So, who wants to help ... to frivol in the cellar? (Part 1)

Casserole?

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Soddin’ great high-sided skillet with a handle either side?

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Bluddy gurt big skillet avec handles at either side About 30" diameter

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Gus dear I have a casserole thing that has granite non stick over cast aluminum that swallows 4lbs of meat and assorted veg for a rich meal cooked in the range on slow

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I have my mother’s Utility Stock-Pot, with a two-gallon capacity; for many, many years it was used all winter every winter to make the stock for Lovely Nourishing Soup, occasionally being emptied of all the bones that had been added over a few weeks so those could be buried under the rose-bushes because roses like bone-meal.

I don’t think I knew what an Oxo cube was until I had left home.

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Proper soup needs bones - marrow bones for first choice or an old boiler hen

Pigs’ feets are for jelly for porky pies

I use my 25 litre ham pot for soups

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I wasn’t kicking off a batterie de cuisine arms race, or at least that wasn’t my intention. I cook my stew in a whacking great metonym.

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Bluddy Ell

Pan wars has broken out

Stock Pot yes, used every week as a child, & then the pressure cooker rather took over.

Neither Bisto nor Oxo were used at home.
Soups, gravies & sauces were made from scratch.
My Mother’s only concession was to sometimes use cornflour & arrowroot rather than the Roux /Beurre Manie methods, as they took a long time for the flour to cook out.

Pressure cooker used at least once per week, as I did here until the 50 year old one gave up the ghost.

Slow Cooker is also used every week, particularly in winter, for stock or long - cooked casseroles.

Have an Wok, but have never bothered with an Paella, as no-one ate it, & the pan was both too big to store, & too big to go over a heat source on the hob.

Carinthia. xx

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Paella is used on the BBQ I just have pans from when I had my wee cafe that are too good to throw away

So I wasn’t trying pan wars

My portion sizes are farmer sized too

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Of course you don’t throw them out, Twellsy.
I have a stainless steel fish kettle wot hardly gets used, but it does mini puddings, should I be mad enuff to make any, as well as cook fish.

It was Ā£3-50 from a Charity shop, & hadn’t been used.

Carinthia. xx

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That was a bargain dear Chatelaine

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There are hot buttered crusts.

And Coulommiers for them as does.

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\________/ <---- Me Plate

<<<------------>>> <---- Me Elbows

Carinthia. xx

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None of you will require mushroom stroganoff with padron peppers and flatbreads. A shame, really, as there izzan sufficiency.

Soo xx

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[perks up from Coulommiers-ful nap]

Well, if you need any help…

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[puts hand in the air]

I do, Miss. I require it.

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Me too, Soo

Pretty Please

Proffers :cocktail::cocktail::cocktail::cocktail:

Carinthia. xx

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Me Three

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Loaded platters for all. I’d have offered them earlier, had I not been fending off text scammings :grimacing:

Poodle has had a Good Day, she tells me. Tomorrow will be the last full day of her visit and we’re a bit sad about that. Mr Bee says he’ll take a pic, just to prove she wozz 'ere.

Soo xx

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