The Cooking Thread

[rapalaman]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

Well not a mallard, but yes.

We always had a Muscovy when I was a kid - tastier than an Aylesbury.

love a properly cooked goose as well 👍

[trigger_andy]

2 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Well not a mallard, but yes.

For 6 people? 

 

 

[gand]

12 hours ago, AHPP said:

Share method and findings please. Been on my list to have a go at for ages.  

Here you go. I usually add a rasher or two of bacon, extra garlic and take a good guess at the brandy. Usually have to buy at least half a kilo of livers.

 

 

[roboted]

Cottage Pie.

Underrated simple dish. Mince with finely chopped vegetables(Tesco's), cooked with,onions, a few herbs tomato puree and bramble jelly. Topped with sweet potato, carrot and parsnip.

Easy, good vfm and well tasty

Edited December 30, 2023 by roboted
Typo

[Steven P]

2 hours ago, roboted said:

Cottage Pie.

 

That's just posh mince 'n tatties.... (mince, potatoes, veggies) - though the bramble jelly is a new one to me

[AHPP]

 

Fried duck breasts on a bed of onion and sprouts. Caper, rosemary and garlic butter to bathe the meat. Dusting of paprika. Potatoes out of shot. 

[sime42]

In praise of

 

 

 

Proper bacon from a proper butcher!

 

Great big thick rashers and non of that horrible white gunge that you get from supermarket bacon. Lovely for a Sunday sarnie.

The difference between the two sorts is marked. This was an organic butcher so should be even less other "stuff" in it

 

 

 

Edited February 18 by sime42

[AHPP]

I just used up some utter shit I'd bought from a convenient Co-Op for a fortune. Needs musted at the time. Pictured here with some much more middle class stuff off the market I think. 

 

[sime42]

18 hours ago, AHPP said:

I just used up some utter shit I'd bought from a convenient Co-Op for a fortune. Needs musted at the time. Pictured here with some much more middle class stuff off the market I think. 

 

What's the the middle class white dollop, mashed potato? Does it approximate to hash browns in a fry up?

[AHPP]

8 hours ago, sime42 said:

What's the the middle class white dollop, mashed potato? Does it approximate to hash browns in a fry up?

Just leftover mash.