Although it is possible to get tinned pie fillings here, they're not nearly as ubiquitous as they seem to be the other side of the pond.
Slightly more sophisticated version: bake bread. Lots of people think it's hard. It's easier than the sodding sauces. The first couple of times it may not work, but you'll get the hang of it (if I can, anyone can), and with luck you'll acquire a mystique that enables you to concentrate on the bread while they do everything else.
Indeed with instant yeast it takes me less time to bake my own bread than to walk to the shops. Lot better to. I used to use a Panasonic bread maker but doing it by hand only takes a little longer and much better results.
I prove it for 50 minutes in my top oven with the heat from my lower oven which is where I actually bake the bread. It takes me 45 minutes to go to the shops but by baking my own I have that time to do whatever else I am doing.How long are you proving it for and how far away are your shops?
Ah OK! My nearest places to buy bread are about 5 minutes walk, I can decide I want a sarnie and be back with food in front of me in short order.
Pshaw! 24 hour first proving, or go home.
There's something calming about listening to the bread machine doing it's thing while you're busy doing other stuff.
It has a low smoke point and breaks down at a lower temperature than other oils, it's not good for your health and the flavour changes when heated above a certain point.
When I lived in Spain everyone I knew used a lot of olive oil, given the Mediterranean diet is generally considered a very healthy diet, and given that life expectancy in Spain is higher than the UK, I'll continue using it the way I always have.
Instead of taking so many opportunities to find ways of being rude to me, and since you seem to find so much of what I say offensive in some way, why not put me on ignore?Blah blah blah Spain, blah blah Spain better, blah blah blah I hate the UK
Sorry mate, love you dearly, but olive oil is fucking expensive here because I don't know if you've noticed but it has to be imported because olives don't grow well here. We grow rapeseed all over the fucking place, I expect the country looks bright yellow in satellite images during the summer and rapeseed oil is affordable
It was not my intention to be rude, I am sorry if you took it that way. And I don't recall you saying anything that I've found offensive.
They didn't used to. There's people growing olives commercially in the south of England now, although the producer I'm aware of is just selling cured olives for eating atm since their trees aren't mature enough to produce amounts worth pressing for the oil yet.
Have you tried it with Spanish bacon
My mother, for my 19th birthday, bought me a book - How to boil an egg - simple meals for one which I didn't read living as I did at that time off packet savoury rice sandwiches, cheap cider, and bongs, but I can do a perfect boiled egg for me every time.
We use the light olive oil for cooking where we want the flavour and EVOO for dressings etc. Vegetable oil for curries
I fried an egg for breakfast when I was probably 5 years old, and I've been learning since.
And, barring complete catastrophe, the food is usually redeemable, unless you have burned it.
