50p a day til Christmas - healthily?! Weezl's next challenge...

outrageous_monkey

Good Luck Weezl! I'm watching from the sidelines too, but I'm hoping to pick some ideas up.

Starting with the cocunut cake, that I will be making when the kiddy winks get in from school.

weezl74

hi kaleoma,

these look like good lemon balm recipes:D

bunny200, oooh I'm torn now, good weather for you, and a bit of rain for ISOM's allotment! Not sure what to wish for now!!! But have a great time. Valley's girl eh? Ah that explains a lot;););):D

Just done a pot of grapefruit marmalade with a ruby grapefruit that ISOM got given and didn't want!

And 4 lovely steamed strawberry jam sponge puddings are gonna be bubblin away in the slo-cooker this afternoon and evening. 4p per enormous serving :money::money::money::j

Weezl x

redsquirrel80

Just having a giggle to myself here as my workmates are discussing how good M&S's "two eat for £10" deal is.. I wonder what they'd think of "two eat for £1!"

weezl74

:rotfl::rotfl:redsquirrel I don't think my marketing is as good as M and S.

Perhaps I should start saying in my breathiest voice:

'this is not just lentil pate..... this is freshly-soaked, lovingly roasted, lentil pate, with home grown garden herbs.....'

BARGAINHUNTER!

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

mmm don't know i guess flor can be an issue as in some absorb more/less liquid than others or maybe it wanted a bit longer cooking than the instructions suggested i tend to ignore cooking times and go by doneness ..............................sorry no help at all:o


Weezl
Asda do a tin of ground coffee near the big tins of well known branded instant coffee for £4 not had any though so don't know what its like

this is the tin it just under a kilo in weight




Shaz

just re red your post and yours is cheaper.....doh

I have this at home and use it when I want 'posh' coffee - its very nice and comes in a tim with a resealable plastic lid so keeps fresh for ages!

LilMissEmmylou

that jam sponge sounds yummy nice - any chance of a quick post on how u made it for 4p lol and how the heck u cook a cake in a slow cooker (ive never done that before lol). Very interested thanks in advance x

newlywed

LilMissEmmylou wrote: »

that jam sponge sounds yummy nice - any chance of a quick post on how u made it for 4p lol and how the heck u cook a cake in a slow cooker (ive never dont that before lol). Very interested thanks in advance x

Yes please weezl - slow cookered sponge puds sounds like a good plan can we have more info please???

weezl74

Hiya newlywed and lilmissemmylou,

well, partly it was 4p cos I made the jam out of blackcurrants from my garden hope that wasn't misleading!

I also used a pat of butter for 50p from asdas price war weekend. You could do it for 6p a serving if you use stork marg instead of butter, and with asdas own blackcurrant jam, or 9p a serving with their jam and real butter. I've tried it all ways, and they're really nice!

OK here's how:

750g self-raising flour
250g butter/stork/sunflower marg
1 large 454g jar jam
cold water (start with about 200ml and keep adding til it's a wet slippy dough.)

Makes 18 servings, so you might want to reduce the quantities if you don't have an enormous freezer/skinny husband/excessive need to do enormous batch cooking!:rotfl:

Combine the butter, cold and cubed into the flour using finger tips, until you've achieved a breadcrumby consistency throughout. Then add the cold water, little by little, mixing with your hands until you get a wet slippy dough and all the floury mix is incorporated.;)

Put a dessertspoon sized dollop of jam in the base of a pudding basin. Add a layer, about 1 cm thick of the dough on top. then another layer of jam, then dough again, until the pudding basin is just over half full (it will grow when you cook it!:eek:) repeat this in 3 other pudding basins till you've used up all your dough.

I then normally put them in the microwave for 3 mins, pause and then 1 min to activate the self-raisingness of the flour, then transfer them to the slo-cooker to steam so they are lovely and moist. You can do the slo-cooker part after freezing and defrosting to end up with steamed puds just before you serve.:T

Boil a kettle and put 2 ins water in the base of your slo-cooker. switch SC onto high or auto. Make a foil lid for your pudding, with a little fold in the centre for expansion, and secure with string or a rubber band. Place the pudding into the slo-cooker and steam for anything from 1-4 hrs!

Makes 18 very generous, Mr Weezl sized servings. Most women I know ask for about half the portion. My brother does too!

Guapa1

weezl74 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:redsquirrel I don't think my marketing is as good as M and S.

Perhaps I should start saying in my breathiest voice:

'this is not just lentil pate..... this is freshly-soaked, lovingly roasted, lentil pate, with home grown garden herbs.....'

:rotfl::rotfl:

kaleoma

weezl74 wrote: »

hi kaleoma,

these look like good lemon balm recipes:D

bunny200, oooh I'm torn now, good weather for you, and a bit of rain for ISOM's allotment! Not sure what to wish for now!!! But have a great time. Valley's girl eh? Ah that explains a lot;););):D

Just done a pot of grapefruit marmalade with a ruby grapefruit that ISOM got given and didn't want!

And 4 lovely steamed strawberry jam sponge puddings are gonna be bubblin away in the slo-cooker this afternoon and evening. 4p per enormous serving :money::money::money::j

Weezl x

Thanks will give the lemon balm pesto one a bash and let you know how it worls out:T