What are you cooking today?

[judydawn]

 I was given a couple of quinces yesterday so for the first time ever I'm having a go at making Thermomixers' quince paste from Dani Lavent's In the Mix.  I'm sure my friend will hand over more fruit so this may not be the last batch - if successful!

[astarra]

Astarra, love the triangular rolls. Where did you get the tins? Triangular loaves were served in Sweden, at a hotel where we stayed.99 I

Sorry Chookie, DH gave me the triangle tins for my birthday a fair few years ago now, so don't know where he got them from  
I do love them, use them a lot - even do my ice cream in them

[cookie1]

I have the new Dani Valent book. I've been slack and not tried any yet. I will post the contents.

[judydawn]

Thanks cookie. The quince paste was a success, very surprised how much 2 quinces made. I have lots of little tubs to give away and as I'm meeting some Probus girls for coffee on Friday that will be a good place to start. The colour isn't as deep as some I've seen but I'm sure there will be plenty more quinces coming my way to experiment with. I still have some of these little tubs which Chookie gave me many years ago, perfect for this.

[Cornish Cream]

Lucky Probus friends Judy to receive Quince Paste.

[cookie1]

It looks lovely Judy. I love stewed quinces too.

[judydawn]

This is the first time I've ever done anything with a quince cookie and I'm sure the Probus ladies will be very happy to have a little tub each Denise.  None of them do much cooking these days.

[cookie1]

I made some lovely macadamia biscuits yesterday. They have macadamias, egg and a little sugar. I will post the recipe. I also made a pipe loaf and some SD rye bread.

[Cornish Cream]

More good baking Cookie.

[cookie1]

I have some Pocket Bread rising at the moment. We will have it with our Cowboy Beans tonight. Both are from the TMix+ magazine.

[Katiej]

This morning I made pea & ham soup in my pressure cooker using the ham bone I froze after Xmas.

I had a bit of a disaster, I must have over-filled the pressure cooker a wee bit and once it finished cooking I released the pressure straight away instead of leaving it awhile to reduce pressure on it's on.  I ended up with soup everywhere, including on me and right up the wall.  Took me ages to clean up.  I shouldn't be so inpatient! 

[judydawn]

I hope you didn't burn yourself Katie.

[cookie1]

I was just beginning to write that Judy. Ditto from me Katie. A nasty mess too.

[mab19]

Nice cooking everyone.

Katiej, I have a pressure cooker that I haven't used in years because I'm scared of it.

Over the past couple of days I have made a jar of apple jelly (first time ever making this), apples preserved in the microwave ( not very successful as I didn't put enough fruit in), 2 batches of shortbread, Kimmy's fruit cake, 12 jars of tomato chutney ( 3 of our huge tomatoes made 4 jars of chutney). 1 jar of Odette's Onion Jam for DS2.

[cookie1]

I'm scared of pressure cookers too, I've never owned one and don't want one.