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wellington womble
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Posted: Fri Jan 07, 05 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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My favourite frugal recipe is hotpot. A couple of neck fillets of lamb (I know your supposed to make it with chops, but the bones make things fiddly) sliced and browned, a couple of onions browned and whatever other veg are lurking in the fridge (always carrots, but often other roots too) layer the meat, onions and veg with sliced potatoes (you can peel them if you want, but I never bother) pour in some hot stock and leave in the oven till dinner time. It costs about �3.50 and will do us for two meals, and has the added bonus that you don't have to do anything with it. I often do it with leftover roast lamb, too.
A nice storecupboard recipe (on permanant standby in the hermitting season!) is tuscan bean and pasta soup. Friad it's Delia though!
8 oz (225 g) dried cannellini beans
4 oz (110 g) shortcut macaroni
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
21/2 level tablespoons tomato pure�
1 heaped tablespoon fresh rosemary, bruised in a mortar then very finely chopped
salt and freshly milled black pepper
rinse the dried cannellini beans and boil for 10 minutes in 3 pints of water, then turn the heat off and leaving them to soak for 2 hours.
Fry the chopped onion gently until soft, then add the garlic and cook for another minute. Add the tomato pur�e rosemary, stir and then pour in the beans and the with the water they were soaking in. Now bring to the boil and simmer gently for about an hour, or until the beans are tender.
season with salt and pepper, then pour half the soup into a blender, switch on and blend until smooth. Return the pur�ed half to the pan, add the macaroni and simmer for a 10 minutes, until the macaroni is cooked. Serve with Parmesan cheese sprinkled over.
it needs a bit of forethought, but you never have to go out to get the ingredients (except into the garden for the rosemary!)
Anybody got any good pork recipes. I've found some local rare breed pork, but have never cooked pork (hated supermarket pork at home, so never bought it once I left). I fancy a casserole inspired by the toulouse sausage - with red wine, garlic and parsley - what pork cut's good for slow cooking? I don't want to make it with sausages (although that might make a nice variation in future) |
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mrsnesbitt
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 05 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Back to topic.
I think my favourite quick and easy store cupboard recipe is to do spicy fish cakes with pasta, with a sauce made out of a tin of tomatoes, with a little balsamic vinagar. pepper, suger etc.
The fish can be tinned Tuna, Salmon, anything to hand, today it is some Mackeral from the freezer.
I throw in finely chopped green beans, chillies, some cheese if it needs using up, really anything to hand. Obviously potato as well!
Roll into balls and oven bake for maybe 25 mins.
It may be basic, but it is tasty quick and always possible.
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