Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

[TiggsTours]

Following my post on another thread:


:drool: :drool: :drool:

And no cooking for 3 hours!

Last night I took:

1 tin baked beans (chilli ones)
1 tin kidney beans
2 tins mixed beans
2 tins chopped tomatoes
some chilli powder
1 2min bag of microwavable rice

Open all the tins, and drain the kidney & mixed beans (the hard part) pour the tins into a saucepan (put empty ones into re-cycling box), with some chilli powder to taste, heat gently for about half an hour, stirring occassionally (whilst filling the washing machine, getting dance clothes out ready, watching a bit of telly). Cut 2cm into rice bag, microwave for 2 mins, put onto plate, spoon on some chilli, sprinkle on some ready grated half-fat cheese.

There, minimum effort, 5 mins preperation, occassional stirring for half an hour, only one saucepan, one wooden spoon, one plate & one fork to wash up (even less with a dishwasher) and I've had a very healthy, high in fibre, meal, which will last for about 10 meals! And I've got plenty of time to have a shower and get myself ready to go dancing! I've even managed to get some housework done!

Eating healthily does not have to be difficult, the only difficult bit is to stop making excuses for not doing it!


There seems to have been a demand for a recipes thread!

[jivecat]

I could just about cope with eating this concoction for one meal, if I was absolutely starving, but ten???:really: :eek:

Now, add garlic, onion, olive oil, thyme, oregano, leave out the baked & mixed beans, add a tin of coconut milk, replace the tinned tomatoes with a few fresh ones, replace the instant rice with proper rice and we might be in business.

For instant comfort food, cook a few small jacket potatoes in the microwave, 8 minutes. Meanwhile heat a can of baked beans. Tip hot beans over hot potatoes, add some slices of cheddar, melt in microwave for 2 minutes.
You can be in through the front door and onto the sofa with it in around 12 minutes, if you can get the can open quick enough.

[TiggsTours]

I could just about cope with eating this concoction for one meal, if I was absolutely starving, but ten???:really: :eek:

Now, add garlic, onion, olive oil, thyme, oregano, leave out the baked & mixed beans, add a tin of coconut milk, replace the tinned tomatoes with a few fresh ones, replace the instant rice with proper rice and we might be in business.

For instant comfort food, cook a few small jacket potatoes in the microwave, 8 minutes. Meanwhile heat a can of baked beans. Tip hot beans over hot potatoes, add some slices of cheddar, melt in microwave for 2 minutes.
You can be in through the front door and onto the sofa with it in around 12 minutes, if you can get the can open quick enough.
So, thats:

1 tin Kidney Beans
Garlic
Onion
Olive oil - I use the 1 cal olive oil fry light
Thyme
Oregano
Tin of coconut milk (how fattening?)!
Fresh tomatoes (yuck!)
Replace the instant rice with proper rice - no added health benefits whatsoever!

I'll stick to mine. You don't have to eat it 10 meals in a row, you can always freeze it!

The idea of my recipe was it was an absolute MIMIMUM effort, healthy meal, for someone who thinks you can only eat healthily by spending 3 hours in the kitchen.

[El Salsero Gringo]

Are "unhealthy" recipies welcome? I have a good one for white chocolate cheesecake.

...and there's no such thing as unhealthy food - only unhealthy people.

[LMC]

Since this is a recipes thread, here's one of my weekend favourites...

(with apologies to M Keyes who came up with the original recipe - I've only refined it...):

The trickiest bit is selecting which one of the 20,000 pizza leaflets delivered within the previous week offers the best deal for a combination of 3 out of pizza, garlic bread, salad, BBQ wings, potato wedges, soft drink, ice-cream.

Choose what you want to eat.

Phone up the pizza place and tell them what you want.

Important: tell them where you live.

Hey presto, hot food within half-an-hour to 45 minutes at minimal effort.

Works equally well for any variety of takeaway food where the supplier offers home delivery although you may only have a choice of one or two menus...

[TiggsTours]

Are "unhealthy" recipies welcome? I have a good one for white chocolate cheesecake.

...and there's no such thing as unhealthy food - only unhealthy people.
ABSOLUTELY! Bring it on!:drool:

[David Bailey]

{ snip stuff }
"Wanna come round for dinner tonight? My Mom's making her famous call-to-the-Chinese." - who can name that quote?

[dee]

Are "unhealthy" recipies welcome? I have a good one for white chocolate cheesecake.

...and there's no such thing as unhealthy food - only unhealthy people.

Please !!!!! :drool: and double :drool:

[DavidB]

The idea of my recipe was it was an absolute MIMIMUM effort, healthy meal, for someone who thinks you can only eat healthily by spending 3 hours in the kitchen.
Why waste 3 hours cooking healthy food?

Last Saturday's dinner:
Whole duck - mix olive oil, soy sauce, mushroom ketchup, pepper, herbs and spices to coat the duck before roasting. Served with gravy.
Baked sweet potatoes, served with sour cream and chives
Roasted stuffed red onions - stuffed with onion, breadcrumbs and cheese.
Asparagus tips.
Plus one bottle of very nice Chilean white wine.

[dee]

"Wanna come round for dinner tonight?

