Argh!
Just remembered that I haven’t posted yet today!
Surely there must be something going on in my life? I made a fish pie for dinner tonight – it was delicious, but it took AGES, and I didn’t really need Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall to tell me to use oven gloves to put the hot dish into the oven!
So, what have I got? Oooh – have I ever told you Ruth’s favourite simile? “As fast as a pancake.” (Or on occasion “As quiet as a pancake”.) She’s beginning to run “as fast as the wind”, but she assures me that the wind is just as fast as a pancake.
Maybe you had to be there…
two comments:
Didn’t realise Hugh does the patronising things in his recipes.I have two personal favourites along those lines, both from Delia. One is the recipe for goats’ cheese souffles where she tells you very Slowly and Carefully to wash your pan, and then dry it, and then put it back on the hob, and then just as everything gets fast and furious, includes the words “pour into buttered ramekins and pour 1/2” of boiling water into the tin straight from the kettle”. If you’re going to tell me how to wash and dry a saucepan, maybe mentioning buttering the ramekins or sticking the kettle on might have been helpful before I’ve got a nice wobbly souffle mix in the pan?
The other is the lemon tart recipe where she tells you in huge detail how to zest and juice a lemon – and then the zest is never mentioned again… At no time does she tell you when to add it to the tart. Twice, I’ve also forgotten all about it and have been reduced to taking the thing out of the oven and stirring it in at that point!
Liz () (link) - 23 November '08 - 10:30
My favourite is “like a lemon”, which I use in a disturbing number of situations, much to the consternation of my work colleagues!Daisy () (link) - 24 November '08 - 14:18
