A run round the table and a bite at the door

Toonie

NewShadow wrote: »

That seems it would come out like a barley risotto? I'd want to dump some shredded mozzarella on top I think.

It does come out quite thick and definitely a tummy filler.

Feral_Moon

NewShadow wrote: »

Successfully experimented this weekend - root veg mash - 1 potato, 2 carrots, half a swede, and a small parsnip, drop of butter and a splash of milk.

in 500g takeaway tubs freezes well, and cooks from frozen in 6 minutes (stir after 3).

Paired with low fat quorn sausage - quick, easy, healthy, tasty.

I often do this when I have odds and ends of root veg leftover but I either turn it into a soup or mash and use as a topping to a mince base.

meritaten

one of my favourite meals was sausage, swede and mash with onion gravy. the swede and mash cooked together is divine! I don't even care if I don't have sausages - I often just cook up some swede and mash just for the comfort of it.

Feral_Moon

Swede & carrot was always our staple root veg mash as kids but over the years it's expanded to include celeriac, turnip and parsnip. Occasionally planned but often the end result of fridge bottom veg

Add a few spuds...red, white or sweet...and you have perfect cottage/shepherds pie topping ��

Effyb4

NewShadow wrote: »

That's what my nan always used to say if you asked 'What's for dinner?'

Given I'm dying at the moment *cough, cough* I can't sleep as my everything hurts.

I'm nostalgic for the food my grandmother used to cook, and I was thinking about the time I managed to pry the recipe for her amazing Irish stew from her - Given she was born and raised in Ireland, I guessed it must be fairly authentic, and I'd like to share it with you all now...

1 tin stewed steak
1 tin mince and onion
1 tin potatoes
1 tin carrots
1 tin peas
1 tin oxtail soup
1 tin baked beans
2 tins of hot water
Between 2 and 4 stock cubes (her ideal mix was 2 beef and 2 veg)
Serve with lots of bread and butter

:rotfl:

It makes around 8 - 10 bowls. Nana probably made it two or three times a month and until I asked her, when I was 17 or so, I never knew it was all from tins.

I've just costed it up at tesco and, excluding the bread and butter, it comes to a grand total of £4.39 - or around 50p a bowl.

It might sound laughable, but the reason I was thinking about it was because I made myself a beef stew this weekend - It's always been my 'I'm dying' food, and it's cost me about £8 for roughly the same amount (brisket, carrots, onion, swede, leek, potato, cabbage, and a drab of left over cauliflower).

Plus it's left me with a loads of odds and ends my lurgy-ridden mind is in no fit state to deal with (and I had to go out in the rain to my them:().

I haven't made my nan's stew since I was in uni. The ingredients were always in the 'red cross' parcel she'd send over, those and lots of custard creams;).

It got me through some tight spots.

I was wondering, does anyone else have any completely store cupboard recipes?

Meals made just from tins, or things that never really go off, that reasonably resemble an actual meal.

I tried this tonight. My family really enjoyed it. There was plenty to feed 2 adults and 3 teenage boys with leftovers. Many thanks New Shadow.

Spirit_2

Our store cupboard standby is of my own making, nothing handed down from a thrifty granny.

Spanish beans.

1 onion chopped and sweated
chopped peppers softened
add 2x tins of chopped tomatoes
add 1tsp smoked paprika
add 2x tins butter beans

bring to boil and the simmer


chop as much chorizo as you like
lighty fry to cook through
tip into bean stew and stir through,
carry on simmering for about 5 minutes.


serve with spanish tortilla or rice.

A quick cheap and cheerful weekday supper capable of adaptations
and a good way of feeding legumes and veg to those who do not usually like them.

Towser

My university dish was:

1 tin chicken soup (can be any variety you fancy)
1 pkt noodles.

Great for feeling full.

NewShadow

Towser wrote: »

My university dish was:

1 tin chicken soup (can be any variety you fancy)
1 pkt noodles.

Great for feeling full.

I've done that before as well.

If you've got a few extra bits in, making up the noodles with a lot less water, chucking in some veg/cooked meat, and stir in the soup, dump some scraps of cheese on top. then bake it for 20 ish minutes - makes into a cheats pasta bake

PasturesNew

At school dinners, one of my favourite vegetable choices was when they had a huge tin tray filled with thinly sliced carrots and swede that'd been cooked/steamed together. A big scoop of that, two blobs of mash and gravy .... mmmmm. I didn't care what the main part of the meal was (it was usually steak pie). I just loved those swede/carrot slices, mash and gravy.

meritaten

its no good - tomorrows lunch has to be the half of swede in fridge and some potatoes, all cooked and mashed together with a good lump of butter and some white pepper! OH and I may well top it with MORE butter and a sprinkling of white pepper. (Black pepper just doesn't work here)