Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

patchwork_cat

I think that my original tomato recipe was an adaptation of Jamie's 5 vegetable sauce on school dinners that someone posted on here a long time ago. I forgot it did have peppers, but the kids could always detect them as a flavour! So now I will add them in in chunks if they work with the recipe, so they can pick them out, otherwise they just leave it!

Gigervamp

helyg wrote: »

I know, we used to call it slapper pasta when I was at uni

Lol, you learn something new every day! :rotfl:

Gigervamp

helyg wrote: »

I'm the same, almost everything I make starts off with tinned tomatoes, garlic, onion and peppers, then just gets tweaked a bit to become italian/mexican/moroccan etc

Same here! Such a variety of dishes using the same basic veg. Lovely innit?

THIRZAH

In the chapter on "Programmed Eating" in the Paupers Cookbook, Jocasta Innes suggests basing a weeks meals around one big, relatively costly item such as gammon joint, beef casserole or chicken (the book was written in the 1970s). I think that this must have been an earlier verion of the "Bedrock recipes"

I bought the book when I was first married . We both worked long hours .We use to cook one big batch of something at the weekend-chilli, chicken etc and freeze leftovers so that we always had meals in the freezer.

nicnak1

zippychick wrote: »

Well done! Silly question, what is arla milk?

I tried the biryani - the texture of the rice was great, but flavour wise i found it dull. I did use brown rice though, so wasnt sure if it would have needed more flavouring/. It made far far too much for two people. The chicken however i found fantastic!

I would try that biryani method again, perhaps researching flavourings etc - bu the rice was cooked lovely - i did leave it an extra 5 as brown rice.

Arla milk is the skimmed milk on sale at ASDA ...tis with all the other fresh milk, and has a purple label. I think it's a bit of a bargain at 74p as the otheres are well over £1!

P.s...It is priced up at £1, but goes through the till at 74p!

Lesley_Gaye

patchwork_cat wrote: »

The thing is you can't compare like for like because of bones. I would be interesteed if someone did a calculation on g for g meat. I did recently on Salmon. I always thought that buying a whole salmon and filleting it was still cheaper than fillets, but I was wrong. Bought a whole salmon at Asda 2 days ago - 2.4kg, but when it was filleted it was only just over a Kg. I will be buying already filleted in future as it worked out at £12 /kg of fish!!

Yes, I would be interested to know what the actual meat is. I thought it might be similar to thighs as they have big bones in them.

I will weigh the meat next time I strip a chicken

You have to keep your wits about you with this frugal lark don't you!

helyg

THIRZAH wrote: »

In the chapter on "Programmed Eating" in the Paupers Cookbook, Jocasta Innes suggests basing a weeks meals around one big, relatively costly item such as gammon joint, beef casserole or chicken (the book was written in the 1970s). I think that this must have been an earlier verion of the "Bedrock recipes"

I bought the book when I was first married . We both worked long hours .We use to cook one big batch of something at the weekend-chilli, chicken etc and freeze leftovers so that we always had meals in the freezer.

I think it's something which has been done for generations, it's just every decade it gets rebranded and called something else.

My mum was born just after the war and they used to have a roast on Sunday, leftover roast on Monday, Pie made from the meat on Tuesday, Stew made from the bones on Wednesday... don't know what they had on Thursday but I know they were always delighted when it was Friday and the fish man came round so that had something new!

foxgloves

I agree. There are not really many new ideas, just new to a different generation of people, but great to learn the sort of skills that save our hard earned money. I like the Jocasta Innes Pauper's Cookbook. It came out in the 70s then it was reissued during a previous recession. I bought it then when I was a student, it was published by Vermillion, & I did use it a lot. I seem to remember there was a 10p symbol next to the recipes that really did cost next to nothing to make.

helyg

I think I'll have a look in the library to see if they have the pauper's cookbook, always like new inspiration!

Gigervamp

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

You have to keep your wits about you with this frugal lark don't you!

Too true!

I remember the time when I needed a few big potatoes for jackets that week.

Turned out that it was cheaper to buy the four pack rather than pick the potatoes from the loose.