{"id":636,"date":"2009-04-20T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/20\/recipes-from-scratch"},"modified":"2009-04-20T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T16:42:00","slug":"recipes-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Recipes From Scratch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    I saw a story on the BBC that showed from research carried out by the UKTV Food channel that Briton&#8217;s can make 10 meals &#8220;from scratch&#8221; &#8211; IE: without the use of a recipe or cookbook. <\/p>\n<p \/>Number one on the list was spaghetti bolognese. PER-LEASE! If you buy the sauce ready made, as I&#8217;m sure most people do these days, the recipe has three ingredients &#8211; sauce, pasta and mince. Ooh, hard!<\/p>\n<p \/>Second on the list was a traditional roast dinner. Erm, again. What recipe *IS* there for that? Get a big slab of meat, or a chicken, whack it in the oven. Roast some potatoes, boil some vegies. <\/p>\n<p \/>Third on the list was pot noodle. Forth was beans on toast.<br \/>LOL &#8211; NO! I&#8217;m kidding! But it might as well have been. <\/p>\n<p \/>Some of them do get a little complex down the end of the list. Some people claim to be able to do a cottage pie from scratch with no recipe. That&#8217;s fairly bold. <\/p>\n<p \/>At the end of the list was curry. I can&#8217;t help but think for some people who said &#8220;Yeah, I can make a curry from scratch.&#8221; that their list of ingredients would read:<\/p>\n<p \/>1. One jar of korma sauce.<br \/>2. 500gm of chicken fillets.<br \/>3. 75gm of uncooked rice.<br \/>4. 15ml of olive oil.<\/p>\n<p \/>Method: <br \/>Cook rice to instructions on packet.<br \/>Place oil in frying pan, heat. Add chicken, cook to brown, approx 8 minutes. Add korma sauce. Serve with cooked rice.<\/p>\n<p \/>If they actually can make the sauces from scratch with no recipe to reference, they are better than I could ever be! I suppose if you&#8217;re Asian you might be able to do it, as it would be second nature to know what the sauces are made with and they&#8217;d be making them regularly.<\/p>\n<p \/>Another was stir-fry. Well blow me down with a feather! That&#8217;s hard. Fry some meat, and a variety of chopped vegetables to your liking, then add some soya sauce, a bit of honey&#8230;viola! <\/p>\n<p \/>Still, if people ARE cooking at home, and regularly enough not to need recipe guides, it can only be good. <\/p>\n<p \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/8007081.stm\">Click here<\/a> to read the story from the BBC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3979208399727476335-8793821591508561368?l=lozzyr.blogspot.com\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a story on the BBC that showed from research carried out by the UKTV Food channel that Briton&#8217;s can make 10 meals &#8220;from scratch&#8221; &#8211; IE: without the use of a recipe or cookbook. Number one on the list was spaghetti bolognese. PER-LEASE! 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