What don’t you make from scratch these days?

Yorkshire pudding, puff pastry, beer (thank heavens, home brew was awful), dog food, bread. Why waste time making things that are better pre-made! Most things I still do from scratch though.

Life's too short to stuff a mushroom ...

Yorkshire puddings. Mine are never successful.
Meringue. Ditto.

Sorry - what DON’T I make from scratch -
Pastry
Cakes

I don’t make puff pastry but also buy ready made short crust when baking for GC as they can’t eat dairy. So quick and easy!

Pastry, life's to short to make pastry. Now I just buy it and roll it out.

20+ different curries,all from scratch !

Vintagegirl

Mashed potatoes and oven chips.

Chips! Yes, except occasionally for the Gdcs we rarely have even oven chips, but there’s no way I’d ever make them at home, and TBH I can’t remember if I ever did.

Having said that, I do enjoy good chips made by someone else, so a pub meal for me will often be fish and chips.

Oh Croissants!
I don't make those anymore either!

Buy a MASHA from Lakeland. Easy to clean (dishwasher safe), no effort required.
Perfectly smooth potatoes (not gloopy) and other veggies. Comes complete with an attachment to whip cream or beat eggs.
I wouldn’t be without mine.

Mashed potatoes and oven chips.

Witzend

Allira

Charlie Bigham' s lasagne this evening.

I used to make it from scratch but not tonight!

Must say lasagne is one thing I’m never going to make from scratch again. Such a faff, and TBH just very recently the Gdcs much preferred the cottage pie I’d made the previous week.

I did ask DH to bring back a ready meal for last night, one with chicken.
He brought back beef lasagne.

Allira

Charlie Bigham' s lasagne this evening.

I used to make it from scratch but not tonight!

Must say lasagne is one thing I’m never going to make from scratch again. Such a faff, and TBH just very recently the Gdcs much preferred the cottage pie I’d made the previous week.

Pastry,
Tomato ketchup,
Baked beans,

I never make these now - and rarely make ice cream. I never grind my own wheat for flour and rarely make my own bean or nut burgers (though I'm not really interested in them as made them for "the children").

I don't tend to make yogurt- but do still make kefir.

Yorkshire puddings and shepherds pie! So much easier especially now I mainly just cook for one!

@jane43 no custard on the chips I hope. Despite many tries I just can’t make rice pudding so I buy tinned and put it in the oven so it gets a skin . I was shocked to see my DD buys ready made mashed potatoes.

Puff pastry
Pastry cases for tarts
Custard
Very little else - I was brought up in a Third World country, just after the War,. Everyone was poor, absolutely nothing was available ready made, neither for nor clothing (including shoes) nor foodstuffs. If you wanted it, you had to make it yourself, or go to the shoemaker for your shoes. I was over 20 before I had factory made shoes!

I make spag bol from scratch, although I use a bought tomato and basil sauce, so it can't be said to be entirely home made.

I always use bought pastry, both shortcrust and puff.

I have had several attempts at making custard but I never seem to get it right, so I generally use the tinned variety now.

A large steak pie made by our local butcher. Crammed with steak pieces and gravy. Just heat for 35 minutes. Expensive at £8 but I cut it into 4 portions. Two for dh and I, and two for the freezer. He also makes a fabulous lasagne. The only ready made lasagne I would buy. Again I use half and freeze half.
I also use his ready made stuffing, always have a bag in the freezer.

Fisherman’s pie, unless there are going to be a lot of us eating when son’s family over. We like Charlie Bigham’s

Pastry which we don’t have very often because of DH’s acid reflux; chips, again we don’t have them very often but we like the McCain Gastro chips or M&S triple fried chips and custard.

Cook's puddings, I try to keep one in the freezer, their chocolate almond torte and mango cheesecake is to die for, much better than I would make.
Puff pastry, the all butter one
stock pots although I do make my own chicken stock if I have a carcass
bottled chick peas and other types of beans
bottled artichokes

Charlie Bigham' s lasagne this evening.

I used to make it from scratch but not tonight!

You've jogged my memory about home made marzipan. It was my first teaching practice as a Home Ec. student and I really didn't know which way was up way back then. So there I was with a class of twenty, with twenty cakes waiting for their almond jackets and piles of greasy ground almonds and sugar with the students trying to make the whole lot into something that could be rolled out. Happy days!

Cauliflower cheese. Sainsbury's frozen with added nutmeg and more grated cheese. It's lovely and GF.

Pies, we buy Brockleby's as they are local

Cottage pie- we always have an M&S one in the freezer. For years I used to make enough Cottage pies to feed 15 to 20 people for our family post Christmas get together. I feel I've done my share.

I love cooking and make most things from scratch and always have home made meals in the freezer but I am also happy to take the easy option sometimes.