BBC Good Food

24 October 2009

Tested

"Did a Caribbean twist on this, by replacing the mashed potato with sweet potato mash, and adding two tablespoons of jerk marinade (I used Walkerswood), and my Jamaican wife loved it!"

28 September 2008

Tested

"Easy, easy easy. I used a good quality green curry paste, and almost got away with pretending I did the whole thing from scratch... Good base recipe (as everyone else has demonstrated) which you can build on with different meats and vegetables."

09 December 2007

Tested

"Caramelising the sugar first gives a really nice toffee undercurrent to this sauce. I've upped the sugar a little, to taste, afterwards - about 50g. Maybe I just had a particularly sharp batch of cranberries? It's a fairly dramatic moment when you first tip the cranberries into the molten caramel, though, because of the heat difference. Initially you end up with a pan full of little toffee cranberries held together with spun sugar, which gave me idea for trying the same with with larger red berries deliberately for 'finger food'-sized versions of toffee apples, using cocktail sticks. I dipped them, and then air dried/cooled/hardened them by sticking them on a sheet of baking parchment. Possibly more appropriate for a Bonfire Night dessert platter, but I enjoyed them anyway."

09 December 2007

Tested

"Okay - just gone back to my original attempt. I think the recipe should say 8 thick slices of white bread - the consistency came together after about 12 medium slices. A little extra nutmeg sorted out the flavour, too. I would say that you would need a family who was very, very keen on bread sauce to get through a litre - especially if you've got cranberry sauce on the table as well. I'd think half quantities would be fine."

09 December 2007

Tested

"I think there may be a typo (possibly 1 pint/568ml milk rather than 1 litre/1.75 pints?). I've just made this to freeze for Christmas (as suggested) and it's very watery, and quite bland. I'm going to try it again with 500ml milk, on the basis I can always add more to the food processor later if I need to."