Weezl and friends Phase 3 - sitting pretty with Kitty

MadDogWoman_2

Thanks Weezl.

Chicken dinner was a great success, a very mid-week roast, with just having to do the veg.

The other tweek I did was to put butternut squash, bubble and squeak and stuffing balls in the oven all at the same time. I rubbish at frying stuff, so it was so much easier to plonk it in 2 greased sandwich tins, brush a bit of oil over the top, fling it in the oven.

I have a 1 full sandwich tin left which is going in the freezer.

The frozen and defrosted onion gravy was a great success, I blitzed it with my stick blender so my non onion eating DH could have gravy (he's fine as long as there are no chunks of onion).

Tomorrow it's Pasta Amatriciana, using the tomato sauce from the pizza, just needs the bacon adding.

I like approved foods, I have 12 tins of peeled plum tomatoes, 1000 tea bags, 80 poppadoms, 6 tins each of marrowfat peas and rice pudding in my store cupboard.

queen_of_string

I had a little of the smoked salmon pasta sauce from the xmas menu left over.

Today I made some cheesy choux pastry and made puffs, I served them on top of a puddle of the carefully reheated sauce. I could have piped the sauce into them to make very posh puffs, but I am lazy. I know choux pastry isn't very frugal as it has several eggs in it, but it's still prob cheaper than most meals, and it's super posh looking and tasting.

aless02

Ooo, gone very quiet in here!

Well hayley has inspired us to cook up a super-frugalised version of the chocolate peanut butter cheesecake that a certain lady baked on her show the other day. I bravely volunteered to be the first tester, and it is now cooling in the fridge for tonight's dessert. Verdict to come later, but it does look scrumptious!

mardatha

Excuse me for butting in and feel free to move me if I'm in the wrong place - I often am butttt I was very interested in Venusflytrap's post on liver goulash. My OH has pernicious anaemia and low iron levels so I try to give him liver as often as possible. A new way of cooking it would be great - but can you do this recipe without the tomatoes ? Or can you sub something instead ? He doesnt like tomatoes.
Also I've never heard of the soaking liver in milk thing, can you tell me more about that ? Ta !

poohbear59

Thanks venus for the link to Argos. I have had a little look. I can't spend any cash at all until Thursday so we are being super frugal here ATM:D

mardatha, I have a recipe for Indonesian liver. I have made it using weezl's nut butter in place of peanut butter and without the coconut milk. It is lovely either way. It is a Schwartz recipe and I found it on there web site. If you don't find it let me know and I can send you a copy.

My family lurve it!! And it has lots of onions in it too. I always add extra.

BTW We have been given a massive piece of boned and rolled shoulder of lamb to try out. A friend has her own lambs and is trying out different cuts to sell. So tomorrow we have potatoes and other vegetables from the allotment and roast lamb. yum!

mardatha

I liked that recipe VFT posted because it was super easy (for super simple cooks lol) and didnt have any scarey ingreds.... coconut milk and nut butter is scarey :eek:

domesticgoddess789

aless02 wrote: »

Ooo, gone very quiet in here!

Well hayley has inspired us to cook up a super-frugalised version of the chocolate peanut butter cheesecake that a certain lady baked on her show the other day. I bravely volunteered to be the first tester, and it is now cooling in the fridge for tonight's dessert. Verdict to come later, but it does look scrumptious!

I cannot wait to try the frugalised version, sounds amazing!

Looking forward to your verdict too.

p.s hope everyone is well and enjoying the recipes.

VenusFlytrap_2

mardatha wrote: »

Excuse me for butting in and feel free to move me if I'm in the wrong place - I often am butttt I was very interested in Venusflytrap's post on liver goulash. My OH has pernicious anaemia and low iron levels so I try to give him liver as often as possible. A new way of cooking it would be great - but can you do this recipe without the tomatoes ? Or can you sub something instead ? He doesnt like tomatoes.
Also I've never heard of the soaking liver in milk thing, can you tell me more about that ? Ta !

Hi Mardatha

I will text my friend to check as it's her recipe and I've never made it, but think you could just leave out the toms if desired, maybe add more mushroom/onion/garlic or other veg he likes that would go with a creamy sauce? A bit of chopped cooked bacon could go nicely too maybe?

I'd never heard of the soaking liver in milk thing either, apparently it helps to remove the strong taste caused by the traces of urea present in liver. H said to just put it in a dish of milk, just enough to cover it, for about an hour before cooking then discard the milk.

Glad you found the recipe useful Mardatha, my friend will be really thrilled! :T

Venus xxx

VenusFlytrap_2

poohbear59 wrote: »

Thanks venus for the link to Argos. I have had a little look. I can't spend any cash at all until Thursday so we are being super frugal here ATM:D

Poohbear! Glad the link helped, hope you get what you're looking for... now I've got your attention :rotfl: could I pick your brains on how you got on feeding all your strapping men on the planner? I'm doing something for Weezl on how to adapt it for more (or less) than 4 and I know you did this very well, any tips that spring to mind would be fantastic - I've been studying your past posts too, also very helpful.

Thanks in advance m'dear

Venus xxx

mardatha

TY very much pet. He cant eat pasta, we dont eat curry or anything spicy, so food choices in this house is a tad limited :rotfl: I will cert try the liver with bits of bacon and maybe sausage. Sat on a pile of mash!