Mick-the-fitter
It’s what I do!
“Fish” from the farm pond?
heritage machining
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I like cooking but normally the missus does it however I have made a Christmas cake this year and a batch of my grandma's ginger biscuits
heritage machining
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Oh and sloe gin but there's not much of that left
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6feetdown
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Baked this morning
hiluxman
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Jees you lot are more healthy eaters than I was expecting.
Bucket on wheels
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Three hours on the wood stove yum yum
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doobin
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Turkey is such a rubbish meat. I was really looking forwards to this but it’s just gank despite being cooked well.
Vinpetrol
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Your supposed to have it with a few spuds and gravy doob
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DaveDCB
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It does look abit like roadkill Tbf!
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
could eat turkey everyday - love it
heritage machining
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We went to a friend's for Christmas on Christmas morning found out the turkey was off luckily we had a ham and a side of beef which personally I prefer to turkey anyway I find turkey so dry
TiltyShaun
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Not if you cook it properly!! Upside down until it reaches 65 degree with a meat thermometer.
Used to raise our own and it is great when cooked properly!!
doobin
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Well theres a few kilos going begging here! I'm hoping the cat will eat it, cause I sure won't.
Giles
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I do all cooking and I’m pretty good at it, get a bit cheffy with dinner parties etc
We had roast duck legs and then stuffed and rolled the saddle with some homemade pigs in blankets. Duck fat roasties, parsnips, honey roast heritage carrots , stuffing, sprouts and spring greens cooked with pancetta and pine nuts and a cracking gravy. Oh and cauliflower cheese. Best Xmas dinner since I did a multi bird roast for 12 friends few years ago was a pigeon in a wood cock, in a pheasant in a duck in goose in a turkey all surrounded by sausage meat and stitched together
not got that time anymore for that took almost 6 hours to cook the birds.
Been lucky to eat at a few Michelin star places and they’re inspiring for a wannabe cook.
Oh and chocolate soufflé for pud
We had roast duck legs and then stuffed and rolled the saddle with some homemade pigs in blankets. Duck fat roasties, parsnips, honey roast heritage carrots , stuffing, sprouts and spring greens cooked with pancetta and pine nuts and a cracking gravy. Oh and cauliflower cheese. Best Xmas dinner since I did a multi bird roast for 12 friends few years ago was a pigeon in a wood cock, in a pheasant in a duck in goose in a turkey all surrounded by sausage meat and stitched together
not got that time anymore for that took almost 6 hours to cook the birds.Been lucky to eat at a few Michelin star places and they’re inspiring for a wannabe cook.
Oh and chocolate soufflé for pud
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DaveDCB
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Didn’t take any photos of dinner, but made the roulade ourselves - demolished over the last two days!
As for the turkey if it’s done right it’s spot on, especially if it’s not a water filled supermarket shiteeating bird!
As for the turkey if it’s done right it’s spot on, especially if it’s not a water filled supermarket shiteeating bird!
Mick-the-fitter
It’s what I do!
I think there is some meaning in you have been sold a pup
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LKSF
Pennine Hillbilly
We're largely a nation of salad dodgers and i've recently realised why, It's because what we're sold is crap, it's just tasteless rubbish.
My Dad used to grow our F&V when we were kids, but back then I wasn't really interested in the end result, even though it ended up on my plate. I'd help him in the garden, mainly doing the lawn mowing and rotovating of the veg plot, because I was interested in operating machinery rather than anything else.
FF to recent years, looking a bit 'Jeremy Clarkson', drifting into T2 diabetic territory and i've started to grow more and more of my own, the more I learned, the more I realised the huge difference between mass produced F&V and my organic stuff. The things you uncover about the chemicals used, how the soil is lifeless and abused it's no wonder it tastes of nothing and so many people don't want to eat it.
Many people push growing your own as a money saving exercise, if you're a working man it most definitely isn't, it's expensive. Good food is expensive, it always will be, you want crap buy cheap just the same as anything else. If you're retired, house husband/wife which means you have an alternative income then that changes a bit. What I mean is this; purely from a money perspective then it's better to put another hour in at work at your hourly rate and buy it, than an hour in the garden to grow it. There is of course much more to it than that, as said ^ quality, but also sense of achievement and enjoyment. It's great to be able to go into the Polytunnel/greenhouse/garden and pick some fresh produce, take it back to the house and cook it. Instead of eating sweets or crisps i'll eat a cherry tomato because it's just as good in terms of taste. It isn't easy, you have to want to do it and/or enjoy it.
I can get a big mac n fries for £1.99 and it's shite. It's fast, tastes good and I enjoy it, but it is utter rubbish. Rubbish is cheap.
