Delia the renegade master

Martin · Post: # 87514Post **Martin** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:03 pm

well, unless my ears are deceiving me, that is what "Chemical Delia's" new series is being touted as, complete with "rapping" type soundtrack............

Quite a stomach-turner after "Wainwrights Walks"

marshlander · Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:40 pm

It's too depressing for words........ Aunt Be***** frozen mash - I ask you.

mrsflibble · Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:22 pm

I have hated delia for years. why did she have to give me yet another arrow for my bow of hatred?!

Shirley · Post: # 88646Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:40 pm

I have to watch... out of interest.

Hot smoked salmon and quail egg pie....

hot smoked salmon fillets... ok, not that bad.

cornichons... capers..

chopped dill (chop it yourself LOL)

Juice of a lemon (not from a bottle)

READY BOILED AND PEELED QUAIL EGGS!!

READY MADE CHEESE SAUCE (how difficult is it to make cheese sauce) - adding creme fraiche and something else that I missed... and cover with mashed potato... FROZEN MASHED POTATO god almighty!!!!!!!

READY GRATED CHEDDAR CHEESE - stupid!! Costs much more...
READY GRATED PARMESAN (puke)

Worried about people not cooking, not being taught it at school.... !! She says you can cook without it taking too much time (doesn't mention the cost, both financial and environmental)

End result looks good... but wonder what it tastes like in comparison to the real thing, and how much time was actually saved.

Shirley · Post: # 88647Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:43 pm

shepherd pie

cooked mince... in a tin!! 75% meat
ready chopped mixed veg
1 chopped onion
cinnamon
thyme

MORE FROZEN MASH
PREPARED LEEKS (but does show how to prepare a real one)
MORE READY GRATED CHEDDAR

Shirley · Post: # 88648Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:44 pm

cue much posing in the dressing rooms at Norwich City football club.

red · Post: # 88650Post **red** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:44 pm

not to mention the packaging..

or how much time was spent visiting the different shops to get the different stuff

mind you... I refused to watch it.....

Shirley · Post: # 88651Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:48 pm

Potatoes something

SPICED WEDGES - frozen... barf with 1 desertspoon olive oil
18 mins... cook

she likes her chopper - it's a small one with ground nut oil, 1 shallot, clove garlic, 2 piri piri chilies from a jar, cottaage cheese, and walnuts. cayenne. whizz it up - add milk and whizz again. stir in white wine vinegar.

That's your dip.

take chips out of oven, and add some sliced hard boiled eggs (not pre bought that way!) and some roasted peppers from a jar... and some olives. Sprinkle with sauce. Pepper it.

Shirley · Post: # 88654Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:52 pm

Potato and Roquefort cheese bread.

Frozen rosti potato - broken into original state ( so why not grate some tatties?) add chopped sage, add 1/2 pack (!!!) of roquefort cheese... could use any blue/strong cheddar), SR flour, cayenne, salt, mustard powder. Stir up and add cottage cheese with chives and mix in, add milk and beaten egg.... mix with hands. pull together into round and squash gently with hand. add sage leaves to decorate and crumble roquefort cheese over top.. sprinkle with flour and bake

Shirley · Post: # 88655Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 8:54 pm

Yet she talks about old fashioned food where everything was done for flavour!!

Anyone else watching?

Shirley · Post: # 88658Post **Shirley** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:01 pm

Lazy Summer Soup

Leek (chopped) and spring onion, chunked. Sweated in butter.
Veg stock powder (at least a good quality one - looked like marigold)
water
milk
MORE FROZEN MASH
simmer

Nigel Slater thinks it's naughty but ok.. and we are still cooking. Just taking shortcuts... permission from headmistress says he... (and he's always been great in my eyes... HMMM... selling out to the headmistress??)

Packets of watercress and something else green.... !

Blend... yeah ok that's a good move.

Nigel gives the soup the thumbs up too

Andy Hamilton · Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:17 pm

That BBC one trailer with the renegade master, a tune that I used to dance about to at 5am, really does disturb me. What next Alan Titchmarsh being promoted with the logical song by Scooter????

This is a good Delia Recipe, perhaps my favorite and sort of in keeping with the new style Delia.

red · Post: # 88678Post **red** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:31 pm

Andy Hamilton wrote:
This is a good Delia Recipe, perhaps my favorite and sort of in keeping with the new style Delia.

thats really funny!

Milims · Post: # 88691Post **Milims** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:57 pm

Shirlz wrote:shepherd pie

cooked mince... in a tin!! 75% meat
ready chopped mixed veg
1 chopped onion
cinnamon
thyme

MORE FROZEN MASH
PREPARED LEEKS (but does show how to prepare a real one)
MORE READY GRATED CHEDDAR

My mother made a "quick" shepherds pie like this when I was about 6. After tea we went to the fun fair - where I promptly threw up right outside a burger van - BEFORE I'd even been on the rides. I've never eaten tinned mince since!

chookwoman · Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:00 pm

Shirlz wrote:Lazy Summer Soup

Leek (chopped) and spring onion, chunked. Sweated in butter.
Veg stock powder (at least a good quality one - looked like marigold)
water
milk
MORE FROZEN MASH
simmer

Nigel Slater thinks it's naughty but ok.. and we are still cooking. Just taking shortcuts... permission from headmistress says he... (and he's always been great in my eyes... HMMM... selling out to the headmistress??)

Packets of watercress and something else green.... !

Blend... yeah ok that's a good move.

Nigel gives the soup the thumbs up too

Yes, the soup had to be simmered for 20 minutes. Hang on a mo - if you peel and dice a potato that takes 20 minutes.

Have I missed something?