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.

Well, it's about time! I've always wondered why there ins't a MN cook book!

Just done mine, posh broccoli. I hate broccoli so not the best judge. DH loved it, 8 month old loved it, 4.8yo wouldn't touch it!

OMG, DH has just shown me DD2's plate. She's cleared it!

I'll be doing mine tomorrow- it got sent to junk mail folder for some weird reason. No matter, I have found it. I love the recipe you've given me! Very appropriate given my user name!

Is anyone able to swap? I have a lamb dish, and we are not really lamb eaters here :(

Malty Loaf - fine if you like your malt loaf liquid. Two hours and counting in the oven (supposed to be 90mins) and it is still sloppy. -10/10

I only got one recipe - do I get another one at some point?

Had minor family crisis! Will be having ours tomorrow if that's ok?

Ours is in the slow cooker as we speak to eat tomorrow, the jury is out at the moment.

Made wraps as instructed - DD ate it all for her packed lunch so I reckon that's a success!

Made ours today (a dairy free chocolate cake). Very easy, very quick, looked fine ... But nobody liked it. We're not a dairy free family so maybe weren't the best people to judge it this.

Btw, ate we supposed to be doing 2 recipes? I only got sent 1.

Some extra feedback on the yoghurt pot buns (as I already submitted the form) - great newly made eaten still-warm from the oven, but I don't think they keep that well - I was less impressed by them the next morning when they seemed slightly greasy. The DCs still ate them quite happily, though.

A couple more things about the dairy free cake that I forgot to add to the official feedback form:

No cake tin size was specified.

The recipe was in imperial and my scales (and me) only works in metric, so I had to convert things which was a bit irritating.

Four hours in the oven. Its never going to work. DONT PUT IN THE MALTY LOAF IT IS A CRAP RECIPE! Instead... Take bran flakes, add your choice of dried fruit, pour milk over and eat, throw sugan in bin.

Catsmama - have PMd you link.
Coops79 and MrsJohnDeere - just one recipe each at this point. And can you add the feedback on tin size etc on the feedback form? We'll make sure all recipes are metric in the book.

I've done mine. So simple that it barely even counts as a recipe but actually it had never occurred to me to cook it for the DC, and it went down a treat. Cheap ish, healthy, quick, foolproof.

CatherineHMumsnet - just tried to do that but it won't let me go back into the survey a second time.

Fwiw I used 2 x 20 cm tins and that seemed the right size.

We can't add the extra feedback on the feedback form, because it won't let us fill it in twice.

Oh yes, can we swap recipes?

Frootshoots I'd much rather a cheesy one.

I've got bolognaise though- with turkey mince (barf).

I'm a veggie who is quite happy to cook meat for the rest of the family but I draw the line at mince.

I found the taste revolting even when I ate meat.

Well, I never thought I'd be writing this...
I made the notorious hot "yoghurt pudding" tonight and it was... delicious! Loved by all of us, even my ultra fussy husband!! I'd recommend changing the name to "Yoghurt Cake" or "Yoghurt Sponge Pudding" though as that gives a better idea of what it is, rather than people imagining they'll be eating curdled yoghurt!!!
Right, off to fill in feedback thread...

We've just eaten our stuffed tomatoes, made by DD.
Fine, fine, nothing nasty about it, but rather bland and boring we thought, but then we are adventurous eaters so perhaps it's us rather than the recipe.

Where is the official thingy to fill in?