Mary Berry's foolproof cooking

Oh goodie - I've got it recorded to watch tonight!

Hear, hear. Despite her perfect kitchen and immaculate oven I could relate to what she was making!!
Not at all "cheffy"!!

I do get kitchen envy watching her (and jacket envy!)

I enjoyed it too. I am giving the salmon a try this weekend.

I love Mary Berry. I'm sure she's getting younger, bless.

I loved it. Ventnor in the sunshine and a boat trip to the lobster pots with Geoff Blake....Lucky Mary.

I loved her reference to having time to make the beds while the lobster cooled.....No sneaking off for a peep at Gransnet.

I love the fact that at nearly 81 she's got so much get up and go. An inspiration for older folk

I liked the jacket she was wearing on her 'girls' night out'. I think it is the same one she wore on the programme she did with Brian Turner, called something like 'My life in Food'.
I thought she seemed particularly lively on last night's show, and I enjoyed it. I always look for burnt on splashes in the oven, but have never seen any!

Trying to find the series book at a good price. It is £17 on Amazon down from £25 but they are usually around at half price. Has anyone found better?

Hmm....all I'm saying is that the pastry on her Beef Wellington looked distinctly underdone.

HildaW you are not the only one who thought this.

www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/638273/Mary-Berry-raw-pastry-beef-wellington-Foolproof-Cooking-show-Great-British-Bake-Off

And probably had a 'soggy bottom' as there was no pancake inside to soak up the juices.

Wrapping the beef in a pancake was a new one on me - i've never seen that in any recipe, but it makes sense. I love beef wellington, but then i love rare beef. DH definitely doesn't so no point in me trying to cook it. The last time i had it it was cooked by an RAF chef who had cooked for Her Maj. It was sans pancake, but absolutely perfect!

Whatever - it looked delicious would that I could produce something as good- I would certainly have eaten that.

I was taught to cook it with a pancake around the beef, to seal the juices of the beef and also the liquid from the mushrooms.
A previous example had shown a professional chef using a pancake.
It is easy to cook medium or well done, just roast the beef instead of just browning it, roast it for about 50 minutes less than you would normally cook it, let it rest remembering it will continue cooking whilst resting then you can wrap and re-roast with the pastry.
I do individual ones for people to home cook at dinner parties, using different designs of pastry on top so clients can tell the difference when dishing up.

I've just seen James Martin do the Beef wellington and his pastry looked exactly the same as Mary's when it came out of the oven- his recipe was more elaborate and cheffy though.

We remarked that it had been edited to miss little bits out of the recipes to encourage us to buy the book.