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Black Saturn's evening meal planner
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black-saturn wrote:Tonight I'm making lasagne. I have a tip for stopping the top of your lasagne drying out in the oven. Cover the lasagne with a couple of slices of bread which will get dried out instead and then you can throw them out when it's cooked revealing a nice moist lasagne underneath.
I think the crispy top of a lasagne or pasta bake (of course with the pasta covered in sauce and cheese sprinkled on top) is the best bit!0 -
I'm having a night off OS cooking today and just cooking a ready made pizza.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040
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black-saturn wrote:I'm having a night off OS cooking today and just cooking a ready made pizza.
good for you:D I am too. Having sausages and wedges from the freezer.
A girl needs some time off now and again.;)0 -
My boys loved the cheese and potato bake. I usually do it by mashing potatoes so it was less hassle and I liked having onion in it. In fact we had garlic too
They would have eaten it all if i'd made twice the amount! Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
I have done reading too!
To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.0 -
I have another tried and tested budget recipe for all of you. The measurements in this are enough to feed 3 people so adjust them to however many people you have:
Micro Fruit Cakes
For this you will need 3 ramekin dishes.
Ingredients:
2oz Sugar,
2oz margarine,
4oz self raising flour,
2 tablespoons powdered milk,
2oz raisins.
3 teaspoons golden syrup or treacle,
drop water
Method:
Cream the margarine and sugar together. Add the flour and cream it into the mixture. Add the powdered milk and the water and cream it into the mixture. Add the raisins and mix into the mixture.
Put a teaspoon of golden syrup or treacle in the bottom of each ramekin dish and spoon the mixture evenly into the ramekins.
Cook in the microwave on a low setting for a long time. All microwaves are different but I do mine on level 4 for 14 minutes.
Turn them out so that the golden syrup rund down over the cake.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040 -
They sound nice BS. I'll give them a whirl
Thanks.de do-do-do, de dar-dar-dar
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Another 2 OS recipes for you to try today:
Steak Pudding
For this you will need a slow cooker and a pudding basin.
1lb stewing steak,
2 oxo cubes,
2oz suet,
2oz plain flour,
pinch salt,
1 onion
Just before you go to bed the night before you want to eat this put the stewing steak, oxo cubes and the onion in the slow cooker with some water on a low setting. Leave it to cook slowly overnight.
In the morning when you get up drain the 'gravy' off the meat and set it aside. Wash the slow cooker out.
Make a dumpling type mixture from the flour, suet, salt and water.
Line the pudding basin with half the dumpling mixture and then put the cooked stewing steak into it. Then put the other half of the dumpling mix on the top. Cover the whole dish with clingfilm and make a small hole in the top.
Place it in the slow cooker and add boiling water around the edge but not going over the top. Leave it in the slow cooker all day on a low heat.
The water will not evaporate as long as the lid is kept on.
Reheat the 'gravy' and serve this up with mash and peas. It's a real comfort food.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040 -
Easy Basic Fruit cake
This is very easy and costs pennies to make.
You will need a round cake tin and a set of scales.
Preheat oven to Gas mark 5.
2oz butter/margarine (I use Stork)
2oz sugar (I use granulated)
4oz self raising flour (I use Tesco value)
2 eggs (I use Tesco value),
2oz raisins (I use Tesco value),
2 tablespoons milk.
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add 2 eggs and mix in. Add the flour and mix in. Add the raisins and cinnamon and mix in. If the mixture is too stiff add some milk.
Transfer it to a cake tin and bake for about 45 minutes.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040 -
Tonight I have made a beef stew with dumplings. When making the dumplings I substituted half an ounce of the flour for half an ounce of oats and it was really lovely.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040
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Tonight I have done another experiment with dumplings.
I used:
4oz plain flour,
1 tablespoon baking powder,
2oz low fat Lurpak,
4 tablespoons water.
Mixed it all up in a bowl and then put portions of it on top of the stew. They turned out even nicer than last weeks and hardly cost anything.2008 Comping ChallengeWon so far - £3010 Needed - £230Debt free since Oct 20040
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