How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

jackieglasgow

Co-op are also doing spend £30 get a 5 off the petrol station.

lostinrates

Can anyone help...my brain is mush today. I'm doing a mushroom tart and green sala for supper tonight but can't think of a suitable pudding. Prefer something fruity...no pastry and not too creamy as pastry and cream in the tart. Is roast fruit (peaches and blueberries perhaps) with a little drizzle of cream, ok? Any other ideas? I'm not a fan of crumble, but it is very British so maybe I should do that. I have some rhubarb I could so emply.....

silvermaid

shirleytch wrote: »

Silvermaid - anychance I can have your dahl receipe? Tx

Shirleytch - you are most welcome
Dahl in the pressure cooker
1 tablespoon of oil
1 onion chopped
Couple of cloves of garlic crushed
¼ to ½ teaspoon chilli or cayenne
1 heaped teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon turmeric
250g (8oz) green lentils
600ml (1pt) water
Small tub plain yoghurt
1½ tablespoons mango chutney
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat oil in pressure cooker base and fry onions until transparent. Add garlic and stir for 1 min, add spices and stir for another minute. Add in lentils and water, bring up to pressure and pressure cook for 8 minutes. Take off heat and leave to reduce pressure. Stir in the yoghurt and mango chutney. Season to taste.


This makes quite a thick, very tasty dahl. You could use red split lentils which would give it a smoother consistency.
Enjoy, Silver x

kidcat

Lostinrates - how about a fruit salad?

maryb

Peach Melba

Poached peach (or tinned is even easier) with some raspberry sauce served with vanilla ice cream or fresh cream. For raspberry sauce either use a high fruit content ice cream sauce or push some frozen or fresh raspberries through a sieve and sweeten with icing sugar to taste

jumblejack

Just rang Sainsburys and the offer is on until 12th April and you have 14 days to use the 5p off voucher for petrol!

Larumbelle

lostinrates wrote: »

Those sort of shops are the ones I use to get washing powder/supply of loo roll/ some spare cleaning cloths/washing up brush to store for the next change over depending on the price of my shop. Ten pounds is regretably easy to ''fill'' with provisions with no expiry that for me it makes sense to hold in reserve in order to use the offers with out ''extra''spend, just advanced spend.

I do the same. When there's an offer I make sure I know what to stock up on to make up the money. Although because of the way I plan and shop, I only do one 'big' shop every month to six weeks, it's only really veggies from week to week. So one week every four - six I know I'll be over, the rest of the time I know there's no chance. But we have a friend who doesn't drive, she often gives us tickets, which is cool because we often give her and her family lifts here or there.

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Co-op are also doing spend £30 get a 5 off the petrol station.

How I dearly wish I had a 'big' Co-op I could shop at! We only have little convenience stores round here. My mum has a big one about a quarter of a mile from her that she always shops at and I'm so jealous! I know that price-wise it wouldn't be the cheapest, but idealogically I would prefer to shop there.

kidcat wrote: »

Larumbelle - it may be an idea to let her do just a little for you, it will make her feel she has done something positive - and also if she ever needs help and you offer she wont feel so guilty if she accepts Also may make your OH realise it needs doing

Kidcat - I have been thinking and thinking about this. We have the kind of relationship where we can offer, ask for, and even refuse big favours without it necessarily being a big deal or anybody 'owing' anybody else (unless it's a cash loan, which has always been paid back. Although TBH we have always treated that as if a gift where if we get it back it's a bonus) . It sounds like a cliche to say she's like a sister to me, but she is. Which is why it's so hard to accept this favour, I know how tired she is already! But she has already arranged to send the kids to her Mum on Saturday (her OH will be at work) and come over. But on the plus side, I think it has already pushed OH into action and he is starting to do some housework, so hopefully by then it won't be so bad. A few years back we used to do regular Saturday swaps, she would come over one Saturday and help with my housework (the thing I hate doing) and I would come over to hers the following Saturday and help her to shop intelligently then batch cook a few weeks of meals and teach her basic recipes. The arrangement only stopped when I finally got myself into a housework routine and she got her food shop to under £100 week :rotfl:


THANKS all of you who let me know about your pressure cookers... I have some vouchers and I am considering buying one but I don't want it to become a white elephant! But I make dahl often, and lentil / bean casserole, which I know I could do in there. Mine will probably be Tefal, as they're the cheapest I've found. One obviously isn't as posh as you, Mardatha! :rotfl: What capacity do you all have? Is it the right size for you or do you wish you'd gone bigger/smaller?

jackieglasgow

I have a SC and would gladly trade if for a pressure cooker. My MIL is planning on moving abroad this year and I am hoping she won't need hers when she goes Soup in twnety minutes, pulses cooked in virtually no time, I really really need one

maryb

I know there are other threads on pressure cookers but just wanted to say, another vote here for pressure cookers. I probably use mine 3-4 times a week. Ham joints 8 mins per lb then half an hour in the oven to crisp up the skin after you've put cloves and a mustard/sugar glaze on. The stock is lovely for soup. Soup takes 10 minutes. Chicken stock sooo easy. I make hummous all the time now. Batch cook red kidney beans and freeze in small quantities (even a small tin is too much for my lot in chilli). Preparing orange peel for marmalade Etc Etc

But the yummiest thing of all is lemon curd made in the pressure cooker. Beat 2 eggs with eight oz sugar in a heatproof bowl and stir in the zest and juice of two lemons (I usually reduce the lemon juice a bit to make it more concentrated but you don't have to) Then cut up 2 oz butter into small pieces and just put them over the surface. Place some greaseproof paper or foil over the top and put in the cooker with at least half a pint of water. If your cooker is aluminium put the squeezed out lemons in the bottom as well to stop the inside of the pan turning black. Bring to high pressure for 10 minutes then just turn off the heat and leave it to depressure by itself for 15 minutes. Stir and pour into warmed jars.

Did I say Yum?

Larumbelle

Sold! I think I am convinced. I just need to decide which size now. Thanks, Jackie and Mary