Life has just got a lot better - not! I've been in and out of hospital for the last three months and have diagnosed with endometriosis. Which means I will need a hysterectomy. I'm in that much pain now and I can't lift anything so the garden really has gone to pot. I was'nt expecting this when I first posted here!

Hi I would be definatley interested in this course
so if you could put me on the list and if possible give give some indication of costs etc thanks Lynne

Why on earth are you posting here phil as you dont seem to have the slightest interest in food or cookery

I have recently attempted to set up a small kitchen garden growing tomatoes, springonions, beetroot, aubergine, chillis, cues and sweetcorn which is not doing to well as I'm new to this and really dont know what I should be planting and the corn is very poorly. Along side this are raspberries, gooseberries, red berries and a stick i planted a couple of years ago and forgot what it was! possibly hazelnut

I already have a herb garden which is well established in pots and in the beds.

But despite the fact that some bits might not work it gives me great satisfactin to try these things out and hopefully learn new things. I love the idea of a garden not only being attractive but productive as well.

I really wanted to suprise my husband with a garden makeover I have tried my hardest to DIY it but I'm not very good at it :( and he really deserves a nice garden cos, hes wonderful! Perhaps if anyone is still looking for a garden to makeover perhaps they could contact me I would be enternally gratefull.

Kind regards Lynne

Oh, Kiwichef take me with you! what are you going to be cooking in your demos? I love anything with chilli in it I love the products from Cool Chilli Co and it was nice to see that they were recognised in the top 50 websites totally deserved )

ooh Tigger

wash your hands really well and try using a nail brush also with loads of soap hope this helps then put on some soothing hand cream. Hope it gets better soon

Lynne x

Hiya,

Have you tried typing muffins in the search bar and going to recipes. There are a few up there and I'm fairly sure they have been tried and tested. Good luck and let us know how you get on Lynne

oops I tell a lie its with adobo not ancho, sorry not awake yet!!!

Hi Jennifer264

you could try these people at their website [link] or Sainsbury stock some of their products. I brought some chipotle and ancho paste last week there. Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

Lynne

Thanks Snoozy,

I tried cheese and onion but it wasn't very succesful are you meant to make a cheese sauce and then add onion and potato? Apart from that I think I would be strung up if I gave him veg curry. He id very much into meat. I hide veggies in his food!!! especially peppers

Lynne

This would really be a great idea, at the moment by husband and son have fallen in love with meat and potato pasties so I make a large batch at the weekend cook and freeze them up and they take them to work frozen (they don't fall apart that way!) and then reheat them. However I'm getting bored with making beef and potato ones has anybody got any ideas for other fillings that would be suitable for this?

Thanks Lynne

Hi Scythe I did'nt find the dish to hot at all just very creamy and full of flavour. Korma is traditionally a mild dish do try it as it really is wonderfuland so much better than those sauces in jars

I've tried Nigella's meatball recipe its avaliable on her website just type her name into Google and it will bring it up its a very tasty recipe and well worth a shot.

I also tried Reshma's Prawn Puree but although being very nice was diffrent from the takeaway version and certainly more fiery as it contained 5 chillis :O but I now have a base recipe and will experiment to see if I can get it right.

Hi MammaChef

Tried your recipe yesterday and it was a big hit with the family, I think I will try it with fish next time so I can eat it too! the sauce was really tasty.

Thanks

Lynne

lol Nick we have seen the photo on the website and there ain't nought wrong with you!!

oh I dunno you previous posting re the stranglers mayhap!!!!

oh I dunno you previous posting re the strangler mayhap!!!!

I love my Maldon Sea Salt we are fairly near Maldon and its so nice to see a local product so widely available. I have tried rock salt but did not get on with it. The taste, quality and versitility of Maldon Sea salt is wonderful.

Thanks for that Georgie, I was being what I thought was intelligent and putting in "prawn Puree recipe" and all i got was prices for takeaways a mere £1.60 in Norwich! I have emailed Reshma she is great and very helpful.

Also I was wondering if Reza Mahamma had a website as I looked under the Dheli Beli section but no joy.

Or Andy as King of Spice in residence do you have any recipes for this?

Has anyone got a good recipe for Prawn Puri I've looked on the web and online but with no luck. I quite often have this from the local takeaway but would really loe to make my own.

oops and then cook

Another alternative is sweet bread dough and use almond slivers for the spikes and currents for the eyes and nose then coat in egg wash.

Hi Apollo1

Had a similar predicament myself some time ago but they were not getting any further from the tin than my mouth they are so tasty!

But I wanted to try cooking somthing with them so it was suggested that I do a web search and it brought up loads of recipes. I think there may also be some on this site.

I haven't actualy tried any yet though as I still keep noshing them !

Good luck and let me know how you get on.


Lynne

If you follow the link below it will take you to here website

[link]

Hope that helps

Lynne

I think its there as a food for the yeast I don't know if you could get away with using a sugar substitute.

Hi Andy,

tried your recipe with the king prawns and it worked really well I think that this is a dish that will become a firm favorite. the flavous in the sauce were amazing.

So when do we get to see you doing a demo of it on GFL????

Seriously if other people are contemplating this recipe go for it it looks time consuming but it is'nt and the results are fantastic.

Thanks again Andy your a star

sorry my mistake I meant real lemon oil or extract apart from that the UK is not know for having lemons growing year round and so the lemons we get where I live are not as so good the oil helps zest them up a bit.

hiya,

Lakelands is an online shop, but lemon essence can be brought from most supermarkets. But make sure to get essence and not flavour as its not as intense and often sweet.

Hope this helps let us know how you get on!

