Batch cooking ideas please

joedenise

It might be worth having a look at www.agirlcalledjack.com she makes really good veggie meals. My DH and I aren't veggie but both enjoyed her recipe for mushroom chasseur. It's not spicy but it is tasty. In fact I've put it into my December menu plan!

Earlier in the thread you said your BF only ate one of the two beanburgers you had made but I find one is more than enough - they are much more filling than a beefburger! and I think much nicer.

Denise

karren

joedenise wrote: »

It might be worth having a look at www.agirlcalledjack.co.uk she makes really good veggie meals. My DH and I aren't veggie but both enjoyed her recipe for mushroom chasseur. It's not spicy but it is tasty. In fact I've put it into my December menu plan!

Earlier in the thread you said your BF only ate one of the two beanburgers you had made but I find one is more than enough - they are much more filling than a beefburger! and I think much nicer.

Denise

when i pressed that link some !!!!!! titles came up for some reason so hope it hasnt been hacked or something

joedenise

karren wrote: »

when i pressed that link some !!!!!! titles came up for some reason so hope it hasnt been hacked or something

Sorry about that it should be .com not co.uk:embarasse. I have edited the link to correct it in my post.

Denise

Ruby789

JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

Hope I helped some x

Thanks Julie,

Yes you've helped, thank you!

Will try the lemon idea :-) My Tom sauce tastes and awful lot like tinned toms and nothing like Lloyd grossemans one which is lovely and rich and thick. I have a student cookbook actually, forgot all about it but great idea, it must cover the basics :-)

Ruby789

joedenise wrote: »

Earlier in the thread you said your BF only ate one of the two beanburgers you had made but I find one is more than enough - they are much more filling than a beefburger! and I think much nicer.

Denise

Yeah you're right, they we're on the small side, but maybe it was too much. I'll suggest them again and promise more cumin, if he then suggests a cheese sandwich I'll know he doesn't want to try them again!

Thanks for replying

Ruby789

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

Am adding to this over the next few days so I have 2-3 meals a week in there and also a good way to put all my YS bargains in the freezer as a ready to go meal

Thanks ladyluck, will adapt your method to suit the meals I happily eat during the week. Thanks for the meal ideas, I'm looking up recipies and getting ideas.

Many thanks

2childmum

Just to say that I frequently try out new recipes that others appear to have raved about, or which are in magazines and supposedly triple tested and they are not that fantastic, so I don't think it is just you! In fact I'm quite pleased to discover it's not just me it happens to! And any recipe which says 'kids will love this' is lying!

I usually try one new recipe each week. I usually cook 2x chicken, 2x red meat, 1x white fish, 1x oily fish and 1x veggie each week, and at least one of those I double cook for the freezer and one is something I have previously cooked and frozen, but these plans don't always work out!

Ruby789

2childmum wrote: »

Just to say that I frequently try out new recipes that others appear to have raved about, or which are in magazines and supposedly triple tested and they are not that fantastic, so I don't think it is just you! In fact I'm quite pleased to discover it's not just me it happens to!

I love this comment :T Glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get 5 star meals from 5 star recipes. Recipes from Delicious magazine have let me down the most! Closely followed by the BBC. I have heard that Delias recipes can be trusted, so one of hers is on the list for next week. Fingers crossed my bad food streak will end there.

That's a good system for creating variety. When I have a few more meals in my rotation I will go for something like that longer term. Though saying that I have several of each type of recipe waiting to be tried (till I find the one! - the one that goes into my regular rotation anyway).

Little update: Had a chat with the boyfriend about the whole cooking issue and he seemed oblivious! With a bit of probing he admitted its more about expectations - if i'm calling it a bolognaise but it doesn't taste much like any bolognaise he's ever had in his life as its been tweeked to suit my eating habits, then yes, he probably will prefer the meaty original and not ask for it.

So that's been helpful.

MaddyWaddy

My hubby isn't a fan of home made sauces either.

There is a good free pdf by Mark Keogh food on a budget - whilst it is meat based he does offer veggie options and the sauces are great too.

There is some great recipes on the grocery challenge - the hm curries are fantastic sc friendly and you could just leave the meat out

If you don't cook for him all the time I'd stick to things you like - i prefer a wider variety of foods so I sometimes cook 2 meals on days I'm not as busy.

melanzana

Hi Ruby, re the veggie cumin burgers, carrots are quite sweet, so I found when making soup one time, I couldn't correct the sweetness, but ate it anyway.

I would replace the carrots with drained crushed chick peas and add a bit of garlic, and try the recipe again.