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This is the spot where I do the proving of the dough.                                         Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 In my opinion, this is THE best bread recipe I've ever had the chance to make, believe me I've tried loads of recipes for a loaf of bread and they have pretty much always failed me and ended up dense and dry. I was starting to believe that I just couldn't make bread.  This one however is bloody brilliant, so much so, my youngest son (18) pretty much eats almost a whole loaf in 24 hours! It's that good and OMG as toast...well, layer it up with butter....😛💗 My silver surfers (aka the in-laws) love it too, I'm expecting orders from them soon! 😆 Bread isn't the easiest to make as it's quite time consuming, but honestly, this recipe is worth it.  So far, since 8th November when I made the first one, I have made about 12 since. My last two loaves I made, I wrapped in greaseproof paper and then into thick good quality freezer bags and they froze and d

Marmalade Glazed Sausages Recipe Book: Fortnum & Mason Cook Book Review: 🌟🌟🌟. Not a good start I'm afraid on this one. Husband didn't like it, he said it tasted bitter. I personally, didn't get this. I thought it was alright, but to me it was just Cumberland Sausages in a sticky sauce which didn't overly taste of Marmalade. It was easy enough to make though and only took around 30 minutes to make. Aga conversion: I fried the sausage in the saute pan on the floor of the Roasting Oven for about 12 minutes each side. I did the marmalade and butter bit on the Boiling plate. Served with a bit of Rocket Salad. Will I make this again? Probably not.  

Nigel Slater - Paprika, Mustard Chicken Goujons  Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat  Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So, So good! When I started mixing the paprika and mustard together I started deliberating whether these were going to be any good as the mix smelled funny. I actually went and opened a new jar of mustard to check the smell. It was fine, my nose is obviously weird. These are very quick easy to make, I used 2 chicken breasts and sliced each one into 3.  I suppose they’re not overly healthy with being fried but I suppose you could try baking them....nah stick to frying! 😆  I served with the wedges of lime and also a bit of Hellman’s Roasted Garlic Mayonnaise.  Absolutely delicious! Aga conversion: I used a regular frying pan on the boiling plate for this recipe as they really don’t take long to fry. Will I make this again? Absolutely! The husband loved them too.

Poor Man’s Potatoes Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat Review: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I have to say I really enjoyed this dish. It’s quite a nice comfort food style vegetarian dish. I have made this before and the first time I made it I decided to add in a chilli 🌶 at the start.... a whole sliced chilli 🌶... maybe you might want to put a half one in instead! 😆  nevertheless it was still good.  This time I sort of stuck to the original recipe. Only alterations were that I didn’t have the normal size bell peppers so I used a few of those smaller sweet peppers to get the same amount. Aga conversion: I kind of struggled with this conversion, I sort of toggled between both hot plates and then when it was time to cover and simmer enthusiastically, I popped the covered Aga sauté pan on the floor of the roasting oven. After 20 mins there was still loads of stock left so I gave it a bit longer uncovered on the hot plates toggling between them for roughly 10 minutes after squashing about

Chicken Wings, Katsu Sauce Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Very nice. For us it didn’t quite hit the spot for a 5⭐️ but it was still good. We had loads of sauce left so next time I’d make half the portion of sauce. It tasted a bit like satay your me even though there was no peanut butter in it. I had to substitute medium curry powder for mild as I didn’t have any mild in, but it tasted good regardless. Easy enough to make, basically chuck all the sauce ingredients in the blender. Aga conversion: I did most of it on the hot plates, I used the boiling plate for the first 5 minutes and then simmered for 30 minutes on the floor of the simmering oven. I did the final crisping you fry on the boiling plate.  Will I make this again? Yes it was good, probably just use chicken breast next time as it was a bit messy to eat though.

Chorizo Potatoes  Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I do love Nigel Slater recipes and I think all of this weeks reviews are from this book. There are very few recipes that have disappointed from this guy, he really does know his stuff. So tonight’s recipe was easy to make but I did have a couple of quirks with it.... Firstly, I forgot to write down exactly how much chorizo I needed so bought a pack of diced cooking chorizo from Sainsbury’s. When I got home I realised I only had 150g 😱 instead of 250g.  Fortunately this turned out for the better because my potatoes were slightly smaller and 150g really was enough for them. I also decided to use a 50/50 mix of cheddar and mozzarella as I cannot for the life in me seem to be able to get hold of Manchego cheese so google said to use mozzarella or cheddar....so I used both! Cooking wise, the potatoes took longer than 45 minutes to be cooked right through they took 1hr 15, so basically cook y

Citrus Chilli Grilled Chicken Recipe Book: Nigel Slater - Eat Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was so good! Such a simple idea but so tasty. It’s supposed to be easy to bone a chicken leg.... not for me... I ended up using the scissors to do it, but I got it off in the end. Next time I’ll get the butcher to do it! So, apart from the faffing about deboning the leg it was very quick and easy to make. I just served mine with a salad. Aga conversion: I used a small baking tray on the top set of runners in the roasting oven. Took about 10-11 minutes as my Aga was running slightly cooler. Will I make this again? Yes I will