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Cooking with Ems!!

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Lizzer · 16/05/2001 13:10

Ems, It worked, it worked! It was delicious in fact! I was a bit worried at the prospect of buying the meat as I'm a pre-packaged type of gal usually -I was like 'mmmm... some of your finest neck fillet please' I think they thought I was nuts (not far wrong then!) The rest was a doddle as you said! It was so nice! I waited til after the nice weather had gone (cos you feel more like salads and stuff on hot days don't you) which didn't take too long did it! We had it for tea last night, yummy! Still some left actually.... My daughter loved it too, she's got a nasty cold at the moment so it was lovely and warming for her. I'm so impressed, have you anymore recipes up your sleeves....??!!!!

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Tlb · 16/05/2001 13:54

Lizzer - I missed this one - please inform!! Sounds interesting?!

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Lizzer · 16/05/2001 14:08

Tlb, Ems's casserole recipe (if you'd worked that one out!) is on the thread titled "getting off jars" in "Food". I was challenged to make it (sort of) as I'm the worlds worst cook and never thought a casserole would appear in my culinary repertoire -next to beans on toast that is!! It's easy and delicious as I've said,you could try it too....!!!

Ha Ha, I may have started something here (sorry Ems!)

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Ems · 16/05/2001 20:02

Excellent!!! Well done Lizzer, it is yummy in a heartwarming homely sort of feel isnt it!? (It freezes really well too).

Well tonights recipe is Liver .... I make this occassionally, bit of iron and all that good stuff, I personally don't really like it, but babe loves it.

Ask for one liver (about 30p). Fry half an onion until softish, add the chopped up liver and about half a small tin of tomatoes, stir it around and cook gently til liver darkens. I put in some diced carrot and then some veg stock for it all to simmer in for about 15 minutes.

This one I am still blitzing slightly in the blender (as opposed to chunky casserole bits) and serve it with all the gravy juices over a jacket potato or rice.

So thats your challenge this week Lizzer!!

Jodee · 16/05/2001 20:29

Ems, I tried your lamb casserole too, it was delicous!! Yummy with basmati rice. Gave some to my 1 year old who wolfed it down. Big thumbs up from him and me!
Not a liver fan, but will give it a go for young 'un.

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Lizzer · 17/05/2001 10:11

Ems,
Message received and understood! I've never tried liver in my entire life but for 30p I'll give it a go. If your little one likes it mine might too seeing as they both seem to be very alike with everything else!
What with Jodee doing it too there may be your recipes flying round the whole country soon - if not the world! Can you picture yourself as the next Nigella Lawson??!!

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Ems · 17/05/2001 12:29

I think Nigella is lovely, had to record last nights new one though, hubby watching the football!

Sometimes I think we exclude things from our childrens diet because we ourselves dont fancy the idea (eg liver casserole!!) but it is good for them, cheap and very easy to make, so I do try and make a 'special' each week for him. (which usually makes a couple of portions, so is really handy).

If anyone else is making the lamb casserole, the longer in the oven the more yummy and soft the meat is. If you are going to reheat some, bring to bubbly point on the hob and put into the oven for a while to heat through. Dont let it boil, if it is bubbling too much in the oven, turn it down. Right lunchtime! ...

Winnie · 17/05/2001 12:51

Have to say I think Nigella is great. She is so practical and so down to earth about food. She obviously enjoys food and that makes a refreshing change. I too taped Nigella Bites but half way through found it wasn't recording so abandoned coffee around the supper table and slumped in front of the tv! I am a vegetarian and usually am revolted by the sight of meat being cooked but Nigella has such a great approach that I don't ever feel put off by the meat content of the progrmme. She often gives a veggie alternative. She has had loads of bad press about the 'domestic goddess' title to her second cookery book but I think it was completely undeserved... she was being ironic! So many people said 'oh to be Nigella Lawson' as if she had some easy life. It seems to me she works very hard, gets the balance between work/home right and who would want to be in the situation where the love of your life had cancer and dies at an unbelievably young age. People are incredible!

Winnie · 17/05/2001 12:54

Nigella Lawsons approach to weaning babies and feeding young children is very practical and down to earth too.

Emmagee · 17/05/2001 14:12

I too used to make a casserole for my baby but used chicken liver which went down very well also cheap. I'm sure she wouldn't eat it now though!

