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

phizzimum

had the omlette (4 eggs, sweetcorn, onion) for dinner last night - with carrots and croatian potato salad. a great success - especially the potato salad which everyone said they preferred to the usual pot salad I make (with mayo). only downside was that DH was still hungry and ate 8 slices of toast in the course of the evening! so next time more spuds!

weezl74

phizzimum wrote: »

had the omlette (4 eggs, sweetcorn, onion) for dinner last night - with carrots and croatian potato salad. a great success - especially the potato salad which everyone said they preferred to the usual pot salad I make (with mayo). only downside was that DH was still hungry and ate 8 slices of toast in the course of the evening! so next time more spuds!

Brilliant news! How much potato did you do per person? Well for DH, I guess the little phizzies don't have a daddy-sized portion yet?

xxx

phizzimum

I only did 3 medium size spuds between the 4 of us - because a) i didn't think the girls would like the salad and b) I was too lazy to walk down to the shed to get some more!

yes, you're right the girls don't eat DH size portions but they eat as much as me these days (depending on how yummy the dinner is)

need to catch up with doing some surveys - keep putting it off as I need to go on the Tesco website and calculate the prices

noticed the falafels have no survey results so I obviously havn't filled it in yet - it's such a great recipe that I really have to leave my feedback.

FrankieM

I'm just getting my DD's Birthday meal and cake finished up and then I shall crack on with the oatmeal cookies and shortbread. Do you think they can be frozen...? I have so much cake around at the moment!

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

How shall we market the potato salad?

Well, I have recently had it brought to my attention that my attempt to market it as a "Croatian Potato Salad" is in fact inaccurate, as this appears to be a dish that Croats have nicked from Germans. So, in the interests of accuracy, how's about "potato salad" in German ? Ladies and Bob, I give you....

Kartoffelsalat !

Hmmm. Why is it that some languages (think Italian here) sound so.... edible.... Yet others - just don't ???

Allegra

Oh, and sorry to be a pain, but "bean curry" that is on the final list of meals - which one is that ? Baked bean curry ?

ETA: And another question Onion tart - artybear's fabulous index links to the latest egg-free version, but the full recipe and method have not been yet set out in a Shirley-friendly format. When you got a moment, Weezl, perhaps you could.... ?

weezl74

thick onion tart definitive Bob and Shirley version, (fingers crossed!)


Ingredients
For the pastry:
110 g self-raising flour
pinch of salt
2 teaspoons mustard powder
40 g oil


For the filling:

700 g onions, chopped fairly small
40 g oil
110 ml full fat milk
2 eggs
83g grated mature Cheddar cheese
15g grana padano grated very very finely
salt and freshly milled black pepper


Pre-heat the oven, and a baking sheet, to gas mark 4, 350°F (180°C).


Method

Firstly, prep the filling. Put 40ml oil in a heavy-based saucepan, then add the onions, stir to get them well coated in the oil, and cook them (uncovered) over a medium heat for about half an hour until they have reduced and turned a deep brown.

while they are cooking make the pastry by sifting the flours, salt and mustard powder into a mixing bowl, then dripping in the fat until the mixture becomes crumbly. Then add enough cold water to make a dough that leaves the bowl clean.

Then roll out the pastry to line the tart tin, stab the base with a fork, place it on the pre-heated baking sheet, and bake in the centre of oven for 15 minutes. After that remove from the oven and brush the inside of the pastry case with a little mik (from the filling), and return to the oven for another 5 minutes. Then spread the onions all over the base of the tart, whisk the beaten eggs together with the milk and some seasoning, and pour this mixture over the onions.

Finally sprinkle cheese over the top, return the tart to the oven and bake for 30 minutes till the filling is puffy and golden brown.

serve with 80g each of peas and carrots

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

Oh, and sorry to be a pain, but "bean curry" that is on the final list of meals - which one is that ? Baked bean curry ?

it is, will work on it now

artybear

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tooooooooooo shoooooort

grandma247

weezl74 wrote: »

cheeky potty!

Erm, yes I think Grandma added it at the same time as the oil?

xxx

How shall we market the potato salad?

Yes I just chucked it all in the machine together but I did cut up the butter into squares first because I used my small machine and it's not as powerful as the big one.