My favorite Cheap Meals

My all time comfort food.....grate piece of Gruyre cheese, cook up big bowl of macaroni, mix until cheese is melting & stringy...pour glass of red wine, watch Bettie Davies film while its raining outside....bliss sheer bliss.....

JackieO wrote:

All basic British food that I grew up on .Probably not terribly healthy ,but when I was little there was a war on, and your were darned lucky to get anything to eat at all.

Jackie thought you'd like to know that it's been been proven a war diet is much more healthy than today's diet!! Apparently that is the healthiest period in recent history!!

I've got young kids (3.5yo & 2yo) but I'm 40 :eek: and I agree with your opinions about cooking in schools. But even when I was at school Domestic Science was pretty rubbish - the first thing we made was "milk jelly" had never heard of it and never had it since... I don't understand why you have to turn cooking into Chemistry but teach it as a skill in it's own right. But then I think that about alot of things - how to handle money so that you don't get into debt in the first place, relationship education instead of sex education that is teach the emotional/moral side instead of just the mechanics, role-playing certain life situations like being a victim of crime (like burgulary or mugging) or domestic violence or noisy neighbours or bullying, etc - Blimey there's so many I could go on forever... but I won't :rolleyes: I'm sure others can think of things I wouldn't even think of anyway

* Bean burritos (with beans from the garden plot, HM salsa, HM guacamole and HM tortillas)

* HM veggie burgers on HM buns with HM oven chips

* HM lentil soup with HM bread

* HM pasta with HM marinara sauce

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What about sausage casserole / toad in the hole / corned beef hash.
Yum, yum, yum, might have to get tomorrow's dinner ready now.

Mics_chick wrote:

What's actually in the marinara sauce Pandora - ingredients and recipe if at all poss... pwwwwease!

I combined a couple of recipes I found online here and here... this is the result and it is the finest marinara sauce I've had, IMHO!

Marinara Sauce
3 tablespoons olive oil
130g finely chopped onion (1 medium)
50g finely chopped celery (1 stalk)
50g finely chopped red pepper (1/2 small)
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 700g jar passata (I use an organic one from Morrisons... around 65p)
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon minced fresh oregano
1 tablespoons minced fresh basil
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
125ml dry white wine

Heat oil; add onion and saute for 10 minutes. Add celery and red pepper and saute another 10 minutes. Add garlic and saute five more minutes. (It's really important to saute the veg until they're very tender and the onion is golden... if the veg start to brown or burn, turn the heat down.)

Add remaining ingredients and bring to a simmer. Cover, reduce heat to very low and cook for an hour (or longer).

Can be frozen.

If you're counting calories, the olive oil could be reduced though the flavour won't be quite as nice.

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