Help please...need to spend less time cooking after work!!

thriftlady_2

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

Edit: While I'm here, has anybody tried roasting broccoli or cauliflower? Those are our veg staples but I'm not if roasting them would work?

This is a delicious way to roast broccoli. I highly recommend it. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work with cauliflower too.

Patchwork_Quilt

Chickpea casserole is quick

1 onion, chopped
1 clove garlic
1 carrot chopped
1 potato chopped

Brown all these in the pan

Pour in 1 can of chickpeas
Add a handful of bulgar wheat
2 T soy sauce

May need to add a little water, so that everything is just covered. Put in medium oven until onion and carrot are tender or cover and keep on the hob

The ingredients tend to change, depending on what we have in. You could add herbs, or a splash of wine. The original recipe (Rosemary Conley) contained green beans

Fire_Fox

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

I'd like to know too, we end up getting a takeaway too often when we get home at 7pm and can't face chopping and cooking and washing up.

I can't think of any meals to freeze though. We usually eat fresh vegetables with protein like quorn burgers/sausages/fillets, or my boyfriend might have fishcakes. We don't eat dishes with sauces. Sometimes we might have quorn and veg with Mexican type spices. But no sauce, I don't really like "wet" meals.

What would be nice, is something we can put in the oven and just relax (aka do the tidying :rolleyes: ) while it cooks, instead of having to stand over the hob cooking it. Is it possible to chop veg to roast (like onion, pepper, carrot etc), mix the oil and herbs in and then put it into oven bags in the freezer? Or will oven bags no longer work in the oven once they've been frozen? I can imagine them going brittle or something.

George Foreman-type electric grill is faster than the average oven for things like sausages, burgers, fishcakes etc. Then just nuke frozen vegetables - most frozen veg is ready prepared and some are cheaper than fresh. Stir frys and omelettes are also very fast from fridge to plate.