Tina's chestnut stuffing and other secret and not so secret recipes

Making easy white sauce, milk in pan, large knob butter, heat till butter melts (no longer) take off heat, add tablespoon of plain flour. Whisk until flour incorporated, put back on heat and whisk till thick. Do not give up and add more flour, keep whisking and have faith. Add strong mature cheese once thickened if required.

[quote floppybit]@steppemum sorry, just seen you don't have Chinese supermarket, I should have read whole thread first[/quote]
don't worry.
I do still have a 2 more bottles from my last visit to Holland. Dh is Dutch so we go there quite often.

Lots of great sugegstions on here for places to find it, so I'm goign to look again, it is a few years since I did a supermarket trawl looking for it.

@devildeepbluesea thank you so much. DM would love this and it’s such a bloody lovely way for part of her to live on.

I’ve just dug out a couple of (crap quality) pics of years gone by but the pics don’t do the taste of it justice. It’s better if it’s ‘really’ brown on top. Definitely Meatloaf like in texture so not sure why we always called it Chestnut Stuffing. Just a family name that stuck I think .

Also thanks to everyone else for their amazing recipes. I’ve filled my notes with loads of them and can’t wait to try them

Best cheese sauce ever is just double cream and butter heated up with loads of grated cheese mixed in. Not the healthiest but absolutely delicious.

Really easy Nutella cakes.

Half a big jar of nutella
2 eggs
About 10 heaped spoonfuls of self raising flour.

I never measure anything but they come out perfect every time. Use one less egg for a Nutella cookie dough recipe.

Pizza swirls

Roll out a ready made puff pastry sheet.
Add pizza sauce, cheese ect
Use a pizza cutter to slice into thin strips
Roll each strip and place on a baking tray
Takes about 20 mins to cook in the oven

I always add bbq sauce, red onion and peppers to mine, but you can add whatever really. Great for lunch boxes.

Sorry, I only just saw this. The thread has got so full!

I would use around 200g of chocolate to cover a standard (around 8'') cake. The beauty of it is that you just add yoghurt to personal taste. So I'd probably add around 2/3 of a large pot, but it can be more or less. You start with a few good spoonfulls, and once they're stirred in, taste and see how much more you want. The yoghurt also thickens the consistency so it goes further. It's still quite drippy so you need to wipe around the plate for presentation with your clean finger which you then lick.

So glad this is going into Classics!

Adding.... smoked paprika is a wonderful addition to almost anything. Smoked paprika butter rubbed into a chicken before roasting...

And my (well, not mine but I can't remember where it came from) recipe for sweet potato satay..

500g of sweet potato (or just 'quite a lot' if you can't weigh them. It's about three medium sized ones)
Tin of coconut milk
Thai red curry paste
Peanut butter
Spinach

You can add all kinds of bits and bobs, but I just chop up the sweet potato, add the coconut milk with about half of the tin rinsed about with water, as much curry paste as you want to make it as hot as you want (I'm a wuss so I only add one teaspoon full) and as much peanut butter as you want to make it as nutty as you want. Simmer until the sweet potato is cooked and going mushy, stir through the spinach and serve with rice.

I love it as it's a great staple for when you haven't got measuring stuff to hand (like if you're in a holiday cottage or just feeling lazy). It's a 'bung it all in' dish.

This is a very American recipe that children love. Stir together cream cheese and dark brown sugar until smooth /fully dissolved. If nuts are tolerated, also stir in some chopped salted peanuts. Serve with apple slices.

Yesterday I made the fork biscuits and Parmesan crisps I saw on here - two great successes. Also tried the pan pizza which I think I cocked up a bit but it’s one to try again.

Ranch is next, thank you OP!

Thank you everyone who’s shared such lovely ideas, tweaks, tricks and recipes

Updated the recents. Marking so I know where I have got to!

Ooh, and I have another one. Taboulleh.

Chop up a load of cucumber, spring onions and tomatoes really small. Unfortunately you need to chop and not use a food processor.

Cook bulgur wheat and cool by running cold tap over. Squeeze out the moisture with your hands and chuck in with the veg.

Add in a shit ton of chopped parsley and coriander. More parsley than coriander. Zest and juice of a lemon and a lime.

Glug in loads of olive oil. Mix together with loads of salt.

It is demolished at every barbecue.

My goodness, this is an absolutely amazing thread, I've just gone through the whole thing, copied and pasted all the recipes into a 28-page Word document!! Keep 'em coming!

@BlueFringe I'm so happy this thread has been named for your mum, I will definitely be making that recipe. Often.

For tonight, I'm doing Chicken Divine and then that Biscoff apple tart. DD will think someone has replaced her mother for someone who can cook.

Ah I've just seen why.. how lovely. This thread is probably the best one I've ever read on Mumsnet

Did this thread get a name change?

@steppemum sorry, just seen you don't have Chinese supermarket, I should have read whole thread first

@steppemum I used to live in Indonesia too! You can get Kecap Manis from the Chinese Wholesalers/ Supermarket. I live in a city with a Chinatown and the supermarkets there sell it. Don't know how close you are to those kinds of places. Hope you find some

@justaweeone thank you

@OhioOhioOhio thank you, I hope you found it.

@Namechabged

Dulche de Leche

You need a tin of sweetend condensed milk.
Divide the contents between 2 jam jars, they should both be about half full.
Put lids on the jars and put them in a slow cooker half full of water.
Leave for 8 hours and come back to 2 jars of deliciousness

A spoon or 2 with Greek yogurt is rather nice

Fry a diced onion with some garlic and ginger very gently until soft and slightly browned. Add passata, and stir in a tin of tuna. Bit of parsley chopped up - delicious tuna sauce for pasta

Bump

@MidnightFlit I should probably have edited to say, Start at one tsp of horseradish and add to taste, as some people don't like it too hot

I didn't have any horseradish so used wasabi instead...awesome and so easy. I'm definitely having it again tomorrow thank you!!

That's great BlueFringe am off to see what it is.