I want to learn to cook a decent meal. I did the basics in Year 8 and 9 and I made a brilliant sausage platter. So good when I got home from school it was all gone. I didn't do it in GCSE because you have to write plans. No one writes plans when they are cooking. I just want to learn how to cook.
It really isn't hard Lee!
Sausage platter -
Buy yourself a pack of pastry, my advice would be Flakey pastry, as it gives the best results! A decent size pack of sausage meat! Roll out the pastry to the size of a tray (double it, one for the bottom, one for the top) and cut it in half. Basically, get the sausage meat in a bowl, put a bit of garlic in there, S&P and if you fancy a differnt flavour go for it - its all about having a go!
Then spread it out on the pastry bottom (Make sure the bottom of the pastry is on a tray, as it wont be easy to move ones the meat is spread on it!
Make sure you leave a good 2cm gap from the pastries edge. Once done evenly, get the top sheet of pastry and put on top, now get some butter/egg and brush the gap all the way round the pastry edge. Stick down with a fork and make a nice looking crust (with the fork).
Now get a knife and put a chevron shape mark evenly on the top (chevron being them things on the motorway which you're meant to keep two away from the next car).
Now, egg/butter the top so we get a golden brown look on top!
Easy, i won't give any cooking guides as its differnt for every oven.
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