DJ what are you like?? :rofl:

[dee]

Why waste 3 hours cooking healthy food?

Last Saturday's dinner:
Whole duck - mix olive oil, soy sauce, mushroom ketchup, pepper, herbs and spices to coat the duck before roasting. Served with gravy.
Baked sweet potatoes, served with sour cream and chives
Roasted stuffed red onions - stuffed with onion, breadcrumbs and cheese.
Asparagus tips.
Plus one bottle of very nice Chilean white wine.

:drool: when can i come over for dinner? that sounds :drool:

[KatieR]

A little dish I made recently for a few forumites

Sesame Crumbed Chicken Cordon Bleu with a honey mustard sauce, Home Fried Chips and Vegetables..

Take some chicken breasts... with a very sharp knife, slice into the fat end of the chicken breast making a pocket (try not to pierce the chicken or you will have problems frying)

Stuff into the pocket some lovely ham and yummy cheese of your choice, mozzarella or swiss is always a good choice.

Coat the chicken in flour.

in a bowl prepare one egg and about half a cup of milk and mix. In a second bowl put Golden bread crumbs and sesame seeds and give a little stir around.

Dip the chicken in the egg milk mix and then coat with the crumb/sesame mix... put on plate and prepare chips and vegetables.

Get some good size chipping potatoes and peel. Cut into good sized chip pieces and leave in a bowl of water.

Slice up some carrots, and put in a pan with some water on the stove.

Fill another saucepan about half full with a nice cooking oil (vegetable or sunflower are good) and turn on. Let the oil get quite hot (NOT boiling, but until you can see the oil moving in the bottom of the pan) take chipped potatos out of the water and dry them on a clean tea towel or paper towel, making sure that all the water is absorbed. Drop one chip into the fat and if it sizzles, then place all the chips carefully into the hot oil. Stir occassionally and gently.

Turn heat on vegetables.

Put some oil into a fry pan and once the oil is heated through, place the chicken breasts onto the oil. When golden brown turn them over carefully.

I cant quite remember the exact ingredients for the honey mustard sauce but you can just put into a sauce pan some honey, either dijon or wholegrain mustard, a little bit of milk and a teaspoon of flour to thicken and warm over a low heat.

Check chips, once they are nicely golden brown and crispy, drain.

Put everything onto a plate, pour mustard sauce over the chicken, drain the cooked vegetables.. serve with a lovely glass of chilled Rose...

ENJOY!

OR!!

Try and scam an invite to ours for dinner!!

[Msfab]

Haven’t had this in ages, its perfect for those cold winter nights!

a tin of refried beans
freshly chopped tomatoes
lightly fried diced red onions
cooked sweet potato (I usually semi boil and dice)

Mix all together, top with a little cheese (mozzarella or brie is the best but any cheese that takes your fancy) I like to melt it a little under the grill.
A drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Serve with crunchy/crispy bread.

:yum: :yum: :drool: ::yum: :yum:

[El Salsero Gringo]

Ingredients:

For the base:
400g digestive biscuits
200g unsalted butter

For the cake:
500g cream cheese (Philadelphia works well)
110g castor sugar
3 eggs
250ml sour cream
350g white chocolate
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Crush the biscuits, dice the butter and mix until all the butter coats the biscuit crumbs (takes seconds in a liquidizer, 3-4 minutes in a mixer). Pour into a lined 9" baking tin (push up base works best) or use a baking ring on a flat baking sheet. Press biscuit down to form firm base.

Melt the chocolate gently in a double boiler or a *very* low light. (If you overheat it it instantly becomes pasty rather than liquid.)

Beat cream-cheese sugar and lemon juice. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in sour cream and vanilla. Add chocolate and mix well. Pour onto base.

Bake at 160C for about 45-50 minutes.

Optional topping: 250ml sour cream mixed with 50g sugar.

[Zebra Woman]

Seasonal question:

Pumpkin seeds....

Does anyone know how to dry them out/roast them and make them nice to eat?
Is it possible to make them nice to eat?

I have washed them and they have been drying at room temperature for 3 days. I did read somewhere that they are really good for you.

I have made soup from the pumpkin, I don't do measuring but here's the recipe I invented on the day.

Pumpkin Soup

Fry 8 rashers of bacon in butter, add 2 leeks sliced and 2 sticks of celery.
After 5 minutes add pumpkin flesh and top up with water/stock(not salted though).
Simmer for 30 minutes.
Blend.
Eat.

ZW:flower:

[El Salsero Gringo]

While I'm at it, have the banoffi pie recipe too.

Biscuit base: as above

Other Ingredients:
Two tins of sweetened full-fat condensed milk (look for milk, sugar as the ingredients.)
Two Bananas
250ml double cream

Boil the condensed milk in unopened cans covered in a pan of water for 2 hours. (Or 45 minutes at 15psi overpressure in a pressure cooker.) Allow the tins to cool properly before opening them, otherwise you get sprayed by scalding hot sticky toffee filling.

Spread the contents evenly over the biscuit base.

Cover with sliced bananas.

Cover with whipped cream.

Er, that's it.


Note: tins are not designed to be boiled without so there's a possibility they might burst which would have unfortunate consequences for anyone close enough. It's never happened to me though, but you have been warned.

