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Pat wrote: "November Casserole

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That sounds really good! Much better than the liver and bacon ready meal I got from one of the supermarkets not long ago!

Oh and I'll definitely be making the sweet potato soup, too!

Pat wrote: "November Casserole

3/4LB pigs Liver cut into 2" strips
4oz Streaky Bacon chopped
1 tin Oxtail soup
1oz lard
1 Onion sliced
2 level tablesp plain flour seasoned
1 level teasp mixed herbs

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That definately sounds like a winter recipe! I thought it was winter yesterday - was so cold it didn't feel like august!!

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I made plum and orange crumble last night, smelt just like christmas :o)

Patti (P E) wrote: "Pat wrote: "November Casserole

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That sounds really good! Much better than the liver and bacon ready meal I got from one of the supermarkets not long ago!

Oh and I'll definitely be making the..."

A liver and bacon ready meal actually sounds quite nasty!!

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That soup sounds lovely Vanessa.

Also Pat's November Casserole.

M&S do a quite nice liver and bacon meal. Of course it does help that I like liver...

Gingerlily wrote: "M&S do a quite nice liver and bacon meal. Of course it does help that I like liver..."

M&S ready meals taste almost as good as home cooked though! :0)

I know - thats what I mostly eat these days. healthy, tasty and calorie counted.

Ahem. I think it was from M&S. Sorry. Most of their stuff is fab, though!

There are some of their meals I don't like - no-one is going to like everything....

I dont fancy liver so dont think i'd like it. I do love M&S Vienesse (I know thats not how you spell it but i dont know how) chocolate fingers my favourite biscuit of all time

I've checked my Quick Pudding recipe and corrected it in here, if anyone would like to try it now.

Doesn't call for egg.

My Favourite Quick n Easy cake recipe...

Beat together:
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups White sugar

sift together:
2 cups flour
2 tsps baking soda

Add the dry mixture to the first mixture alternately with 1 can fruit, including juice. I've used tinned strawberries, tinned peaches, cherry pie filling, apple pie filling, tinned pineapple, tinned summer fruits. Whatever I've been able to find in the shop here, really.

Bake in greased and floured 9 x 13 inch pan at 350 F until knife comes out clean. Also makes nice cupcakes but it's so rich and moist it really doesn't need icing.

Hmmm, there's an idea. The first group published erecipe book. Keep the recipes coming and get some photos ready we are going to be famous.

Great idea!
How was the quiz last night? Did you win?

Came second. Lost by half a point.

Dang. What was the prize?

:( half a point is really annoying!

£18 between three of us. So a couple of pints. It wasn't the prize, it was the insufferable gloating that we would have Inflicted on the rest of the pub if we had won :)

yes the gloating is the best bit!

First quiz recipe has arrived. Now I am very hungry:)

Be sure to post them all here after, okay???

This should be a hoot!

flip me i'm still trying to find a book with my final ingredient. No idea how to do it apart from just clicking random books and keeping my fingers crossed

try searhing for the ingredient. maybe it will be in a title?

yea i wasnt sure if that was allowed?

I'll clear it with Simon, no worries.

I don't mind. Whatever you fancy. Now you know why my choice of books were a bit strange.....

I did it by googling ebook -cookery +ingredient
+review

It was not easy!

I just went to the Kindle Store on Amazon and typed my ingredient into the search, then went through them until I found one that wasn't a cook book!

Clever, Katy!

I'm not a cook, but I watch all of the cooking shows - Hell's Kitchen with Gordon Ramsey, Top Chef, Master Chef, etc. I don't know why. I can't smell the food. I can't taste the food. I'm not a really good cook, and I never use the techniques they demonstrate.

I couldn't create a recipe on my own, but I have one I found on the Internet last year, and it's really wonderful - and also easy.

Sorry about the US measurements. Also, you can substitute regular limes if you can't get key limes.

Key Lime Pie

Ingredients
• 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust
• 3 cups sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 3/4 cup key lime juice
• 1 tablespoon grated lime zest

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. In a medium bowl, combine condensed milk, sour cream, lime juice, and lime rind. Mix well and pour into graham cracker crust.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 5 to 8 minutes, until tiny pinhole bubbles burst on the surface of pie. DO NOT BROWN! Chill pie thoroughly before serving. Garnish with lime slices and whipped cream if desired.

See??? Graham crackers!!!

Sorry Nell. We had a discussion about graham crackers a few days ago. Where are you from, Nell?
That's a lot of condensed milk! Sounds a decadent pie!

