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    Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Following my post on another thread:

    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours


    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!

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

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

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jivecat
    I could just about cope with eating this concoction for one meal, if I was absolutely starving, but ten???

    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.

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    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.

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    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...

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by 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.
    ABSOLUTELY! Bring it on!

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by LMC
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    "Wanna come round for dinner tonight? My Mom's making her famous call-to-the-Chinese." - who can name that quote?

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by 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.
    Please !!!!! and double

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by TiggsTours
    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.

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames
    "Wanna come round for dinner tonight?
    DJ what are you like??

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidB
    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.
    when can i come over for dinner? that sounds

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    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!!

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    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.

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    ESG's White Chocolate Cheesecake

    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.

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    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

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    ESG's Banoffi Pie

    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.

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by Zebra Woman
    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).

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    Re: Recipes Thread - by popular demand!

    Quote Originally Posted by Zebra Woman
    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.

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    Re: ESG's Banoffi Pie

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo
    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.

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    Re: ESG's White Chocolate Cheesecake

    Quote Originally Posted by 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.

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

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