[Lynn]

I don't do measuring but here's the recipe I invented on the day.My sort of cooking style! (Though if there is something I really like I will follow a recipe, sort of, or try to note down/remember what works).

[El Salsero Gringo]

Seasonal question:

Pumpkin seeds....

Does anyone know how to dry them out/roast them and make them nice to eat?Try dry-roasting them in a non-stick pan on the stove on high heat for 5 minutes (keep tossing them to stop them burning) or in a roasting dish in the oven for 15 minutes.

[Lynn]

Note: tins are not designed to be boiled without so there's a possibility they might burst which would have unfortunate consequences for anyone close enough. It's never happened to me though, but you have been warned. This did happen to a friend of mine. She ended up with it everywhere, including the ceiling. Fortunately she wasn't in the room when it happened.

[Baby Peaches]

Ingredients:

For the base:
400g digestive biscuits
200g unsalted butter

For the cake:
500g cream cheese (Philadelphia works well)
110g castor sugar
3 eggs
250ml sour cream
350g white chocolate
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Crush the biscuits, dice the butter and mix until all the butter coats the biscuit crumbs (takes seconds in a liquidizer, 3-4 minutes in a mixer). Pour into a lined 9" baking tin (push up base works best) or use a baking ring on a flat baking sheet. Press biscuit down to form firm base.

Melt the chocolate gently in a double boiler or a *very* low light. (If you overheat it it instantly becomes pasty rather than liquid.)

Beat cream-cheese sugar and lemon juice. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in sour cream and vanilla. Add chocolate and mix well. Pour onto base.

Bake at 160C for about 45-50 minutes.

Optional topping: 250ml sour cream mixed with 50g sugar.


MMmmmmmmmm!!!! That sounds absolutely fantastic so I will be trying it at the weekend.

[ducasi]

"Wanna come round for dinner tonight? My Mom's making her famous call-to-the-Chinese." - who can name that quote?
I'll name it Bruce. :wink:

[TiggsTours]

Haven’t had this in ages, its perfect for those cold winter nights!

a tin of refried beans
freshly chopped tomatoes
lightly fried diced red onions
cooked sweet potato (I usually semi boil and dice)

Mix all together, top with a little cheese (mozzarella or brie is the best but any cheese that takes your fancy) I like to melt it a little under the grill.
A drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Serve with crunchy/crispy bread.

:yum: :yum: :drool: ::yum: :yum:

:yum: :drool: :yum:


Ingredients:

For the base:
400g digestive biscuits
200g unsalted butter

For the cake:
500g cream cheese (Philadelphia works well)
110g castor sugar
3 eggs
250ml sour cream
350g white chocolate
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Crush the biscuits, dice the butter and mix until all the butter coats the biscuit crumbs (takes seconds in a liquidizer, 3-4 minutes in a mixer). Pour into a lined 9" baking tin (push up base works best) or use a baking ring on a flat baking sheet. Press biscuit down to form firm base.

Melt the chocolate gently in a double boiler or a *very* low light. (If you overheat it it instantly becomes pasty rather than liquid.)

Beat cream-cheese sugar and lemon juice. Beat in eggs, one at a time. Stir in sour cream and vanilla. Add chocolate and mix well. Pour onto base.

Bake at 160C for about 45-50 minutes.

Optional topping: 250ml sour cream mixed with 50g sugar
:yum: :yum: :drool: :drool: :yum: :yum:


Pumpkin Soup

Fry 8 rashers of bacon in butter, add 2 leeks sliced and 2 sticks of celery.
After 5 minutes add pumpkin flesh and top up with water/stock(not salted though).
Simmer for 30 minutes.
Blend.
Eat.

:yum: :drool: :yum:


While I'm at it, have the banoffi pie recipe too.

Biscuit base: as above

Other Ingredients:
Two tins of sweetened full-fat condensed milk (look for milk, sugar as the ingredients.)
Two Bananas
250ml double cream

Boil the condensed milk in unopened cans covered in a pan of water for 2 hours. (Or 45 minutes at 15psi overpressure in a pressure cooker.) Allow the tins to cool properly before opening them, otherwise you get sprayed by scalding hot sticky toffee filling.

Spread the contents evenly over the biscuit base.

Cover with sliced bananas.

Cover with whipped cream.

Er, that's it.


:yum: :yum: :drool: :yum:


God, I'm hungry! I'm so glad I started this thread!

[stewart38]

How to make the perfect breakfast ,reality check for those that live in the fast lane and dont have their mums to cook for them.

---------------------------

Take four eggs from the fridge (never know if they should be kept in the fridge or outside the fridge, im not asking mum again ??) .

The eggs ideally should have 'best before' date that has passed at least 7 days before (gives them, that certain tang)

Find a pan,any pan will do . When you cant find a clean one use the one already there with last nights oil in it (This is being environmentally friendly ?). Last nights oil usually adds to the flavour (those little bits of burnt mince from the night before yum yum).

