Great British Menu

[bykimbo]

Anybody else a fan?

[Maelbrigda]

i am! Has it started again? Im on holiday so havent been watching tv.
Penni

[bykimbo]

i am! Has it started again? Im on holiday so havent been watching tv.
Penni

Yep, just spotted it on iplayer. Watched Scottish starter and now on fish.

[adruml]

Never heard of it until now. I went ahead and googled it and watched a few minutes of one of the episodes.

Years ago I would enjoy just about every chef and cook on television. From The Galloping Gourmet to Justin Wilson I would enjoy them all until...the competition cook shows came out. For some reason I just can't get into them and now I don't even enjoy any of the cook shows.

[damian_steele]

I just wish that cooking programs would go back to showing "normal" food; the sort of stuff that average people can/will/do make and not the fancy - and usually tiny - posh restaurant style dishes. I don't mean showing us how to open a tin of crap and heating it up, but good, wholesome (rustic, if you like) dishes that are made with easy to source, every day ingredients that won't cost an arm and a leg to buy. I want recipes that use similar basic ingredients so that instead of spending a fortune buying a bottle/packet/jar/tin of fancy this-that-or-the-other in some specialist shop and then only using a tiny amount of it, I can use up what I've bought making several different dishes.

But sadly, this is only a dream.

[bykimbo]

I just wish that cooking programs would go back to showing "normal" food; the sort of stuff that average people can/will/do make and not the fancy - and usually tiny - posh restaurant style dishes. I don't mean showing us how to open a tin of crap and heating it up, but good, wholesome (rustic, if you like) dishes that are made with easy to source, every day ingredients that won't cost an arm and a leg to buy. I want recipes that use similar basic ingredients so that instead of spending a fortune buying a bottle/packet/jar/tin of fancy this-that-or-the-other in some specialist shop and then only using a tiny amount of it, I can use up what I've bought making several different dishes.

But sadly, this is only a dream.

I thought that's what the likes of Ainsley Harriott and James Martin were doing, but I don't watch their stuff. Since I can already cook, I enjoy seeing people do stuff I won't ever match. But surely there are basic cookery things? Don't people like the Hairy Bikers do that sort of food?

[damian_steele]

I thought that's what the likes of Ainsley Harriott and James Martin were doing, but I don't watch their stuff. Since I can already cook, I enjoy seeing people do stuff I won't ever match. But surely there are basic cookery things? Don't people like the Hairy Bikers do that sort of food?

Not at the moment.
They are currently off biking around europe making all sorts of foreign things.

[bykimbo]

Not at the moment.
They are currently off biking around europe making all sorts of foreign things.

Hahaha... that can still be basic, simple food, surely? Isn't there a woman cook who's been doing a series of XXX made easy, as well? Sorry, that's probably not very helpful!

[damian_steele]

Hahaha... that can still be basic, simple food, surely?

Sure . . . if you have a packet of umpengrausen or a tin of flinderhophen.

Isn't there a woman cook who's been doing a series of XXX made easy, as well?

Well, yes. But that triple X stuff is on a whole different channel.

[bykimbo]

Sure . . . if you have a packet of umpengrausen or a tin of flinderhophen.

Sheesh, you mean you don't keep both in at all times?

Well, yes. But that triple X stuff is on a whole different channel.

Having looked my the first part of my reply, I'm worried about what I've been watching lately! I know things like Great British Menu are known as "food porn", but really!