Help receipe ideas needed

sapanga

I hope I'm posting in the right place, sorry if not. I have had things in my freezer for ages and want to get them used up. My OH is rather picky and is fed up with my usual meals, this has left me with a lot of sausages, chicken portions and pork chops in the freezer. I don't want to throw this good food away but I'm not that creative when it comes to cooking. I would love some good alternative ideas to my boring pork chops with gravy, sausage casserole or garlic chicken.

I have tried a few things like doing pork chops with sage and apple but this didn't go down well. I have also tried using some of the packets u get in the supermarket to spice up the chicken but this hasn't really worked either. I'm not looking fancy recipes that cost a fortune to make just simple tasty ones.

Thanks

babyshoes

Try pork chops with soy sauce and apple, slow cooked in the oven. I rub a good quantity dark soy sauce over the chops, then top with a roughly sliced apple (or two or more depending on size and number of chops you need to cover). I leave the skin on, but you can peel it if you like. If the apple is a bit sour or not very flavourful, add a drizzle of honey. Cover and cook on med/low until the chops are soft - minimum an hour, often 2. It makes a runny sauce that's nice on mash and veg.

Chicken portions are nice in a honey and mustard sauce, made with equal quantities of grainy mustard and runny honey mixed together in your baking tray then spooned over the chicken. Bake on a medium heat, turning and basting every so often until the chicken is cooked and they have a nice mustardy crust that's starting to get very dark brown (careful at this point, the honey can make it burn easily). If you make plenty of sauce, it goes well with chips...

I don't have any special supper recipes for sausages apart from the usual bangers and mash, but any leftovers make a great sandwich/roll if you warm up the sausages with some cheese on top before putting into bread with ketchup. The cheese melts and it's seriously yummy! Not healthy though...

sapanga

Thanks I will try the pork chops with soy sauce and apple sounds yummy as does the cheesy sausages. I have tried chicken with honey and mustard before it wasn't a hit at all. Thanks again.

BitterAndTwisted

I know his might sound a bit dismissive but if your husband is that fussy perhaps you should be looking to him for suggestions. Or asking him to take over kitchen-duties for half of the week. Fussy people who moan but do nothing concrete about it don't deserve to be fed anything other than what they're given!

BakerBoy

Saute some onions and make the sausages into meatballs. Cook in a tomato sauce with some borlotti beans. Hey, that's what I'm making tomorrow!

also try mixing the sausagemeat with suet and flour and poach in a veg broth. Meaty dumplings.

You could also use the sausage meat in wontons with prawns and spring onions.

Soworried

You could split open 3 sausages and mix it with onion and dry stuffing mix. Then use it to either make pies or pasties or add a lump of cheese to the middle and grill as burgers to serve in pitta breads.

leather5

Hi,
Just a couple of ideas of what to do with your sausages!

Why not try sausage and chorizo hotpot, cut your sausages into 4 and brown with some sliced onion and sliced chorizo (I use half a chorizo ring £2 in Sainsbob) When brown arrange half of this mixture in the bottom of an oven proof dish. Slice quite thinly some potatoes and arrange a layer of these over the sausage mixture, season with salt and pepper. Repeat with the other half of the sausage mixture and more potatoes. Make up a stock cube with boiling water and pour carefully over your hotpot. Cook in the oven 180 degrees for about 2 hours - this is delicious, even my picky eater enjoys this!

Another favourite is pigs in blankets. Wrap a sausage in a rasher of bacon and place diagonally on a square of rolled out puff pastry (I buy ready made). Fold over the pointy edges on each side brushing the bottom one with a little water to make the top one stick. Bake for 20 - 30 mins at 200 degrees. We love these with potato wedges and baked beans.

As for your chops, you could cut them up and treat them just like diced port or bash them thin, cover in breadcrumbs and fry. I love the honey and mustard chicken recipe someone else posted - I've got some chicken in the freezer and think I will make that this week!

Good luck x

ladymarmalade

One of my favourite meals with sausages is served in a baguette with lashings of sticky onions that have been cooked in cider, mustard and butter.

For pork chops, we oftern mix together a small amount of creme fraiche, wholegrain mustard and cheese and spread on the top and then cook in the oven. We also like them served with cauliflower cheese.

Miss_Purple_Hat

For the pork chops, I discovered a great meal at a pub. Cook the pork chop, then cover with apple sauce, top with grated mild cheddar and melt under the grill. I was surprised it worked so well with the cheese but it's actually really nice.

Steve059

Pork chops with apple in cider. Lancashire Hotpot. Recipes available if required.

sooty&sweep

Hi
What about toad in the hole ?
Ive just cooked 4 chicken thighs in stock & I'm going to take the meat off the bone mix with leeks & sweetcorn, use the stock to make a sauce. I've got a roll of puff pastry so I'll turn it into a pie.
I have to be honest though & say I'd buy yiur husband an apron & a few cookery books & suggest he starts doing some of the cooking !
Jen