New thread for Cookery Book Club. Any Supermarket magazine or Good Food (probably Delicious or Olive as well) of your choice and a Food Blog of choice. There were links to some good blogs on Septembers thread...think I'm going with Skint Foodie and Good Food magazine
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Cookery Book Club October - Good Food/any Supermarket Mag and a Food Blog of your choice
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Pantah630 · 26/09/2013 12:42
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LovingKent ·
11/10/2013 15:22
Welcome back tiger. Have also been eyeing up that pie pantah but we had pie last weekend and didn't fancy doing another this weekend.
This week for tea we had the sausage ragout with cheesy polenta from October Good Food. The ragout was easy although I used sausagemeat rather than sausages to save skinning them. Had never made polenta before so it was a bit of disaster (stuck to bottom of pan and liquid quantities seemed wrong but that's what the recipe said). I found [[http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-creamy-stovetop-polenta-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-183740 this method]] and will try it next time. It tasted good though. Recipe said to add smoked cheese and it went really well with the ragout. This weekend I'm doing the baked apple and toffee crumble - just right for this weather 
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Science were you the one with a glut of apples? If you wrap each individually in newspaper and put in a cardboard box in a cool place eg garage, shed they should keep well throughout winter although might go a bit wrinkly after a few months. If any go rotten wrapping them individually means they don't spoil the rest 
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HuevosRancheros ·
11/10/2013 16:52
Sigh :( just getting over a tummy bug, so don't fancy cooking much.... have just made a Gruffalo Crumble for the kids' tea, think that is the most ambitious I might be for a while!
DH is away next week, so I can do some cooking just for me, might make some of the stuff on 101 cookbooks I have always had my eyes on. These spring rolls always call to me!
ScienceRocks ·
15/10/2013 23:11
Blimey, the lamb shawarma was good. Made my own pittas to go alongside, and a tomato, cucumber and spring onion salad doused in sumac and lemon. It was good
The orange syrup and almond cake with chocolate icing was very good too
Thank you ladies for recommending Jerusalem to me 
Pantah630 ·
16/10/2013 06:56
I think the Shwarma is the best recipe I've tried in a long time. Love it and feel like its time to make again. Thanks science
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pregnantpause ·
17/10/2013 13:51
I don't have the magazine this month as have.been.affected by something of a family crisis. Cooking has been shelved this month
But I'm really thinking of making those flapjacks for the DC, they could do with a treat. Can I query what we are nominating for November? And December?
Pantah630 ·
20/10/2013 20:13
Shanks were delicious. I have one left as DS1 got drenched coming home from Beaver Sleepover so went straight to his house rather than coming for lunch. Seriously tempted to eat it for tea but I've promised it to him
Served them with couscous made with preserved Lenin, pomegranate, coriander, sumac, salt and pepper. Lovely, sticky and fruity, I'm assuming it's technically a tagine. Will have again I'm sure.
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Pantah630 ·
20/10/2013 20:15
omg! autocorrect massive fail! wouldn't have been half as nice with bits of dead Russian in!!
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mimolette ·
20/10/2013 20:57
That is a classic typo, Pantah, had me chuckling out loud!
I've done a few recipes from blogs this month, and have finally got round to going through the right Waitrose magazine, so have ear marked a few from there to do soon (including the prawn thing and the chorizo hash brown that ELR mentioned earlier, but also liked the look of the stilton and apple tart from their ready-ish meal formula section).
From the blogs, we had A Girl Called Jack's beetroot and brie risotto tonight. It was a bit dry (though that could be my fault), and overall I thought it wasn't as nice as the version I normally make with creamy goat's cheese and beetroot roasted from raw rather than from cooked. I do appreciate that doing it this way saves a fair bit of money though, and it was still nice enough for us to have seconds
I also tried her mushroom soup last week, which went down a treat with DH (so much so that I didn't actually get to try any!).
Quite enjoyed the meatloaf from Recipe Rifle. Mine turned out a bit greasy so would use lean mince next time. Hers is one of the blogs I really enjoy reading (for the stories as much as if not more than for the recipes, and I have made a few things from there in the past, of which my favourite was probably the Asian salmon.
If anyone is still looking for blog inspiration, another one I have read for a long time is Eat Like A Girl (though this one more for the recipes than the stories) and my version of her chicken and chorizo pie has become a firm family staple.
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