weezl and friends Phase 4 - recipe testing christmas treats!

weezl74

scottishlass wrote: »

Sorry its this one from one of the previous planners

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/recipe-savouryscones.html?opt=rall

thanks, changed now, hope it helps

edit: you said others did this too? Can you give me any links you've noticed? It helps to make the website better for other users

scottishlass

weezl74 wrote: »

thanks, changed now, hope it helps

edit: you said others did this too? Can you give me any links you've noticed? It helps to make the website better for other users

Thank you - will try and find the other one and let you know - I've been reading through quite a few of them so can't quite remember which one atm. The site is pretty amazing so thank you to all who have contributed to it.

Julimk

I made some carrot soup this week (for some reason seem to have loads of carrots in!) and I thought this might be OK as a stand alone recipe, as it uses ingredients that are on the planner shopping lists.

Oil for frying
1 onion (chopped)
2 potatoes (chopped)
1kg carrots (chopped)
1.25l stock
1 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground cumin, ½ tsp ground ginger (could use garam masala)

Fry onion until soft. Add potatoes & carrots & toss in oil. Add spice, cover in stock. Simmer until veg soft. Blend. It is very thick, so could use more stock or add hot water for a thinner soup.

Today’s dinner was Jamie’s MoF sweet & sour pork, using 320g of organic British free-range pork steak from freezer (reduced from £4.06 to 75p!) Three portions, so tonight’s dinner & one for freezer, and one portion already in freezer so dinner for another night.

Tomorrow DD & me are having a batch-cooking day. Have taken out of freezer 490g British stewing steak (reduced from £2.40 to 49p!) & will pop that in SC in the morning with more carrots & some other veggies. And 500g organic British steak mince (reduced from £2.87 to 57p) for meatballs.

When I started the GC a couple of years ago I barely believed the supermarkets really did such huge reductions, and I certainly never seemed to find them. But recently I have been lucky.

The other items from the freezer for tomorrow’s cooking session were only YS to half price. Ham for quiche, smoked mackerel for pate, cod loins for fishcakes and minced lamb for moussaka.

twinkle_star_2

aless02 wrote: »

Mmmmmmm, sounds sooooo yummy! Can I have some, too?

Well, I've had another 4 slices since this afternoon so it might disappear before you managed to get to Cardiff!

It's definitely a cake for showing off - it looks absolutely perfect, rose like a dream and tastes heavenly. I'm going to have to hunt round Cardiff for where weezl lives and either hurt her for making me fat or give her presents for inventing such yummy things! :rotfl:

Apricot

Ooh Cardiff did you say twinkle? Im always willing to accept deliveries of cake!

kezlou

my diets wishing i hadn't read about the apple cake!
Think that will be being made today!

Well so far so good, nothing else has been bought.
But i have hig a snag, only got two tins of baked beans left. Hmm now i do make bean pate or leave it till next week? hmm.

Think i may make lentil pate instead.

weezl74

Apricot wrote: »

Ooh Cardiff did you say twinkle? Im always willing to accept deliveries of cake!

oi you! get in the queue!

weezl74

so I have been having some success with refritos frijoles, puy lentil lasagne and today the mother lodest of lodes of whoopsies :beer:

Good times!

Frankie asked what CFR is doing next...

Well when we have some new year energy, we are launching a competition.

We have been donated some vouchers as prizes, and so will be asking for submissions of frugal recipes

shanks77

Hi sorry not been on much have the dreaded lurgy that has been doing the rounds so not feeling up to much. Have still been using up the freezer stuff but neither myself or ex felt up to eating today so will be having turkey stir fry tomorrow so saved ourselves an extra day of food (every cloud and all that).
Everyone sounds like they are all doing well and that pear tart sounded delicious dont suppose there is any point of joining the queue is there:rotfl:

Fivenations

twinkle_star wrote: »

Do you think the apple cake will work with pears?

Found a big bag reduced to about 25p and really fancy some kind of pear cake/tart thing.

I used to make this with pears.

http://realgoodtaste.blogspot.com/2009/01/healthy-desserts-week-italian-pear-cake.html

Happy New Year folks.