I am BU but this has pissed me off for ages

[thefruitwhisperer]

Please excuse this moment of bitchiness but Im in a really grumpy mood and I had to get this off my chest. (Baby teething, no sleep,

SIL 'makes' banoffee pie. I say 'makes' because she opens a tin of biscuits, a tin of premade caramel, peels a banana and tops with a carton of cream. VOILA. Ive just received word that she has spent hours doing this and so we are expected to drop everything, go round tonight and sample this canned delight.

Ive no problem with this banoffee method usually, in fact sometimes when i have nothing in the house, I may make it myself. But she proclaims that she makes the best pie shes ever tasted, and knocks all others with 'Yeah, not as good as mine though...'

I hate boasting. Esp when the boasting is about something a ten year old could make. Rant over. Flame me now.

I seem to recall an episode of ComeDineWithMe where a contestant made a banoffee pie using that method, and was very smug about the finished article. One of the guests later rifled through the bins before finding the tell-tale caramel tin.

Fuck banoffee pie, I have New York cheesecake. I carried it home from the shop and everything

Brilliant thread.

YANBU OP

Make Angel Delight.
Put sprinkles on the top.
Make her come around & sample.

MRD she only lives 5 doors down and I thought I had some in my freezer but didn't.

It was just that she goes on about everything is homemade, and slightly sneered at the frozen chips and then they promptly ate them all.

I'm loving the angel delight and sprinkles idea

Ask what temperature she lets the caramel get to when making it, as you always have trouble getting it just right. And if she claims to do it by sight ask if she'd mind showing you just now. Could be interesting!

I'm with you on this. I often follow cheat recipes (delia is the queen with her, "we are home cooks, not chefs" mantra) but I wouldnt boast about it.

My father always made me say my stepmother's food was delicious. Even when it wasn't. The most memorable was the chow mein recipe (this was the 1970s) that she had 'adapted'. The texture of beansprouts which have been stewed in watered down soy sauce for an hour is something I have never forgotten.

I did once burn my forehead and make a right mess of the ceiling when I opened the can of condensed milk before it was properly caramelised.

I cant go. When she smugly offers me a slice, I know I'll just think of you lot and start laughing, no one will know what Im laughing at and she'll think shes not only a culinary genius but a comedienne too!!!

I would have asked how she made it, in detail and then when she says oh i open the tin of cream - id ahve said 'oh so you dont actually MAKE any of it, you just 'put' it together?

No, you HAVE to go

you owe us a denouement, after all this investment

How annoying. Order this and invite her round to sample 'your' version.

Actually don't. Hide it til everyone's out and then eat it all yourself. Mwah hah hahh.

OPs SILs easy peasy recipe here.

Although it is the devil incarnate Nestle.

My MIL likes to tell people she's spent the morning "baking"

When I ask what she's been baking it's always the same lemon meringue(?) p

I once asked her for the recipe. This was it;

Buy a flan, buy a lemon meringue pie mix, add an egg to the mix, stick it in the flan and put in the oven.

It used to make me laugh when she said she'd been baking but now I just feel a bit irritated. (Quite unreasonable of me I know)

Oh, do go!
If you feel that you might be about to laugh, think of dragon-butter, or space -docking. You will either throw up, or choke spectacularly.
Then hide in the bathroom with your mobile, and report back to us!
Go. I command you

A friend of mine used to boil milk for 6 hours to make banoffee. Never got to taste it, though.

Wish I'd never read this thread...

YANBU to be annoyed at her boasting, but really, is it so bad to use ready made stuff? Not everyone can be like Jamie Oliver.

And banoffe pie is gross!

Not bad at all to use ready made stuff - but to boast about it being the best and insisting on everyone dropping everything to go and taste some is what is pissing the OP off

OMG this thread had me laughing so hard this bit

My grandmother made me a sweet and sour chicken surprise once. The surprise was that she served it with sprouts and mash.

She never really got the hang of foreign food, bless her.

I cried laughing OMG.. Phoned dh to tell him but he didnt blinkign answer..

I dont think anyone minds anyone using cheats methods to make food with. its the idea nothing is better most have issues with..

But I am 100% for the make an idential one (and that fruit salad)

This is THE BEST thread.

Dives to kitchen to create Toad with a massive Aunt Bessie, a load of Bisto and then beckon the neighbours to sample it

Brilliant thread.

Loving StillFrazzled's Grandmother's fusion cooking

Glad to see everyone appreciates Granny's cooking

Sweet and Sour Chicken Sprout Fusion Surprise was followed by scrambled eggs on toast with Super Noodles as a side dish (presumably instead of veg?).

And she once 'jazzed up' the spag part of my spag bol by adding a stock cube. A Chicken Tikka stock cube.

In her defence, she is a legendary baker and cook of good old fashioned English classics. She just loses her way a bit when faced with anything vaguely foreign...

mmmm Super Noodles as a side dish bless her : )

My Mummy is Irish and as such every meal must have potatoes and gravy with it. God forbid you dare to mention pasta or rice as a change and she whips up a milk pudding!

OP you have to ask for the recipe for Banoffee Pie.