Take 4 or 5 slices of bread from the freezer, it never keeps fresh when you 'forget you have bread in the bread basket for 3 weeks' and the blue bits are not nice and toast them 2 at a time this should ensure at least 3 are stone cold

Now go up stairs and forget that your cooking the eggs. When you hear loud spitting run downstairs and turn eggs over quickly to leave a mass of googy eggs

Take eggs and put on cold toasts (butter optional) . Take red or black source from fridge and squeeze all over said feast

Go sit down and watch Breakfast Time and make sure as you bite into said feast , that you lean forward to ensure some of the egg and source runs down the Work shirt you have just put on


Ps If you looking to watch you weight use only 2 eggs and 2 pieces of toast and put on extra source :yeah:

[LMC]

:rofl:

You forgot the handful of vitamin pills? :blush:

And a life in the fast lane dinner - allows time for commute, shower/bath and still being able to make at least half of the beginner's class at whichever venue is open that night:

Unhealthy option: stop at burger/chicken/pasty bar, eat purchases on train

Healthy option: stop at supermarket of choice, purchase fruit, bag of salad, rolls, something sloppy from the dips cabinet (I like taramasalata personally, but hummus or one of the ready-made sandwich fillings will do just as well). Add Magnum ice-cream. Eat ice-cream on way to train, eat rest on train.

[senorita]

While I'm at it, have the banoffi pie recipe too.

Biscuit base: as above

Other Ingredients:
Two tins of sweetened full-fat condensed milk (look for milk, sugar as the ingredients.)
Two Bananas
250ml double cream

Boil the condensed milk in unopened cans covered in a pan of water for 2 hours. (Or 45 minutes at 15psi overpressure in a pressure cooker.) Allow the tins to cool properly before opening them, otherwise you get sprayed by scalding hot sticky toffee filling.

Spread the contents evenly over the biscuit base.

Cover with sliced bananas.

Cover with whipped cream.

Er, that's it.


Note: tins are not designed to be boiled without so there's a possibility they might burst which would have unfortunate consequences for anyone close enough. It's never happened to me though, but you have been warned.

thanku just what I wanted...plus your white chocolate cheesecake...will be using these bigtime!!

[dee]

ESG... what you trying to make me fat?? Banoffi is my fav at the moment :drool: must try your recipe :drool: Thanks :flower:

[dee]

How to make the perfect breakfast ,reality check for those that live in the fast lane and dont have their mums to cook for them.

---------------------------

Take four eggs from the fridge (never know if they should be kept in the fridge or outside the fridge, im not asking mum again ??) .

The eggs ideally should have 'best before' date that has passed at least 7 days before (gives them, that certain tang)

Find a pan,any pan will do . When you cant find a clean one use the one already there with last nights oil in it (This is being environmentally friendly ?). Last nights oil usually adds to the flavour (those little bits of burnt mince from the night before yum yum).

Take 4 or 5 slices of bread from the freezer, it never keeps fresh when you 'forget you have bread in the bread basket for 3 weeks' and the blue bits are not nice and toast them 2 at a time this should ensure at least 3 are stone cold

Now go up stairs and forget that your cooking the eggs. When you hear loud spitting run downstairs and turn eggs over quickly to leave a mass of googy eggs

Take eggs and put on cold toasts (butter optional) . Take red or black source from fridge and squeeze all over said feast

Go sit down and watch Breakfast Time and make sure as you bite into said feast , that you lean forward to ensure some of the egg and source runs down the Work shirt you have just put on


Ps If you looking to watch you weight use only 2 eggs and 2 pieces of toast and put on extra source :yeah:


:rofl: Stewart38 this post is soooo funny :rofl: sounds like part of a "young ones" episode :rofl:

[El Salsero Gringo]

This did happen to a friend of mine. She ended up with it everywhere, including the ceiling. Fortunately she wasn't in the room when it happened.I'm happier boiling them in a pressure-cooker. Then there's a containment jacket around the whole apparatus, as well as it being faster. (Although allow to cool slowly, since a sudden release of pressure could be catastrophic...)

Also do six tins at once, then you have four to keep for another time when you need a fast pudding.

[stewart38]

:rofl: Stewart38 this post is soooo funny :rofl: sounds like part of a "young ones" episode :rofl:


The sad thing is, its 90% true :sad:

[Gadget]

The following has been passed round all the "local mums" recently with rave reviews... my kids make it and eat it with gusto (we now make double quantitys so at least some lasts to the second day)

Banana Bread
2 Oz softened butter
5 Oz caster sugar (normal stuff will do)
2 really ripe bananas (gone black, but not dried out or mouldy)
1 egg
few drops of vanila essance
- Mix into sloppy goo with wooden spoon
5 Oz SR Flour
Pinch of bicarb
- Stir it all in
Put into greased 1lb loaf tin (I put a strip of grease proof paper the width of the base down the bottom and draped over both short sides)
Bake 40min at 160ºC
"Leave in tin until cold. Will taste better the following day if you can wait ~ I've not managed this; just heard that it does!"

[Minnie M]

Yum Yum .... must say the boys have come up with the most yummy of recipes :cheers: :clap: :flower: :drool: :yeah:

My contribution to the colder evenings and soooooo easy to make..

