Feeding two Chinese boys

Soubrette

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

Chicken Tikka Masala is. Allegedly, it was "invented" in a Bangladeshi restaurant in Glasgow, when a customer wanted gravy on their Chicken Tikka.

If it was glasgow then we're lucky it's not deep fat fried chicken tikka masala

Sou

Janetew

Thank you to everyone! I love this site! The boys are 15. This is what I have planned now:

Friday : Delia's Ragu pasta bake
Saturday : Sausage casserole (does anyone have a good recipe?)
Sunday : Roast Chicken / roast tatties etc (yes, you are right - if they want English then they have to eat spuds!)
Monday : Egg fried rice with left over chicken and ham

They have a full English for breakfast every day.

They always like to stop off at Tescos where they buy loads of Pot Noodles (yuk), coke and crisps. Typical teenagers I guess!

Stephen_Leak

I did this Sausage Casserole, with some fabulous Gloucester Old Spot pork sausages from a local farm shop (DD was not amused when I referred to the piglets as chipolatas), for my Mum and I the Sunday before last.

SAUSAGE CASSEROLE

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

2 carrots
2 potatoes
½ an onion
1 tablespoon of sunflower oil
4 sausages*
200g (½ a 400g tin) of plum tomatoes*
250ml of water
1 beef stock cube
1 teaspoon of parsley
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Peel the carrots and cut them into slices. Peel the potatoes and chop them into 2 cm (1 inch) pieces. Peel the onion, cut it in half, chop one half into tiny pieces and save the other half.

Put the oil in a frying pan on a moderate heat. Add the sausages and onion, and fry for about 5 minutes until the sausages are thoroughly cooked. Stir frequently to stop it sticking.

Open the tin of tomatoes. Put the juice into a bowl. Chop the tomatoes while they are still in the can (it’s easier than chasing them around the bowl). Put the chopped tomatoes into the bowl. Use half and save the other half.

Put the sausages and onion, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, water, stock cube and parsley into a large ovenproof dish with a lid. Stir thoroughly. Put the lid on the dish.

Cook in a preheated oven at 150°C, 300°F, gas mark 2 for about 2 hours. Check the liquid level from time to time and top it up if it starts to dry out.

Season with the pepper.

ADDITIONS & ALTERATIONS

Use mixed herbs instead of the parsley.

Serve with a green vegetable, or add 100g of peas 15 minutes before the end of cooking.
　
* Use good quality sausages. The more meat in them the better. There are few tastier foods in the world than a meaty, herby British sausage. There is nothing worse than a bland, mass-produced tube of pink stodge.

** Plum tomatoes can be used either whole or chopped. It is difficult to stick chopped tomatoes back together again if you need to use them whole.

PS. With luck, they won't notice the potato. If they do, tell them it's turnip.

HariboJunkie

To give sausage casserole a bit more depth of flavour I fry some garlic with the onion at the beginning and add half a cup of red wine to the chicken stock. I also use red peppers in my recipe and leave out the spuds. Serve it with warm crusty bread.

FamilyTree_2

Soubrette wrote: »

If it was glasgow then we're lucky it's not deep fat fried chicken tikka masala

Sou

Have you ever been to Glasgow Soubrette?, I think you'll find not everything in Glasgow is deep fat fried!!!in fact other than the stereotypical deep fried mars bar ( which no one I know eats and I've never seen on any menu list in any chip shop in Scotland) Glasgow is no differnet from any other part of Britian happens to have some excellent resturants.:rolleyes:

I think you should just cook the boys what you would be eating Janetew, it would give them the idea of what people in this country typically eat as opposed to what is British. Pasta's not British but we all eat alot of it, we have very cosmopolitain tastes on this wee island.:rotfl:

emmzy

i live in glasgow and theres a chip shop in anniesland that sells deep fried mars bars... theyr kinda nice actually i tried a bit of my friends once ...

Janetew

Thank you so much Stephen. I'm going to print that off and use it. I like the idea of warm crusty bread as well.

I think the reason I'm finding it hard to plan menus for them Family Tree is because I usually eat stir-fries and curries. But you are right, I should feed them what I eat. They are quite shy with me still and tell me they like everything I cook bless them. I just worry why they have to stock up with Pot Noodle!

Wonder if they would like deep fried Mars Bar? I hear it's good too!

Janet

p.s. One of their parents has just emailed me and asked me to purchase them 10 face masks each re swine flu. Sitting here not sure whether to laugh or panic!

rocketdog_2

OOh I'd love to try a deep fried Mars Bar!!!

Idiophreak

Don't discount dumplings...Stew and dumplings is a good alternative to casserole if they're really "fed up" with spuds...

FamilyTree_2

they probably would janetew :rotfl:as I say I've never seen them and don't know anyone that's tried them but I dare say they'd be nice and since probably similar to banana or pinapple fritters but a bit chocolatier.

A steak pie is another good one and easy to make if you get one from a butchers, but it may just be that they find our food stodgy compared to noodles and rice dishes.

Bless them it must be hard getting used to foreign food.