end up with a hard boiled one. Safety prevails at the end of the day. Snotty eggs - devil's handywork.
Once tried to do a poached egg in the microwave but I didn't enjoy scraping it off the insides, set like bloody concrete.
A friend of mine once ended up with a purple kitchen after a run in with a pressure cooker and some beetroot.
I also had a bit of a mishap when I flambeed some pork fillet in calvados. Induced a bit of manic dancing around the kitchen with a flaming frying pan. Needless to say, flambeeing with the cooker hood on high speed/suck is not recommended. |
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Suelin
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 2:23:54 PM
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Merlot you should be on the stage!! That's soooo funny I'd give a months pay to have seen that Brilliant!!
Glad other folks can't do yorkshires as well, I feel less of an outcast.
Sorry can't see to type laughing so much Crying now |
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themewoman
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 2:47:51 PM
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| i can't get to grips with microwavable meals. i always burn them!!!! |
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Geena
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 2:55:33 PM
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Toad-in-the-hole! I can make yorkie pudings but as soon as they see the sausages it goes pear shaped
It doesn't help after three years I am still getting used to a fan electric oven rather than gas
I love cooking though so won't let it beat me!
I am fab at sticky toffee puding, merangues (but not the spelling!!) and bread. Do a mean home made curry if anyone is up for it |
  
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Merlot
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 2:56:50 PM
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Oooh, just remembered a very recent one. On holiday in Hesspanyer a couple of weeks ago, I decided that it would be a good idea to do a Spanish omelette and salad for supper. No worries, done them before, and nobody died. Trouble was, the villa didn't have a big enough frying pan, so had to squash it all in a smaller one. Everything going fine until it came to sliding it out of the pan onto a plate to turn it over and put it back in the pan to do the other side. Enlisted the help of daughter to hold the plate whilst I turned the pan. Positioned ourselves over the sink, just in case. Just in case happened - said Spanish omelette made a break for freedom and two thirds of it ended up in the sink, the rest stayed in the pan (couldn't be arsed to move presumably). Sadly, the OH's heard us cackling in the kitchen and looked through the window to see us frantically shovelling it back into the frying pan whilst trying not to wet ourselves. Ended up squashing it in a big round tray and shoving it in the oven to try and restore a bit of Spanishness. Scrambled eggs and potatoes anyone .......... I personally blame daughter for necking a few too many Cuba Libres which obviously interfered with her plate skills. Kids eh ?
We still ate it and nobody died (again - result !!). |
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Geena
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:00:08 PM
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Oh I never use eggs abroad as I dropped one on the floor when we were in Zakynthos, lucky really as it had a half grown chick in it , put me off eggs for a bit hence I have my own! |
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Merlot
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:07:01 PM
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| Oh Geena I am with you on Toad in the Hole. It's known as Toad out of the Hole in our house. Sausages - check, yorkshire pudding - check, put them together in oven - they fight. Hence, yorkshire mix goes in alone, sausages get done on hob and then get thrown together on the plate. Chuck on some onion gravy, bish bosh, sorted and no one knows that they weren't joined in oven matrimony. |
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Geena
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:08:16 PM
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| I blame silly sausages and naughty ovens not us Merlot!!! |
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Suelin
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:11:03 PM
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Just as I thought it was safe to look again, Merlot's done it again Hysterical now!! OH is thinking of calling 999 to have me sectioned
Gross about the egg Geena. I don't think I'd ever had eaten one again Yuk and thrice Yuk
I used to work in a chicken factory years ago, we used to do all the usual stuff, you know kievs etc. Then they thought up Wings of Fire. Chicken wings marinaded in a chili sauce. Made me feel quite ill at 6 o'clock one morning the sight of this in the most enormous steel vat Yuk and thrice Yuk Looked as if someone had committed a murder!! |
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Geena
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:17:07 PM
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| Happy to say that our house is a ready made meal free house, bar goodfella's pizza, that only because that is the only thing hubby can cook! |
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Merlot
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:21:21 PM
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| Yes, I agree Geena, some sausages have a serious attitude problem. Just last week I cooked some (Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Pork and Leek I may add) and one of them had the audacity to spit at me. Bloody cheek. If I knew who was in charge of ASBO's for sausages, I'd report them. |
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Geena
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:23:50 PM
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| Well I take no messing they all get stabbed before cooking to save them splitting and for my shear satisfaction |
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Merlot
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 3:27:13 PM
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| Maybe I've just been a bit too soft with my sausages in the past. I tell you, any more lip from them and they'll be looking at the wrong end of my fork. |
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LittleAmira
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 8:48:43 PM
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| oh you are all hilarious!! dont feel so bad now bout my cooking skills (or lack of). my dad summed it up at my wedding in his speech, he reckoned I was the only person to use the smoke alarm as a timer for cooking!! bl**dy cheek, he doesn't even know what the oven looks like!! |
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saraht
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 10:30:48 PM
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| I have presented my family with more burnt offerings since discovering Arabian Lines than ever before. (chargrilled)Fish pie tonight! Still the dogs appreciate it and it encourages the OH to take me out for dinner more than once year!. Getting an Aga at the end of the summer so will have to learn how to cook all over again! |
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Jamana
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England
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Posted - 10 Jun 2008 : 11:25:46 PM
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I am sure I have served up many disasters over the last few years , but one i am never  allowed to forget is when I made baked potatoes (in microwave of course) and didn't wash them first. OH not impressed with baked on muddy crust. can't imagine why it was not long after i had moved in with him and the potatoes at home were the pre-washed ones, so scrubbing prior to cooking was not part of my repartee |
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, I just can get them to rise.