Leek & Potato Soup
4 medium sized potatoes + 2 leeks + one vegetable stock cube + seasoning

boil together till potatoes nice and soft .... and you have a cheap and easy soup that will last all week (and fat free) :flower:

[Gadget]

My favourite non-sweet cullenary delight: "Chickeny Stuff"

- Put a pot of pasta on (shells are good: they hold the sauce well)
- Brown an onion in olive oil,
- Add Fresh chicken breast (sliced, diced, whole, whatever... I prefer to dice)
- Add chicken sesoning, oregano, mixed herbs, crack of peper, crushed garlic and chicken seasoning. (I know it's in twice, but if you sprinkle on one side of the chicken, it needs to be sprinkled on the other once stirred or flipped.)
- Once chicken cooked properly, add in tub of double cream and some sliced peppers (green for taste, red for a splash of colour)
- Heat through and check pasta (If cooked too long, and there was to much oil in the first place you may find it seperates - still tastes fine, but dosn't look as pretty)
- Once pasta is just about ready, mix some corn flour with milk and add into chicken to thicken the sauce. (Stir lots; If added too soon, it may stick to the bottom of the pan)
- Drain pasta, put into big bowl, pour chicken and sauce over the top and serve with fresh crusty bread and several forks.

{It's now served on plates because my friends complained I ate too much and didn't leave enough for them!}

[philsmove]

HEY you Guys

STOP IT

I’m trying to learn Tango and also get some work done

Not to mention fitting in a bit of Gardening

This thread is just too distracting

[Gadget]

And the Sunday breakfast favourite: Cheezy Dreams (or "Queasy dreams" as a freind of mine now refers to them - I introduced them and he over-dosed :rolleyes: )

2 eggs, Some milk, Salt & pepper, beaten.

8 slices of bread, quartered.

4 cheese slices quarterd (or sliced cheese to roughly the same size)

Make mini-sandwiches with the bread & cheese, dunk in the egg mixture & fry on both sides.

Place made ones on a tin plate or baking sheet and put into the oven on a warming heat; this will melt the cheese further and make sure that the egg is cooked all the way into the sandwich. Also ensures that you actually get to eat some once you've cooked them all!

[philsmove]

For desert
Make individual Yorkshire puddings
Serve with hot nutella:drool:

[clevedonboy]

Sensible, quick, easy, tasty, filling - Mediterranean Roasted Vegetables (plus sausage!)

Courgette
Red Onions
Mushrooms
Red Pepper
Butternut squash
Tomatoes
Fresh Basil
Pine Kernels
Chorizo sausage
Olive Oil
Garlic (you can leave this out on dance nights)
table spoon tomato puree
Black pepper

put oil in roasting tin with black pepper, tomato puree & crushed garlic - stir
chop all veg into cube like shapes add to tin with pine nuts
for non veggies cut the sausage into little bits and add

Stir

Heat oven to max then put roasting tin in oven for about 30 mins stirring occasionally.

serve with rice or pasta or you can use it as a side dish in smaller quantities

[Missy D]

While I'm at it, have the banoffi pie recipe too.

Biscuit base: as above

Other Ingredients:
Two tins of sweetened full-fat condensed milk (look for milk, sugar as the ingredients.)
Two Bananas
250ml double cream

Boil the condensed milk in unopened cans covered in a pan of water for 2 hours. (Or 45 minutes at 15psi overpressure in a pressure cooker.) Allow the tins to cool properly before opening them, otherwise you get sprayed by scalding hot sticky toffee filling.

Spread the contents evenly over the biscuit base.

Cover with sliced bananas.

Cover with whipped cream.

Er, that's it.


Note: tins are not designed to be boiled without so there's a possibility they might burst which would have unfortunate consequences for anyone close enough. It's never happened to me though, but you have been warned.


Now ya talking! Banofee pie is my favourite. I wanted to leave the Ealing halloween party early last week as i had half a banofee pie waiting for me at home:drool:

[Missy D]

I hate to spend to much time cooking so this is a good one to try.

Onion
Peppers
mushroom
Olives
Chorizo (or not if you are veggie)
tomatoe

infact anything that you find in the fridge that needs using up. Fry the above in olive oil add some pesto. In another pan boil up some pasta - when cooked add it to the other stuff and serve. You can add a bit of chili if you want but, its usually fine without it.

[Missy D]

kids that are not veggie

Chicken breast
Egg
Packet of crisps (chicken or plain).
Garlic
Cheese
Mixed herbs (optional)

Cut chicken up into large chunks. In a bowl crush the crisps. Add some garlic, grated chesse and herbs. Mix together. In another bowl beat the egg. Dip chicken chunks into egg then press it into the crisp mixture. Put on a baking try and bake. Nice chicken nuggets.

For an adult version use one 1 chicken breast each (dont cut up). Smear on mustard and onto chicken too. Put on baking tray, press on the crisps mixture and bake.

[LMC]

< list of ingredients > infact anything that you find in the fridge that needs using up...
:yeah:

Place in large saucepan with a little olive oil, as suggested by Missy D, or water if making soup. Cook. Eat.

If you're organised enough to remember to put them to soak 24 hours beforehand, dried beans/pulses make a great soup base. They then need to be boiled for an hour, but you can make loads at a time - in fact my soup was called "5000 soup" by my ex-husband because that was a) the number of ingredients and b) the number of meals it ended up being by the time I'd chucked in everything I'd planned to and then thought "ooh, let's have some sweetcorn... oh, and those bamboo shoots that I forgot to eat with that Chinese meal... and those carrots want using up... and " - well, you get the picture.

