Home and TV food in Wiltshire while travel is out of the question

[whole diary]

[grahame]

TV cookery shows ... a replacement for enjoying the leisure journey to Penryn (and bumping into a member there) or Penhelig (for a walk on the beach) or Penzance (for a look around the town and a pint at The Longboat). I wouldn't have the patience to take part in the Great British Bakeoff - a lot of work for a single cake, biscuit or bread product ... but I do look at Masterchef.

I've been doing a lot of cooking of late - and with some less normal ingredients.









I don't think, though, I would et beyond the first round. Firstly, I don't go for the technically complex - much prefer the quick and simple, and I'm sure that on the TV you would see everyone else rushing for those final few countdown seconds and I would be ready and plated (indeed,I would have had to hold back plating to ensure it went in front of Greg and John still hot).  Secondly, because I'll tend to use ingredients thare are to hand and not fashionable, unusually, and possibly expensive things.  Third, because producting a dish that is "edible" is about my limit; none of this melding of tastes to something people would actually pay for in a restaurant.

So ... I don't think I'll (ever) take part - cookery for enjoyment, but Lisa's wishes for me to get through to the second round and beyond would be far more to allow her another few days of escape from my extraordialy plates of food than for wishing my food to get a wider audience.

This thread is not intended as an invite to discuss catering on trains - a subject which (I believe) is already covered elsewhere 

[GBM]

I will happily make (and consume) eggs with baked beans.  My Wife won't contemplate such a mixture.
Horses for courses......
I'm with Grahame. Food is to be consumed; not wondered at or desconstructed whatever....

[eightonedee]

Food is to be consumed

Quite agree GBM. One of my pet annoyances on/in the media is people who discuss "our relationship with food". That relationship is simple - we eat it!

[broadgage]

I have had the odd fillet steak, but have largely eaten beef stew, pasta, eggs on toast, in rotation.
Obtaining supermarket home deliveries is not easy and anyway I wish to limit my use of these so as not to deprive others.

I therefore aim for a delivery about every two weeks, and what I eat is determined by how recent the delivery was.

Delivery day and the first few days thereafter. Baked beans on toast, eggs on toast, fried Spam sandwiches, to use the bread before it goes bad.
Days 4, 5, Beef stew done in large slow cooker. Make 4 portions, two for eating on days 4 and 5  and two for freezing. Served with fresh green vegetables and smash.
Days 6, 7, 8, and 9 Various combinations involving dried pasta and tinned tomatoes or packet sauces.
Days 10 and 11. Tinned steak and kidney pudding with tinned or frozen vegetables.
Day 12 and 13, the frozen beef stew that I made earlier, but with tinned or frozen vegetables.
Remaining days until delivery, varies.

If the main meal is taken at lunchtime, a liter of orange juice.
If taken in the evening, a liter or two of beer.

As the weather warms I will give up beef stew and eat more cold food. Various combinations of hard boiled eggs, tinned tuna, cold tinned meats, and salad stuff. The main limit being very limited storage life of salad foods.

Tinned and dried goods are from stock, but I aim to purchase volumes broadly similar to consumption so as to keep a rotating stock.
No panic buying, but also trying not to deplete stocks that might be needed in the longer term.

If the main meal was only light, or small in volume then cheese afterwards, or tinned fruit and cream. Usually only one course to save washing up.

[bobm]

Follow a similar principle - so the first couple of days after the delivery usually have salad. 

That will change when the seeds I planted last week turn into radishes, lettuce and carrots. 

[johnneyw]

All of a sudden, many people I know seem to have built Dutch Beds (raised beds) in their gardens for veg crops.  The surplus seedlings I give away on my front garden wall every year have gone faster then ever and I did a decent swap with my next door neighbour....my old veg seeds for some of the cider he made from his apple tree!