to think all the 'cancel the take-away, make your own' 'Fakeaway' articles/recipes

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completely miss the point?

We don't often get takeaway but when we do it's after a stupidly busy week (like this week) that involves DH not seeing the DC at all and me doing everything child/house oriented.

TA means that a)I don't have to cook and b)washing up = 2plates, 2 knives, 2 forks and two wine glasses rather than cooking and washing up as usual.
Or does everyone else get takeaway for the Gourmet Experience?

aldi - cooking not a problem I usually love it but after this week and weeks like it a night off cooking and washing up is blissful. Also, the take aways (indian, chinese, kebab) are all within walking distance so doesn't take long.
I don't think you quite got my point - I could cook if I wanted to and then wash up the saucepans and dishes but I'd rather get takeaway and not.

Fakeaway Chinese and Indian stuff from M&S is on offer at the moment. I was quite tempted this morning but didn't buy it because we had fish and chips last night and that's probably quite lazy enough for one week.

Oblomov www.ecklee.co.uk/products-Ghormeh-Sabzi_gfsghrsbz.htm.

Happy to share recipe for curry, you'll never go back to TA curry again

DD and DP love this vile stuff called Aromat - it is a small yellow tub (amusingly retro 60s style packaging design) of MSG and salt. They shove it on their chips.

God Aromat is SO salty - gives me a massive headache but it is SO nice

My aunt and uncle got actually addicted to that HORRIBLE aromat stuff. bleugh.

They put it on my scrambled egg once. I almost boked my eyes out.

oh, I am going to ask Michelle from FoodFootballandABaby to come on and tell us where we are going wrong. Maybe she has a tip.

DON'T mention Aromat. Or Maggi.

DH used to work in a bank where they had this strange custom that someone brought in lunch every Friday. Had to be homecooked. He made the most delicious spag bol one day and one of the bitches women who worked there smothered it in Aromat and Maggi.

He has still not got over it.

I haven't had a take away in Yeeeeaars. Always disappoints and so bloody expensive!

I LOVE takeaway,

As I always cook, every single meal (weekends too) and it is a massive treat for me to have a meal that's cooked by someone else.

DH not that bothered, as I guess he is blase with the idea of someone cooking for him (me!).

I find Chinese takeaway in the Uk inedible.

Love a good curry though, or fish and chips.

I am always shocked how expensive it is though, and how many people I know who are hard up yet have one every week or more (should mind my own business really).

Cheap alternatives are ; cheese on toast or frozen pizza.

for me it is ALL about not cooking myself.

yanbu OP

YANBU.

What are blended onions please?

I have too many hence size of arse a few takeaways. Currently also doing SW where everyone says make "fakeaways" it just doesnt hit the spot with me. In fairness I couldnt care less what I eat, provided its cooked for me, put on a plate leaving only a plate to wash up. That's why I like takeaways. The idea of pretending to make something totally defeats the object of laziness for me! If Im cooking then Ill just make something regular like spag bol or a casserole. Its not the same as getting a pizza delivered onto your knee saves that lonely plate needing washing up its just so bloody expensive!

Its is revolting. I keep throwing the manky tubs away but someone always replaces it. I can't believe anyone still buys it. I think the market is pensioners and my DP and DD.

We never have takeaway cause we live out in the sticks and it takes longer to drive in and get it than it does for me to cook.

So YABU for reminding me what we are missing.

I do see your point, actually. Takeaway for me is when I am knackered and can't be bothered cooking. But some use it cause they genuinely are frightened to cook forrin food.

When I cook curry I was told that the key thing is to cook onions for far longer and slower than you would believe - I typically fry a couple of onions on med heat for 30-40 mins. Also in some recipes it calls for you to blend garlic, onion and ginger into a paste and fry that off before adding the spices.

haha - and my aunt and uncle!

The only takeaway we get is fish and chips (every few weeks) because I can't make it at home, I'm not buying a deep fat fryer for so little use!

Other takeaways...well, they take forever to be delivered, are not always hot when they get here and cost a bloody fortune, then I have to drink pints because the salt makes me so thirsty. Not worth it!

I love cooking, It's a hobby, I have tons of recipe books and post on food forums, but if I have the cash I get takeaway every weekend.
It's great to have food brought to me once a week, and it's delicious, in a slightly gross way.

Oh, actually, I have a disclaimer - I don't do take away BUT every Friday we go to my Mum's and she cooks AND clears up!

Not particularly wanting to encourage people, but you can use MSG at home if you want to up the flavour of your meals in the same way as a lot of takeaways (indeed in a lot of chinese etc. it's the only way to get the flavour concentrations you expect) you can generally buy it in places that carry a large asian range, or you can buy online e.g. from here

Oops noticed other people have said it... still I'll leave it in as I have a link to where you can buy it online...

I do think the idea of recipes for takeaways at home are odd, they're missing the point of the takeaway for most.

YANBU, I can cook a fabulous curry/Chinese/pizza etc, but when we have take away it is to save on the cooking and clearing up because we are knackered or for a treat to save one of us cooking.

It doesn't have to be expensive, last night we got the meal deal for 1 person between two of us and got pakoras, popadoms and spiced onions, lamb korma and rice for £7.50 and there is more than enough food for 2 people and if you buy it before 6 it's £5.

YANBU in principle, ordering takeaway chips or pizza when the thought of cooking dinner after a shit week makes me want to cry is an occasional lifesaver, but fakeaway recipes are great too - my DP can't eat MSG, it's the worst trigger for his IBS and he gets very ill. Our local curry place seems to somehow make delicious curries without the stuff, but they don't deliver and it's too far away to collect; all the chinese takeaways use MSG so they're right out. Those 'cook your own takeaway' recipes let us have chinese food, which we both miss.... (I tend not to eat stuff with MSG in either, I feel mean eating something he loves but can't have in front of him).