COOKING FROM SCRATCH. mon 8pm ch4

[Blondeshavemorefun]

This started last week. Just found e1 on demand

It's a bit like eat well for less as in the family live off connivence food and worries about health and finance

So learn to cook from fresh /scratch

Has the annoying or loveable 😂 (depending what camp you are in) Joe Swash as the host

But I do like food programmes like this

E2 is on Monday

All free. Costs nothing

Soup and smoothies

Not true as obv spent money buying it

Yes I get they are r chucking it away

But it's not free

Blondes looks at her bananas she chucked into her food caddy earlier

A million a day

Blondes you can peel and freeze bananas and use them for smoothies or baking.

Sorry jumping in there with my banana tip - I'm watching about 10 mins behind.

I should freeze. I know @BrennieGirl. I don’t though

Pyrex do a range, Cook & Freeze. Stocked in loads of places, I've bought most of mine from Asda. Also Argos, Robert Dyas, John Lewis etc. Loads of different sizes.

Joe Swash was a finalist on Celebrity Master Chef and also wrote a cookbook called Joe's Kitchen which was a Sunday Times bestseller. On Amazon it got 80% 5* reviews so he can't be that bad and I noticed tonight he was very good at chopping the veg.

I think he does most of the cooking rather then Stacey

I wonder do this family have a garbage disposal unit ( it is that only an American thing? ) are they really throwing full dinners down the sink!

Just watching this week's on catchup - HOW RUDE ARE THOSE KIDS?!!
They are old enough to a) be more polite and have more respect for their mother, and b) learn to cook themselves!

Ikea have the dishes. Lids are an addition and clip on really well.

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/ikea-365-food-container-rectangular-glass-70359199/

The poor mum! She was clearly trying so hard to feed the family nutritious food. Some odd concoctions though bless her.

Who cooks tomato pasta sauce in a beige jacket and pale pink blazer though 🙈🤣

bns and chocolate 😂

So yesterday's episode was roast chicken, a pasta sauce, a pie.
How the hell is this not obvious already to anyone in a cooking role at home? If you can read you can cook already

Made me shake my head in disbelief when the batch lady said she wrote the above recipes. Recipes? Where?
Her reply to Joe saying he'd made Swash's posh gravy. She said it wasn't fair he got a named dish.

I do wonder about the minuscule portions they serve up and this week one of the teenage boys said, it’s nice but I just wish there was more of it.

Granted the meals are probably all counted nutritionally and according to daily needs but my log who are all slim, and big gannets, would stage a mutiny at the sizes of those portions.

I think they are so small @Nanaonabike as trying to get 2 meals out of whatever food they cook

That gnocci bake to me looked enough for 3 maybe 4 but there were 6 (possibly more) eating it. Also pies should have pastry on the bottom and top not just on top

I agree about the pastry.
It's not even a pie unless there is pastry top and bottom.

Before I'm jumped on, I know, I know, it's called a pie nowadays with just the top pastry.
Less stodgy, less calories with pastry just on top but if I'm anywhere near a pie I'm not worried about the calories!

It might seem obvious to those of us who regularly cook and enjoy it. However there are very many people who grew up in a household which relied on convenience foods (third wave of feminism meaning a greater proportion of women working outside the home in the 60’s and 70’s) and didn’t have a culinary role model, didn’t learn to cook at school (I did O level food & nutrition where we had to cook proper family meals serving different nutritional needs and to a budget etc) and so lack confidence that they need to be able to start from scratch when they have their own family. The Batch Lady has published 4 books of easy recipes to make things easier for the time poor inexperienced cook - good for her!

The recipes are on Lidl’s website.

It’s just about batch cooking. I hate batch cooking

I’m trying to get on with it but failing, everytime it comes out watery/ dry.

Tiny servings of pasta! Even DH commented on the ease of cooking that pasta sauce, he called it 'student food'! He's got a point. It didn't look very sophisticated.

But she uses no salt, so all her food would be bloody awful. If you're trying to cover the basics like "just add the damned salt, woman!" you aren't exactly working with a competent cook. She's just bunging endless veg in the blender and hoping people would eat it.

Obviously the first response ought to be "cook it yourself you lazy buggers" but if she's going to cook, I'm glad they got her accepting she needs to season things.

I’ve been enjoying watching this although do find some of the batch cooking recipes slightly questionable.

e.g. in the latest episode, when cooking the steak pie, the raw steak was just put in to a freezer bag, and then another freezer bag of raw carrots… not sure if I am missing the point a bit, but this doesn’t actually really save much time at all? Surely they are having to defrost the ingredients and then spend the same amount of time slow cooking the steak for the pie the second time around! Can anyone explain please? 😁