discussion Do you cook

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This thread reminds me that I must do the Christmas pudding. I used to do all the cooking, but like Stuart I now find myself on my own. Unlike him, all to often I go for a packet or something out of the freezer though.

 

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I've cooked for myself from a young age, both parents encouraged me to 'dig in' and help in the kitchen, dad used to fend for himself and was used to cooking on the fly in the army.

When i'm in the mood I can be really creative and love to make regular everyday stuff from scratch, (proper custard, if you've never tried it,treat yourself, you'll never look at a tin of custard powder the same).

When i'm not in the mood i'll throw together whatever takes my fancy or the necessity of my digestive needs, this can be as simple as beans on toast or a roast dinner.

My real love is puddings, cakes, buns, and so on, never yet had a pudding out of a packet or supermarket container that can come close to home made stuff. Mums mince pies all those years ago made me aware of that.

I think it's great that we have things like the Hairy bikers show, as it just makes more guys aware that you can be a slighty rough arsed geordie but still enjoy baking a pie for example, and you don't need to be a nose in the air 'can name every variety of herb in any garden you pass' chef!

Best pudding recipes ever? Gary Rhodes, will happily watch him make a pudding. Otherwise i'm not one for cooking shows, (come dine with me being an exception as the commentator is really funny)

I do like to watch Nigella though! Mind you, thats not for the cooking really,

 

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Does Nigella cook? Must watch closer next time.................

 

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Yes you are right real custard Mike. My mother used to make it. Fantastic yellow no lumps & thickish. My sister & I would just have bowl after bowl.

Her mother, My Grandmother, Mary Alice, did the best Yorkshire pudding I have not met the match of. They lived in Hull in a terraced house which had one of those fire ranges with the oven where you could transfer the fire heat to the oven.

She would cook the beef then introduce the Yorkshire pud mixture then somehow drip feed it from the beef fat in the oven.

Every Sunday lunch we started with this Yorkshire pudding on its own with a gravy which you could drink. Then after the beef roast back to the Yorkshire pudding with home made raspberry jam. What a meal. That was English at its best as a young boy I enjoyed that meal like no other. And she came from Sunderland & not Yorkshire. My mother could never replicate that despite being a Yorkshire lass.

Laurie