Would you like to help us test recipes for the Mumsnet Cookbook?

[CatherineHMumsnet]

Shhh .. don't tell everyone but we're working on a top secret new project in the form of The Mumsnet Cookbook and we need your help.

We'd like to get together a Mumsnet Cookbook cookery group to stop us from piling on the pounds help us test these shortlisted recipes.

Each volunteer will be allocated a recipe which they'll then cook for their family and give us some feedback on how easy, hard, good, bad, expensive etc they are and whether they'd make it again. All the recipes chosen were submitted over the years by Mumsnetters, so there shouldn't be any outlandish or particularly difficult to source ingredients - and they should all be pretty easy to make (we hope!).

As a thank-you, we'll be putting everyone who helps out into a prize draw to win a Bloomsbury cookbook.

And if that's not enough of an incentive, everyone who helps will have their *Mumsnetter nickname featured in the cookbook's acknowledgements.

Okay c

I could also do Pizza rice if that is still needed; I see it's been done, but you mention two people might be useful?

I'm interested

Yes me please

Sounds like fun, I'd love to participate

I'd like to play too please. Can I have gluten free ones (pain in the arse emoticon) pretty please?

Would love to! Stick my name down!

Would love to! Stick my name down!

Catherine - don't know if it's too late but would be happy to try the chicken dippers or pizza dough if you still wanted them tested? Unfortunately I can tell that the dc wouldn't eat any of the ones in the most recent list so not much point testing them.

And as a side note - looking at the white choc ices recipe - from the title I was assuming it was going to be something to do with ice cream but it looks more like a mousse. And in these 'elf & safety conscious times do people do raw egg stuff for their dc any more?

And re the spaghetti with bacon, peas and pesto, I make something very similar for myself but leaving out the pesto and adding a spring onion to the bacon when cooking, then a very large slurp of sherry to the bacon and onion mix, bubbling for just a couple of minutes to thicken up before stirring the pasta in... And sometimes add a dollop of cream, creme fraiche or Philadelphia type cheese to make it even more yummy and luxurious. A nice easy adult variant if you don't want to be making lots of different meals for you and the kids but don't really fancy the same as they are having!

Or indeed, if you have anything else that needs testing...!!

Happy to test anything that needs testing......

Ooh yes please, I do lovely good recipe :)

yes please

Yes please

In case you didn't have enough volunteers: I want to take part too.

Me too- if I'm not too late...

I'd Luke to be added if i'm not too late

Would love to join in on the recipe testing!

OOps just seen the plea for recipes to be done by tomorrow. Was intending on doing it over the weekend but our Morrisons (not huge) only had frozen raspberries and not strawberries so will have to get them from Waitrose or Sainos....

Will try to cook tomorrow and get review/feedback to you before 6.00 pm - is that okay, Catherine?

I've done the Pizza dough. It was a success! (Provided you use th3e quick yeast and not the easy bake yeast as I did irst!)
Completely forgot to take photos though. I'll be doing it again during the week though as it went so well, and can do pics then if you want them.

Wow - thanks for the great response. Give me a minute and I'll work out what recipes still need testing.

Gazzlw - don't worry - if you get feedback to me tomorrow morning that would be great.

Melty - good news about the pizza dough. Did you fill in the feedback?

Goody Catherine... have promised DD that we will do it this evening.

Has this project gone on a lot longer than you would have anticipated Catherine. Can't believe you started it in September???

Gazzlw - I think when you're used to doing things on t'internet - book publishing seems very much slower!

Yes, you are right....one forgets that testing hundreds of recipes, fine tuning them and ensuring all the details are correct is not something to be achieved overnight! Thank goodness I don't work in book publishing !

Catherine-pesto spaghetti done!
Couldn't be easier to make. Had to improvise with the bacon as my co op didn't have pancetta or lardons so just used rashers!! It was inexpensive, creamy and tasty and my 20 month old loved it 'mmmm nice'!!