Steve Crook

I've quite often seen such programmes. Usually on late night TV and aimed at students. They show you not only how to make a meal for two quid, but how to make a good meal for two quid.

There has also been a recent series of challenges where top chefs have to match people's favourite takeaways (Note: Favourite, tried and tested. Not just any old rubbish). They have to match them for price, speed of production & delivery and of course taste. Winning on taste is usually quite easy. Winning on the other two is harder but they often manage it.

Angela Hartnett did a very good one where she matched someone's favourite Tex-Mex takeaway. And she'd never cooked in that style before, but she still beat them on all three points

Steve

smiffy

Well done Marky , you've come up with Hestons next challenge ,

How to make the perfect Roadkill xmas dinner

I May be getting older ,but I refuse to grow up

smiffy

It's not cookery programmes making people fat , It's people sat down watching them , while eating a take-away and never having any exercise .
A good home cooked meal with fresh ingredients , and twenty minutes exercise a day ,that increases your heart and lung rate ,is a recipe for a healthy life

I May be getting older ,but I refuse to grow up

Dame Starry

Fanny's Christmas Turkey

YDSL x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

Steve Crook

Have you seen the description of Heston's Christmas Dinner in next week's Radio Times? It's a Christmas Dinner like only Heston could make it

I can only find a link to it on the BBC site but the Radio Times goes into it in sumptuous detail.

The menu includes edible Christmas tree baubles filled with smoked salmon mousse, a dish inspired by gold, frankincense and myrrh, mulled wine that is both hot and cold in the same glass and goose fed on a mixture of ingredients - including apples and grain - that were combined in a cement mixer! In Heston's own words, this menu is "possibly one of the most remarkable meals I've ever cooked".

Steve

Steve Crook

Even when it's cooked by the best chef so that it's not dry, even when it's the best organic free range corn-fed bird, turkey is still tasteless

Try goose, duck or just about anything else

Steve

batman

We had goose last year (yum) and this year it's duck (double yum).

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

ddock54

These idiot cookery programmes took a back seat in the sixties ,Fanny,s doughnuts and Johnny half cut were all a bit of fun.Now we have the offensive Ramsey and Rick Stein forced on us.I will say it again ,cheap trash tv for the masses who need a brain....

I SAY THERE BOY!

smiffy

Typical Heston ,and with the interesting guest list this programme should be fantastic .
I have an admission to make ,even though my first job was as a master butchers apprentice I have never tasted Goose ,can anybody describe it ?
I remember being given a brace of pheasant ,and when I asked how they tasted I was told " A little gamey " I now know what the boss meant, but I'm blowed if I could describe it to anybody

I May be getting older ,but I refuse to grow up

Steve Crook

Goose, hmmm. Not unlike swan with a hint of parrot

How do you describe a taste in words? If it's a good taste then it doesn't taste like anything else. Just like your pheasants - which are also yummy.

Goose is nearly all dark flesh, more like the leg of most poultry. It also, like duck, has a tendency to be a bit more greasy or fatty if it's not well prepared. But as a butcher you'll know that the taste is in the fat & grease. Always cook meat with a decent amount of fat. You don't have to then eat the fat but you must cook the meat with it on (or in).

A goose will often be larger than a turkey, all except the genetic mutant turkeys. So make sure your oven is big enough. It will also usually be sold fresh rather than frozen. Much better.

You should also prick it regularly as it cooks to allow some of the fats to drain away. Then you roast your spuds and parsnips in the goose fat. Delicious

Steve

Steve Crook

Watching TV chefs isn't compulsory. Especially the offensive Ramsey. I did watch one of his shows where he tries to rescue a failing restaurant and I am coming to the opinion that he's more a businessman than a chef

Steve

batman

Whatever happened to Loyd Grossman?

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

Dame Starry

Lord Puttnam's ex-son-in-law.
He got a job advising the NHS on how to feed the patients I believe and, also, has his own range of pasta sauces that are sold in all of the supermarkets.
I make my own.

YDSL x.

The Christmas countdown has begun - don't leave it all until the last minute!

smiffy

Thanks Steve , a very woganesque quip there Swan with a hint of Parrot ,I bet he's never tried that.
Great cooking tips too the taste of any meat is in the fat that's why you should never prick a sausage,and try to buy shop made which are always better than mass produced c**p

I May be getting older ,but I refuse to grow up

batman

That lasted until the foot and mouth epidemic of 2002.

Where I was working at that time they used it as an excuse to stop the Grossman menu (which wasn't too bad) and cooked breakfasts for patients due to 'health risks'.

Neither cooked breakfasts or the Grossman menus have ever returned.

Bats.

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"