Cooking with skippy2421 (yup another cooking thread but this one is to be updated weekly)

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As some of you may remember from a thread some weeks ago asking for advice about roast lamb, I mentioned me and my girlfriend are going to be cooking something different each weekend. Firstly I would like to state we are certainly not professional cooks just a couple of students trying to learn how to cook basically. So I figured I'd start up this thread to share this culinary journey. The meals we'll be cooking wont be overly complicated and will be doable on a budget (naturally everything wont be home made). This should prove useful to the large student contingent here as well as the more keen cook. By all means feel free to contribute with recipes and experiences but please bare in mind the point of this thread, simple food on a reasonable budget (so no £20 lumps of meat or unless there are cheaper alternatives available)

First of all I would like to say this thread is for food only, those who want to talk about to photography stick to your own section thanks, I wont have my thread trashed like Raymond's.

So a bit of closure to begin with my lamb went very well and this was the end result:

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The next week we chose to cook home made enchiladas served with warm nachos with melted cheese and chillies along with some salsa, however despite how nice it looks the meal was very bland and as such I haven't bothered to document it here. The recipe for the enchiladas however can be found here:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1655/chicken-enchiladas-with-red-mole-sauce

ours turned out like this:
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Looks nothing like the picture in the recipe and was extremely bland with nothing but the chillies giving it flavour, the nachos were actually the best part. We poured the extra sauce over the top in a desperate attempt to give it more flavour. This was our first disaster meal.
 
Spicy Chorizo and rosemary rigatoni

Ingredients:
200g rigatoni
100g chorizo , chopped into small chunks
olive oil
a pinch chilli flakes
2 sprigs rosemary , needles chopped
1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
4 tbsp double cream

Nice and simple this one, pasta to be cooked like any other pasta, you don't need instructions on this.

As for the rest, firstly dice up your chorizo, I made a bit of a mistake in making the chunks a tad big, make them nice and small. Oh and check my manly pink knife (not mine honest)

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The next step is to fry your chorizo in a little olive oil for three or four minutes. once this is done fire in your chilli flakes and rosemary (we only had dried rosemary on hand and used this instead, which was fine). A minute later add the tin of chopped tomatoes and allow to simmer for 15 mins. This would probably be the point you put your pasta on now.

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Once this is done add in your cream and stir in. Then mix with your pasta and we're done. Nice and simple tasty pasta dish. admittedly doesn't look anything special and isn't helped by presentation not exactly being our strong point.

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Certainly ideal for you students and could quite easily be done with sausages however the chorizo does give it a lovely kick.
 
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Self saucing Jaffa Pudding

100g butter , melted, plus a little extra for the dish
250g self-raising flour
140g caster sugar
50g cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
zest and juice 1 orange
3 eggs
150ml milk
100g orange milk chocolate or milk chocolate, broken into chunks (we used lindt orange intense)
single cream or ice cream, to serve or unless you're like us who just used the rest of our double cream.

FOR THE SAUCE

200g light muscovado sugar
25g cocoa

We used half the ingredients here as there's only 2 of us.

Firstly butter a 2-litre baking dish (or 1 litre in our case) and heat oven to 180C

Put the flour, caster sugar, cocoa, baking powder, orange zest and a pinch of salt in a large mixing bowl

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Whisk together the orange juice and any pulp left in the juicer (alternatively be a man and mash it with your hands, yeaaaaahhh!), the eggs, melted butter and milk.

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Then pour onto the dry ingredients and mix together until smooth. Then add the chocolate.

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Then fire it all into the baking dish.Then Mix 300ml boiling water from the kettle with the sugar and cocoa for the sauce, then pour this all over the mix. It will look weird but trust me it works. Put in the oven for 30 mins then serve with your choice of cream or ice cream. End results:

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Verdict: Was brilliant, very rich and the orange flavour as you would expect complimented the chocolate very well. Got somewhat sickly after a while so don't try and eat the amount we did we had to invite a third to eat our cake.
 
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If i want to see what poor people eat ill go to my own kitchen... you disgust me.

that is asda salad at 50p a bag.

your plates don't even match... seriously
 
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jeez you're a hard crowd, the thread is going to improve, they were our first ventures into cooking, yes it's a pre-made yorkshire it's daunting enough doing your first roast so taking it easy. Several more recipes to come yet (including cake).
 
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Looks good, well done if it's your first attempts :)

Yorkshires shouldn't be daunting :)

I use:

3oz plain flour
2 medium eggs
2floz water
3floz milk
a pinch of salt.

Just whisk that together to make a creamy batter

Heat a yorkshire/muffin tray with a little veg oil or lard in each well to 220c. Pour the batter into each well and stick it back in the oven.
Give it 20-25 minutes but don't open the oven to check for at least the first 15.

If you have any left over, it's nice with treacle :)
 
Efour2 said:
If i want to see what poor people eat ill go to my own kitchen... you disgust me.

that is asda salad at 50p a bag.

your plates don't even match... seriously
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hard to tell if this guy is trolling or is a genuine scumbag :confused:

I want to do that Chocolage Orange.. tis making my mouth water :)
 
Looks brilliant, might try to make bits of it at the weekend! Especially the Jaffa cake pudding :)

Also I LOVE how you've managed to get the pictures IN FOCUS and not blurry. Can finally read a cooking thread without getting a headache.
 
that cake looks just awesome. and orange+ chocolate is my favourite flavour of chocolate.

bit confused at the baking part, you pour the chocolate sauce OVER the mix but in the serving pic it looks like the sauce is on the bottom.


but unfortunately your pictures are all in focus and we can see exactly what you have cooked.
 
Mark A said:
Food looks awesome! Might have to try the Jaffa Pudding some time :cool:.

Is that knife one of those ceramic knives? If so are they any good?
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No idea what the knife is but it's rather rubbish, I'll ask when i get back in from uni.

Robbie G said:
2nd pic down in the jaffer pudding post...is that a boy or a girl?! Varnished nails and ugg style boots, yet manly arms!

Pudding looks good.
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Oi you cheeky sod, that's my missus, don't hate because she has bigger arms than your weedy things :p

utajoker said:
that cake looks just awesome. and orange+ chocolate is my favourite flavour of chocolate.

bit confused at the baking part, you pour the chocolate sauce OVER the mix but in the serving pic it looks like the sauce is on the bottom.


but unfortunately your pictures are all in focus and we can see exactly what you have cooked.
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Yeah was a bit of a mystery to me, but it seemed to works it's way around the edges to give a gooey chocolate sauce between the bowl and the pudding.

Next up will be warm chocolate fondants and spicy Singapore noodles (we kind of cheated on this one though.)
 
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