Weezl and friends Phase 3 - sitting pretty with Kitty

aless02

Yes, Allegra not sure how much a compliment it is from an American, but your pork pies were better than any I've ever had from the supermarket! :rotfl: and weezl's bara brith tasted very nommy despite its blocks of pure sultanas inside, hehe.

We need to have another meet, because I feel bad about not bringing anything to share, so I wanna bake up a storm next time .

Am heavily considering making next month a Shirley month as the cash will be tight and it is good timing starting from pseudo-scratch with the larder, having just moved (it's tomorrowwwwww). Don't like the website's only got the weekly shopping lists though...has made composing a monthly one a right PITA.

Allegra

Is it Shirl's or Kitty's montlhy list that you need, Aless ? I'm sure they are about on the old thread still, do you want me to find them for you ?

Allegra

Here you go, Aless - Kitty's monthly shopping list and Shirl's monthly shopping list.

nopot2pin

Allegra wrote: »

Potty - sorry I'm late with the reply, I came on yesterday afternoon to catch up with the thread, but that was as much as I could do as all the travelling over the weekend took it out of me so much I ended up collapsing into bed before and then again after dinner

Anyway, I am having saag aloo tonight, red pepper pasta on Wednesday and winter squash risotto on Thursday.

No probs Allegra
I already have tonights dinner on (a wee bit of salmon, with some brown pasta frozen veg and a white saucey type thing)... so I will do the saag aloo tomorrow night, and the red pepper pasta on Wednesday

I am not sure what I have in to do the risotto, as I am out and about at the weekend, so trying not to buy anything till next week.
I might make Thursdays dinner a night of whats in the house already, but close to a Kitty recipe night

Allegra

Sounds good , Potty :T We thought about you on the train to the meet - we were sat next to the toilet (glamourous, I know), and there was a mother emptying her little girl's potty down the loo - she had a pot2pin.... Well, it reminded us of you, alright ? :rotfl:

aless02

Thanks Allegra! Wasn't sure if they had changed since then, but they look the same to me

Allegra

Gosh, we're all talkative this evening, aren't we ?

Right then - saag aloo. First of all, a couple of substitutions/small changes I made - I used the spinach from the garden rather than frozen (that's why I wanted to do it this week, as that needed harvesting before the slugs got it all), and I doubled the amount of chilli, simply cos I knew we'd probably prefer it that way Other than that, I was very good and followed the recipe exactly :T



So, that's a full-sized 4 person meal bubbling away. !!!!!! and I had ours with 50g rice each, DD had hers as half-portion side dish with 50g rice, a largish serving of runner beans from the garden, some titchy little carrots and radishes from her little garden plot, and a vegetarian sausage. I was taking a risk with this, as she normally does not eat things in sauce or cooked vegetables, but she was delighted with the runner bean salad last night, so I just presented the whole thing as "meal from the garden" (spinach also being from there) and waited to see what happened.

!!!!!! gave it 6 out of 10, but asked me to point out that there is just no way that he'd ever give a veggie meal more than 8, no matter how nice, so to bear that in mind with the scoring. He reckons it's a good staple meal, once a week comfortably. 9 out of 10 for me, but then again, I love that sort of thing.

The best part, though, is that DD ate all hers, and thought it very nice :j So this is definitely going to make a regular reappearance on our menu plan !




As an additional thought, I have picked up some of the Sainsbury's "feed your family for a fiver" meal cards the other day, and thought it might make an interesting challenge for us all to see how much more frugal we can go with the recipes ! Weezl and a few others have already expressed an interest in the idea, so watch this space - I just need to remember where I've put the recipe cards and then post the recipes for us all to have a go at frugalising them !

hornetgirl

I'll definitely be doing the red pepper pasta on Wednesday. I couldn't get the peppers in a jar though - at least not at a price I wanted to pay, so I bought a bag of S.ainsburys basics peppers, and shall roast and slice them myself. Has anyone else tried making it using fresh peppers?

Allegra

Nah, Aless, those are the versions I used to create the weekly ones, so they are at the same ingredient/price point

Allegra

hornetgirl wrote: »

I'll definitely be doing the red pepper pasta on Wednesday. I couldn't get the peppers in a jar though - at least not at a price I wanted to pay, so I bought a bag of S.ainsburys basics peppers, and shall roast and slice them myself. Has anyone else tried making it using fresh peppers?

I know Arty did her red pepper houmus using fresh peppers she roasted herself, so it should not be a problem for you doing the pasta in the same way