Store cupboard challenge

vanoonoo

I was looking in my cupboard and fridge, and made the following today :

Plain flour (4oz)
Butter (2oz)
little bit of water

and made some shortcrust pastry using a recipe I found on Delia Smith's website. I then made a flan using up some cooked tesco value chipolatas and some mushrooms and onions sliced up, with 2 eggs and a bit on milk mixed in on top. I put it in the oven for about 1/2 hr on 190C.

As a pudding I used some left over pastry and some bits of lemon curd and jam that needed finishing and made some jam / curd tarts ( I put them in at the same time as the flan).

I'm looking forward to trying out some of the ideas I've seen here ;D

oooh I bet I could make some pastry and fit it into slimming world somehow. *sigh* I lurve pastry

vanoonoo

How about a roly poly?  Make a suet pastry, spread with the blamange, then halve some cherries and pop them on top.  Then roll up.

Squidgy

mmm and drink the kirsch

Sarahsaver

where's the rosemary

BIG FAT OOPS!
I haven't been well you will have to excuse me!
1 heaped teaspoon of dried rosemary or one normal teaspoon of fresh rosemary chopped.

Could have been tricking you. Like the student classic courgette surprise





No courgettes!!!

vanoonoo

BIG FAT OOPS!
I haven't been well you will have to excuse me!
1 heaped teaspoon of dried rosemary or one normal teaspoon of fresh rosemary chopped.

Could have been tricking you. Like the student classic courgette surprise

No courgettes!!!

lol - I did actually wonder!!

Galtizz

oooh I bet I could make some pastry and fit it into slimming world somehow.  *sigh*  I lurve pastry

Here's a recipe for pastry-less flan, I know it's just not the same but it is easy to do, you could substitute everything except the eggs for whatever you have in the cupboard and (I think) it should be OK on slimming world ???

It uses more eggs than normal to stop it going all floppy.

I got the recipe from here but it seems to have disapeared in the big sort out (I've got loads of recipes from here saved on Word) so I'll just quote it;

Kuku - or big posh quiche thing without the pastry Serves lots in little squares

9 eggs
2 large courgettes
1 block feta cheese chopped in to little cubes
3 red peppers large bunch of flat leaf parsley or other herbs Bunch of spring onions salt & pepper

Grate the courgettes into a sieve and mash out as much water as possible with a wooden spoon. Put in a bowl with finely chopped spring onions, roughly chopped parsley, and shredded peppers. Beat the eggs and mix into the veg.

Butter a large baking dish (a lasagne type one) and pour in half the egg/veg mixture. Scatter the cubes of feta over (minus the ones you have snaffled) and pour the rest of the egg mix over. Suddenly remember the salt and pepper. Whoops!

Cover with foil and bake for about 40 minutes at 200C or gas mark 5
(ish). After 40 mins take off the foil and bake for another 15-20 minutes until it is set in the middle and a lovely golden brown
(roughly the colour of a Brazilian beach babe)

catznine

Making Nasi Goreng tonight, I have leftover roast pork and some chicken pieces, so chopped up in small pieces, and then added to a pan in which I've put some sunflower oil and curry powder (to taste) and have softened some almost sprouting onions(chopped up) and some garlic. Stir in enough cooked rice to serve 2 peeps and the last of the frozen peas at the bottom of the freezer! If I find a handful of prawns at the same time I'll add those as well. Serve with some mango chutney (I think I've got a few spoonfuls left somewhere!! Oh and if you have 1 egg make a thin ommelette with this and cut into strips to decorate top!

vanoonoo

that sounds delicious - i made a sort of special fried rice one of the days between chrimbo and new year with bits of turkey, ham, prawns and peas and my homemade egg flied lice. yum yum. mmmmmm

vanoonoo

(I think) it should be OK on slimming world  ???

fine on either original or green if you work the feta cheese in with either healthy extras or syns - might give that a go! thanks for reposting it

could alter it by using cottage cheese probably. and if it were a vlf one it would be syn free

jaybee

Thanks for the Kuku recipe. Will definately do it - sounds foolproof enough even for me. I'm useless at pastry!

What does Kuku mean? Where does it originate?

r.mac_2

taking up this challenge this week as have no fresh food in house, but large supply of tinned tomoates!

I need to buy milk though and a loaf of bread or some rools - otherwise I will go hungry at lunch. My (rough) plan of the top of my head is as follows;

1. pasta and tomato sauce (saute and onion and any veg in bottom of fridge if available, add tin of tomatoes and simmer with seasoning until cooked - not rocket science!) with cheese on top.

Have enough supplies to live on this meal for approx i month ::) ::) , however in the interest of my personal sanity and health other ideas are;

2. risotto - pinched from this thread as i have rosemary in freezer

3. tuna pasta bake

4. pasta with end of tub of creme fraich. saute onion, add splash of old white wine, some walnuts of pine nuts, lots of black pepper and stir through creme fraich. Add teaspoon of pesto or cubes of blue cheese if available.

5. chilli and rice (frozen from last month)

6. chicken something - have two breasts in the freezer, but stuck for ideas. Not really that big on chicken, ohh, have tonnes of noodles from local chinese supermarket so will do a couple of strifry's minus the veg!!!!!!! Got onions, but would have to buy a pepper or two.

7. More pasta and tomato sauce. :-X