MattJ83

Real Fast Food, Nigel Slater. Quick, practical, good. Yeah - Nigel Slater is brilliant! I really want his Food book but can't afford it at the moment. All the Chefs say he is good for 'normal' food and his tv series (on 4 on demand) is really good as well

yeah - i'm a student as well so know what you mean. I have a couple but the best i Good Food's "101 one-pot" dishes and "101 low-fat dishes". You can get them from WH Smiths. Really good as they are simple dishes - Chicken Biriani is in there and is a favourite because its easy and it makes loads so you can eat it for loads of days after!

yeah - it appears most villa talkers are aspiring chefs!!

I brought one of these a couple of months ago for £15. Superb. Do all my Curries, Casseroles and Chillis in it now. There are 100's of recipes for them when doing stuff from scratch too. £15 - where?! I can never find ones that cheap!

That sounds very good. Might give it ago this week.

Hmm...don't really have a signature dish. Although this week i made paella which turned out to be very nice, spicy butternut squash soup and cherry cake. I also did chicken fajitas with bombay potatos but i overcooked the potatoes and it turned into spicy mash! Paella was really simple though....but you really need a large pan for it (i used my mates wok). Heat some oil in a pan and add 1 chopped onion and 1 red pepper (sliced). Cook for 5 mins then add chopped garlic (2 cloves), 230g tinned chopped tomatoes, and 1tsp of tumeric and cook for 1 more min (i added more tumeric). Add 300g rice and cook for 1 min before adding 1,3 litres of veg stock. Stir and bring to the boil. Its a case of waiting for the rice to cook now so keep trying it and add more water if need be. Once done, add 400g seafood and 175g of halved green beans and cook for 5 mins. All depends on what you have in the kitchen really- for example the soup requires a blender (but is dead easy as well)

as i said in my post - went flinging from the shed (i was just to the right of the shed goal and saw it happen)......disgraceful.

Speechless. There i was getting worried by the goings-on at Man Utd and Chelsea and if we might have made a mistake getting new owners (Grass is greener on the other side etc....). But now i feel like a prat. By coming on here you have shown that your obviously have the best intentions for Villa.