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[Cinnamon]

Did anyone see it last night?

I really enjoyed it, & picked up a couple of nice things to try out over the holidays, like those cheese straws.

It was nice to se Copas turkeys on there too

The show made me feel all Christmassy & warm, or maybe that was the Whisky Mac I enjoyed while watching it...........

I think in one of the next shows they go to Henley, but I missed then again

[Mrs Webmuppet]

I watched it, whilst making a nativity outfit out of a ladies baggy tea shirt and a length of gold glittery ribbon...........oh the things we Mums have to do!

 

I may have a go at the bagels, especially as their ones aren't chewy. The cheese straws looked good too, I wonder if I could use a different kind of cheese ( I don't like blue cheese).

[moochoo]

It was fab, wasn't it? Even though I shan't be having all the Christmas fayre this year I still loved the programme. I think their humour and generosity is something very rarely seen on tv today.

I loved the bit when they were at the school and the kids were being Si and Dave - brilliant!

[Cinnamon]

The cheese straws looked good too, I wonder if I could use a different kind of cheese ( I don't like blue cheese).

 

I make the same ones the same way,but with Parmesan & Rosemary

[Rhapsody]

I liked the show and am going to give the cheese and ham straws a whirl. I was upset to see those turkeys had been debeaked though but at least they were out in the sunshine.

[chickencam]

It was funny seeing them be all Christmassy when it was obviously only about September in most sections

 

They are a great pair really entertaining, The section with the children was lovely especially the little girl who described her christmas morning

[Janty]

The cheese straws looked good too, I wonder if I could use a different kind of cheese ( I don't like blue cheese).

 

I make the same ones the same way,but with Parmesan & Rosemary

 

 

Parmesan and rosemary sounds yummy.

[Janty]

My technician at school loves the hairy bikers. I am always bleating on at the children that the ingredients they put into their food determines how it tastes in the end. She said she thought of me when one of them said to camera, 'Don't use marg, it's "Ooops, word censored!"'. It made me laugh too.

[Lydia]

I've always put orange rind in my mince pie pastry but it never occurred to me to use the orange juice (d'oh, seems obvious now! )

 

I have a batch of super orangey pastry currently chilling in the fridge right now

[Paola]

I never saw it but I did see them at the NEC bike show browsing

[Cinnamon]

First batch of parma ham & Gorgonzola cheese straws are now cooling on a rack, & they smell wonderful

I used celery seeds to top, which I have never tried before - they are very nice & really unusual. A bit Fennel like in taste.

My first choice would have been poppy seeds, but I couldn't get them anywhere

[Egluntyne]

I liked the look of their mincemeat and the orange flavoured pastry.

[Lesley]

I'm going to try the cheese straws - I have some home-made parma style ham and I bought some celery salt from Anglesey Sea Salt when i was there - just need to decide on a cheese now....

 

Did they use puff pastry or shortcrust? - I can't remember. I'd better buy some puff pastry I think.

[Mrs Webmuppet]

It was puff pastry ( they used the ready made stuff).........

[Lesley]

Thank you! - I'll put it on the shopping list.

[Cinnamon]

Puff, & it was celery seeds,not celery salt

[KAZAROO]

channel 3 now......

[Guest]

...It was nice to se Copas turkeys on there too

 

we're getting a copas turkey this Christmas as we read that the welfare standards were extremely high. I didn't realise it was them as I was only half watching it but I did remark to DH that it looked like they'd all been debeaked. Does that happen with free range poultry does anyone know? I thought it was only battery birds that were debeaked.

[Lesley]

Puff, & it was celery seeds,not celery salt

 

I know it was celery seeds - but I decided to use my celery seed salt......they did say you could use whatever you wanted to..... I have to find a use for the salt, and I'll probably use a less salty cheese.

[Cinnamon]

OK then.

I had visions of you coating the outside of the already salty straws with it

 

Mine lasted all of 2 hours in this house - they really are very good with a glass of wine

[Lesley]

2 hours? - I don't expect ours will last that long

[Mel (& Paul)]

We watched it this morning - fabulous - really Christmassy and some wonderful recipes - yum yum

[WitchHazel]

I really like the HB's.

 

I tried their bagels yesterday. Very easy, tasted lovely - very moreish.....

 

I found that the texture (inside) was more bready than bagely though. As we had decided to have bagels, poached eggs, proscuttio and foaming hollandaise sauce for dinner, I looked in my books for another bagel recipe, and I found one in my bread book (Linda Collister).

 

The recipes were similar, but slightly different. The key differences are that LC's had malt extract in the poaching water (which I have in my cupboard as I make a fruity loaf in my breadmaker), they were poched for a shorter amount of time and baked in the oven at a lower temperature for longer; there was no honey/sugar in LC's.

 

I made those as well, and they came out with a "proper" bagel texture. We had 4 of LCs for dinner, the rest are in the frezer. We're eating the rest of the HB's this morning for brekkie.

[chickencam]

MY hubby made the cheese straws yesterday, they lasted about 20 minutes all eaten by my hungry ganets for their tea

 

They were quite salty but this was balanced by the poppy seeds, we had the opposite problem Cinammon we couldn't find celery seeds

 

Will try the florentines too and maybe the bagels.

 

If anyone can't find the recipes, which my OH couldn't, they are in the food section of the BBC website. You have to go into the recipe search area and put in whichever product you want to make.

[Cinnamon]

They were quite salty but this was balanced by the poppy seeds, we had the opposite problem Cinammon we couldn't find celery seeds

 

 

I got mine from the Tesco ingredients range