Weezl's phase 1- recipe testing and frugalisation- come one, come all!

FrankieM · 12 February 2010 at 5:27PM

Do you think the sweetcorn fritters could be frozen?

weezl74 · 12 February 2010 at 5:31PM

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

OH said, oh what else is in there then and I said eggs and cheese and that's pretty much it, mmmm he went, we could have some mushrooms in with it. I said, I'd rather not, I'm testing a recipe, if we have it again, you can have whatever you want in it - and he went off seemingly quite happy, I expected more resistance than that!

:rotfl:

thanks Lesley. Am very excited to hear yours and DH's responses later

Allegra, loving risi e bisi (have you spotted my dodgy italian in the meal planners? Do please correct it!) would a spoon of pesto work in lieu ofparsley and cheese component? xxx:D

twinkle_star_2 · 12 February 2010 at 5:33PM

weezl74 wrote: »

:DI have no wish to earn anything from it. I would happily do this for nowt. MSE attracts millions of people, and if I want to offer a resource to Bob and shirley, I feel they may most likely find it here.

I'll stay unless it seems to hamper what we're doing or the MSE team feel it is inappropriate forum material.

How does that sound?

I reckon it might be nice to have your meal plan on separate site as well. Much akin to hillbilly housewife's $45 emergency menu. I found that site months before I found MSE and it's nice to have it all in the one place. But here too, I agree. More people that find it the better. :T

P.S. I may be working on super secret veganised version of this meal planner. And I may be fizzling with uber-geek excitement at all the number play. Shhhhh :rotfl:

weezl74 · 12 February 2010 at 5:35PM

twinkle_star wrote: »

P.S. I may be working on super secret veganised version of this meal planner. And I may be fizzling with uber-geek excitement at all the number play. Shhhhh :rotfl:

oooooooooh are you writing James and Kitty's planner? Yay!:D Cardiff super geeky girls fizzling with delight!

twinkle_star_2 · 12 February 2010 at 5:41PM

I suppose it will be James and Kitty's plan. I like them having names. It's exciting. I'm going to try and see if it's possible to stick to some of the original plan meal ideas to see if they can be veganised within a slim budget or whether vegans may have to eat totally different foods in order to get all their nutrients. Interesting methinks.

nopot2pin · 12 February 2010 at 5:46PM

FrankieM wrote: »

Do you think the sweetcorn fritters could be frozen?

I would think so...
I always freeze left over yorkshire puddings

Weezl, I have just PM'd you, with propsed survey stuff

HOWMUCH · 12 February 2010 at 5:54PM

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

was looking through a couple of recipe books last night and saw a recipe by Tamasin Day Lewis that involved just a whole cabbage of about a kilo and 750g sausages, slow cooked. She was raving about it and saying how wonderful it was.

If we used Asda SP sausages £1.06Kg and a white cabbage at 50p for a Kg that would be 80p for the sausage and 50p for the cabbage, total of £1.30 or 32p a portion

worth a go?

Lesley Aldi currently have savoy cabbage on offer at 29p each

homegrown_life · 12 February 2010 at 5:56PM

twinkle_star wrote: »

P.S. I may be working on super secret veganised version of this meal planner. And I may be fizzling with uber-geek excitement at all the number play. Shhhhh :rotfl:

oooh excellent - I try not to eat too much meat, but also don't like many cheesy veggie meals so often we have vegan type stuff. I can't wait to hear what you come up with.

Lesley_Gaye · 12 February 2010 at 6:06PM

HOWMUCH wrote: »

Lesley Aldi currently have savoy cabbage on offer at 29p each

wow, even cheaper then. I will give it a go when I have a gap in the menu.

Onion tart tonight and tom, Valentines Sunday, so special dinner - possibly Monday then. I'll let you know what it tastes like

Lesley_Gaye · 12 February 2010 at 6:14PM

I have had a play with frugalising this. Thoughts so far

pastry 100g sr flour, 50g spread, 2 tsp mustard
blind bake pastry case

chop beetroot into 1" pieces, toss beetroot (not sure of qty yet) in 2 tblsp oil and 1 tsp sugar and caramelise in a frying pan

parcook 100g beans cut into 1" pieces, drain well. Add to beetroot along with 100ml pureed toms from one of the tins, 25g salted peanuts, chopped and 25g grated cheese

Mix well and put into cooked pastry case, heat through in oven until cheese is melted

Serve with the chutney and poss pot wedges. Would probably work better in 4x4" individual tart tins

Haven't tried it yet, OH not keen on beetroot. Any volunteers? Otherwise might do a half qty for myself only

Any thoughts on frugalisation? Have used only ingredients from list, would be nice to have some herbs so we could do finely chopped rosemary in the pastry or thyme in the filling, but as Weezl says, this just has to be 'good enough' not gourmet

Weezl's phase 1- recipe testing and frugalisation- come one, come all!

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