Posts by: Grisinni

The new emails I am getting look unfinished but I am happy to say I can now see the thread number. This means I don't have to keep going to the thread I have just read numerous times.

Please keep the thread number on even if you cannot do the title

Delia made a cake with Potatoes in it, so maybe it is potato flour.

I personally would not eat them uncooked, but then I very very rarely eat uncooked eggs which I know have been inoculated either. Once of twice in homemade mayonnaise and even then I keep my fingers crossed.

It is possible that the home grown ones have less risk of salmonella anyway, as sometimes mass produced things have a greater risk of contamination.

Did you eat them raw ? Were you OK ?

I now query "Yeast Extract"

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In marmite they say its produced naturally but is it ?

Murdrobe " the guy just wants to see what effect it has once "

conversations always branch off in different directions, the alternative is, no one answers. Which means there would be dead threads with nothing to read on them.

Hi Sommersunshine

Pleased all went well with the silicon cake pan thanks for letting me know how it went. I have thought about buying them but have not taken the plunge yet

Your very welcome

I have heard they smell funny when in the oven. Let us know what you think

I caught that one too and I enjoyed it. Something about the nice easy presentation and good explanations of how to prepare Britain's best classics. He does it very well. I think he should do more like that.

I have heard people say how difficult it is to get his recipes before. Do you mean the cheese sauce for the top of the cauliflower, which as you say is the same roux for pasta.

I have put a link on for one, I know you would prefer the actual one Gary did but it you cannot find it this will do. He did warm the milk with a peeled onion, bay leaf and a clove stuck through the bay leaf onto the onion. He used cheese instead of Parmesan and he didn't use cream just milk, nor the Tabasco but he did use mustard.

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I have only seen the first programme of this so far as it seems to have disappeared off my planner even though I had a series link on it. Very annoying. Put it back on today though. So if anyone out there thinks their planner is recording it... do check it.

Hardeep is a real joy, funny and natural. What a lovely personality. I cannot say the same for Torode as I have not taken to him and don't watch Master Chef because of it. I will stick with this because of Hardeep.

After reviewing all the different types and collecting money from birthday & christmas I splashed out on this. Which I think is amazing. It can knead 900g of flour for two large loaves in seconds. Not to mention its veg chopping speed. Incredible machine. Love it.

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Sounds fast and efficient. I went on a Indian cookery course once and the teacher told us to just crush seeds with the palms of our hands.

Sounds like something the Spartans would say

"It is Spartan law, we crush seeds with our bare hands" hope you have seen the film or you may not get that

I used to grind my coffee with a hand mill but found it tedious every day.

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So I bought an electric grinder

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which is great. So I use the hand mill for spices and it works well.

I use this one from M & S which is pretty good and quite large like Ina's

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Your very welcome chantilly and thanks David I will top with clarified butter in future

I have frozen my own chicken liver pate but have not put butter on top. Didn't think of that. I also make mine with frozen chicken livers. I freeze them in egg cups

Thank you too gastrosurf

Here's hoping we see more of Marco out and about in one form or another.

Thanks schmaltz1.

Am I correct in thinking that this list was comprised by Olive magazine readers only. Therefore this survey is only representative of its readers.

A larger survey which includes people in the food industry may provide a different result.

Thanks for the reply Barshedale, I had a feeling that was the case.

A relative of mine took over a pub once and I asked about their plans for the food. They had been sent leaflets and brochures from food manufacturing companies. They were seriously considering using them as the pictures of the meals looked good and the prices were competative and easy to "warm up".

So even the little places are not a safe bet anymore.

I haven't been sure about John, but when I saw that recipe for fried potato cake with horrid sweet stuff on top I thought Ugh. I was impressed with John's honesty about it and I liked that if he thinks it is awful he says so. It would have been more in keeping with an egg on top and he actually said what I was thinking.

I hope to see more of him as I am still undecided about him too. Not having a decisive day am I.

Did you see the same as me Rosti. I think it needs slowing down and some music. I don't like it as it is.

I originally thought "What on earth" at first, but found myself interested in what she was doing. I thought it was funny the way her face was screwing up at what looked like distate but was probably the spitting oil.

I am still undecided

I just clicked to see the new Market Kitchen advert on the MK page and all I got was a quick flash through the seasons in a box. There was no music just silence and then at the end half a sentence that broke off half way through.

It just looked spooky. Maybe there is a fault somewhere. Hope its not on my 'puter

Diana's name is not on the presenters list anymore. Maybe they have not renewed her contract and Diana has prefered not to have the "leaving doo" on TV.

I wonder if that is it now or if anymore are going. Hope not I like the ones that are left from the original team.

I would love to see Tamasin do another series. From the posts I have read I think Tamasin would be well advised to do something with her hair though. But would she listen ? I don't know

Yes I too think Marco could have had the number one spot or at least been in the top 7. Its all about who is on TV these days, especially at the time of the poll. If he had been on TV a lot more in the last 5 years he probably would have been. Maybe he will be in future polls if he continues with a TV presence.

I agree that it must be very annoying for the chefs who have to put food on tables when the TV chef is in the way making a lot of mess and mithering for things.