Paul Hollywood has a lot to answer to!

Wish my DH would do some cooking. Any cooking.

What channel is it on?

BBC 2 at 8.30 jingle( its worth watch just for him)

No you don't Jo. Mine has 3 'specials' which he cooks, every 3/4 months, as though they are the best thing ever produced in this house and wants huge praise. It's much easier to do it oneself than to say how wonderful potato rosti with fried eggs tastes, yet again!

Oooh. I shall have a look Glass.

Kittylester - I could put up with it! (sounds ok)

kitty

Years ago DH stock dish was beef in black bean sauce...he cooked it so often that I still cant face it to this day.

glass Mr P quite often cooks, mainly batch cooking of chilli, spag bol or the Slimming World keema curry. He also makes an excellent macaroni cheese with "extras" ditto cauliflower cheese!

He has never attempted bread in any form, as he feels that a sliced hovis will do perfectly well, or we have "proper" bread from the village shop. he never seems to do any sort of post mortem on his efforts, perhaps because he has cooked them all so many times. (The very first thing he cooked for me was chilli, I came home to find every pan I owned bubbling away. He had used 3lbs of mince, 2 tins of chopped toms, 2 of kidney beans etc etc. I didn't have a freezer )

Exdh on the other hand would make delicious home made cream of tomato soup.

You know how the cooks on TV have everything (down to the last tablespoon of flour) measured out in little dishes or on saucers? Well, he cooked like that. Left the kitchen looking like a hyper active puppy had been let loose. The amount of washing up for a few bowls of soup was

When my dad retired, he took up bread making and won prizes at the village show - that put the WI in their place! Also won prizes for his home-made wine which proved either that the judges had no palate or that the competition was truly diabolical!

I think I am married to your exDH, phoenix

I am going to send Dh to see MrP phoenix and he can show him howto just get on with it. DH is a very good but messy cook its the constant going over it is doing my head in.

What doesnt help is that I am not eating bread at the moment and have had to be tempted to taste.

But he does have the most amazing blue eyes! And the way he kneads bread................

gracesmum yes he does have the most amazing blue eyes! And the way he kneads bread.....ooh err sends shivers down my spine. Mention him to DH and he gets all bitchy and catty

He does

Male Nigella so they say

He is gorgeous and those eyes!!!! Bread Porn!

He certainly is a very attractive man, but I find him just a tad too cocky, and ever so slightly patronising.
However, I wouldn't say no! and I don't just mean to the bread!

I've made the bloomer. It was HUGE. Who needs a breadmaker when you've got Paul Hollywood to show you how to banish the Bingo Wings!!

glass Mr P has other talents too!

He deep cleans an oven like you would never believe! Even takes the things off the side that the racks and shelves slide into!

Me not knowing who he is I looked him up on Wikipedia and it stated he had made a almond and Roquefort sourdough bread that was sold at Harrods for£15 a loaf. Hope you didn't pay that much for ingredients Glassortwo!

glass DH drools when he watches Nigella

Ella

Can I borrow Mr P. he may need a week to clean my sides but could do with him! Please!!!!!

My DH likes Joanna Lumley, don't know if she can bake tho.

Envious America; he was a judge on the great British Bake off with Mary Berry. He has the most wonderful blue eyes. It was a problem when contestants had "soggy bottoms" and they were soon out of the competition. it was a very popular programme last winter on BBC.

It has inspired many people who buy cakes to have a go at home.

My DH will cook but never bake, unlike my sons who are both great cooks. DS often bakes with his kids, they love it.

'The Great British Sew off' starts next week, I hope it is as good as the Bake Off. Paul was on last night with Mary Berry, she puts him in his place when he gets cocky! I have printed off her Easter Pavlova recipe, it was clever in that it used the egg yolks left over from the meringue in a lemon curd.