Weezl's phase 1- recipe testing and frugalisation- come one, come all!

weezl74

Thank you all Taka and QOS, I see your points, well made!

You are all very supportive and I totally know that no-one wants me to give up or feel despondant, and I shall take that on board.:D

One of the things I'm learning, is that this started out for me as a mission the only important thing was the goal. But now I think the journey has become something very intriguing, fun, full of new knowledge, new and old friends. And that's very valuable.

I think we're all posting on here because it also helps us in some way to help Bob and Shirley, and that's really important

I hope no-ones worried about me, I'm doing all this because I want to and I know this is a forum where folk will speak their mind, and I love that. There would have been private ways to go about this if I didn't like it if people disagreed with me, but I deliberately didn't choose them. I wanted to hear opinions, and I'm really glad I have

On a different front, we had a friend here for a meal, and the onion tart, chutney and breakfast pancakes put in an appearance and went down very well

I'm working tomorrow so might not have loads of time to post, but do please keep sharing thoughts, recipes, banter etc etc...

It's all fab and I'm mega touched to have your company along the way. Especially since it must seem I am darting hither and thither somewhat randomly at times

HowlinWolf

I've been looking at Avocet's list of what is left in the stock-cupboard.

If we take a tin of the tomatoes, water, 2 carrots, an onion, 2oz of pasta, and some of the dried peas I think we can have ourselves a Minestrone soup of sorts.

What about a potato and pea curry as we seem to have plenty potatoes and peas left? Or if we could spare some of the 10 remaining eggs a tortilla or fritatta with peas and potato?

What about a cheese and potato pie (no crust, the sort we used to get at school) with some green beans and carrots. There is also one with pastry on the hairy bikers mum's know best website that just uses oil and self raising flour.

weezl74

In_Search_Of_Me wrote: »

... and please weezl NO to powdered milk - think it would be a step too far and be off putting..

really? I don't think I knew that about you! How bizarre I totally never thought you'd give up meat and treats to avoid 2 cuppas with milk powder Have you been hating your cuppas at my house?

She hides it well chaps!

weezl74

HowlinWolf wrote: »

Or if we could spare some of the 10 remaining eggs a tortilla or fritatta with peas and potato?

What about a cheese and potato pie (no crust, the sort we used to get at school) with some green beans and carrots. There is also one with pastry on the hairy bikers mum's know best website that just uses oil and self raising flour.

I didn't think there were eggs left, how weird, where have I gone wrong..... ?

Great minds think alike about the pastry there Howlin, I've just done that to the delia tart and It's VERY nomnomnomnommy

In_Search_Of_Me

weezl74 wrote: »

really? I don't think I knew that about you! How bizarre I totally never thought you'd give up meat and treats to avoid 2 cuppas with milk powder Have you been hating your cuppas at my house?

She hides it well chaps!

No I dont hate cuppas in your house - wet and warm but as a preference (unless at the allotment) will always go for fresh milk...soreeee Re the meat I dont have it that often and think actually its more a treat now-a-days - free range meat aint cheap and since discovering that piggies also need to be fr now will have it even less lol!! Pasta with butter and black pepper is also one of my fave meals..bet you didnt know that either eh!! see woman of mystery me!

artybear

Interesting musings on budget...I cant quite decide what camp I fit into yet.

On a less frugal note can I ask a question for a Cardiff contingent...is the Cardiff train station near the Millennium centre at all? If not how far away is it approx.

Sorry for the off topicnessXXXXXX

System

weezl74 wrote: »

I didn't think there were eggs left, how weird

As far as I know, not many recipes are using eggs. You are using 8 eggs in two batches of carrot cake, 4 in two batches of sweetcorn fritters, 4 in two batches of onion tart and 4 in four batches of hash browns.

There were 30 in the box, weren't there? That leaves 10 left to play with, unless you are changing the frequency of these recipes or reintroducing the pork and apple burgers, which were the only other recipe to involve egg. Unless I've got it all horribly wrong...

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

Interesting musings on budget...I cant quite decide what camp I fit into yet.

On a less frugal note can I ask a question for a Cardiff contingent...is the Cardiff train station near the Millennium centre at all? If not how far away is it approx.

Sorry for the off topicnessXXXXXX

It's about 1.5 miles to the bay where the centre is, but you can get a connecting train to Cardiff Bay station which takes 5 mins and is then just 5 mins from the millennium centre

In_Search_Of_Me

artybear wrote: »

Interesting musings on budget...I cant quite decide what camp I fit into yet.

On a less frugal note can I ask a question for a Cardiff contingent...is the Cardiff train station near the Millennium centre at all? If not how far away is it approx.

Sorry for the off topicnessXXXXXX

Cardiff central station is literally over the road from the millenium stadium..few mins walk! hth ooo edit is it the sporty stadium you want or the one in the bay?!! Sporty one couple mins walk and other one more like half hour, bus, train or (date I say it!!) taxi ride!

weezl74

Avocet wrote: »

Unless I've got it all horribly wrong...

Hugely unlikely m'dear! In any contest between weezl and avocet for being good at checking essential details, my money is on Avocet any day of the week