About Me

Most of my cooking as an adult involved opening a jar of ‘chicken tonight’ or ‘ragu’ and my most adventurous meal would be a roast chicken. Cooking was never something I enjoyed, it was something that needed to be done to feed the family. That is until I met Rob. I got lucky with that one as he loved cooking and was fabulous at it. Fantastic, I would never have to ‘cook’ again……. Or so I thought!!! Being with Rob and seeing what he could throw together and still make taste fab triggered something in me to give it a go. He also had a good range of celebrity chef cook books which seemed to get added to every Christmas, and his love of watching cookery programmes seemed to rub off on me. So I have decided to try and work my way through the hundreds of recipes we have and to be a little more adventurous with food rather than sticking to the handful of recipes I know and trust.And at the same time try to make my meals go further. Blogging seemed the ideal way to record my efforts and review the recipes.

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Be cautious when changing ingredients in recipes.

Well I've been looking forward to my next blog post and obviously my next recipe to follow and write about.
I chose chicken and leek stroganoff (I shan't post the recipe- read on to find out why).
So I got all my ingredients ready and decided to substitute the single cream for milk as I'm always looking for low fat alternatives.
Other than that I followed it to the letter and to my horror the milk curdled, and left me with a disgusting looking mess!!!!!
Only problem is that I had the rice cooking and now no dinner to eat.
At Robs suggestion I picked out the chicken and rinsed. I'm pretty sure this is not a tactic used by Gordon Ramsey or Jamie Oliver and is obviously not something you would recommend doing.
And then I used my trusty old faithful that never lets me down........................................


Not quite what I had planned but I'm sure Nigella had a few disasters in her early days.


I'm now planning a fish pie for my next blog. Fingers crossed for that one!!


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3 comments:

  1. Steph18 January 2011 at 13:47

    Lol this is the kind of thing I would do! Looking forward to your fish pie recipe....I need a good one!

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  2. Unknown18 January 2011 at 14:55

    This rob guy sounds like knows what he's on about !!!

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  3. kathryn18 January 2011 at 15:00

    Ha ha. Now if he's so good, why didn't he tell me this would happen when I said I was swopping cream for milk.!

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