Better bought than homemade

[Mrs M]

To go with the fish supper!

 

[gbb]

Beer, tried brewing it once, no doubt made a hash of it, hated it.

 

[Gunk]

The one thing you can’t replicate at home is fish and chips and a beer on the beach with good friends.

 

[steveindenmark]

Crisps
Fish and chips

But Jannie made a mean pesto today.

 

[contadino]

Most things that I've invested the time to try and make have turned out to be better than shop-bought.

Notable exceptions were my chocolate which was such a lot of effort for so little. Soap wasn't great. My spoons all warped (but, bless her, the wife still insists on using them.) Cassata - which sagged and turned out so big that most went off.

On the flip side, things that I wouldn't even think about buying in nowadays...

1 bread and rolls (with the exception of panettone)
2 biscuits (as in cheese and biscuits)
3 mayonnaise
4 yoghurt and cream cheese
5 jams and pickles
6 Xmas fudge
7 breakfast cereal
8 compost

 

[cyberknight]

Crumpets

cant get crumpet in our home unless we choloroform the kids

 

[snorri]

To go with the fish supper!

Aye, the vinyards o' Steenhive are a wonder to behold.

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've tried making mayonnaise before, but it didn't come close to Hellman's. Actually it didn't come close to supermarket own brand

 

[Beebo]

Gin.

i know you are joking but I think it is illegal to distill alcohol in domestic premises anyway.

 

[Smudge]

Marmite..... doubt anyone has even tried to make this top stuff at home. But if they did, it would probably turn out like that disgusting Vegemite.

 

[BrumJim]

To go with the fish supper!
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Ohh, you've got me all nostalgic now. Once drove from Inverness to Stonehaven to meet up with some fellow Fiat Coupé enthusiasts. It was a fantastic drive over through the best of the Grampians and the clear, twisty roads, and great evening light in Stonehaven where we parked on the quay as one of the drivers knows the harbourmasters and had a good natter. Even managed to understand a few words from one of the other drivers who was a shrimp fisherman. Then we drove up to a hill above Stonehaven to see the evening sun. Can't recall if we had any fish and chips, but I now want to replicate that journey again, but definitely with fish and chips this time.

Just got to choose the car.

(sorry to bring cars into a cycling forum)

 

[slowmotion]

i know you are joking but I think it is illegal to distill alcohol in domestic premises anyway.

Entirely illegal and I don't but I know of some people who do.

 

[Stephen Piper]

Running out of mayonnaise in these troubled times led me to investigate making my own (so as too avoid a shopping trip). this easy method worked extremely well, using a 'stick blender':

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xx8Bpau0E

 

[slowmotion]

Running out of mayonnaise in these troubled times led me to investigate making my own (so as too avoid a shopping trip). this easy method worked extremely well, using a 'stick blender':

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3xx8Bpau0E

That's the method I used too. It works really well. You can experiment using different types of oil.

 

[Eziemnaik]

Amd if you add a clove of garlic you get all oli