A run round the table and a bite at the door

NewShadow

I love this place - I really thought I was going to get banished from the board for suggesting such an awful thing, but there's some great store cupboard suggestions there.

I got sent home from work today - Tried to get out of my chair too fast and ended up sitting on the floor :eek: d*mn ear infection.

Banished to home, with work to do if I want to, at least until I stop dripping quite so much

Did come up with a fab recipe though:

1 tin lazy onions (or about 4 onions sweated with oil)
1 tin condensed tomato soup
1 tin lentils
1 tin cold water
1tbsp garlic powder (about 4 cloves)
1tsp ground ginger (about an inch grated)
1tsp coriander
1tsp chilli
1tsp cumin
1tsp turmeric
1tsp paprika
about 4 chunks of pepper in oil (1 chopped red pepper)
about 1kg diced chicken (raw or leftover)

Stir the spices into the onions and heat gently for 5 minutes. Add the chicken, stir to coat in the spices for another 5 minutes, add everything but the peppers (unless they're fresh), and simmer for 30 minutes or so - until the chicken is cooked - you may need a little more water, depending on how saucy you want it. Add the peppers for two minutes but stir gently, and serve.

JIL

When I first got married I was proud of my Frey bentos pies, tinned chicken curry (only the sainsburys brand) served with jacket potato. I am sure I also used to buy tinned sausage rolls.

NewShadow

tinned sausage rolls -

Frozen - They're like pringles

Bennifred

What's for dinner, Grandma?
Duck and roll.

Feral_Moon

Which brand of tinned stewing steak would you recommend? This sounds like a great store cupboard standby. Can't recall that I've had any before though as its not something my mother would ever have bought so haven't a clue on taste/texture etc

NewShadow

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Which brand of tinned stewing steak would you recommend? This sounds like a great store cupboard standby. Can't recall that I've had any before though as its not something my mother would ever have bought so haven't a clue on taste/texture etc

While I have to go with the caveat that I'd rather get a cheap cut of beef from the butcher and slow cook it... I've always got a couple of tins of 'princes' in the cupboard.

As you say - handy when you're broke/can't get out to the shops/ knackered.

Also, their mince and onion is actually nice enough to have heated with mash and frozen veg as an emergency meal.

Lance_De_Boils

Me: what's for tea, nan?
Nan: Win the War pie.
Me: Oooh, what's in it, nan?
Nan: Air.


Tin of Stagg chilli.
Jacket potato (sadly not available in tins)

Reya

My favourite is a dessert rather than a main meal: steamed treacle pud (either the tinned or plastic pot variety) and a tin of custard heated through. Like you, NewShadow, I'm as ill as anything right now, so I could really do with a comforting treat like that. CBA to go and cook it, through, even though it's pretty simple.

My family's "what's for dinner?" reply was always "ifits" - ifits in the cupboard you can have it, and ifits not then you can't.

NewShadow

Reya wrote: »

My favourite is a dessert rather than a main meal: steamed treacle pud (either the tinned or plastic pot variety) and a tin of custard heated through. Like you, NewShadow, I'm as ill as anything right now, so I could really do with a comforting treat like that. CBA to go and cook it, through, even though it's pretty simple.

My family's "what's for dinner?" reply was always "ifits" - ifits in the cupboard you can have it, and ifits not then you can't.

You just reminded me that my food parcel from my nan always used to have two of those tinned chocolate puddings from cadburys - no custard (she hated custard) - someone was telling me that they were/had stopped making them...

No wonder I've always been such a lard bottom :rotfl:

nicki_2

When I was younger tea was "!!!!!! with the dirt picked out" :rotfl: Now we have "fall out" which means whatever falls out the cupboard/fridge/freezer.

My staple foods are tinned tuna, tinned chickpeas, baked beans, chopped tomatoes, instant mash (tub so I can do portion control easier), pasta, sausage in the freezer, lots of frozen veg.

Favourite standby using 'tins' is what my daughter likes to refer to as "sheldon" named after the big bang theory character:
1 tin of hot dogs
1 jar of tomato based pasta sauce
pasta (supposed to be spaghetti but who cares?)

Put the jar of sauce in a pan to heat while the pasta cooks, drain the hot dogs and chop up into either chunks or discs and put in the sauce to heat up. Drain pasta, serve in a bowl with the pasta sauce poured over the top.

I also like "sausage casserole"
1 tin of baked beans
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1 packet of sausage (which we nearly always have in)

Brown the sausage, add the beans & chopped tomatoes and cook until sausage are cooked through. You can serve it over mash if you want.

Also we have "Tuna, chickpea pasta"
1 tin of tuna
1 tin of chickpeas drained
Mayonnaise (optional but its the comfort bit)
Pasta

Cook the pasta, adding the chickpeas to the water towards the end of cooking to heat through. Drain pasta/chickpeas, add drained tuna (and mayonnaise if you want) stir well and serve in a bowl.

A lot of our comfort/quick fix meals involve pasta!