Best of all, you can make loads in a big saucepan - I usually just boil up some chopped bacon to use as a base, freeze the plain bean soup in portions before adding anything else - and jazz up each individual portion as I eat it - by adding tomato, broccoli - whatever!

[KatieR]

A little something I created last night....

I call it ... the chickeny mushroomy dish....

in a little bit of oil or butter cook up some sliced brown mushrooms, add some thinly sliced chicken, add a little bit of garlic... go for a rummage through the cupboard and dig out any kind of marinade sauce you might have lying around and pour in about 2 tablespoons of that... add about 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and a tablespoon of honey... boil some rice..

really nice!

*see Sparkes for a full review*

[TiggsTours]

OK, I cooked 2 things last night:

Pumpkin & Lentil Soup

1 Pumpkin, sliced de-seeded and diced
1 tin of ready soaked lentils (you could soak your own if you prefer)
1 handful chopped fresh corriander
1/2 pt Vegetable Stock
2 Tablespoons Artificial Sweetener (sugar if you prefer)
Salt & Pepper to taste
2 tsp Cayene Pepper

Boil the pumpkin & lentils until soft
Liquidise both with corriander
Bring the vegetable stock to the boil, add the pupkin & lentil
Stir in Sweetener, Cayene & Salt & Pepper, stir till thickened

Servings: 4

:drool:

Healthy Spaghetti in Blue Cheese & Spinach Sauce

Spaghetti
1 bag of fresh spinach, de-stalked
75g soft blue cheese, crumbled
1 Tub Quark (very low fat soft cheese)
5 tbsp Fromage Frais

Boil the spaghetti
Wilt the spinach in boiling water for a few minutes, then drain
Put cheese, Quark & Fromage Frais into a saucepan, and mix well
When Spinach & Spaghetti is ready, add to cheese mixture, and gently heat
Serve with a nice glass of wine

Servings: 2

:drool:

[TiggsTours]

I put the final touches to my homemade Christmas Puddings last night, they smell gorgeous! I also made my own Cranberry Sauce! I am becoming a Domestic Goddess!

[Gadget]

I was taught the recipe to make pancakes when I was about 10 and I still remember it & cook them (just did a double batch that got devoured as soon as they were out the pan!)

"4-3-2-1-0"

4 SR Flour (Tbls Sp)
3 Sugar (Tbls Sp)
2 eggs
1 lvl teaspoon bicarb
pinch of salt.

Mix with milk untill it is the right consistancy and has no lumps in. (should be somewhere between 'gloopy' and 'runny' - the more runny, the thinner the pancake: good for creppes)

Heat a fryingpan untill it's really hot & turn down to what would be a 'high simmer' (too hot and they get too brown before it's time to turn them, too cold and they 'set' before being brown enough to turn)

Use grease proof paper (the wrapper off butter) and scrunch into a wad - scrape this in butter and cover the base of the pan. Do this between each batch.

Prepare a wire rack with a cotton tea-towel folded - you will place the made pancakes in here to keep them moist and warm.

Take a serving spoon and dollop spoonfulls onto the hot pan - try not to run them into each other, but they can be seperated just before turning. If you want a BIG pancake, just slop some mix into the pan and give it a swirl.

When the bubbles in top start to pop, it's time to turn them. Should only take a couple of mins.

Best served warm with melted butter and/or jam. :drool:

[philsmove]

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Mix with milk untill it is the right consistancy and has no lumps in. (should be somewhere between 'gloopy' and 'runny' - the more runny, the thinner the pancake: good for creppes)


than let the batter stand for about an hour




Best served warm with melted butter and/or jam. :drool:

:yeah:

but better with sugar and lemon :drool: :drool: :drool:

[Gadget]

than let the batter stand for about an hourdepeds if you are using baking powder or baking soda; soda reacts on contact with moisture, so is best for immediate results, but can give a 'tart' zing to them. Powder has cream of tartar in it that reacts to heat so is the one best left. (and I keep getting them mixed up & buying the wrong thing when one runs out :rolleyes:)


but better with sugar and lemon :drool: :drool: :drool:Creppes: :yeah::yeah: :drool:

[Aleks]

For those of you who are gluten/milk intolerant, this recipe works pretty well:

3 tbspns buckwheat flour
1 egg
pinch salt
3 tbspns olive oil
enough rice milk to make a runny batter

Mix it all together and make as usual pancakes, except that because the oil is in the batter, you shouldn't need to grease the pan each time to stop them sticking.

Foxylady, Sparkles, azande and I had them for breakfast on Sat and mine were :drool::drool:.

[foxylady]

For those of you who are gluten/milk intolerant, this recipe works pretty well:

3 tbspns buckwheat flour
1 egg
pinch salt
3 tbspns olive oil
enough rice milk to make a runny batter

Mix it all together and make as usual pancakes, except that because the oil is in the batter, you shouldn't need to grease the pan each time to stop them sticking.

Foxylady, Sparkles, azande and I had them for breakfast on Sat and mine were :drool::drool:.

