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.

Can do choc ices this weekend or do you need it sooner?

I'll do it probably Sunday if that's ok?

and yes please to link for feedback. i might have it somewhere but i'm lazy

EstherRancid - Sunday's good for us. Here's the feedback link

FiveGoMadInDorset - weekend's fine for the choc ices, thanks!

tyvm

No problem, DS would love to help.

Done and reviewed.

done and feedback sent

Thanks Esther and Five - much appreciated.

Yes please anything to inspire me when I have run out of ideas!!!

Back again - with more recipes to put out to test. This week it's fast food - so we're looking at recipes that really don't take long to both prepare and knock up.

I'll post this here for a bit and then start PM-ing those of you who've offered to test in the past if there aren't enough testers. Let me know by posting below if you're up for it - and what recipe you'd like to try out.

creamy garlic mushrooms
superspeedy homemade 'pot noodle'
MamaG's quick spicy pasta sauce
quick couscous
choc, cherry and hazelnut flapjack

Happy to try the mushrooms and I also owe you a piccy of the chocolate balls.

me too pleeeeease

Snowball - great. I'll put you down for the mushrooms. Do you have the link for the feedback form?

Stateofconfusion - which one would you like to do?

yep have the link, will send it in tomorrow.

I'd love to help :-)

Do you need any help with the choc cherry flapjacks?

[hopeful]

Feel compelled to help you out of your misery with following:
Couscous (am born and raised in a country where it is a staple food)
Pot noodles ( very counter-intuitively, my kids born and raised in S-E Asia)
Fussy eaters here so Am also master of last minute variations on both subjects.

Zipzap - we certainly do - can I put you down for that? Will you be able to do it this week?

Laptop - lovely - I'll put you down for couscous and pot noodles

We'd like every recipe tested by two Mumsnetters ideally, so we're still looking for volunteers....

Yum yum! Do i just post here on this thread?

If you're testing for us - you can give us feedback on your recipe by clicking here and filling in the brief form (will only take a mo)

OK tks! will do tomorrow after I've had a chance to read this post!

Yes - will do them this afternoon or tomorrow as I bought some hazelnuts at the supermarket this morning just in case :o

Do you want the mushrooms testing too a second time? I have some mushrooms and Boursin sitting in my fridge that I was planning on using for lunch tomorrow (well the mushrooms anyhow - I was going to hope that inspiration struck when opening the fridge but there is Boursin there!)

Any more volunteers needed?

Happy to volunteer too

Could do the noodles - I'd be too tempted to make additions to the other recipes.