Four MSE Ingredients (Recipes)

Bogof_Babe

Where's the photos then, Mr BE?

recovering_spendaholic

Pork chops with apple and onion:
1. 4 pork chops
2. 2 eating apples
3. 1 large onion
4. 4 baking potatoes

season the pork chops and place in a greased roasting dish and cover with sliced apples and onions. Season again with salt and pepper and cover dish with foil.

Bake pork chops in oven for 1 hour on 180. Blitz potatoes in microwave for 20 mins and finish in the oven with the chops to crispen up. Remove foil from chops for last 15 minutes.

neets

Some good recipes here, goes up to 5 ingredients but gives more choice i guess

http://busycooks.about.com/od/fiveingredientsorless/a/500fiveingredie.htm

Strepsy

Be-ro specials

Potato cakes:
1lb leftover mashed potato/floury potatoes peeled and cooked
4oz self raising flour
2oz butter
pinch of salt

Extras: anything you have in - bacon, beans, tomatoes, cheese, eggs etc.

Mix all ingredients together and lightly knead on floured surface. Roll out to desired thickness and cut or shape into cakes. Cook in a hot pan for 5 mins each side.

And for dessert
Shortbread:
9oz plain flour
3oz caster sugar
6oz butter

Heat oven to gas mark 3 and grease a baking sheet.
Mix the flour and sugar together and rub in the butter. Knead to a smooth consistency, then roll out into a rectangle and cut into fingers. Mark the fingers with a fork to decorate and cook for about 30 mins.

Sarahsaver

Bacon and egg pie.

One pack of shortcrust pastry or some hm pastry made from flour and butter which I hope you have in the cupboard
One pack of economy bacon
4 to 6 eggs - depends how deep your pie dish is.

Line the pie dish with pastry. Confession :eek: i don't bake blind and have never done so properly since mrs mc clusky at upper school made us do so.
Grill all the bacon til frazzled. Place the bacon in the pastry lined pie dish. Make dips in the bacon with a spoon, then break the eggs in, so they are fairly evenly spaced around the pie (you could do one per person)
top with the remainder of the pastry. Seal the edges and make a hole in the top for the steam to escape. My last pie I decorated with the spare pastry the symbol for PI and the numerical version - therefore educational too LOL!!! ( Don't take this too seriously but yes I did do that)
Cook at gas 6 for approx 25 minutes (???) I just sort of 'do' pies until they are done.
Good hot with veg or if you are going full out for stodge some lumpy mash - sorry 'crushed potatoes';) Or cold sneaked out of the fridge when no-one is looking

freegenie

OOooh! Goodie!

Quick Spanish Beef -

250g beef (or more depending on family size!)
1 tin tomato soup
1/2 jar tomato puree
1 cup rice

(Adding pantry items salt/pepper/garlic to taste; you can serve with cheese on top if you want it to taste more pasta-ey!)

Brown the beef.

Put in casserole or baking dish
Pour in tin of tomato soup and puree and stir
Using the soup tin, throw in 1 tin of water
Pour in a "tin" of rice (I personally use the tin as a)best results, and b)saves on dishes too!)

Add salt, pepper and/or garlic to taste... Is even good with a pinch of paprika, whatever you've got going!

Bake at 200C for 45mins-1hour.

This goes a LOOOOOOOOONG way. And tastes scrummy.

thriftlady_2

Sounds nice freegenie, can you tell us what kind of beef you use - mince, stewing, fillet ?:)

cushty

Ingedients: half pound streaky bacon
1 onion cut into rings
2 medium old potatoes cut into thinnish rounds

Store cupbosrd plain flour, fat

Grease a casserole dish, layer potatoes, onions and bacon til you reach the top or run our of ingredients. Mix a small amount of plain flour with cold water - around a third of a pint, pour over, put lid on casserole, give it a quick zap in the microwave then cook in the oven for around 1 hour on 170 ish, or put it on before you go out and cook very, very slowly.

This is worth making if only for the smell!

LittleBill

Pasta .... whatever shape/size .... little hollow wiggly ones work best
Streaky Bacon ... cut into little bits
Peas ... Defrost in a jug of boiling water/strain then add
Pesto ... to hold the lot together

We have Rich Days when we have meat/fish ... and alternate Poor Days when we have pasta/vegatable dishes ... This is a Classic Poor Days Meal ... You can be posh and use Pancetta & Petit Pois ... and if you're really flash you can put some Parmesan Shavings on the top!

daxon

Especially cheap if you can pick up a reduced price cabbage or one off the market:

1 cabbage (white or green)
1 pt milk
6oz cheese
small packet economy peanuts
Flour from store cupboard

Boil a chopped cabbage until almost cooked
Make a cheese sauce with milk, 1 tabsp flour and grated 4oz cheese
Put cabbage in a casserole dish, layer with peanuts, pour sauce over, top with remaining cheese and grill or bake until golden & bubbly.

Once you've tried this you can add allsorts to it (particularly left over bits). Try tuna, bacon, anchovies, chicken and definately......... crumbled black pudding!!!