They were delicious !! and especially so with bananas and Aleks home made chocolate sauce (melted 70% chocolate) :drool: :drool:
(and even the nicer having them made for me :wink: )

[under par]

2 slices of bread into toaster when cooked add real butter *to taste mmmmmmmmmmm



* (none of that mono hypo anti this and anti that rubbish):angry:

[Gadget]

Anyone have the recipe for that yummy chocolate stuff you make with crushed digestives?

I know you can make cheesecake bases and millionare shortbread base, but it's a main component, and you top it with chocolate :confused:

Help?

[Freya]

Anyone have the recipe for that yummy chocolate stuff you make with crushed digestives?

I know you can make cheesecake bases and millionare shortbread base, but it's a main component, and you top it with chocolate :confused:

Help?


Hey Do you mean the one where you crush all the digestives, add cherrys etc then mix it all up with chocolate put in a shallow baking tiun and leave in the fridge to set! If so I have this recipe!!!

Freya

[Gadget]

Hey Do you mean the one where you crush all the digestives, add cherrys etc then mix it all up with chocolate put in a shallow baking tiun and leave in the fridge to set! If so I have this recipe!!!

Freya
Probably similar. I found a different one;

{Warning - sweet toothed look away now...}

Ella-feeds-us (Don't ask me - seemingly it's what "ella" used to feed children :what: )

8oz Marg
6oz Sugar
2Tblsp Syrup
Large can of Condensed Milk
1tsp Vanilla essence
1 1/2 packets of Digestives (Large packets)
300/400g Chocolate

preparation
- crush the biscuits {Either by 1)putting into a hole-less bag and beating it with a rolling pin 2)mushing with a masher in a large pan 3) blitzing in a food processor}
- look out a swiss roll tin

method
- Melt marge in a large pan, add sugar, syrup and milk into it and keep stirring, bringing slowly to the boil.
- keep stirring for a further 6 mins.
- Add vanilla essence and beat it in.
- Add crushed biscuits and coat {this gets very hard to stir}
- press into swiss roll tin
- melt chocolate and cover the stuff with it
- put into fridge to set
- cut into (small) squares and eat {It's too sweet to cut into large squares :wink:}

[Tiggerbabe]

Ah the memories! Many a happy afternoon I spent at my gran's house smashing up digestive biscuits, in a bag, with a rolling pin :D It was even more fun, when you hit them so hard that you ripped a hole in the bag and then the crumbled biscuits kept escaping :whistle:
Fab recipe Gadget :drool:

[Freya]

Similar Very similar! Found mine earlier today so thought I'd post it too!

Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Ingredients

4oz Plain Choc
4oz Butter
2 tblspns double
8oz digestives
2oz Glace Cherries
2oz flaked almonds
1oz raisins

Prep

Line Cake Tin with Foil.
Break Biscuits (Gadget Style :wink: )
Chop Cherries and Add to Bowl
Add Raisins and Almonds

Method

Break Choc into bowl over heated saucepan of water
Add the butter and cream and stir till choc has melted
Pour Choc Sauce over biscuit mixture and mix well
Spoon mixture into baking tin and cover with the foil pressing down firmly
Put Tin into fridge for approx 2hrs till set!

[spindr]

http://www.pimpmysnack.com/projects.php

SpinDr (apologies if already posted)

[dee]

Hey Do you mean the one where you crush all the digestives, add cherrys etc then mix it all up with chocolate put in a shallow baking tiun and leave in the fridge to set! If so I have this recipe!!!

Freya


My daughter and i made this once, it was really :drool:

[Aleks]

Blackberry Snack Cake

INGREDIENTS:
4 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
dash salt
1/2 cup evaporated milk
2 cups fresh blackberries
2 tablespoons brown sugar
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 325°. Melt butter in an 8-inch square baking dish in the preheated oven. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and milk in a small bowl and beat until smooth. Pour batter over the melted butter, top with the blackberries, then sprinkle the brown sugar evenly over the fruit. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, or until browned.


Something for the next tea dance/cake event, Sparkles?

[Yliander]

Blackberry Snack Cake

INGREDIENTS:
4 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
dash salt
1/2 cup evaporated milk
2 cups fresh blackberries
2 tablespoons brown sugar
PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 325°. Melt butter in an 8-inch square baking dish in the preheated oven. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and milk in a small bowl and beat until smooth. Pour batter over the melted butter, top with the blackberries, then sprinkle the brown sugar evenly over the fruit. Bake for 45 to 55 minutes, or until browned. :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

[Beowulf]

And the Sunday breakfast favourite: Cheezy Dreams (or "Queasy dreams" as a friend of mine now refers to them - I introduced them and he over-dosed :rolleyes: )!

I still can't face them !! :sick:

[Sparkles]

Blackberry Snack Cake

Something for the next tea dance/cake event, Sparkles?

Sounds :drool: - I'll do my best (and the public can vote on the outcome...)
Just not sure my oven goes up to 325 degrees! :eek:

[Aleks]

It's an American recipe - probably the temp is in Farenheit...which converts to 162.5......
50 mins at 325C would probably only make charcoal!


Save some blackberries for the crumble though please!

[Sparkles]

It's an American recipe - probably the temp is in Farenheit...which converts to 162.5......
50 mins at 325C would probably only make charcoal!


