Oh yes, add the flour *first*...Fascinated to see how you don’t just end up with mashed potato and scrambled egg by step 2 of the recipe.
Don’t be an onion fascist. We are not onion fascists here.
Has she ever made this?
Slopalong #2 You can’t polish a turd, but you can cover it in parsley
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Has she ever made this?
Oh sorry, yes it's uncooked. You can just cook the amount you want and freeze the rest.
I followed a recipe on thriftyLesley's website which worked perfectly, but made a big amount so I froze half. Lesley doesn't get the publicity that Jack gets, but she has better recipes, and has a few shopping lists and meal plans.
I remember the killer kidney beans, I’m a huge fan of dried beans and pulses they are cheap and with the exception of kidney beans can be soaked overnight and popped in a slow cooker as part of a casserole/stew/soup for delicious non slop meals.
Thanks space you x
Ps the 10p made me lol
what the fluck!!! The potatoes are already cooked, why waste money heating them up and for gnocchi you need to have cold mashed potato or it won’t hold its shape. Surely if you really cared about poor people you would suggest using left over mashed potato for gnocchi, that way you save money by only cooking potatoes once. I will be amazed if this actually works as tinned potatoes don’t mash well.
She has a weird obsession with tinned potatoes, and thinks that food banks are innundated with them.
Personally I never got any in my food bank visits (or spaghetti hoops for that matter).
And doesn’t mention that sweet potato is MUCH more watery and soft. Almost like she hasn’t tried it with this recipe.
"Point y thin gsI cannot get enough of this 5 minute thing, with Tom Cruise dressing
5 minute thing with Tom Cruise Dressing*, 60p
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So I was a bit disappointed when I found out what this recipe actually was (a salad) as I wanted to make a proper slop.
I had all the ingredients already, so it was actually free to make
Cost using the very cheapest versions available at Tesco, as that’s where I shop: £1.68 (using Jack Maffs where you can buy 100g of frozen spinach for the same price per unit as a 900g bag).
Jack’s blog post states 60p but I guess that was a long time ago?
I did make a few substitutions:
Recipe only states “oil”, naturally I decided to use extra virgin olive oil as it’s a salad.
I only had cherry tomatoes so used those.
Recipe doesn’t specify the type of mustard so I used Colman’s.
Recipe states “fat cloves of garlic”, I thought 6 cloves between 2 people was quite enough already, so just used the 6 biggest ones I had. Also, she’s costed this using the cheapest garlic you can buy, but those bulbs are always tiny and you’d never get fat cloves.
On to the method!Dressing first. I measured out the oil.
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It seemed like an awful lot.
Oh well, on with the other dressing ingredients:
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Actual footage of me shaking the dressing:
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Not really. (Still not sure what Tom Cruise has to do with it, must be because she’s such a MAVERICK smol pixie)
So I opened up the lid to check if it needed further shaking.
Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear
It did get there in the end. That done, onto the meecrowavey:
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And the obligatory rinsing pic:
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Return to the meecrowavey. Jack says that cooking garlic in its pricked skins is a shortcut to roasted garlic.
No it is not.
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(Wine bottle for scale, these were not fat cloves, alas)
The garlic appeared shrivelled and not very soft.
Also Jack did not instruct me to drain the defrosted (hot) spinach - I didn’t want the salad to be swimming so I squeezed it out in the colander after I’d drained the chickpeas. I think maybe she made this once, with fresh spinach, then substituted frozen in the recipe to keep the cost down? A theme is emerging here Fraus…
I pressed on. Chopped the tomatoes and onion and chucked it all in a bowl:
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Time to stir! I was heating up food for my baby at the same time so I gave myself 50 seconds to toss it all together:
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(Baby’s lunch was looking more appetising at this point honestly)Ingredients: 3. Absolutely solidly middle class.
Recipe: 1. A weird mix of vague and specific (what kind of oil?), missing instructions. I think she made it once, wrote it down from memory, tweaked some things to make it cheaper and never made it again.
