With any luck, I’ll be at the supermarket tomorrow. Slop incoming!
Slopalong #2 You can’t polish a turd, but you can cover it in parsley
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Was going to butChapeau to everyone who has slopped so far and the money raised is brilliant
I haven’t had a chance to make mine yet but should be able to fit it in tomorrow or Tuesday
Jaffa cake mug thingy.I don’t know how you will follow the recipe. She tells you to make a well with no further explanation. How will you figure out what this means???
I want to make a dessert to follow my “inside of a food waste bin” main course. Can’t decide between these two. Anyone want to cast a vote?
‘Jaffa Cake’ Mug Pudding from Good Food For Bad Days by Jack Monroe
This is a very dangerous piece of knowledge to have; the ability to rustle up a hot sticky pudding in a matter of minutes that tastes like a pile of melted Jaffa cakes. Once you know it, you can ne...app.ckbk.com
Sleazecake from Good Food For Bad Days by Jack Monroe
Not quite the baked, creamy succulence of a traditional cheesecake, but a reasonable substitute in a hurry.app.ckbk.com
Or actually even this potential monstrosity
Ice Cream Cake from Good Food For Bad Days by Jack Monroe
Ice cream is my catch-all, cheer-up indulgence, eaten by the pint in front of light comedic television or crime-scene dramas, depending on my mood. One Saturday evening, alone, I found myself partw...app.ckbk.com
She's making it into a cake, which would negate that particular property.
To go off on a slight tangent...I had bulimia for more than half my life, and Jack's recipes don't strike me in any way as being designed for that purpose. I'm not going to go into details because frankly the slop is disgusting enough without an added layer of binge/purge talk, but trust me on this one.
I know we have some ED truthers, but I've always felt it more likely that she makes tit food because she's a tit cook, and her portions are inadequate because her USP is making dishes that cost 2p a portion. Her descriptions of her alleged ED sound like they came from a Babysitter's Club book.
She doesn't actually eat her own recipes as written; we've seen a number of examples where the photo just doesn't match the recipe (extra ingredients, different method etc). She was clearly not living off her own recipes during the Poverty, as photos from the time demonstrate. She's just - as she so often is - a liar.
To go off on a slight tangent...I had bulimia for more than half my life, and Jack's recipes don't strike me in any way as being designed for that purpose. I'm not going to go into details because frankly the slop is disgusting enough without an added layer of binge/purge talk, but trust me on this one.
I know we have some ED truthers, but I've always felt it more likely that she makes tit food because she's a tit cook, and her portions are inadequate because her USP is making dishes that cost 2p a portion. Her descriptions of her alleged ED sound like they came from a Babysitter's Club book.
She doesn't actually eat her own recipes as written; we've seen a number of examples where the photo just doesn't match the recipe (extra ingredients, different method etc). She was clearly not living off her own recipes during the Poverty, as photos from the time demonstrate. She's just - as she so often is - a liar.
Once when I was a student I saw a recipe on a student cooking website for duck in cherry sauce. It was filed under the sort of expensive dish you would make for special occasions (Come-to-Bed Duck, if you will).
The sauce was made by melting a tub of Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia ice cream.
I wish I were joking.
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“Sleazecake”? For the love of god ..I don’t know how you will follow the recipe. She tells you to make a well with no further explanation. How will you figure out what this means???
I want to make a dessert to follow my “inside of a food waste bin” main course. Can’t decide between these two. Anyone want to cast a vote?
‘Jaffa Cake’ Mug Pudding from Good Food For Bad Days by Jack Monroe
This is a very dangerous piece of knowledge to have; the ability to rustle up a hot sticky pudding in a matter of minutes that tastes like a pile of melted Jaffa cakes. Once you know it, you can ne...
Sleazecake from Good Food For Bad Days by Jack Monroe
Not quite the baked, creamy succulence of a traditional cheesecake, but a reasonable substitute in a hurry.
Or actually even this potential monstrosity
Ice Cream Cake from Good Food For Bad Days by Jack Monroe
Ice cream is my catch-all, cheer-up indulgence, eaten by the pint in front of light comedic television or crime-scene dramas, depending on my mood. One Saturday evening, alone, I found myself partw...
That said, it looks relatively straightforward and so it could work - sounds incredibly sweet though.
@colouredlines thank you for telling your story so honestly.
Oh, dear. I actually like my ice cream half or more melted and always have.
Having had half my colon removed this autumn, I can assure you that I don't need to purge either. I celebrate being mildly bunged.
It's also a reason why I'm dipping out of slopping along as the doctor and I are rather invested in keeping my innards working properly and me out of hospital.
It's also a reason why I'm dipping out of slopping along as the doctor and I are rather invested in keeping my innards working properly and me out of hospital.
Plenty of people let the ice cream go soupy when they’re having a bowl. Nobody sticks it in the microwave for a minute to warm it through, though.
Nige right now in his latest for the Grauniad (roast toms and chickpea mash):
Be on the lookout for portly, stout and comfortable. Folding money on Nigella for Rubenesque, with Fingers Kerridge taking had a good Christmas.
Not to credit Jack with any original ideas (because she hasn't any, other than new ways to grift) but maybe "fat cloves" is trying to direct home cooks to use the chubbier cloves in a head of garlic. It would make more sense and be thriftier to say e.g. three plump cloves or five or six skinny ones, so that all of the garlic gets used.
The lardy buns recipe/method 
Step 4 is confusing enough…
Then you read step 5 and it’s even more of a head scratcher.
Step 4 is confusing enough…
Then you read step 5 and it’s even more of a head scratcher.
This reminds me of an episode of Come Dine With Me where a lady made ‘raspberry coulis’ by stirring boiling water into some raspberry jam
it looked awful but probably still 344% nicer than any of Jacks stuff. I love this thread and have been really enjoying following the recipes but like others, find it frustrating and heartbreaking how almost none of the recipes work. JM doesn’t deserve a platform like she has.
I get paid on Friday so will donate then and provide a screenshot, not sure I can face cooking one of her recipes!
LJC I never want to see the words “my grandfather is responsible for my fetish” in a sentence ever, EVER
Phew. The explanation returns
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Maybe it's because I'm not a
but if I fancy making something new, I generally look online for a recipe, not write down ingredients off the back of a packet.
She really doesn't like learning things, does she?
I know some musicians can figure out how to play a song by hearing it alone, but not sure cooking is the same. Or not in her case. Not with music either (boulevaaaard!)
Not watched in years but I used to love Masterchef: the Professionals and they used to make them do a palate test where they had to identify ingredients from tasting a recipe. Can you imagine how abysmally Jack would fail at such an endeavour 
Her obsession with her grandfather is so weird, he sounds like a piece of work and she wants to emulate it? (done)
My post would make more sense if I'd linked to the post where she claimed to take the ingredients off the back of the packet, not the one where she claimed to research it. Darn her inconsistencies.
Why does she make things sound so difficult anyway? Countless people have made lardy cake before, it's not a mystery.
Why does she make things sound so difficult anyway? Countless people have made lardy cake before, it's not a mystery.
A lardy bun for a mardy bum
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