Save some blackberries for the crumble though please!

Phew! thanks - thought I was going to turn my blackberry cake to cinders (and my poor little flat into a sauna!) :sad:.

Believe me - I could make blackberry cake every day from now until Southport and there would still be enough blackberries left to fill a crumble the size of the blues room! :really:

[Aleks]

Believe me - I could make blackberry cake every day from now until Southport and there would still be enough blackberries left to fill a crumble the size of the blues room! :really:

It's probably not a bad thing that you have so many....I'm anticipating 1/2 the blues room to want some, if Franck's waffle breakfast on Sunday is anything to go by!

[Sparkles]

It's probably not a bad thing that you have so many....I'm anticipating 1/2 the blues room to want some, if Franck's waffle breakfast on Sunday is anything to go by!
If they know you're making it I expect it'll be more like the whole of the blues room and most of the latin quarter too :worthy: :drool:

[Aleks]

:really: I've never cooked/baked for any of that lot....feeling the pressure now!
Could you bring an oven dish with you along with your usual cake supplies please?
How many shelves can fit in an oven at Southport? I think we only get 1....

[Sparkles]

Foxy, we'll need a bigger car!

Aleks wants books, blackberries, cake supplies, and oven dish (or two by the sounds of things) and a decent sized oven bringing up to Southport...
... think we could hire a truck?! :what: :wink:

[Aleks]

Foxy, we'll need a bigger car!

Aleks wants books, blackberries, cake supplies, and oven dish (or two by the sounds of things) and a decent sized oven bringing up to Southport...
... think we could hire a truck?! :what: :wink:

Cake supplies are what you always bring.....so no change.

As for the oven, I'm sure just a loan of the shelf from your Southport cooker will do just fine!

Still, along with all the clothes, shoes, hairdryer etc we all take maybe a truck wouldn't be a bad idea!

[jiveaddicted]

Favorite recipe take 2 pizza's any flavour place chips on top of one pizza place other pizza topping down on top hey presto pizza sandwiches super healthy

:drool:

[Freya]

Save some blackberries for the crumble though please!
How bout blackberry waffles? Give them to Franck to put in the batter!

[pmjd]

Here's the recipe for the Marble Cheesecake I made for the Meltdown party in Dundee.

Very easy recipe, and with very good results:drool:

The version I made didn't include the yoghurt or gelatine, the yoghurt version I've made before doesn't taste as rich.
6363

[Clive Long]

Crumble

Mine always turns out flowery and "uncooked". What am I doing wrong?

CRL

[Gadget]

When you rub in the butter, you need to keep rubbing it in untill it starts to stick together, then add in the sugar.

:flower: Hope this helps.

[Beowulf]

This is originally a Delia recipe..

200g Very dark chocolate (I use 2 bars of green and black's 70% but 75% or 80% is better)
3 large eggs (Separate into yolks and whites)
40 g Caster sugar

put chocolate broken up in a bowl over (but not touching) hot water. melt the chocolate slowly.. You are trying to get a shiny smooth consistency .. and not make the chocolate too hot.

mix in 3 Egg yolks and still (Best not to add these when the choc's too hot otherwise you'll scramble them !)

in another bowl whisk the 3 whites to peaks and slowly add the sugar. whisking until it's mixed and glossy.

now you need to add the whisked whites to the chocolate. It's not difficult but there is a knack. Add one big spoonful to the chocolate and fold it in. it's not too bad if it flattens here as you're just loosening up the dense chocolate.

now CAREFULLY and SLOWLY add in the rest of the egg white , fold gently as you want the light egg whites to stay light.

share the mixture out over 6 glasses and chill in the fridge for a couple of hours.

it's easy enough but the first time I did this it was a little dense .. but it's not rocket science.. If I can make it anyone can.

Serve with a dusting of icing sugar and/or a splodge of whipped cream. :drool:

[spindr]

Crumble

Mine always turns out flowery and "uncooked". What am I doing wrong?
Add some porridge oats (or even almonds -- allergies permitting).

SpinDr

P.S. Then it'll be porridgey and "uncooked" :)

[ducasi]

This is originally a Delia recipe..

[...]

it's easy enough but the first time I did this it was a little dense .. but it's not rocket science.. If I can make it anyone can.

Serve with a dusting of icing sugar and/or a splodge of whipped cream. :drool:
And what have you made? :confused:

[Beowulf]

And what have you made? :confused:

OOOPS!


Chocolate MOUSSE (Not Mouse or Moose as my spellchecker suggested !!)

[Clive Long]

When you rub in the butter, you need to keep rubbing it in untill it starts to stick together, then add in the sugar.

:flower: Hope this helps.
Crumble came out golden and cooked.

This evening - Apple and blackberry with creme fraiche (bugger the waist line) Mmmmmmm ..

[jivecat]

This evening - Apple and blackberry with creme fraiche (bugger the waist line) Mmmmmmm ..

How can more of something good be bad.............?;)



Favorite recipe take 2 pizza's any flavour place chips on top of one pizza place other pizza topping down on top hey presto pizza sandwiches super healthy

:drool:


Bliss, must try this. Have you tried adding salt and vinegar to the chips?

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