Visual appeal: 3. It definitely isn’t an ovary groaner and I can’t say I ever want to greedily inhale salad, but it looks fine if you don’t look too closely and notice the garlic.
Texture: 3. Again, fine, mainly chickpeas and tomatoes and onion.
Taste: 2. Where to begin?! There is WAY too much raw onion. (She doesn’t specify the size of onion) Olive oil was too strong and made it taste bitter. I was worried about the peanut butter but couldn’t taste that really. I nibbled at the garlic and it tasted of nothing. I guess all the flavour evaporated in the microwave?
Essentially, it tasted of raw onion swimming in olive oil with the added texture of chickpeas.
How can something with so few ingredients, all of which are nice, be so wrong?
Overall: 2 - TerribleWhen my OH got home I invited him to try “the slop”. I had only managed a few mouthfuls so there was nearly a whole bowlful for him.
Fraus, he declared it “pretty nice” but “way too much onion”.
I expressed surprise that he used the word “nice” and he said “maybe it would be better blended?”
At this point I opened the front door and booted him out. He’s now on his way to Southend with a couple of juicy burgers (or perhaps kebabs).
Ouch y-do no t touch"
Oh! As an actual 1978 herr
this does actually bring back vague memories.Esther Rantzen believed that she'd been poisoned by a Delia Smith chilli recipe so carried on a bizarre one-sided feud, mentioning at every opportunity both the dangers of kidney beans and the recklessness of Delia for using them. Is that right?
I mostly remember it because of the way my mum loudly scoffed every time she spotted Rantzen on the telly - she was definitely in Team Delia, and loudly opined that Rantzen was obviously incapable of following recipes. Jack, take note! WARNED.
Id never heard of this, brilliant!Oh! As an actual 1978 herr
Esther Rantzen believed that she'd been poisoned by a Delia Smith chilli recipe so carried on a bizarre one-sided feud, mentioning at every opportunity both the dangers of kidney beans and the recklessness of Delia for using them. Is that right?
I mostly remember it because of the way my mum loudly scoffed every time she spotted Rantzen on the telly - she was definitely in Team Delia, and loudly opined that Rantzen was obviously incapable of following recipes. Jack, take note! WARNED.
I wonder if Jack will teach Content to say "sausages" like the dog Esther Rantzen had on "That's Life." (One for the older Fraus)Oh! As an actual 1978 herr
Esther Rantzen believed that she'd been poisoned by a Delia Smith chilli recipe so carried on a bizarre one-sided feud, mentioning at every opportunity both the dangers of kidney beans and the recklessness of Delia for using them. Is that right?
I mostly remember it because of the way my mum loudly scoffed every time she spotted Rantzen on the telly - she was definitely in Team Delia, and loudly opined that Rantzen was obviously incapable of following recipes. Jack, take note! WARNED.
She might even go the whole hog and get it to say "bollock sausages"
Or degloved sausages.
Completely off-topic now, but I've just found the other side of the story. Sounds my mum might have been a little too pro-Delia!Oh! As an actual 1978 herr
Esther Rantzen believed that she'd been poisoned by a Delia Smith chilli recipe so carried on a bizarre one-sided feud, mentioning at every opportunity both the dangers of kidney beans and the recklessness of Delia for using them. Is that right?
I mostly remember it because of the way my mum loudly scoffed every time she spotted Rantzen on the telly - she was definitely in Team Delia, and loudly opined that Rantzen was obviously incapable of following recipes. Jack, take note! WARNED.
She’s speaking in her special slow voice with a patronising smile for the povs because they’re all thick
I still say sausages like that dog did
I feel I should slopalong too, just trying to decide what 
So much choice - not many sick buckets.
So much choice - not many sick buckets.
We'll hold your hair back in spirit, dear heart.I feel I should slopalong too, just trying to decide what
So much choice - not many sick buckets.
There was a whole thing of people poisoning themselves with kidney beans in their slow cookers in the 1970s, because they didn't pre-cook the dried beans first. Seven outbreaks of kidney bean poisoning occurred in the U.K. between 1976 and 1979.
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