#RANT# - Page 3

LeperousDust · 03-08-2008, 19:07

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Originally Posted by Mark

I wish I were more confident with food. I eat so much stuff that I really shouldn't. I'm getting a fair bit better with fruit and veg but have one hell of a long way to go even there. There is just no comparing supermarket food with homemade, no matter how healthy it is or claims to be. I'd love to be able to hand-prepare full meals. Trouble is I've yet to find a solution that copes with my lack of confidence, eyesight, and impatience.

It's possible this may be worthy of further discussion in a seperate thread. I don't know.

Stew! Chops stuff up, throw stuff in, wait (get over your impatience, you'll nearly always have to wait with cooking) come back in a few hours, and tada! Yummy tasty you know whats in it, and its easy! Bag the rest up a freeze it and defrost in future as necessary

(I haven't tried the freezing thing yet, but I've got into freezing everything recently, and I'm sure it'll work).

lostkat · 03-08-2008, 19:16

On the whole chicken front, M&S sometimes have cracking offers on their free rangers. I have one in the freezer at the moment which I got for about £4 and I'm going to be roasting it in a few weeks to christen my beautiful new kitchen

Haly · 03-08-2008, 19:20

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Originally Posted by lostkat

On the whole chicken front, M&S sometimes have cracking offers on their free rangers. I have one in the freezer at the moment which I got for about £4 and I'm going to be roasting it in a few weeks to christen my beautiful new kitchen

I forgot about that actually

Saw some in M&S at the end of Sunday trading the other week for £2.50

Morrisons have had a few similar things on too near the end of the day.

Jonny69 · 03-08-2008, 19:38

Got to be careful with M&S because they market their Markham chickens very cleverly that make them look like they are free range when they aren't. It MUST say free range on it, not grade A or class A, otherwise it's a barn hen.

Tesco probably follow a close second in the misleading packaging stakes, I hate trying to buy the food I want in there.

Haly · 03-08-2008, 19:40

I got brought up from a very young age to read all labels like a hawk, I'm better than my Mum at it now

semi-pro waster · 04-08-2008, 13:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Stew! Chops stuff up, throw stuff in, wait (get over your impatience, you'll nearly always have to wait with cooking) come back in a few hours, and tada! Yummy tasty you know whats in it, and its easy! Bag the rest up a freeze it and defrost in future as necessary

(I haven't tried the freezing thing yet, but I've got into freezing everything recently, and I'm sure it'll work).

Freezing works fine for any stew that I've tried, the only thing is that it tends to make the meal mushier when reheated or at least it does for the vegetables.

Something like a simple marrow provencal style dish with boiled new potatos is nice and pretty quick. Onion, tin of peeled plum tomatoes, pepper, marrow/courgette, mushrooms, tomato puree are the basic ingredients I use but you can add more depending on what you have or what is in season.
1. Chop up all the ingredients before you start
2. Fry the onions in a big saucepan with about two-three tablespoons of olive/sunflower oil until they start to go translucent
3. Add the chopped marrow and pepper, fry for another 5 minutes or so
4. Add the tomatoes (drained will produce a thicker sauce) and tomato puree then cook for another couple of minutes.
5. Add the chopped mushrooms and cook for another 5 minutes until all veg is softish but still al dente.
6. Serve, if you've started the potatoes boiling at the same time as you started cooking the onions then they should be done as well. The times might need a little bit of adjusting as I usually play about with them as I go but that is the rough gist of it.

lostkat · 10-08-2008, 18:51

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Originally Posted by Jonny69

Got to be careful with M&S because they market their Markham chickens very cleverly that make them look like they are free range when they aren't. It MUST say free range on it, not grade A or class A, otherwise it's a barn hen.

Tesco probably follow a close second in the misleading packaging stakes, I hate trying to buy the food I want in there.

Yeah Tesco do that Willow Farm stuff that's ultimately from Barn Hens don't they? It's all in green organicy looking packaging to make you think it's free range.

Jonny69 · 11-08-2008, 15:13

Yup, with a picture of the farmer's face on it and his name and signature. What a joke.

03-08-2008, 19:16	#22
lostkat Good Cat Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,550	On the whole chicken front, M&S sometimes have cracking offers on their free rangers. I have one in the freezer at the moment which I got for about £4 and I'm going to be roasting it in a few weeks to christen my beautiful new kitchen __________________ Oooooh Cecil, what have you done?

03-08-2008, 19:38	#24
Jonny69 Noob Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Socialist Republik of Kent Posts: 5,032	Got to be careful with M&S because they market their Markham chickens very cleverly that make them look like they are free range when they aren't. It MUST say free range on it, not grade A or class A, otherwise it's a barn hen. Tesco probably follow a close second in the misleading packaging stakes, I hate trying to buy the food I want in there. __________________

03-08-2008, 19:40	#25
Haly Do you want to hide in my box? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 14,941	I got brought up from a very young age to read all labels like a hawk, I'm better than my Mum at it now __________________ Halycopter

11-08-2008, 15:13	#28
Jonny69 Noob Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Socialist Republik of Kent Posts: 5,032	Yup, with a picture of the farmer's face on it and his name and signature. What a joke. __________________