don't.
buy it. Even I can rarely be arsed to make pastry and I make pretty much everything else from scratch. But I like puff pastry for pies and it's a monumental fanny to make.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:30, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Oh, ok
like that is easy. What I meant is cooking traditional English food is quite complicated and needs a lot of work and time. If we're going to start cheating with the dought we can just buy ready meals.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:34, Reply)

It's not the same. Pastry=cheat but if the rest is homemade=nom.
Your cooking is fucking ace anyway.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:36, Reply)

Spanish cooking
in general, for every day, is much easier than British. We can cook a very nice meal in a few minutes. I think that's what the British are missing. You went for full roasts that took a day to cook to just a sandwich. There's not much in the middle.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

It would be a terrrible sandwich with nothing in the middle.
Hahahahahahaha!
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:57, Reply)

That's not cheating
If you follow that argument, not butchering your own meat is cheating. Or not brewing your own wine.

Pastry isn't difficult to make, it's just tedious and home-made (unless you are making sweet pastry) is rarely much better. So, I make my own dough for bread and for pizza, for example, but I'd almost never make my own pie pastry.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)