When we cook we generally put lots of flavouring on to make things taste better. When you buy a really decent piece of steak or prep some good F&V you find you don't need to do that, the basic ingredient speaks for itself.
We have the odd one or two family or friends gatherings here in Summer and often i'll put out two plates of one type of F or V, one will be mine, one from the Supermarket. I'll ask which they prefer and 10/10 will go for the organic everytime. We even put two plates of raw carrots or toms on the buffet table and said nothing. At the end of the day all mine had gone, the plate of supermarket stuff still had some on it.
If you want fresh tasty carrots and parsnips let me know, i'll send you some for free, just pay the shipping. If it gets you understanding decent food and even growing it it will be worth it. I'll write more in my thread later
My Dad used to grow our F&V when we were kids, but back then I wasn't really interested in the end result, even though it ended up on my plate. I'd help him in the garden, mainly doing the lawn mowing and rotovating of the veg plot, because I was interested in operating machinery rather than anything else.
FF to recent years, looking a bit 'Jeremy Clarkson', drifting into T2 diabetic territory and i've started to grow more and more of my own, the more I learned, the more I realised the huge difference between mass produced F&V and my organic stuff. The things you uncover about the chemicals used, how the soil is lifeless and abused it's no wonder it tastes of nothing and so many people don't want to eat it.
Many people push growing your own as a money saving exercise, if you're a working man it most definitely isn't, it's expensive. Good food is expensive, it always will be, you want crap buy cheap just the same as anything else. If you're retired, house husband/wife which means you have an alternative income then that changes a bit. What I mean is this; purely from a money perspective then it's better to put another hour in at work at your hourly rate and buy it, than an hour in the garden to grow it. There is of course much more to it than that, as said ^ quality, but also sense of achievement and enjoyment. It's great to be able to go into the Polytunnel/greenhouse/garden and pick some fresh produce, take it back to the house and cook it. Instead of eating sweets or crisps i'll eat a cherry tomato because it's just as good in terms of taste. It isn't easy, you have to want to do it and/or enjoy it.
I can get a big mac n fries for £1.99 and it's shite. It's fast, tastes good and I enjoy it, but it is utter rubbish. Rubbish is cheap.
When we cook we generally put lots of flavouring on to make things taste better. When you buy a really decent piece of steak or prep some good F&V you find you don't need to do that, the basic ingredient speaks for itself.
We have the odd one or two family or friends gatherings here in Summer and often i'll put out two plates of one type of F or V, one will be mine, one from the Supermarket. I'll ask which they prefer and 10/10 will go for the organic everytime. We even put two plates of raw carrots or toms on the buffet table and said nothing. At the end of the day all mine had gone, the plate of supermarket stuff still had some on it.
If you want fresh tasty carrots and parsnips let me know, i'll send you some for free, just pay the shipping. If it gets you understanding decent food and even growing it it will be worth it. I'll write more in my thread later
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6feetdown
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Like you said you get what you put in. Time is the issue not so much the costWe're largely a nation of salad dodgers and i've recently realised why, It's because what we're sold is crap, it's just tasteless rubbish.
My Dad used to grow our F&V when we were kids, but back then I wasn't really interested in the end result, even though it ended up on my plate. I'd help him in the garden, mainly doing the lawn mowing and rotovating of the veg plot, because I was interested in operating machinery rather than anything else.
FF to recent years, looking a bit 'Jeremy Clarkson', drifting into T2 diabetic territory and i've started to grow more and more of my own, the more I learned, the more I realised the huge difference between mass produced F&V and my organic stuff. The things you uncover about the chemicals used, how the soil is lifeless and abused it's no wonder it tastes of nothing and so many people don't want to eat it.
Many people push growing your own as a money saving exercise, if you're a working man it most definitely isn't, it's expensive. Good food is expensive, it always will be, you want crap buy cheap just the same as anything else. If you're retired, house husband/wife which means you have an alternative income then that changes a bit. What I mean is this; purely from a money perspective then it's better to put another hour in at work at your hourly rate and buy it, than an hour in the garden to grow it. There is of course much more to it than that, as said ^ quality, but also sense of achievement and enjoyment. It's great to be able to go into the Polytunnel/greenhouse/garden and pick some fresh produce, take it back to the house and cook it. Instead of eating sweets or crisps i'll eat a cherry tomato because it's just as good in terms of taste. It isn't easy, you have to want to do it and/or enjoy it.
I can get a big mac n fries for £1.99 and it's shite. It's fast, tastes good and I enjoy it, but it is utter rubbish. Rubbish is cheap.
When we cook we generally put lots of flavouring on to make things taste better. When you buy a really decent piece of steak or prep some good F&V you find you don't need to do that, the basic ingredient speaks for itself.
