What are you cooking now?

[teamsaint]

Summer is rubbish for cooking really, isn’t it?

Tonight, Veggie lasagna, ( ok there is just a teeny bit of smoked bacon in there).

Mussorgsky and Aldi Premium cider to go with.
Yum.

( time to get the recipe books out and try something new , I think).

Agreed on all counts. Judging by the supermarket shelves Italian has gone the same way. TV ads regularly show parent tipping jar of gloop onto (almost certainly unseasoned) chicken fillets or into pasta and placing the result before his/her delighted family. Fresh from scratch only here

Ah, the 70s.....

[cloughie]

I watched the Gregg Wallace ‘Inside the Factory’ last night and was amazed by the number of jars of Curry ‘cook in’ Sauce produced. I like cooking spicy dishes but use fresh ingredients and dried spices, and cannot recall using pre-prepped stuff since the Vesta days of the early 70s, but there appears to be a very profitable industry out there built on the requirements of ‘cook in’ cooks, £1.75 per jar should give a significant mark-up on some basic ingredients, and I suspect the salt and sugar levels are a significant proprtion of recommended daily intake. Then those glass jars and metal lids need to be recycled!

[oddoneout]

I'm contemplating oiling the top of my metal bistro table and frying an egg on it.....
Kitchen cooking has been mostly blanching batches of french and broad beans from the garden to stock the fridge for salads. The freezer is being excavated for things which have already been cooked and just need defrosting, or to be reheated in the microwave where something hot is required. Fortunately I only have myself to feed so can get away with such avoidance tactics.

[french frank]

A popular actress, m'lud...

I did know what "Gwyneth Paltrow" meant