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[RockyBVI]

They've certainly had enough publicity to sell a few tins!

Cookery books - do these grace your shelves or Kindles?

https://www.standard.co.uk/shopping/esb ... 78523.html

We had Roast Chicken & Other Stories and How to Eat but lost them in the hurricane along with all of our books and haven’t replaced them. I might look some of these up though. Thanks for the link.

[KeenCook]

Nope, none of them.

[Stokey Sue]

Note en heard of most of them! I have a couple of related books but none of those actual titles

[scullion]

i have volume one (and two) of 'tender' - nigel slater, but none of the others.
i've seen some of the others in charity shops but they haven't landed I'm my bag.
i bought three rather good/new looking cook books the other day - salt, fat, acid, heat (samin nosrat), baan (kay plunkett hogge) and palestine on a plate (joudie kale). all for a pound each.
plus a copy of 'speedy bosh' for three pounds at a different charity shop.

[Pepper Pig]

I have Nigella and Simon Hopkinson.

[Badger's Mate]

I bought the Simon Hopkinson one from a church fete and I own the St John one of course. I’ve got a couple of Rick Stein’s but not that one, nor my favourite of his, Venice to Istanbul . I have got one of Nigel Slater’s but not those, nor anything by any of the others.

[Pepper Pig]

Felicity makes Timballo.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/n ... asterclass

[Suffs]

That’s not carbonara … it’s macaroni cheese in disguise

[Pepper Pig]

Here’s one I made earlier. Batch cooking from the chefs.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/articl ... ok-at-home

[Earthmaiden]

The comments are quite amusing!

[Stokey Sue]

Returning to the Carbonara - Xanthe Clay, of the Telegraph has done a taste test video, which is quite long as these things go but quite entertaining
I think this link should work even if you don't have a Meta (FB, Instagram, Threads) account

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_VCUH3o4Er/

[miss mouse]

The comments are quite amusing!

They are, very pithy.

I think this link should work even if you don't have a Meta (FB, Instagram, Threads) account

I don't and it does. I thought Heinz were considered quite good at keeping down the additives, that's clearly wrong.

[Stokey Sue]

If you look at where the brackets come, most of the additives are those you'd expect in pancetta, the only ones Heinz have added are the modified corn starch (which doesn't do anything to the starch cooking doesn't) and the polyphosphates, which I think may stop the sauce form curdling.. not sure

Still not investing £1.75 though, I assume Xanthe blagged hers from a publicist, she seems very good at that sort of thing

[mistakened]

But then again Heinz Spaghetti in Tomato Sauce, the type the British used to serve on toast, bears little resemblance to Italian Pasta with Tomato Sauce.
The Carbonara version is on sale in Cyprus

Moira

[KeenCook]

I'm afraid the thought of tinned spaghetti carbonara makes me want to

Oh and 400g of butter in Nadiya's carrot soup in the Guardian piece on chefs batch cooking at home does seem an awful lot, even for a couple of kg of carrots

[miss mouse]

Oh and 400g of butter in Nadiya's carrot soup in the Guardian piece on chefs batch cooking at home does seem an awful lot, even for a couple of kg of carrots :?:

It does. Some of the comments questioned it, let's see if it's modified.

Thanks Stokey

Still not investing £1.75 though, I assume Xanthe blagged hers from a publicist, she seems very good at that sort of thing

Nor me but who knows when we might find it useful.

[Earthmaiden]

I was thinking that.all the hype would ensure high sales of the Carbonara from curious people initially, though possibly not second purchases.

Having watched Felicity, it looks rather grim - so runny and no egg. I may still try it but am still convinced it'll be like runny tinned macaroni cheese. Interesting they have felt it a good time to launch that kind of product containing bacon. That rules out a lot of veggies, vegans and religions from buying it.

[miss mouse]

Having watched Felicity, i

I think it was Xanthe. She did rather milk it and the typeface was reversed. A bit OTT. Supposedly 'there is no such thing as bad publicity'. She did say it tasted OK but wasn't carbonara.

[Suffs]

Oh my goodness … if only this were a lot nearer …
https://www.theguardian.com/food/articl ... ant-review

[mistakened]

Interestingly next weeks Kitchen Cabinet comes from Stoke on Trent