The Cookery Club: The Second Cook Out

Our second Cookery Club , fewer people than last time but just as much fun. A pattern in the recipes is starting to emerge - two mains and desert. This week it was pizza and a curry followed by crepes.

E&I cooked the pizza, I was intrigued by the base recipe as this was essentially my bread recipe without the sugar. Sugar is one of three bête noires of the Cookery Club along with Saturated Fats & Salt - the three S's we should have less or none off. There was only strong whole meal so it was 100% whole meal pizza base.

Also the topic included thinly sliced vegetables including onions. I wanted to sauté the onions as I didn't believe they would cook properly in the 15mins allocated, I was over ruled - NO extra fat, stick to the recipe!

I was mistaken the pizza tasted just fine in fact some, including me, wanted seconds!

The vegetable curry was very tasty despite having no meat - chicken is what I thought I needed but it worked perfectly well and tasty without it.

The crepes with mandarins were fine even with the yoghurt rather than cream aka fat.

What was particularly good was the cleaning & washing up as we went along, we all seemed to 'muck in' we all worked well together. As ever the banter and chat during the preparation and the cooking and especially the eating good fun.

Take aways for M

Wholemeal pizza bases work fine
Mozzarella chesse has half the fat of cheddar
Try to make bread without sugar and (further as I already have done) reduced the salt.
Vegetable oils all good except palm and coconut (sadly the Nigerian ones!)
The Eatwell Plate showing the proportions of your plate as food...