Urgent Gordon Ramsey Help Needed!!!!!

avinabacca

MSE_Martin wrote: »

Old Stylers I need your help.

Gordon Ramsey's new Cookalong programme is doing a credit crunch special and I've been asked to cook a MoneySaving dish against him - on a sub £5 budget though the cheaper the better.

Here's the problem. I AM A TERRIBLE COOK. I need something simple, but sexy, that'll beat him. Im thinking desert would be easy. It also needs to be something NOT out of a recipe book - if i do it I will try and credit the oldstyler with the dish.

AND i need to be able to present it well and easily... AAAAAAAAAARGGGHH

(they called today and asked if i can do it tomorrow, which I can't but this could be needed soon)

Suggestions and detailed instructions and any help needed.

Massive thanks in advance

Martin

Totally O/T, I know, but whichever meal you choose to make - please, please will you resist the temptation to copy Ramsay when you finish cooking, by calling out "done" in the manner of some three-year-old proudly waving a stool-filled potty at their Mum?

It gets right on my box, does that :mad:

Good luck with the cooking though, fella!

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get a lovely ovenproof dish out

2/3 fill it with
halved stoned plums +
1 or 2 bananas in chunks+
a few peeled cored and sliced pears

add some sugar and a splash of water. Bake 15 minutes or so while you get a crumble topping ready

8 oz plain flour + 4 oz soft butter in pieces
rub together lightly
add a bit of sugar

take the dish out. Sprinkle on as much topping as you like. Bake to bubbling and brown. Serve with cream ice cream or custard

wogglemaker

Microwave sponge pudding, made with homemade jam, and proper custard not packet

floss2

Baked pears & vanilla ice-cream with choccy sauce:

4 fresh pears (in season)
Carefully peel, leaving stalk on & stand upright in a pan.
Pour over a carton of red grape juice (or Aldi / Lidl red wine) and put lid on
Gently simmer for 10-15mins
Meanwhile melt 1 bar plain chocolate in a bowl over hot water.

To serve, stand pear on plate, add 1 scoop ice-cream & drizzle with choccy sauce.

sistercas

mumof4 could you post your lentil dhal recipe anyway it sounds lovely. if martin isnt able to make it i would like a bash
thankyou.
MSE Martin good luck- make us old stylers proud:D

Gingernutmeg

You could make an eton mess variation using some plums ... what I'd do is quarter and stone them and then just bake them with some spices (bit of cinnamon, bit of vanilla essence, bit of mixed spice) and some brown sugar till they're soft and syrupy, then chill them. Then you could fold them into some softly whipped cream with some crushed meringues. That'd be nice and seasonal and if you're serving four for five pounds, you could probably even make some homemade shortbread to go with it - that's dead easy and would cost less than 50p for a batch if you used value butter, sugar and flour. If plums are dear then you could even go half plum and half apple, a spicy plum and apple eton mess sounds nice, all you need is something sharp fruitwise to contrast with the sweet meringue.

At a guess I'd say that you could make the pudding for £2-£2.50 ish, if you used the cheapest ingredients. That'd give you £2 -£2.50 ish for a main course too, so you could do something really simple, cheap and filling like a lentil and root vegetable soup - just sweat off some onions and garlic, add some chopped root vegetables (carrot, parsnip etc) and some herbs (or even spices if you want a spicy soup) and lemon juice, then your lentils and some veg stock. Cook till the lentils are soft then blend. That'd be really cheap. easy and tasty and you could probably even get/make some bread to go with that and still stay within budget.

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

Hi Martin,

A lot of my cheapo recipes are long slow cooking in the sc but you could go for a cheap cut of meat (offal?) or pork hock which is cheap as chips and tasty.

Boil a pork hock with celery, carrots and onion then strip all meat off it and put in a bowl with a bit of the liquid, press down with a plate, cool then serve sliced with chips. The liquid can be made into a soup.

Rubber chicken is good but probably not fancy enough for tv!

Mince?

Potato curry, rice and kebabs?

I'll come back later if any ideas.....good luck! I'll be tuning in!

MUMOF4_2

from my previous thread feed 6 for £50

Lentil dhal recipe. I play around with this one, adding what i fancy to the basic recipe, carrots, mushroom, peas etc whilst it is cooking. Sometimes i add curry powder for a spicy version. It makes a lovely pate cold, if you make it without the added extras!
serves 4-6

12 oz red lentils
2 onions
2 stockcubes mixed with 1 1/2pts of water
1/2 tsp dried mixed herbs

Put all in ingredients in a pan, and bring to the boil, reduce hear and simmer for 15- 20 minutes until lentils are cooked and have absorbed the liquid, keep an eye on the liquid and top up if needed.

To make wedges:
scrub some baking potatoes, !!!!! with a fork, then bake in oven for 1 hour. Allow to cool, then cut into thick wedges,(leaving skin on) pour a small amount of olive oil into a roasting tin then drop wedges in and turn them over so thinly coated in oil. Sprinkle with salt, pepper. Bake in a hot oven for 30 minutes until golden and crispy.

hope you enjoy

Bongedone

I make Carbonara when I have guests. Would come in well under £5 and is so easy.

ASDA currently have diced pancetta for £1 a packet.

EDIT: Here is the recipe. It serves 4 easily so you could halve it if you are making a meal for 2 and use the change for a dessert. It also only takes 10 minutes.

1) Put a pan of salted water onto boil

2) Fry 220g of cubbed pancetta or smoked bacon in a little oil for 5 minutes

3) Put a bag of fresh tagliatelle (approx. 350g) into the boiling water (takes about 5 minutes)

3) Add 110g of sliced mushrooms to frying pan with the pancetta and fry for another 4 minutes stiring occasionally. You can add a clove of crushed garlic here also if you like.

4) Whilst the mushrooms are frying: Crack 4 eggs into a cup, add 15g of grated parmasan cheese, a pinch of pepper and 75ml cream and mix together

5) Drain the pasta then put it back in the hot pan and mix everything from the frying pan and the cup through it. The heat from the pasta cooks the egg through.

6) Serve sprinkled with parmesan cheese

The dish is stylish and very easy. Basically Italian bacon and eggs.

misskool

chicken liver pate on toast (or you can be pretend posh and call it bruscetta) with salad
for pudding, i'd chop up some some fruit (plums, grapes, anything on special) whip some double cream , crush some rich tea biscuits and mix it all up together.

£5 is a lot of money in OS-land