I don’t think 3 is a fair score for a recipe that requires boiling some stuff and blending it. It’s barely a recipe especially as she can’t even be bothered to suggest seasoning.
I guess that's true. Let's drop her down a point to Dire.I don’t think 3 is a fair score for a recipe that requires boiling some stuff and blending it. It’s barely a recipe especially as she can’t even be bothered to suggest seasoning.
Thankyou dear heart, very well sloppedI guess that's true. Let's drop her down a point to Dire.
After all, I would eat her Mum's potatoes, but Tom wasn't wrong.
ETA: And if we're going on the principle of what I would eat still being Dire, we should probably knock a point off the other 2 recipes I've done as I've been over-generous there too.
I feel like this is an existential question I'm not equipped to answer.Why would you blend beans?! (Refer to thread title.)
It thickens the soup. But I wouldn't blend the whole thing, I'd scoop out a couple of ladles and blend those and stir back in.Why would you blend beans?! (Refer to thread title.)
For goodness sake, it’s in case the evil food bank people MAKE you take all the donated tins of kidney beans. Just let her BREATHE!Using kidney beans in soup is a bit pointless in my opinion. Red lentils and carrots is a much better combination. While kidney beans can be very cheap I don't think they're a particularly useful thing to keep in your cupboard on the offchance, unless you have specific recipes in mind.
I was so fucking optimistic about this Bruce Bogtrotter cake. Now I’m just very sad. Cheers Jack kids (me) are crying.Bringing my slop forward, slop pickers. Was going to do this tomorrow but my other half is working late so knocked this up while the kid was eating dinner.
Chocolate Pear Cake
I have never done any vegan baking so was very curious to try this particularly as a friend’s daughter has a dairy allergy. I have no reference points for vegan baking so can’t tell from the method whether it’s sensible or not. Soon find out!
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Had everything in but the tinned fruit (£1.05), the apple sauce (£1) and the coconut milk (£1.50) (
I combined the ingredients slop by slop, stopping to blitz up my (drained) pears.
First up, apple sauce and oil and sugar. Hard to get this to combine fully and there’s a distinct ‘halo’ of oil round the edges.
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She says to reserve the pear juice and says she immediately pours this into a glass and drinks it, diluted with water. (Like a greedy goblin, I imagine)
I give this a go too. I didn’t have any vases to hand so had to make do with a glass.
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It tasted … like pear juice diluted with water.
Back to my pears
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View attachment 1757836Note the lumpy texture when coconut milk is added to the mix, above. I’ve never baked with coconut milk before so don’t know if this is good, bad or neither. Couldn’t get the lumps out when stirring but maybe that’s ok.
Flour, bicarb, cocoa powder and cinamon goes in. This is way more cocoa powder than I’d usually use for a chocolate sponge cake. Three times as much in fact.
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Here’s the batter. Quite lumpy but smells good. I transfer to my loaf tin and even lick the bowl.
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At this point she says to put the oven on. I do and wait for what feels like ages, for it to get to the right temperature. It’s a good opportunity to gaze into the distance and question some of my life choices.
In it goes
While it’s cooking, I must admit there’s a lovely cinamonny baking smell through the house. I feel optimistic. Maybe this slopalong is the one.
After it’s been in the oven 45 mins, she says to check it’s done by inserting a clean knife. The test reveals it’s still sloppy so I return to the oven. Then begins a very frustrating period of checking the cake is done every 5 minutes. It’s not. After 20 more minutes I accept that the knife will never come out clean. I’m worried it’ll burn so I remove it and leave it to cool while I deal with my crabbit toddler.
I do the bedtime routine and wonder if I will have an edible cake to enjoy on when she’s asleep.
Here’s my cake fresh from the oven. It’s all cracked but I can live with that.
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This bit is from repeated testing to see if it’s ready
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Once it had cooled, it looked not bad inasmuchas it was loaf-shaped and seemed solid rather than slop as I feared
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And cut into ..
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It’s just really disappointing. The texture is more like a pudding or a fondant than a cake or a loaf. You can’t hold up a slice without it all falling to bits. You can’t taste the pears because it’s got far too much cocoa powder in it. You can taste cinamon but no discernible pear flavour. It tastes bitter. Bitter with a hint of cinamon.
