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Post by trubble on Aug 7, 2014 9:57:28 GMT
It sounds like a swear word. I guess it could be, said with the right inflection. The Great British Bake Off is back - hooray! I've missed you Mel & Sue! All the licking of spatulas and stealing of ingredients, all the bad puns, all the laughing at your own jokes, the good hair days and the bad hair days, the slightly ill-fitting trousers; I suspect we are triplets separated at birth. Last night: Swiss rolls, cherry cakes, and mini British classics! Didn't Clare's chocolate disasters look... unappetising?! Wasn't that furniture upholsterer with the dry cakes good at presentation?! Isn't that IT guy too annoying to watch past week two?! Of these challenges, this week I shall opt to make mini British classics. I'm trying a victoria -style cake with cream and fruit. I shall be using the all-in-one method in support of a United Kingdom (sorry, riotgrrl, but just as if I was rolling a swiss roll, I don't want a split!). Photos to follow...
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Post by Patrick on Aug 7, 2014 23:01:57 GMT
Soooooo. If you pull THAT cake out - you've got a "Tear and Share!"
I almost watched a bake off last series - they were making Pizza - which doesn't smack to me of a blisteringly exceptionally culinary challenge - but they still managed to make something of it.
Being old Farts, we regularly buy the Radio Times these days. I'm astonished how much Mary Berry turns up on the front cover. Almost as much as David Tenant does!
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Post by bonbonlarue on Aug 9, 2014 13:51:29 GMT
"I'm going to bake a cake" was a threat I used when the children were playing up....
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Post by Patrick on Aug 9, 2014 23:16:38 GMT
"I'm going to bake a cake" was a threat I used when the children were playing up.... One trip over to France - where we stayed at a friend's "Farm", I remember Mum taking over some Date Cake that set off the sensors at Heathrow!
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Post by bonbonlarue on Aug 10, 2014 13:19:29 GMT
My tablets aren't working...I need cake.
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Post by trubble on Aug 10, 2014 19:26:02 GMT
Hello Bonbon!
Ha! Love that threat.
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Post by trubble on Aug 14, 2014 12:36:13 GMT
So here's something I prepared earlier. It is the butter needed for the mini British classic cakes I mentioned I would make. Here it is softening, just beside the niece's Hello Kitty chocolates from Marks & Spencer. And speaking of M&S, did you know they sell cakes? So no need to make them! I ought to write to tell Mel and Sue, put them out of their misery. This week I have mostly been eating mini British classic teacakes. On to week 2 of the bake off: a slightly boring episode as they were making biscuits. Look, don't they know that you can buy them in M&S too? The challenge was a cracker/biscuit for cheese, a Florentine, and a massive construction made of biscuits such as the Eiffel tower or London's Victorian underground sewage pipes etc...and by the way, you can buy really good DIY gingerbread houses at IKEA, so.... So this week, after much thought, I shall be making cheese straws, which are very like the cheeseypastry triangles that they all hated. And I already have the butter softening...
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Post by Patrick on Aug 17, 2014 0:06:03 GMT
Some of M&S's Cakes look suspiciously like Mr Kipling's to me.
Anyhow. If they can carry on making those massive Viennese whirl biccies - you know, the melt in the mouth ones with chocolate at either end with three packets in one packet - for 20 odd years - why can't they still sell the "French Country Red" and "French Country White" wines that I used to get merrily inebriated on some 20 years ago too!
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Post by Patrick on Aug 17, 2014 0:10:01 GMT
On to week 2 of the bake off: a slightly boring episode as they were making biscuits. Look, don't they know that you can buy them in M&S too? The challenge was a cracker/biscuit for cheese, a Florentine, and a massive construction made of biscuits such as the Eiffel tower or London's Victorian underground sewage pipes etc...and by the way, you can buy really good DIY gingerbread houses at IKEA, so.... So this week, after much thought, I shall be making cheese straws, which are very like the cheeseypastry triangles that they all hated. And I already have the butter softening... I want to see THAT Aldi advert: "I like this Victorian Underground Sewage Pipe Cakebiscuit - and I like this Victorian Underground Sewage Pipe Cakebiscuit........."......and I can't think of a punchline for that
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Post by trubble on Aug 25, 2014 10:44:47 GMT
Just to keep us all abreast of this week's challenge, it was bread baked with stuff in it. One person made a deep sea mutant starfish-octopus hybrid and filled it with cheese so full of bacteria that even Mel thought it smelled inedible. That was my favourite one. Others produced all sorts of things along the line of star anise and chipolata flavoured croissants, the sorts of things you buy on an expensive and panicked impulse in the likes of waitrose when you've invited someone for dinner and just realised you can only make spag bol. No one really likes these breads, so stop tricking us into buying them. If you want really nice 'stuff cooked inside bread' experience get out your toasted cheese sandwich maker that has been gathering dust in the cupboard under the stairs since 1992. Those were the days! And free cheese drips included in every bite.
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Post by Patrick on Aug 28, 2014 22:50:29 GMT
We had a Spaniel once - If you threw something for it - it would shoot off into the opposite direction to that which you'd thrown the thing. Google's like that at the moment. We had one of these in the 70's - The veritable "King" of Sandwich Makers! See how it's called a "Family Cooker!" Because you could cook the whole family with Infra-red rays if you all stood round it like that! It may have been the Grand Daddy of the Health Grill - except it didn't slope and kept all the fat inside - I think. Luckily my Mum's hair was a lot more trendy than that, though I couldn't say the same for the long hair we had! I presume they're cooking Daddy on it as he's not around. I reckon the one on the left is the girl and the one on the right is the boy.
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Post by trubble on Sept 3, 2014 10:46:37 GMT
And what is that thing in the bottom right hand corner? A dog? Yorkshire terrier, perhaps...
And why have they invented a George Foreman grill? I bet they are time travellers, and went forward in time to steal amazing futuristic gizmos, then back to sell them at rip off prices. Like Apple does now.
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