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

weezl74

aless02 wrote: »

weezl, I forgot to say I tested an old "version" of the spanish omelette several days ago - no potatoes. (it wasn't so much a recipe as a list of ingredients )

around 80g of peas & 80g sweetcorn. Plus 2 small onions.

Then 3 eggs between 2 people along with a little milk. Added some chili powder & garlic puree to the egg. Omeletted it all together, topped with a sprinkling of cheese and served with HM wedges. Worked a treat and was filling & delicious.

(my only thing was it was A LOT of filling, so I wouldn't necessarily fully double it for a 4-person recipe...)

that's good, cos we have 4 eggs for the family of 4

erm, definition of a sprinkle of cheese? Is a texan sprinkle 30g ish?;)

weezl74

ariarnia wrote: »

Which ever you can explain easily. Really though, I'd be happy to do a pan of each, as I assume it will keep till tomorrow?

If you could reduce the quantities for me to serve 2 that would be grand.

If you have a bread recipe, I can do a loaf to go with it 2lb silicon tin as requested in a lovely yellow colour.

oooh fab! there's a recipe for 2 types of loaf on the blog. but if you're making 1 loaf rather than 4 don't quarter the amount of yeast... still use around10g cos there's a minimum amount with yeast that if you fall below it it can't get off the ground...:) you prob knew that already!

ok so for 2 people, please try:

half a can of mushies
1 apple grated with as little core left as poss
1 little onion chopped and fried in a dessertspoon of the rapeseed.
salt, pepper, garam masala, garlic and enough water to bring it all to a nice thick soupy consistency

As aless wisely noted, more of a list of ingredients than a recipe :rotfl:

weezl74

ariarnia wrote: »

Which ever you can explain easily. Really though, I'd be happy to do a pan of each, as I assume it will keep till tomorrow?

If you could reduce the quantities for me to serve 2 that would be grand.

If you have a bread recipe, I can do a loaf to go with it 2lb silicon tin as requested in a lovely yellow colour.

It's a bit harder to reduce the tommy one cos I think you'll end up with lots of halved things as leftovers!

I can try though...

Or do you want to do it and pop half in your freezer?

ariarnia

I can't eat nuts, so I'll leave out the walnuts, but for 1 loaf I figure as this.

350g P. flour
1 sachet yeast.
1 dsert sp sugar
salt - i don't have any but don't know if it's important? I can borrow some from next door?
30g of quick oats cereal (I think we've got quaker ready oats? rather than the brand you used on the list)
100ml hand hot water.

Look right to you?

ariarnia

either's fine with me, or I can keep half a tin of toms in fridge and make pizza for lunch weds.

weezl74

ariarnia wrote: »

I can't eat nuts, so I'll leave out the walnuts, but for 1 loaf I figure as this.

350g P. flour
1 sachet yeast.
1 dsert sp sugar
salt - i don't have any but don't know if it's important? I can borrow some from next door?
30g of quick oats cereal (I think we've got quaker ready oats? rather than the brand you used on the list)
100ml hand hot water.

Look right to you?

looks right but keep adding the water til your dough is quite slippy

without salt is ok, but I have read that the salt acts to inhibit the yeast after a certain temperature point, so I hope without it you don't get an oozy mess on the base of your oven! I'll have to pop round with my Mr Muscle :rotfl:

Lesley_Gaye

weezl74 wrote: »

Linkie to cheap silicone tins. Slightly worrying as they can't spell on their website, which always troubles me a bit

Will get my head round proportions for the pasta dish today whilst fergie is at his childminder. (some tasks I find I can do while he is here giggling and playing and needing me every few mins, but others I need a bit of clear headed time, in case anyone's wondering why I manage to do certain things and not others!:rotfl:)

...with the pie, although I have still called it 'and sweetcorn' in the planner, I'm most happy with the version in the 'other place':o;) as this frees up enough sweetcorn to make better fritters IMHO... I don't mind if you bake or steam the pie, I slightly prefer the idea of steamed because of the way the pastry puffs up more and therefore you get the feel of a much more substantial dinner IYSWIM?



Interesting. Will research further! Also when sprouted could offer some salad options to planner 3.

Lesley are you willing to spare a small handful and see how easy they are to sprout?

I guess the things we'd be looking at would be, how long they take (so we don't end up with them all erupting on the last day of shirl's month, and also what sort of success rate we get ie what weight of sprouts is yielded by what original weight IYSWIM?

Please feel free to say no if you'd rather not



I've been wondering about this too howlin. Basically it's your recipe and I trust you. There are no herbs currently, as we were going to assume shirley doesn't start from a completely empty cupboard, and also we were going to ask her to spare £3ish at the start if not to set herself up with salt/pepper/garam masala, chilli...

If it were in that ball park, I'd be comfortable with it coming from there, but equally I am very happy to make tweaks to accomodate something else because I know you will be price conscious when you choose it

these are 68p at asda (but possibly not available all year round?)



or dried oregano and thyme look quite good.

I personally don't think other herbs perform so wel dried, apart from rosemary, but that may over power your dish!

So in a nutshell: I haven't bought shirl anything yet, but I will follow your lead as it is your tried and trusted recipe

Howzat?

xxx

aah, I see so the chicken and onion pie on your blog is now the one. Ok I'll have a go at that then. And the tomatoey pasta?

Thanks for the link to the tins, it doesn't say what size they are, so I am assuming they would be the right size? Looked in Lakeland yesterday and they are very expensive in there.

I'll sprout some dal and let you know what happens

Off to a food group now (U3A), then aerobics, so see you later

artybear

Hey if more things need to be added to the index let me know-if I keep on top of it we will hopefully have them in the same place for ease, and not have to keep indexing every so often

artybearXXX

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

Hey if more things need to be added to the index let me know-if I keep on top of it we will hopefully have them in the same place for ease, and not have to keep indexing every so often

artybearXXX

Hiya how're you? Thanks for being willing to index! such a dull job!

I did upload quite a few more recipes...

if you click their title, the URL address you get will always go to that exact recipe rather than the homepage which will then need scrolling down... IYSWIM?

xxx

FrankieM

weezl I'm going to go for the omlette with peas, onion, sweetcorn, some kind of spices/herbs and potatoes on the side. Can I have baked beans as a side dish too?
One egg per person, how much cheese per person do you have available?