This Post was written by Lynn from Lynn's Cooking Blog

Not that I've been quoted (as far as I know), but I found this interesting article while browsing. Definitely something to bear in mind.....

Fight for Your Writes

ULTIMATE comfort food, what's yours?

This Post was written by Lorette from Yummy Homely Food

Sorry but I need to know!
it's a BAAAAAAAAAAAAD night tonight (don't ask!).
Whenever I need REAL comfort food, few things will do. Dark chocolate (a lot of), digestives dunked in milk perhaps. All very well but I got none of those AND need to have a proper meal since I am running tomorrow.
One of my ultimate comfort food is "coquillettes" with grated cheese and butter. coquillettes are tiny pasta, like small curbed macaronis, and a traditional dish we had when we were kids (hence why -I think- comfort food for me all those years later).

Cooked in salted boiling water for 9-10 minutes (al dente), drained and quickly returned to the pan so some of the cooking juice stays with them. A good knob of butter then LOADS of grated cheese. Gruyere tastes like home for me as does gouda (?) but cheddar would equally do.
That's is, 15 minutes later I feel better already.

what's your ultimate comfort food? You can leave a comment on my blog or let me know HERE

Can chefs write recipes for the home cook?

This Post was written by Fiona Beckett from The Frugal Cook

I've just been looking at one of Gordon Ramsay's recipes in the Times today - an Easy Bouillabaisse. So far so good, we all like easy, but it contains 1 kilo of pollack, 600-800g of clams and mussels and 800g of assorted other fish. For 4-6 people.

I know I'm fixated on frugal cooking but that seems to me to be way beyond what most people - even Times readers - can afford to spend on a meal.

The problem with chefs is that they live in an unreal world where the cost of ingredients like this can be offset on the menu. They also tend to find it difficult - unless they have a resident home economist in tow - to scale down recipes for the average household. Who can forget the River Cafe's notorious chocolate nemesis cake which dramatically collapsed on almost everyone who tried it?

So what's your experience of trying chefs' recipes? Do you find they generally work? If not, what are their shortcomings? Do you have any favourite chefs you go back to again and again? I'd love to hear.