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

nopot2pin

SusanC wrote: »

I may have missed further discussion of this as I haven't read through everything but you don't have to throw away sourdough starter - I just feed mine according to how much starter I am going to need.

Thanks Susan...
You didn't miss anything...
I didn't quite understand WHY half had to be thrown away
But it was deemed that it was merely a space issue.

Also, a few said that it may be too much of a faff for Shirley and Bob in the first planner...
I am not sure if Weezl has plans for a sourdough bread in any of the future planners

Happy Easter everyone :easter_os:EasterBun:icotbaske:easter_ba:easter:

In_Search_Of_Me

happy easter all!

weezl74

First Months Recipes

Chicken and onion pie with a suet crust

Onion Tart

Risi e bisi

Thrifty Cottage Pie

Spanish Omelette

Chicken with stuffing and bubble and squeak

HM Pizza

Chilli Mince

Bacon and onion pudding

Weezl Veggie burger

Pasta Alfredo

Pasta amatriciana

Baked Bean Curry

Bob and Shirley's lunchtime pate

Pumpkin Seed Butter

Tangy bean pate

Chutney

Apple Curd

this is the list of which ones from artys list I have updated, updated ones are in purple. I will add the others I've had chance to update so far...

my pc is very sick, I'm going to have to defrag the hard drive and reinstall all my software this is a hefty set back! Please if any recipes you need today and tomorrow aren't shown above in purple, do post it asap and we can work out a way of getting it to you somehow!

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

no longer a roast chicken allegra, I'm afraid 2 meals of chook with bubble and squeak and stuffing and 2 of pie

Duh. I knew that Edited now.

What do you suggest batch-cooking wise, then ? Cook the chicken and make the pies, freezing the rest until needed ?

Allegra

princess_loki wrote: »

hi allegra!

i am in n'pton too but it is not me buying up everything! been so busy decorating that we are being bad and eating pizza etc!

however, once lodger (cousin) is moved in we will be following plan as much as possible

loki x

How fabulous A local Weezlite at last :T That's it now, I'm dragging you out foraging this summer whether you like it or not

Allegra

Poor Weezl and the poorly PC I think we have plenty to be getting on with, so worry not.

A quick look at the planner suggests the following to me as tasks for the batch cooking day:

Level 1 (essentials)

Bread
Carrot cake
Apple curd
Pumpkin seed/nut butter
Houmus
Tangy bean pate
Lunchtime pate (to freeze)
Grate and freeze cheese
Slice and freeze bacon

Level 2 (if you have loadsa time, a big freezer and want to get ahead as much as possible)

Chop onions/ make pastry (in readiness for Thursday's onion tart) or even batch cook and freeze onion tart
Soak and boil marrowfats (in readiness for Friday) and freeze

Level 3 (if you want to keep the next weekend free)

Batch cook pizza (in readiness for Saturday) and freeze
Poach chicken and make chicken pies For Sunday and freeze
Batch cook bacon and onion puddings for following Monday and freeze

Plus prepare any snacks as needed.

Oh, and can lunchtime pate be frozen until needed ? I hope so, cos it doesn't make an appearance until Week 4, and we want to 1. avoid the liver going off and 2. avoid unnecessary washing up of the food processor

Does the above make any sense ? If so, I'd say that the only recipes missing so far are final carrot cake and houmus. And can I confirm, please, if the bread recipes on offer ara definitely the Paul Merret recipe and method, and Weezl's no knead bread ?

artybear

Happy easter all:wave:

I had to get up ridiculously early to go to Church so may need to nap this afternoon!!!

Dr Who was awesome and I cant wait for more episodes!:j:j

Weezl-hope your computer gets better soon! Do you need me to do anything to the index?

Hope everyone is having a lovely day:)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

artybear

Allegra I wish I could thank that post more than once!!! :jThats exactly what I needed to see to feel more organised-it's so helpful to see it all in black and white!!! :beer:

I'm a list person so if I can tick things off I'm happy:D

Iv added the no knead bread to the index just to make it easier to find for everyone
xxxxxx

Allegra

artybear wrote: »

I'm a list person so if I can tick things off I'm happy:D

Me too Glad you're finding it helpful And yes, Dr Who was brilliant. DD still reckons he'll never surpass David Tennant, but thinks he's made a brave stab at it !

Iv added the no knead bread to the index just to make it easier to find for everyone
xxxxxx

You know where she says it's fool proof ? Well, I've proved it isn't Still, Aless said she's in a hard water area, and our water here is horrendously hard, so I'm happy to blame it on that

Lesley_Gaye

just popping in to report on a chicken and sweetcorn pie I did again yesterday.

for any of us following the plan in our own fashion, it might be of interest

I used
200g cooked chicken (calculated the cost as a sixth of a chicken, 50p)
100g onion
160g sweetcorn
50g flour
300ml water
tsp mustard
s+p

pastry
300g flour
150g veg oil
150ml water
tsp baking powder (or use sr flour)

Saute the onion until soft. Add the chopped chicken, sweetcorn and mustard. Mix the flour with the water, add to the pan and cook a couple of minutes to cook off the flour. Taste and adjust seasoning

meanwhile make the pastry. Mix all the pastry ingredients together, adding the water bit by bit until you have a fairly loose dough

I have found that if I add about the same amount of water as oil to the oil pastry, it behaves itself and is fairly easy to roll out. It is a little looser than a solid fat pastry, where you have to add the minimum of liquid to get a short pastry. This version is still a lovely short pastry, and much cheaper, so I'm converted

Line the flan dish, tip on the filling and top with the remaining pastry.Bake in a med oven for 30 mins. I moisten the top and grind over some s+p

DP and I have a qtr of this pie with 150g mash and 80g of peas and 80g carrots each

I have been making pies in a 9.5"/24cm flan dish as I broke the middle sized one of a set of 3 many years ago. Sometimes the filling is a tiny bit flat, but mostly it works out fine. We are tall, big people and enjoy substantial meals. This works out to 45p per portion incl the veg

But I think those with smaller appetites than ours (not hard!) could easily cut a pie this size into 6 portions, when it would be just 37p per portion incl the veg