Fraus, this is my last slop. Fun as it’s been, I am now fully convinced that the recipes don’t work. Even with my previous efforts, I’ve had the feeling I might have done something wrong along the way. But this was such a simple recipe and I followed it to the letter (apart from baking it 20 minutes longer to try and make sure it was baked through, and not slop.) The texture is wrong, the flavour is horrible.
You’d be better just melting some chocolate over your tinned pears. This is just garbage.
I give it a 1.
I will keep reading the slopathons as they are brilliantly entertaining. But I’m done trying to get an edible bake out of any of her recipes.
How about no-cook gazpacho dear heart? It's the only recent website recipe we haven't allocated or done, so an obvious candidate.I was so fucking optimistic about this Bruce Bogtrotter cake. Now I’m just very sad. Cheers Jack kids (me) are crying.
also, as well, (my ex colleague always said also as well and it makes me lol) I’d like another random slop allocation thank (space) you in advance @That Forensic Man
Thankyou tender one, this extremely generous donation brings the total to £861.78 !!It thickens the soup. But I wouldn't blend the whole thing, I'd scoop out a couple of ladles and blend those and stir back in.
@That Forensic Man Stick this in the "amount donated" list, please? It's a local charity that works with vulnerable mums and under fives in my borough. I put aside a tenner a month and then buy stuff with it for the children, last year it was three huge bags of toys.
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Just been reading those instructions as the one I used didn't have the end bits about lentils & yoghurt - but bloody hell, it doesn't need to be any thicker. If it were it would be her.How about no-cook gazpacho dear heart? It's the only recent website recipe we haven't allocated or done, so an obvious candidate.
That is despite it not appearing under 'all recipes' because the categories/tags are all messed up lol. For 2022 there's only 1 of 7 recipes listed and then ones from 2018.
Gazpacho, 28p | 15 Minutes | No-Cook | Vegan | JACK MONROE
This recipe is adapted from my second book, A Year In 120 Recipes, and is a firm favourite in the hot weather! Super simple to throw together, deliciously refreshing, and full of vital nutrients an…cookingonabootstrap.com
Thankyou tender one, this extremely generous donation brings the total to £861.78 !!
TInned tomatoes... In gazpacho? NO.How about no-cook gazpacho dear heart? It's the only recent website recipe we haven't allocated or done, so an obvious candidate.
That is despite it not appearing under 'all recipes' because the categories/tags are all messed up lol. For 2022 there's only 1 of 7 recipes listed and then ones from 2018.
Gazpacho, 28p | 15 Minutes | No-Cook | Vegan | JACK MONROE
This recipe is adapted from my second book, A Year In 120 Recipes, and is a firm favourite in the hot weather! Super simple to throw together, deliciously refreshing, and full of vital nutrients an…cookingonabootstrap.com
Whatever you do, please be mindful that you don’t confuse Jack’s Sicilian fish stew, pictured above and with recipe here:Just making a note of two Canned Food UK recipes that would be good for the slopalong:
- Crab chowder mac and cheese
- Steak, mango, and black bean curry
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Whatever you do, please be mindful that you don’t confuse Jack’s Sicilian fish stew, pictured above and with recipe here:
Sicilian style fish stew - Jack Monroe - Canned Food UK
This simple recipe is inspired by a fish stew I had in Italy a few years ago; I have made many versions of it since, and it’s beautifully versatile - you can use any beans in place of the chickpeas, wine instead of beer, and any tinned veg that takes your fancy. It’s a complete meal in a bowl...www.cannedfood.co.uk
With her Catalan fish stew, not pictured above, but recipe here:
A Book & A Bite: A Recipe from Jack Monroe | Waterstones.com Blog
Published this week, Jack Monroe's Cooking on a Bootstrap brings together over 100 of her recipes for simple, speedy and cost-effective meals along with money-saving tips and advice. Here, we present a recipe from Jack, exclusively for Waterstones: a delicious Catalan classic with a twist.www.waterstones.com
The twist is she just rewrote the ingredients in different measurements and mixed them up so it looks different at a glance.Here, we present a recipe from Jack, exclusively for Waterstones: a delicious Catalan classic with a twist.
I was about to offer to do the crab Mac and cheese bullshit but I have too many questions…Just making a note of two Canned Food UK recipes that would be good for the slopalong:
- Crab chowder mac and cheese
- Steak, mango, and black bean curry
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