I only ask because I have a decent collection of the ones that appealed to me at the time. But i have never, ever, actually cooked one of their suggestions.
I really plan to do one on Saturday - it's a shoulder of pork (diced or steaks, not sure) with a mushroomy sauce.
Does anybody have any comments on those recipe cards, good, bad or indifferent?
Never knowingly underfed
Danny, I too have a fair few of the recipe cards - and yes, I have cooked some, though I would say a few only.
They look inviting, don't they ......... but often I don't have all the ingredients, as the cards are usually placed somewhere after the checkout.
(In the Marlborough store, they are in a corridor on the way to the car park, opposite the trolleys, so when going in, you're looking for the trolley, not the cookery cards!)
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BS: I actually had a look around our local Waitrose yesterday evening. They do have a rack of recipe cards next to the meat counter, one by a checkout (the Lottery and tobacco checkout) and one on the wall beyond the main row of checkouts.But, like, you, I usually only scan them on my way our of the store.
Kate - I totally agree. My mum used to paste her newspaper recipe clippings into an old exercise book but hardly ever actually tried them because my dad was a conventional meat and two veg guy. We must have 50+ cookery books about the house that we rarely, if ever, refer to. We have a Top 10 that we use all the time.
BTW - I tried the Waitrose recipe this evening: pork shoulder steaks in a cream sauce with garlic mushrooms this evening. It was OK but it can be greatly improved. We only used half the pack of six steaks (£6) so I will cook it again on Tue and publish our version - or maybe FN will, on the blog.
Never knowingly underfed
I have loads of cookery books and clippings too and every so often when I lived in England and could get all the ingredients (or at least be able to translate everything), I would go through my recipe books and use them to plan meals for the next month. It was a great way of getting me out of a rut with cooking.
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