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Curried eggs. Hard boil 2 eggs per person. fry onion and garlic add jar of curry sauce (20p from mr m's) add 1tablespoon hot chutney. Peel eggs, cut into halves add to sauce serve with rice or naan bread.Yummy!!
My favorite is blackened chicken:
put equal measures of ground cumin, paprika in a bowl and add about half the amount of white peper, black pepper and chilli powder. Mix together and sprinkle over chicken breasts and cook under the grill until cooked through. If you make up a big batch and put it in a jar it's even quicker.
Another is chicken stuffed with haggis
Cut a pocket in a raw chicken breast and stuff with haggis, wrap a slice of bacon round the chicken to close up the hole, wrap in foil and cook in the oven until cooked through. You can serve it like this or add a quick whiskey cream sauce - add a good slug of whiskey to a hot pan then light it to burn off the alchohol - looks quite impressive but don't burn the kitchen down :eek:. Add in the cream (about 1/4 of a small carton) and allow to thicken. Yum! Looks quite impressive but its really easy and as OH and I don't like whiskey its a good way of using up stuff that gets left after we have people round!
* tomato puree, dried oregano, salt and pepper, then mix with chopped tomato, feta and olives if you have any
* tomato puree, dried oregano, salt and pepper, tuna and rocket (squeezing half a lemon over it all before serving makes it all the nicer)
* chilli sauce, lemon, salt and pepper, then flake smoked mackerel over the top (again, squeezing half a lemon over it is a good idea)
* cinnamon, cumin, sultanas and apple slices
* chilli, tomato puree and whatever veggies you have around and about that need using up
Edit: If using puree with cous cous, it pays to spend an extra 20 seconds to mix the puree into the water and cous cous before you go and do something else so that you don't have a concentrated lump of puree when you mash it all up.
Or the italian way to do it is even easier: while the pasta (spaghetti or linguine) is boiling, put the pesto in a big mixing bowl, add a bit of olive oil and mix it together, grate in some parmesan if you feel like it. When the pasta's done, drain and bung it in the bowl, mix it together and hey presto (or "hey pesto!") one quick, easy, tasty meal.
Cook short pasta according to the pack instructions - fusilli (twists) or farfale (bows/butterflies) are best.
Dump a drained tin of tuna, a load of chopped fresh parsely (e.g. from the freezer), some grated fresh parmesan (or a good strong mature cheddar would work too) and the juice of a lemon into a big bowl and mix it all together.
When the pasta's ready barely drain it (you need to retain as much water as possible, so tip from the pan into the collander and then put the collander straight back over the pan so you can save some of the water.
Tip the drained pasta into the tuna-lemon-parsley concoction and mix it in.
Add as much water as necessary to make it nice and loose (it should make a 'shloop' noise as you mix the pasta in) - particularly if you're putting it in the fridge.
If you're feeling fancy you can top it with some more chopped parsely and grated parmesan. If you're feeling totally lazy, eat it straight from the mixing bowl
Just a warning to all: cold/cooled rice is something to be very, very wary of because it's a huge source of food poisoning. Rice has a huge surface area to volume ratio, giving it lots and lots of lovely surface area for bacteria to grow on. It's also a pretty good growing medium for bacteria because it's lovely and starchy. Ever had a tummy ache after eating rice? This is probably why.
I saw this on tv and decided to have a look - I have one thing to say.....Angel Delight lollies!!!!
Is it o/s?
I lost my cooking inspiration (again!) and am feeling a little flat and so I'm hoping that doing easy things will kick start me again.
I hope someone found this as exciting as me! I know I ought to really get out more....
Love from Lucy xxx