Candy · 17/05/2001 19:24

I think Nigella is amazing! She is so down to earth and god, isn't she MESSY in the kitchen - it made me feel all virtuous! As someone who hardly watches any tv I was all set to watch last night (had sent my man to a mate's to watch footie) poured the wine, got out the chocs, and guess what - the girls wouldn't go to sleep (the first night in weeks)and were up and down the stairs all the time it was on! As a veggie, the squid made me feel a bit nervous, they seemed to be wriggling in the pan, but otherwise, yum - I can't imagine Delia being filmed with mozzerella running down her chin! i also think, when you look that good, you're allowed the ironic right to refer to yourself as a goddess!

Jbr · 18/05/2001 17:47

I have never seen the programme, but I don't like the title! Domestic GODDESS? She's making a link between being a woman and domestic chores!

Ems · 18/05/2001 18:46

No JBR, she's taking the . Lighten up would you?

Emmagee · 18/05/2001 19:04

The programme isn't called Domestic Goddess, it's called 'Nigella Bites' and everyone must know by now - given how much OTT coverage the book got that she was being ironic! This is rather like the debate elsewhere on this site about 'full time mums' which I haven't joined because I can't quite believe it.

Jodee · 19/05/2001 11:19

Emmagee - my thoughts exactly.

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Lizzer · 19/05/2001 13:29

Hell yeah! Let's keep this thread easy on the brain, please....!!!

So, Jamie Oliver then - everyone had enough off his chirpy, mockney charm yet?! I was horrified to hear my 52yr old, Geordie father refer to an Ikea light fitting as 'pukka', the other day - wished the ground could've opened up right there and then...!!!

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Binza · 19/05/2001 20:52

Hey, say what you like about the lad but his recipes are easy and taste fantastic! Minimum amount of fuss and I usually have most of the ingredients in the cupboard. I haven't caught much of Nigella this time but she strikes me as the female equivalent ie keep it simple -and I'm all for that!

Suew · 20/05/2001 00:25

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Jac · 20/05/2001 09:56

I agree too, they look soooooo good too. I love the ones where you chuck everything in then bung in the oven. One of my favourites is the salmon with green beans, anchovies, olives, cherry tomatoes etc, it looks fantastic and sooooo easy.

Poor lad, I think he's realised he's getting on peoples nerves as he's not doing any more of the same!

Marina · 21/05/2001 08:27

I like the programmes, enjoy the recipes but boy do those wretched ads for Sainsburys wind me up. Deserted, sparkling shop, cheery, helpful assistant, everything he needs for his munchies readily available. Grrrr. If I dropped an olive into my son's pushchair (sorry, I am too old and unhip for a moped) in my local Sainsburys, I'd be arrested for shoplifting, I expect. AND they totally failed to deliver all our weekend groceries, ordered on the internet well in advance. Jamie should stick with the cooking and give Sainsburys the boot. Apparently Nigella declined their offer...

Tigermoth · 21/05/2001 12:37

I have a confesson to make, when I first saw those those Jamie Oliver Sainsburys ads I thought oh goodness that's my 7-year old, 15 years from now! - minus trendy flat, unless we all strike it rich.

Does anyone else ever see an adult, famous or not, and think, yes, that's the grown up version of my child down to a 'T'. Am I odd??

Spooky coincidence though. Unprompted by me, my son who loves messing around in the kitchen, said 'I'd really like to be Jamie Oliver, mum'. He watches the ads with relish. Especially impressed with the one showing Jamie driving a motorbike into the house. Talk about selling a lifestyle along with a packet of pasta.

Marina · 21/05/2001 12:50

I think that demonstrates exactly why he's such a good thing, Tigermoth, especially since Masterchef re-invented itself and sacked the juniors. Much nicer than having your son declare he wants to be Roy Keane or Vinnie Jones.

Sml · 21/05/2001 12:54

Oh goodness, those Sainsbury's ads, I can't stand them! BUT they are very memorable, and the message sticks, ie you can taste the stuff in the deli at Sainsbury's so get on down there ... so does that make them good ads??

Emmam · 22/05/2001 07:40

At least they're not as cringy as the Asda adverts - give me strength, people slapping their back pockets and looking happy trailing their kids around the supermarket.

Tigermoth - I don't think you're odd, I saw a little boy the other week he must have been about 4 or 5 and I thought to myself that's what my little lad is going to look like in a couple of years time. I haven't seen an adult version yet though.

Snowy · 23/05/2001 14:01

Domestic Godess is brill.

Me and my 2.5 yr made banana muffins yesterday, a really, really easy recipe and he really got involved - although I had to keep adding more banana as he ate as he mashed.

He was really pleased with himself.

Snowy · 23/05/2001 14:04

Goddess sorry GoDDess