What did you cook/eat today (February 2018)?

[ElizabethB]

Another first. I have never heard of or eaten suet pastry. Recipe anyone?

 

[Morning Glory]

Another first. I have never heard of or eaten suet pastry. Recipe anyone?

Can you get suet? Its sold in packets here and there is a vegan/vegetarian version which I tend to use.

 

[ElizabethB]

I will look it up. It is probably available on Amazon. Is the recipe on the box?
Vegan suet? Isn't that an oxymoron?

 

[medtran49]

Hopefully, we'll be having roses, hedgehogs, fish, and bunnies.

 

[ElizabethB]

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[Morning Glory]

Hopefully, we'll be having roses, hedgehogs, fish, and bunnies.

You will? Thats nice.

 

[Morning Glory]

I will look it up. It is probably available on Amazon. Is the recipe on the box?
Vegan suet? Isn't that an oxymoron?

I don't know if recipe is on box. It might be. I can supply a recipe if you can find suet! Vegan suet is made from palm and sunflower oil. I've used both kinds of suet interchangeably and can barely tell the difference. Maybe the beef one has a little more flavour. What is great about suet pastry is that it is almost effortless - no rubbing in or anything.

 

[The Velvet Curtain]

Another first. I have never heard of or eaten suet pastry. Recipe anyone?

For basic suet pastry, two parts self raising flour to one part suet, salt to season and mix with cold water. As with all pastries don't over kneed. Egg wash to give a golden finish.

Suet pastry works best for me as a crust on a pot pie or as a steamed pudding.

 

[medtran49]

Well, the roses came out ok, need some practice though. The dough for the little creatures was a fail, so I ended up using premade wrappers. Fillings were pork and chives, shrimp, and ground beef and mushrooms.

 

[Morning Glory]

Well, the roses came out ok, need some practice though. The dough for the little creatures was a fail, so I ended up using premade wrappers. Fillings were pork and chives, shrimp, and ground beef and mushrooms.

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Mystery solved! Its all to do with The CookingBites Cookalong: Chinese Dumplings! I like those roses. What is it makes them pink? I saw a method for 'goldfish' which I may try.

 

[Morning Glory]

A retro egg dish: Eggs with Shrimp Cream Sauce

 

[Morning Glory]

Rhubarb and Pomegranate Eton Mess served in traditional manner:

 

[medtran49]

Mystery solved! Its all to do with The CookingBites Cookalong: Chinese Dumplings! I like those roses. What is it makes them pink? I saw a method for 'goldfish' which I may try.

Beet juice.

The failed dough was a wheat and tapioca starch dough. It apparently is a rather temperamental dough.

 

[Yorky]

Pig's sausage and chicken's liver (with other stuff).

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[The Velvet Curtain]

Tapas for breakfast, nobody said we couldn't.

Toasts topped with sobrasada and cheese.