ok my first dip into this pool of knowledge

Spendless

Here in Yorkshire what you sometimes come across with a sunday dinner is the yorkshire pudding being served with onion gravy as a starter before the sunday roast.

I have seen this offered in restaurants before but i do also know of a family who do this.

Great for filling em up first!

vanoonoo

I've heard of this before - also yorkies with jam for pud

Queenie

I used to use up cold Yorkies as soldiers with soft boiled eggs

My mum was a Yorkshire woman and would make yorkshires every Sunday .. couldn't afford beef! Always a chunky yorkshire with gravy first

Then she went dead posh and turned ... vegetarian ... she made a roast dinner as per normal, but no meat (It was only because she couldn't afford any meat at all LOL) By the time we'd eaten her wonderful yorkie puds, roast potatoes cooked in dripping and her gravy made from the jelly of the dripping, no one noticed there was no meat anyway

TAZ

the mince went down a great, and tonight we had a really different tea the lads wanted pizza but they all like different ones so i wouldn't order from a takeaway i instead let them make their own but as i wasn't sure how to make a dough base we used bread, ok they were small but the lads made their own with there own toppings i used tinned tomatoes pureed as the tomatoe sause and then just diced up odd bit of ham and onion etc i even had a tin of pineapple in so tea cos me nothing but the stuff i already had in

Ticklemouse

Well done Taz, you've done the hard bit - started:) . Now you've taken that first step you can just get on and feed them how you want too/can afford. OK, there will be meals along the way that don't turn out well or they don't like, but half of it is trial and error. If you make changes to established meals slowly, they'll soon get used to it and if they don't they'll go hungry. I'm sure during the war, when people didn't have lots of food, they would have eaten it because they were so hungry.

Pizza dough is easy to make - have a search on the web and find one you like. I made pizza last night too - I used 8 oz flour, 4-5 oz tepid water, pinch salt, teaspoon sugar, 1 1/2 teaspoon yeast and I bunged it in my breadmaker to mix (so can't give kneading times) Gave enough for 2 x 9 inch thin bases. !!!!!! base all over with fork and cook for 10 - 15 mins Gas mark 5-6. Put on toppings, return to oven for about 8 mins. I'm still trying to perfect mine as not quite to my liking yet. Having doubled those quantities, I reckon with tomatoes, cheese, ham, mushrooms and pineapple, whole lot cost £2 cos I didn't use cheapy flour or ham.

likabu_2

Hah, I was just going to ask if anyone had a tried and tested pizza dough recipe, thanks.

I had thought I was being economical, buying the ready made pizza bases to put my own toppings on instead of buying readymade. Didn't once cross my mind to make "everything"!!!

Lisa

Edit - do you use plain or sf flour, or doesn't it matter?

Sarahsaver

plain flour, even the economy stuff just for pizza bases. Its what we got 4 tea tomorrow.
Im expandng the 'pool of knowledge' by seeing how many vegetables i can grow in my inner city garden - bok choi, spinach, beet, spring onion, chillies, rhubarb, redcurrants, mushrooms (in the cellar...) and i am planning a couple of chickens! Its gonna be crowded but tasty!

likabu_2

I used my cheapest plain flour in the end, kwiksaves I think. I really am suprising myself cooking wise!!

Good luck on your veg growing - I don't think I have ever heard of bok choi.

Lisa

Magentasue

Sarahsaver, I'm also expanding the veg growing in my garden but I'm ahead of you with the chickens. We got six last May. Sadly, one of the ex-batteries didn't make it through the winter but we've had at least three eggs a day since we got them. We feed them organic pellets but they last ages because they get the potato and other peelings cooked up every day and mixed with some cheap porridge oats. They much prefer this, especially if there's some cabbage leaves and apple cores chucked in. Go for it! They're fascinating and not much trouble to look after once you've got their house and land fixed up!

fazer6

Sarah, I do green beans (don't know if they're runner beans or not because I'm not good with names) and they grow really well. Once they've gone up the canes train them along the washing line. I had 5 plants in 2 pots last year and had absolutly loads of beans. They didn't need any special care either so they're very easy. My mum had problems with birds picking the flowers off so her crop wasn't as good, but I've got cats so no hooligan birds in my garden!