weezl and friends Phase 4 - recipe testing christmas treats!

Lesley_Gaye

Kittikins wrote: »

Wow Lesley, I'm a lurker and have only made a couple of recipes with plans to make many more of the veggie ones nom nom, what an amazing thing you did giving the talk Sounds like everyone really appreciated it. I take my hat off to you!

the very first recipe we frugalised is a veggie one, Delia Smiths Thick Onion Tart, it's a corker. Onions slow cooked to sticky deliciousness, then mixed with eggs and cheese and baked in an oil pastry case.

I'm often asked about the oil pastry, and the trick is to use MUCH more water than butter pastry. 200g sr flour, 100ml oil and about 100ml water for a 20cm double crust pie. It is 'about' 100ml as flours differ, sometimes you will need a little more, sometimes a little less

I also tried the tomato, olive and red lentil pie, was pretty dubious about the ingredients, but I loved it.

then there are the sweetcorn fritters, very very simple, and surprisingly tasty. My (grown up) DD would have peas and corn every day given the chance. So we tried squashed peas in the fritters and served sweetcorn as the veg (with wedges) and that was tasty too, and makes a nice change.

My OH likes the sweetcorn fritters just as they are, without any spices at all, I just love them with loads of spices mixed in. For a 4 person batch I would add, 1 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground cumin, heaped tsp garam masala - yummy yum yum

I am also frugalising lots of my own recipes too (we were veggie for 15 years or so before eating meat again, so have lots of veggie ones)

Cinny91

Just wanted to say, I've been using these recipes for the past week. Not following the menu just yet, but making my own week to week list. Mainly to cut back costs, but also to learn new recipes (We're 19 and 22, just starting out life together)

I'll say the Pasta carbonara is amazing, so creamy and only took about 15 minutes to make. I chucked in some left over chicken from our Sunday roast into it too.

Used your toad in the hole recipe too, which came out looking like my Great Grandmas! Memories! Served wedges like suggested, but I shake ours in oil then coat in 2tbsp plain flour, 1tsp garlic granuals, 1tsp onion granuals and a dash of chilli powder.

So far everything is coming out perfectly. We're trying the chilli recipe tonight, so fingers crossed

Thanks so much for all the recipes!

Lesley_Gaye

Cinny91 wrote: »

Just wanted to say, I've been using these recipes for the past week. Not following the menu just yet, but making my own week to week list. Mainly to cut back costs, but also to learn new recipes (We're 19 and 22, just starting out life together)

I'll say the Pasta carbonara is amazing, so creamy and only took about 15 minutes to make. I chucked in some left over chicken from our Sunday roast into it too.

Used your toad in the hole recipe too, which came out looking like my Great Grandmas! Memories! Served wedges like suggested, but I shake ours in oil then coat in 2tbsp plain flour, 1tsp garlic granuals, 1tsp onion granuals and a dash of chilli powder.

So far everything is coming out perfectly. We're trying the chilli recipe tonight, so fingers crossed

Thanks so much for all the recipes!

those wedges sound good, might have to give that a go!

mshuong

Onion soup is reducing nicely and tastes yummy so far (I used 3 tbsp yeast extract instead of a stock cube) and I even dunked a tomato swirl in the pan (:o) which was delish...

katkins78

mshuong wrote: »

Onion soup is reducing nicely and tastes yummy so far (I used 3 tbsp yeast extract instead of a stock cube) and I even dunked a tomato swirl in the pan (:o) which was delish...

:wave:Ooo mshuong, I've finally worked out what to do with half a bag of sprouty onions, and being a veggie I'll use the yeast extract rather than stock cubes too.

If only I had a tomato swirl (whatever that is!)

Kitchenbunny

I just wanted to say that I do still follow this thread and the cfr site avidly. I'm really looking forward to any updates and recipes, and I have definitely recommended you to my friends.

KB xx

katkins78

Can confirm that cfr French onion soup is indeed delish, used mix of yeast extract and vegetable stock cube to make stock and I think it worked very well indeed.

aless02

Hi all! Mmmmmmmmmmm katkins, I agree the onion soup is FAB.

It's been so quiet on here lately! I'm just as guilty, been mega-busy and just lots of stuff on both literally and emotionally.

Elfinwings

Hello everyone, I don' suppose any of you remember me, but I used to be around on the 50p a day till Christmas thread Weezl had going last year / the year before. Then I got married and moved and had no internet access...I've just got logged back on and discovred it has all TRANSFORMED! I am so amazed and delighted. I am going to be reading back over this thread and checking out the website - so excited!:j

Elfin.

Lesley_Gaye

Hello Elfin, I do remember you.

wow, you really do have a lot to catch up, there are so many yummy things on the website, it's hard to know what to recommend first - we all have our favourites!

I am currently playing around with putting all the recipes in a Publisher e-book, 1. to see if it would work, and 2. if people with only ltd access to computers might find it useful.

I did a demo recently where there were lots of older people, and many either didn't have a pc at all, or were very unconfident users.

anyone on here have on opinion on if it woud be a useful thing to do?