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

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CatherineHMumsnet · 24/09/2012 13:02

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 Shock 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.

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NettoSuperstar · 02/10/2012 12:53

I'll take the stuffed tomatoes if you want my cone cakes greatgoogly
What's the hot yoghurt thing?

GreatGooglyMoogly · 02/10/2012 13:15

Done Netto! Mine is this one.

Is this yours?

NettoSuperstar · 02/10/2012 13:45

It was this pretty much the same but with less instructions.

I'll take your tomatoes, they'll make a good Sunday night teaSmile

Catsmamma · 02/10/2012 14:02

ooh super! I have had a pm so I'll swap

and Catherine ...feel free to send me another not hot yoghurt recipe if you like, I am off all week!

mrspink27 · 02/10/2012 15:47

I have my swap done and dusted... happy to test another recipe if Catherine would like...

CatherineHMumsnet · 02/10/2012 15:49

Catsmama - PM-ing you now.

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mrspink27 · 02/10/2012 16:07

and meeeee? pleeeeeeeeeease!!!

CatherineHMumsnet · 02/10/2012 16:17

mrspink27 - do you fancy doing a roast turkey?

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Toomanyworriedsonhere · 02/10/2012 16:18

please please can I do something?

wannabedomesticgoddess · 02/10/2012 16:20

If you have anymore recipes you need tested pm me. I got one. Its pretty cheap to make so can do another one :)

GwendolineMaryLacey · 02/10/2012 16:36

When do we need to do them by?

CatherineHMumsnet · 02/10/2012 16:38

GwendolineMaryLacey - it would be great if we could have them done by the end of this coming weekend.

I do have a roast turkey recipe if anyone wants to try that - I know it's a bit expensive though.

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TheHeirOfSlytherin · 02/10/2012 16:40

I'm doing mine on Saturday so I'll get the results back to you either then or on Sunday.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 02/10/2012 16:42

Righto. Standby family!

GwendolineMaryLacey · 02/10/2012 16:43

Or should that be stand by? Confused

wannabedomesticgoddess · 02/10/2012 16:44

Sorry, roast turkey definately out of my price range :(

Would have been good practice too.

Frontpaw · 02/10/2012 16:46

I just got one recipe. Haven't been able to get Bran Flakes yet (stupid Tesco Metro) but shall do soom. Especially since one review of the recipe said it was good for constipation (curing, not causing, I hope).

RuleBritannia · 02/10/2012 16:49

I don't qualify. I'm a mother but they don't live here any more. Are you flexinle in this respect?

RuleBritannia · 02/10/2012 16:49

*flexible

RuleBritannia · 02/10/2012 16:49

*flexible

debka · 02/10/2012 16:51

Thanks for my recipe- but it is seriously Odd. It's One Pot Spag Bol and although spaghetti is listed in the ingredients, it doesn't mention it in the method. Should I leave it out and cook it separately? Bung it in with everything else? (is meant to be One Pot).

Ifancyanewname · 02/10/2012 16:52

ahh man, enough volunteers needed, what a bugger.

Frontpaw · 02/10/2012 16:53

Well, it could have been baked bran flakes!

CatherineHMumsnet · 02/10/2012 16:54

debka - good point. Reckon the one-pot refers to the sauce and you'll have to cook the spaghetti separately.

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CatherineHMumsnet · 02/10/2012 16:55

RuleBritannia - right now we have enough volunteers, but if for some reason people don't respond with their recipe feedback, we may be in need of more help in which case may we hold you in reserve?

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