We have the odd one or two family or friends gatherings here in Summer and often i'll put out two plates of one type of F or V, one will be mine, one from the Supermarket. I'll ask which they prefer and 10/10 will go for the organic everytime. We even put two plates of raw carrots or toms on the buffet table and said nothing. At the end of the day all mine had gone, the plate of supermarket stuff still had some on it.
If you want fresh tasty carrots and parsnips let me know, i'll send you some for free, just pay the shipping. If it gets you understanding decent food and even growing it it will be worth it. I'll write more in my thread later
Lancs Lad
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Interesting.We're largely a nation of salad dodgers and i've recently realised why, It's because what we're sold is crap, it's just tasteless rubbish.
My Dad used to grow our F&V when we were kids, but back then I wasn't really interested in the end result, even though it ended up on my plate. I'd help him in the garden, mainly doing the lawn mowing and rotovating of the veg plot, because I was interested in operating machinery rather than anything else.
FF to recent years, looking a bit 'Jeremy Clarkson', drifting into T2 diabetic territory and i've started to grow more and more of my own, the more I learned, the more I realised the huge difference between mass produced F&V and my organic stuff. The things you uncover about the chemicals used, how the soil is lifeless and abused it's no wonder it tastes of nothing and so many people don't want to eat it.
Many people push growing your own as a money saving exercise, if you're a working man it most definitely isn't, it's expensive. Good food is expensive, it always will be, you want crap buy cheap just the same as anything else. If you're retired, house husband/wife which means you have an alternative income then that changes a bit. What I mean is this; purely from a money perspective then it's better to put another hour in at work at your hourly rate and buy it, than an hour in the garden to grow it. There is of course much more to it than that, as said ^ quality, but also sense of achievement and enjoyment. It's great to be able to go into the Polytunnel/greenhouse/garden and pick some fresh produce, take it back to the house and cook it. Instead of eating sweets or crisps i'll eat a cherry tomato because it's just as good in terms of taste. It isn't easy, you have to want to do it and/or enjoy it.
I can get a big mac n fries for £1.99 and it's shite. It's fast, tastes good and I enjoy it, but it is utter rubbish. Rubbish is cheap.
When we cook we generally put lots of flavouring on to make things taste better. When you buy a really decent piece of steak or prep some good F&V you find you don't need to do that, the basic ingredient speaks for itself.
We have the odd one or two family or friends gatherings here in Summer and often i'll put out two plates of one type of F or V, one will be mine, one from the Supermarket. I'll ask which they prefer and 10/10 will go for the organic everytime. We even put two plates of raw carrots or toms on the buffet table and said nothing. At the end of the day all mine had gone, the plate of supermarket stuff still had some on it.
If you want fresh tasty carrots and parsnips let me know, i'll send you some for free, just pay the shipping. If it gets you understanding decent food and even growing it it will be worth it. I'll write more in my thread later
Personally I detest Veg...bad I know
She's got me slowly into butternut and a few carrots now...maybe the odd pepper...
But obsessed in meat
.Amount of time I look at takeaways etc and say right give me less ££ and I'll go down a buy decent meat instead. Get most of ours for last few years from local farm shop who gets it all local if not their own cattle.
Not much beats simple steak chucked on the grill.
Last Sundays effort.
Bit of Rib,4hrs later.
Then tomohawks for family bash
Not cheap but worth every mouthful.
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LKSF
Pennine Hillbilly
Looks lovelyInteresting.
Personally I detest Veg...bad I know
She's got me slowly into butternut and a few carrots now...maybe the odd pepper...
But obsessed in meat
Amount of time I look at takeaways etc and say right give me less ££ and I'll go down a buy decent meat instead. Get most of ours for last few years from local farm shop who gets it all local if not their own cattle.
Not much beats simple steak chucked on the grill.
Last Sundays effort.
Bit of Rib,4hrs later.
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Then tomohawks for family bash
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Not cheap but worth every mouthful.
I love my meat too, i'll never give it up and can't abide this recent greenwashing shite about how meat eaters are killing the planet.In recent years i've discovered lamb hearts, they're cheap at Tesco in Winter or the butchers maybe. I fill them with stuffing or sausage meat and roast them, nom nom.
But there is my point, it's possible you don't like your F&V because it isn't very good. Once you've tasted some proper stuff maybe you'll like it more. Then the more you eat, the more healthy you'll be.
One of my old college mates was over here this year, he's suddenly interested in healthy food whereas he never was. I found out he had bowel cancer and after the op has to crap in a bag he carries around with him. You don't need that in your life at 50 odd. Too much processed meat. We were never educated as to the dangers of diet, or maybe we just took no notice. It often takes a wake up call to make us change our habits and by that time it's too late which is a shame. I have a quite restrictive diet now due to T2D.
If you ever watch 'Gone fishing' M&W are the same now.
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