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How I would love a new kitchen!!!

I have always loved to cook. That's why I chose to do it for an 'A' level only to find that, thanks to Miss Jukes, cooking had very little to do with it! It was more to do with domination and endurance.

I have never (hand on heart) found cooking for a family a chore. I really enjoyed doing family meals, even on a strict budget. The difficult bit was my teenage daughters (dedicated to the diet they were on at the time) wanting to do their own food :( .

How I wish I were cooking a terrific dinner for five again!

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Like Mary Mc we moved into our house 21 years ago and have been working towards this kitchen ever since.
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englishangel wrote:Like Mary Mc we moved into our house 21 years ago and have been working towards this kitchen ever since.
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Well we moved here 2 years ago and as it was a newbuild it came with a new fitted kitchen 8)

Prior to that we had a new kitchen put into our old house a year after we had moved into it in 1997.
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Back to Miss Jukes, I have to say that I loved her lessons - but then I was her blue-eyed girl, as usually the only one to finish on time, and my apple pie was apparently perfect ( says she smugly)... whilst she did not really teach me to cook ( she'd have a fit if she saw how I make my bechamel sauce), she did teach me speed - very useful when I was first running a hotel/restaurant and subsequently cooking for a ravenous family of 5 ! In fact, my daughter says that there is no point in her watching me cook to learn my dishes as I go too fast...

Cookbooks : Mother bought me Mrs. Beeton's eons ago, and I still use it from time to time. However, my favourite book was pinched - a beautiful leather-bound Curnonsky .... so if anyone sees one in a bookshop, please let me know ! Wonderful book, and even if the recipe for Coq-au-vin ( which is NOT chicken, please note) runs for 2 1/2 pages, the result is sublime.

Don't like Delia - pretentious in my mind.

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Euterpe13 wrote:Back to Miss Jukes, I have to say that I loved her lessons - but then I was her blue-eyed girl, as usually the only one to finish on time, and my apple pie was apparently perfect ( says she smugly)... whilst she did not really teach me to cook ( she'd have a fit if she saw how I make my bechamel sauce), she did teach me speed - very useful when I was first running a hotel/restaurant and subsequently cooking for a ravenous family of 5 ! In fact, my daughter says that there is no point in her watching me cook to learn my dishes as I go too fast...

Cookbooks : Mother bought me Mrs. Beeton's eons ago, and I still use it from time to time. However, my favourite book was pinched - a beautiful leather-bound Curnonsky .... so if anyone sees one in a bookshop, please let me know ! Wonderful book, and even if the recipe for Coq-au-vin ( which is NOT chicken, please note) runs for 2 1/2 pages, the result is sublime.

Don't like Delia - pretentious in my mind.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pretentious

surely not.
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Seems to fit to me !
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Barbara is back!

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How did the move go Barbara? Welcome back!

I don't know that I'd call Delia pretentious exactly - just not very exciting.
I can never bear to listen to her voice. Not very nice of me to say so.

The everyday cookery book I've used until it's literally in pieces is Katie Stewart's Times Cookery Book, which I've had since 1972.

To save up for my first wedding, I worked for the Knightsbridge Nurses Bureau, who sent me to the Kensington apartment of a very wealthy Anglo/Spanish art-collecting family. They discovered I loved to cook - consequently I got to cook things like fillet of beef, salmon trout, which I would never otherwise have done. And the money I earned paid for wedding, honeymoon and a flat! Shame about the husband though.

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Angela Woodford wrote:How did the move go Barbara? Welcome back!

I don't know that I'd call Delia pretentious exactly - just not very exciting.
I can never bear to listen to her voice. Not very nice of me to say so.

The everyday cookery book I've used until it's literally in pieces is Katie Stewart's Times Cookery Book, which I've had since 1972.

To save up for my first wedding, I worked for the Knightsbridge Nurses Bureau, who sent me to the Kensington apartment of a very wealthy Anglo/Spanish art-collecting family. They discovered I loved to cook - consequently I got to cook things like fillet of beef, salmon trout, which I would never otherwise have done. And the money I earned paid for wedding, honeymoon and a flat! Shame about the husband though.

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Angela Woodford wrote:The everyday cookery book I've used until it's literally in pieces is Katie Stewart's Times Cookery Book, which I've had since 1972.
My copy has stains all over the place, it lets me find the recipes I like!
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1. full of pretense or pretension.
2. characterized by assumption of dignity or importance.
3. making an exaggerated outward show; ostentatious.


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[Origin: 1835–45; earlier pretensious. See pretense, -ious]

I stand by my comment, and add condescending.... ( there isnt an emoticon for raspberry )
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Perchance my age is showing, but I always get the feeling that Delia wishes that she had the style and totally OTT-ness of Fanny Craddock - but knows that she will never make it.

Munch - the move was hell, and I have scrubby horrible nails where my beautiful talons were, to prove it too !

Finally found the TV remote after 2 weeks searching, still cannot find my '95 Bordeaux.... hope the removal men didnt drink it :cry:
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Poor Barbara's nails!

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Barbara - what a shame! You must now nurture your nails until they're beautiful again!

I was intrigued to read about your Curnonsky cookery book. After visiting Google I see that this book costs £60.00! No wonder you are upset at it's loss. I'm also deeply impressed that a coq-au-vin recipe can cover two and a half pages.. ooh.. bet it's heavenly! Have you committed the recipe to memory?

Agree that a B Jukes cookery class was far more about speed and timing than anything else. I never felt that she was particularly interested in good food at all.

As for my first husband, JR, my heart was broken!

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Miss Jukes gave me one of her treasured wooden rolling pins. It's an antique now.
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Euterpe13 wrote:I stand by my comment, and add condescending.... ( there isnt an emoticon for raspberry )

:offtopic:

Please, please, does anyone know the words (and tune) of a song I heard Billy Connolly sing yonks ago - the chorus of which is

'I would have sent you a letter, but I couldn't spell (sound of raspberry being blown),
And that's all I've got to say'

I have scoured his LPs and CDs and DVDs to no avail. My daughter emailed his website, but received no reply.

There have been so many people to whom I would have loved to have sung/sent it over the years. In fact, there are a couple at this present time who, IMO, are very deserving of a verse or two :roll:

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