Does anyone cook?

[BOD]

Ive just made a wicked soup, ready in 15 minutes too

Sweetcorn, a few spring onions, chicken stock, milk butter and flour. Tastes just like chicken and sweetcorn soup from the chinese but is a bit thicker and not gloopy like the chinese version. Got some great health benefits too

Wickipedia >> Health benefits
Sweet corn

Cooked sweet corn has significant antioxidant activity, which has been suggested to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer, although this has not been definitively proven in practice. "There is a notion that processed fruits and vegetables have a lower nutritional value than fresh produce. Those original notions seem to be false, as cooked sweet corn retains its antioxidant activity, despite the loss of vitamin C," says Rui Hai Liu assistant professor of food science at Cornell University. The scientists measured the antioxidants' ability to quench free radicals, which cause damage to the body from oxidation. Cooked sweet corn also releases increased levels of ferulic acid, which provides health benefits, such as battling cancer. "When you cook it, you release it, and what you are losing in vitamin C, you are gaining in ferulic acid and total antioxidant activity."

 

[Amelie]

I love cooking, and i more or less cook something 'proper' everyday. I like knowing the kids have had something decent- it balances out all the crap that Jonno gives them! Cooking with the kids is great too at the right time (you can't care what it is going to end up like or care about the mess)- Jemima in partic likes to bake and we do it together a few times a week. Fred tends to like doing just bloke things- coming in and giving a stir, suggesting changes without tasting, saying it's ready when it clearly isn't, demanding home made chips with everything and that type of thing.

I also think making food is another way of showing affection. Making an effort shows that you want to please someone in the most basic yet pleasurable of ways. Every year on our wedding anniversary i make a massive effort to make a restaurant style menu for just the two of us. I even do a fish course and petit fours to go with coffee. Getting a babysitter ever is as good as impossible, so last year i even decorated the dining room and made it look like a french bistro- complete with checked napkins that i made out of old pj's lol and loads of flowers brought in from the garden. I know i am guilty of being a feeder- i cannot help it, i have even been called a Jewish mother before as keep the food coming.

I also like to make everything myself as it cost's far less then the alternative's. Give me a tenner and i can make a main, pudding for seven plus a bottle of wine. On Sunday we had a leg of pork. We sliced some off to save and cooked the rest for a roast. Last night with the raw slices i made escolopes, which i marinaded in a chilli/garlic/mustard olive oil thing and then flash fried in breadcrumbs. With it i did a celariac and potato gratin. Tonight with the left over cooked pork i am going to make some sort of curry dish just for us for supper. The joint of meat cost about six quid so it's really economical.

The only down side to cooking these days is that it is usually a frenzied, dangerous and stressful affair. The kids tend to love the adrenalin rush of standing in-between me and a large pan of boiling liquid and testing their luck. I also have to be dead on the ball and watch all the kids as they climb on the side and add random things out of the cupboard! I usually spend most time cooking screaming at the kids to back off. Meal times are equally bonkers. It is not unusual for us all to swap places, swap plates, use baby cutlery, or even have a few kids waking along the table. Jonno suffers the most here- they seem to all want to sit on/over him and just eat his stuff. It is really crazy.

It is only in this last year that i have ditched following recipe's and do my own thang- and i have come up with some ace stuff. I can't wait for the time when the kids are a little older and i can spend ages cooking for my family again at lesuire

 

[Amelie]

Another thing we do at Team Johnson HQ is have a hotel breakfast on special occasions (we like celebrating anything really as we love an excuse to go a bit mad).

We get those little boxes of cereal and put them in a bowl, put milk and fruit juices in jugs- cafetiere's, Danish pastries, cold toast, jams etc. It is like a brekky buffet and the kids love it!

 

[Lozzie]

I also think making food is another way of showing affection. Making an effort shows that you want to please someone in the most basic yet pleasurable of ways. Every year on our wedding anniversary i make a massive effort to make a restaurant style menu for just the two of us. I even do a fish course and petit fours to go with coffee. Getting a babysitter ever is as good as impossible, so last year i even decorated the dining room and made it look like a french bistro- complete with checked napkins that i made out of old pj's lol and loads of flowers brought in from the garden. I know i am guilty of being a feeder- i cannot help it, i have even been called a Jewish mother before as keep the food coming.

That is what I'm talking about!!!! Yay! Up with food, down with capitalism lol

 

[Northern Star]

I shall be curing duck legs tonight in preparation for making confit duck leg with home made plum sauce, dauphinois potatoes and green beans mmmm

 

[Jiglo]

All this talk of food is making me hungry

I do cook occasionally and quite enjoy it, but I normally don't have to

 

[Duke]

Me and Alex do a lot of cooking from scratch - you can make it as quick or as complicated as you like, so depending what weve got on depends what we cook. I do a lot of carribean food which can be quick and easy to knock together

Did stuffed peppers with home made garlic bread which took about half an hour healthy and tasty, Lasagne is another fave of mine about 30 mins prep time and bung it in the over for an hour

Mmmmm Food

yeah i bet alex cooks loads of yard food (FROM MY FECKIN BOOKS LOL)
i cook loads ,love cookin mutton currys ackee n salt fish but also loads of roasts, i took cookin at skool cus there were 2 lads n the rest were girls , i cooked haggis the other nite was nice as foooooook

 

[Northern Star]

yeah i bet alex cooks loads of yard food (FROM MY FECKIN BOOKS LOL)
i cook loads ,love cookin mutton currys ackee n salt fish but also loads of roasts, i took cookin at skool cus there were 2 lads n the rest were girls , i cooked haggis the other nite was nice as foooooook

Its me that does the yard grub lol bought his new book in the new yr the carribean spaghetti bol is fab mmmm

 

[alexbennett]

yeah i bet alex cooks loads of yard food (FROM MY FECKIN BOOKS LOL)
i cook loads ,love cookin mutton currys ackee n salt fish but also loads of roasts, i took cookin at skool cus there were 2 lads n the rest were girls , i cooked haggis the other nite was nice as foooooook

Cheers for the books . I've never been fed so well .

 

[Northern Star]

Cheers for the books . I've never been fed so well .

Lmao You are spoiled rotten

 

[Joker Jen]

Me and Alex do a lot of cooking from scratch - you can make it as quick or as complicated as you like, so depending what weve got on depends what we cook. I do a lot of carribean food which can be quick and easy to knock together

Your carribean food is devine hun!

Pete & I both love to cook from scratch



With all these peeps who like to cook, we could do a come dine with me OSA styleeeeee

 

[Northern Star]

Your carribean food is devine hun!

Pete & I both love to cook from scratch



With all these peeps who like to cook, we could do a come dine with me OSA styleeeeee

haha Jen thats a top idea

 

[T.C]

Amelie, I want to live with you!!!

 

[speedysnail]

I think I've managed to persuade Blenders into cooking Caribbean for Valentines day Can't wait!!