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Best cooking achievement?

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  • 23-05-2011 7:42pm
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    ElleEm
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    I have always loved cooking and baking, but over the last few months have spent more time researching recipes and making a lot of new things from scratch.

    Last week, I made a korma and aloo ghobi from scratch. I was well pleased with the flavours. I have also recently started getting into gravy and sauces- I made a pepper sauce the other day and had yummy chicken gravy earlier.

    I love creating and I love eating so cooking really suits me! Just wondering what is the BEST thing you've ever cooked/ baked?


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    Minder
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    For a friends 40th birthday, I made my first beef wellington. Enough fillet of beef to feed 8 surrounded with a little pate de fois from a jar, a duxelle of mushrooms, crepes to prevent the puff pastry from getting soggy. Then a sauce that took days to cook - a beef stock from veal bones, then a veal jus, then a madeira sauce. The beef was picture perfect, rare and pink.

    Oysters and champagne starter and a chocolate dessert but the beef was the star.


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    ElleEm
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    Minder wrote: »
    For a friends 40th birthday, I made my first beef wellington. Enough fillet of beef to feed 8 surrounded with a little pate de fois from a jar, a duxelle of mushrooms, crepes to prevent the puff pastry from getting soggy. Then a sauce that took days to cook - a beef stock from veal bones, then a veal jus, then a madeira sauce. The beef was picture perfect, rare and pink.

    Oysters and champagne starter and a chocolate dessert but the beef was the star.

    Wow!! Sounds amazing. Come Dine With Me often inspires me, and beef wellington is something I've been dying to try. Now I have the gravy down, I think I'll try it.


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    the beer revolu
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    For me it was probably a oxtail consommé with oxtail and beetroot won tons.
    Again it took me two days to make!


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    olaola
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    I get the most pleasure out of finding something that's really easy to make, but tastes really fantastic. Someone here posted a recipe for flatbreads, it had never dawned on me at all to think about how to make them. They're so easy to make - and people are unusually impressed by them. So I get real pleasure out of the simple tasty things, especially the dishes when you think 'why haven't I been doing this for years'?


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