I love Key Lime pie - M&S do a nice one. But that sounds lush.

Gingerlily wrote: "I love Key Lime pie - M&S do a nice one. But that sounds lush."

It's very lush, Gingerlily. It's decadent. And yet so simple! Who thought up that recipe! Kudos to that inimitable chef!

Patti, I'm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Been here for almost three years after living in Texas for most of my married life. Texas is very strange. I'm originally from Chicago.

Ginger have a proper Key Lime Pie in the States. Sod the diet! Its heaven on a plate. M&S can't touch it.

Patti (P E) wrote: "Ginger have a proper Key Lime Pie in the States. Sod the diet! Its heaven on a plate. M&S can't touch it."

Yes, get a good one in a decent restaurant. In my experience, the plainer it looks, the better. Anything with swirls of whipped cream and bright green decorations is probably toxic.

Night,night everyone...speak to you soon. ;0)

I'll probably come back having put on half the weight I've spent the last year losing...

...or 8lbs...

huh! I have now just hit 4 stone which is 56 pounds I'll have you know....

Wow Gingerlily! Good for you! The 8lbs crack was the the conversation we had a while back...remember?

Er no - must have lost that clump of brain cells to old age.

OK - here is my favourite vegetarian recipe which I mentioned earlier. It was given to me by an old friend that I went to college with!

Devilled Mushrooms
(serves 2)

3/4 lb button mushrooms
1/2 red pepper (cut into 1 inch strips)
8oz can red kidney beans
1 medium onion
2 cloves garlic (crushed)

Sauce

5oz marg (I prefer to use butter of olive oil)
3 tbsp plain flour
2 dessertspoons worcester sauce
2 dessertspoons lemon juice
2 tsp brown sugar
1 level tsp curry powder
1 heaped tsp wholegrain mustard
2 dessertspoons redcurrant jelly
3/4 pint veg stock.

Method

Quick fry mushrooms in 1oz marg until brown. Set aside.
Melt 4oz marg in another saucepan and fry onion, garlic and red pepper until soft.
Add flour and stir well. Slowly add veg stock, stirring quickly to make a thick sauce.
Add rest of sauce ingredients; kidney beans and finally the mushrooms. Heat through and serve.

(Rice cooked with 2 tsp turmeric instead of salt makes a good accompaniment to this.)

It's yummy - a sort of mix of sweet and savoury flavours. I used to be vegetarian at one time but still cook this fairly often, my husband also loves it even though he has never been a veggie!

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That sounds yummy! I adore mushrooms.

Gingerlily. Brits who go to the States put on 8lbs. I posted a link to an article about it. Remember now?

Oh yes, of course! Silly me had forgotten completely. Just the thought of having some chocolate to eat wiped out everything else...

That devilled mushrooms looks scrumptious Karen, thank you.

Pineapple Upside Down Cake


Ingredients

FOR THE TOPPING
50g softened butter
50g light soft brown sugar
7 pineapples rings in syrup, drained and syrup
Half teaspoon of ground cinnamon
glacé cherry

FOR THE CAKE
100g softened butter
100g golden caster sugar
100g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs


Method

For The Topping

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. For the topping, beat the butter, cinnamon and sugar together until creamy. Spread over the base and a quarter of the way up the sides of a 20-21cm round cake tin. Arrange pineapple rings on top, then place cherries in the centres of the rings.


For the Cake

Place the cake ingredients in a bowl along with 2 tbsp of the pineapple syrup and, using an electric whisk, beat to a soft consistency. Spoon into the tin on top of the pineapple and smooth it out so it's level. Bake for 35 mins. Leave to stand for 5 mins, then turn out onto a plate.

Serve with custard







Hope you like it.

Vanessa
Earth, Air, Fire and Custard

Thanks, Vanessa! I might make that instead of the lemon pie this weekend...shame I have to use marg instead of butter.

I made a really nice key lime pie once... it was a non cooked one if i remember correctly I keep meaning to make it again.

Guess we brits would just substitute the graham crackers for digestives for that particular recipe

Edit: think this is the recipe i used http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6696/k... something that was that simple anyway

I'm so hungry today!! I'm not craving key lime pie. If i substitute the limes for lemons i have the ingredients at home to make a little one. But i'm supposed to be on a holiday diet

Diet? Jud, if you get any thinner you'll slip down grids!

Thats an old photo... I cant fit into my jeans anymore. Once i can fit back into them i'll be happy