Lynne

This looks a great recipe thanks Andy, have you tried this using king prawns as I'm thinking of having a go tonite

Many thanks

Lynne

There is a recipe for Chocolate Chilli cake on this site but a cheesecke version sounds wonderful I did a quick web search but no joy as yet.

It worked it worked! well sort of, it caramilised perfectly and then it stuck to my oiled rolling pin! , cooker, worksurface and floor thanks for the tip wth the paper.

So I gave up chucked a load of pistachio nuts into it the kids were delighted

I don't think I'm destined to get this right!

The first fondu set I brought was from a charity shop for £2.50. Because I was not sure how much use it would get! But we do use it quite often especially cheese fondue with raw veggies. Its good fun to try diffrent combinations of cheese.

As a rule of thumb The bigger the chilli the less heat it will have but removing the seeds is a good idea have fun

Personally the hotter the chilli the happier I am

Thanks Jinty I will give that ago tonite, fingers crossed

I had a look at James Martins recipes but all it says is to heat the sugar until it caramelises I really have no idea what I am doing wrong.

Lol, gastrovolpe and while he at it perhaps he would like to come round and do a demo, okay I can dream!

But seriously I have seen him do it and he makes it look so easy, I did wonder about the temp. although I don't know what it should be.

I've just tried to create a spun sugar topping but it all turned to granules and certains wouldnt spin!any idea on what I did wrong I used golden caster sugar.

Any help much appreciatted

Or youcould also try Anthony Worrel Thompsons recent cookery on diabetic recipes.

Good Luck Lynne

This is one scary thread, all I can say is thank god im a veggie lol or do you know any strange veggie recipes involving beer cans

Hi Helen,

I tried putting in "indian beetroot recipe" in google and it does come up with loads of diffrent indian beetroot recipes but I'm not 100 percent sure what u r looking for - can u give us a clue!

Lynne

Have you tried sainsburys website?

if you look at the packaging it should say if its suitable for freezing. I have several in my freezer as they had "freeze on day of purchase" on them. I hope the food poisoning is better now.

Lynne

Hi if you do a search under google for vegetarian tagine recipes it throws up loads of recipies
Lynne

Antony Worral Thompson recently brought a book out on diabetic cookery this may be worth a look

your welcome I think I may try it myself it does sound nice

yes this works well if youhave a look at posting on smoked chillis I have put up how I did it

I found a recipe for k. prawn puri you could substitute the prawns for cooked chicken pieces

[link]

Hope this helps if not I found this other information just do a web search and its amazing what you find

Chats are traditionally cold snacks or salads but chat literally means "lick". Indian restaurants often offer a potato chat and a chicken chat and will serve them warm. Chats are spiced with chat masala which you might recognise as the flavouring in Bombay Mix.

puri is a deep fried unleavened bread. For some reason best known to themselves many restaurants insist on writing puri as "puree" on the menu. This often confuses newcomers to Indian restaurants who think they are ordering a pur?e of prawns ( shrimps). But no, the prawns arrive at the table whole served in a thick bhuna-like sauce.

Follow the lead below and it takes u straight to a recipe for this, hope it helps Lynne

[link]

You could always try putting it in a hot oven to make it crusty after you have cooked it in the breadmaker

phew, I had a quick search for you but you can only seem to get them in the US. However, a quick cheat is to get one of the supermarket spice bottles with a grinder top.then when its empty use it for whatever you require! hope this helpsLynne

Sorry to hear abut your sad loss, but if you put choclate truffles in the bar above loads of recipies come up. Delia cooked some yesterday on her Christmas show but I could not find that particular recipe. I hope you and your children have a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful new year.

Thanks for that! it was so obvious I did'nt even think. since then I have been using google to find lots of new recipe ideas :0

I made some marmalade recently for a change I used Clementines with mulled wine spices to make it Christmassy. However it did not set at first so I carried on reducing it and lo and behold it set. We went to try some yesterday and it had turned into a very chewy orenge toffee!! very nice but not for those with false teeth

I think that you will find that most of the large supermarkets stock it now I found it in our local Tesco.

I've just had a look at the Be-Ro site and its fantastic it brought back so many memories of my childhood. I think it was one of the first cookery books I used. They even had the recipe for Coffee Kisses, which as a child I used to inflict on my family on a regular basis!

This sounds great where did you find teh recipe?

Thanks in advance Lynne

Thanks everyone for your kind help my computer decided to die the death and I've only just got it back in working order. I did also find these liners in Sainsburys made by Teflon at 2.49 each but they are a bit small.

Thanks again Lynne

Hiya, I have also found them in Sainsburys they are made by Teflon. They only do the one size which will fit in the bottom of a regular oven. The price was 2.49 each.

Its got to be my mum's cauliflower cheese, I don't know what she does to make it so special but its wonderful. I have tried to replicate it but it never tastes the same!

Thanks everyone for your kind help and advice, I had a look at the ones on lakeland plastics, however the one Alan Coxon was using appeared to be a thick black rubber and the only ones I could see on lankelands site appear to be translucent.

Apart from that has anyone tried these products and to what level of success......

I'm addicted to smoked oysters, however they rarely get further than the tin to my mouth! ocasionally they bump into a cracker, but I would love to do something more adventurous with them has ayone got any suggestions?

Thanks Lynne

I watched acookery progam yesterday and the chef used a black plastic to line his frying pan before making pancakes. He also mentioned that he lines his oven with it which seems a very good idea as it will help keep the oven clean.

Does anyone out there in cyberspace know what it is called and where it can be purchased?

Many thanks

Lynne