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

Lesley_Gaye

Murrell wrote: »

If its the yellow split mung dal, they won't sprout. The mung beans are green with there skin on and yellow when shelled and halved and then called mung dal, if I am not mistaken. I used mung dal to make kitchari, cooking with spices and basmati rice and serving with vegetables. Very tasty and cheap too. The green mung beans I also buy to sprout only and they sprout in a couple of day after soaking for 1 day.

Sandra
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yes, they are the yellow split ones. I won't try it then if they won't sprout

aless02

more later, DH is moaning to come to bed - I've raised bread many times in my house, so I think it's something about the recipe. Salt levels? No idea...will look harder in the morning.

(and I always use warm water plus raise in a warm place and that's with dry instant yeast!)

shanks77

artybear wrote: »

Ok Iv changed it now

The index is missing

tomatoey pasta
pasta alfredo
bean curry (there is a bean curry in the index but not sure if its the right one)

Also Spanish omelette and roast chicken are more lists of ingredients than recipes.

artybearxxx

300g pots 0.33
1 finely sliced onion 0.06
100g sweetcorn 0.09
s&p 0.01
1 teasp chilli 0.02
2 eggs 0.09
splash milk

Thinly slice pots with skins on and fry gently with onion on a low heat til pots are soft (this will take about 10mins) Then add frozen sweetcorn. In a bowl mix the rest of your ingreds together and pour over the potato and onion mixture and cook for a further 10mins til egg has set. Then if liked sprinkle over approx 30g finely grated cheddar and put pan under the grill for a couple of mins til cheese starts to melt. Cut into slices and serve with (to be decided)

Arty HTH let me know if it needs further clarification xx

FrankieM

weezl Put me down for doing the monthly food planner. I've yet to run it by the rest of the family but they've happily eaten everything I've made after saying 'it's for that website...a bit of an experiment!' So I'm sure it'll be fine.
I'll need to buy some of the kit list, I think but as long as I have enough notice before you want to start that will be fine.
When were you thinking of kicking it off?

weezl74

aless02 wrote: »

eta: is here, http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/freshlybakedbread_92265.shtml but I do the last proving in the loaf tins - the salt water really makes a lovely chewy crust. I knead by hand, of course .

Hi Aless,

thanks for the bread recipe, it looks great

from the photo it looks like he baked it in a tin, but in the description he forms shapes by hand.

Which one do you do?

I'd really like it if we could do it in pans (not too sure why, just a hunch that this is somehow easier for shirley-who I think about all the time at the moment!)

If you haven't ever done it in a loaf tin, could I be very cheeky and ask you to risk putting one of the 3 loaves that his batch makes into a loaf pan and seeing if it rises as much as that lovely looking photo?

Tell me to naff off if that's a big ask

weezl74

The now definitive-ish Risi e bisi Bob and Shirley version- Allegra and fivenations, please can you look this over and comment and also add a sentence that describes the consistency shirley is aiming for?

Huge thanks

500g dried peas soaked and cooked as per packet instructions
1 litre chicken stock
60 ml veg oil
50g bacon, chopped up small
160g onion, chopped up small
400 g rice
20 g grana padano
salt
freshly ground black pepper
2 tspns mustard powder/1 tbsp (15 ml) mustard

start off by frying bacon in the oil until crisp, then fishing it all out with a slotted spoon, then frying off onion, adding rice and peas, then stock and mustard. Bring to boil, turn down to simmer and cooked for further 30 min. You may need more liquid so top up with hot water from the kettle.

When nearly done, stir in half the cheese and the reserved bacon pieces, and sprinkle the rest of the cheese (looks a pathetically small amount but persevere!) on top. Add a little more cracked black pepper and drizzle some of your rapeseed oil over the top if you like it to look like a Jamie Oliver recipe! Enjoy!

weezl74

Sweetcorn fritters


For the fritters

100g/3½oz SR flour
1.5 tspns salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 tbsp sugar
100ml/2½fl oz milk
300g frozen sweetcorn kernels
120g onion chopped into dice
45ml of oil for the batter
100ml vegetable oil, for frying
half teaspoon garam masala
pinch of chilli powder

1. For the fritters, mix the flour, salt and freshly ground black pepper, garam masala and sugar, chilli together in a bowl.
2. Gradually add the milk to the dry ingredients and combine to form a batter.
3. Place the sweetcorn kernels and onions into a separate bowl and add just enough batter to the mix to bind them.
4. Heat the oil in a frying pan, and drop in a tablespoonful of the mix. Cook for two minutes on each side, drain on kitchen paper and keep warm until all the batter is used up.

weezl74

thrifty cottage pie now updated to tell you what veg to have and to include the hot oaty cereal instead of 'normal' oats

nopot2pin

FrankieM wrote: »

Loving the sig potty lol!

Thanks
I know its cheeky, but I like it too :rotfl:

weezl74 wrote: »

The time has come...

To prioritise the testing and surveying of the Bob and Shirley month one main meals

To that end I would be very grateful if potty can support us technically by making sure we have a survey for each, and if someone good with detail would check my recipes and encourage me gently to pad out the method where one is sadly lacking!

AFAIK, these will be the main meals for the 31 day month, the number at the beginning is how many times it will be served:

1 Roast chicken
1 chicken and onion pie
2 onion tart
2 spanish omelette
3 veggie burgers/rissoles
3 bean curry
3 HM pizza
3 risi e bisi
3 sweetcorn fritters
2 cottage pie
1 chilli
3 pasta alfredo
2 bacon and onion 'suet' pudding
2 tomatoey pasta

No problem.
I will follow the links done by Arty, to do the rest of the surveys

Can you do a link to post 3322 please Weezl, in post 4... that way I wont have to bug you, when I do new ones ? ;):D

Thanks :A

weezl74

Plea for help from anyone with more accurate digital scales than me!

If you have any colman's mustard powder in the house, please would you weigh 2 teaspoons of mustard powder, and let me know what it weighs?

Huge thanks

xxx