Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

artybear

Sian_the_Green wrote: »

Okay, this is not at all relevant to this thread but...
I JUST MADE PASTA!!!!! By hand, on my own, with organic pasta flour (the only type they had in the shop) and free range eggs (6 for £1 from the layby near work!), how much does that make me a housewife We weren't sure how to dry it so are using the clothes airer in the kitchen, it looks ridiculous but cool!

Weezl, testers, lurkers and other hangers on, I salute you!

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That is very impressive-but I am wondering why you were making pasta at one in the morning?:D

Hope everyones ok-I have got a ten hour shift today :mad::( so have got frozen chilli for tonight. Mr arty devoured THREE portions of the pasta alfredo last night so its all gone now.

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weezl74

frugalmumof4 wrote: »

weezl
just took a look at your vege tomato steam pudding, looks delicious, how do you cook it? Desperate to have a bash at that, especially with the olives in!
Input here for what we have in drinks as we dont have cows milk, we use soya milk, hubby hated it to begin with, but years later he puts about 1/3 of a cup in his tea! We use soya milk in porridge, pancakes, anywhere basically that requires a milk substitute. You can make white sauces with it, and can buy it in sweetened and unsweetened.

hello frugalmum of 4, I've updated the recipe to incorporate the method now we've tried and liked it

also, I've been thinking it'd be hard for real vegans to do planner 3 because of the lack of soya milk/cream/tofu etc... which is a shame:(

Murrell

weezl74 wrote: »

I've updated the recipe to incorporate the method now we've tried and liked it

Hi Weezl,

3-4 hours in a slow cooker. If you have't got one, like me and many others on here, how long do you think it will take?

I've cooked my peas and mung beans this morning. Hopefully will get the savoury bites done today.

Thanks
Sandra
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weezl74

Murrell wrote: »

Hi Weezl,

3-4 hours in a slow cooker. If you have't got one, like me and many others on here, how long do you think it will take?

I've cooked my peas and mung beans this morning. Hopefully will get the savoury bites done today.

Thanks
Sandra
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hello

well the bad news is that steaming takes a similar time in whichever vessel but I use the SC for economy. However, if you cook the filling for slightly longer so the lentils have plumped up and disintegrated more, I think you could get away with an hour as a hob-top method. I can test it if you like?

Shame you can't run the month 3 planner, but great that you'd like to test some of the recipes

As there are quite a few vegans in your family, do you think we can find any other testers (weezl asks hopefully )

Allegra

!!!!!!_here wrote: »

Ascending or descending ?

If the descended meals had the habit of ascending back, I don't think they'd make it on the planner :eek:

Enjoying your burgers, hun ?

hornetgirl

Sian, PLEASE can we have a photo of the pasta hanging on the clothes airer?

Allegra

Kezlou, I do agree with you, fresh, when you can get it really fresh (as in pick it yourself) is by far the best It's just that what many people will see as "fresh" and therefore superior to frozen will sometimes have been travelling or sitting on the shelf for weeks before it reaches you, and will therefore be anything but !

Sian, well done you I'd think that the clothes airer would do the job just fine.

Weezl, so what wins the sweepstakes in the "most calorific" category ?

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

If the descended meals had the habit of ascending back, I don't think they'd make it on the planner :eek:

Enjoying your burgers, hun ?

:rotfl:

and I suspect not a marrowfat pea in sight :j:j:j(aless says they aren't so commonly used in the states)

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

Weezl, so what wins the sweepstakes in the "most calorific" category ?

you were all wrong I'm afraid! Staggeringly it's the baked bean curry! Above the bacony, cheesy and chickeny dishes and all that pastry! I was really surprised

Perhaps you should have extra of that to make up for hunger pangs on omelette night!

Allegra

weezl74 wrote: »

:rotfl:

and I suspect not a marrowfat pea in sight :j:j:j(aless says they aren't so commonly used in the states)

Nope, no marrowfats, I'm told. Plenty of gherkins though, apparently !

I've not had the bean curry yet, so don't know yet how filling it is or otherwise. Sounds like comfort food for heavy-duty days then