A run round the table and a bite at the door

NewShadow

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.

elona

How about pea and ham soup?

Originally I would make it with a fresh ham shank, some carrots, potatoes, chopped onions and dried peas that had been soaking overnight.

Later if I did not want to go shopping I had either a couple of tins of mushy peas or quick soak dried ones, frozen chopped onion and garlic, tinned carrots and potatoes, a couple of ham stock cubes and would add a little cooked diced bacon if I had it.

You could also do something similar with red lentils, carrots, potatoes, onion and stock cubes and either have it as a soup or mix it together and make burgers.

Lance_De_Boils

Me: Nan, what's for tea?
Nan: !!!!!! with sugar on.

Caravan stew:

Tin of stewed steak.
Tin of potatoes.
Tin of carrots.
Tin of butter beans.
Tin of peas.

Pollycat

We used to do what we called 'slob tea':
tin stewing steak, tin potatoes, tin carrots & peas, all inside a giant yorkshire pudding with lots of extra gravy.
Comfort food with a capital 'C'.

A friend of our was telling us about the wonderful meat & potato pie his partner had made.
She whispered 'it was all out of tins and ready-rolled pastry'.

honeythewitch

Does the freezer count?

Whole frozen chicken, boiled with three packets of frozen casserole mix and a couple of handfuls of "soup and broth mix" , black pepper, dash of chilli, two packets of dried chicken soup.

meritaten

my nans saying was 'Stewed murks and cauliflower'! I have no idea what a 'murk' was but my little bro made us all laugh one day when he got that reply - burst into tears and said 'but I don't like cauliflower'!
ok my store cupboard standby

Tin of corned beef
Tin of potatoes
Tin of carrots
onion (if you haven't got it - leave it out)slice or dice it finely
dollops of brown sauce

slice or chunk the potatoes up and throw in a frying pan with a little butter or oil and the finely chopped onions.
drain the carrots and put them in before the onions get too charred or if you prefer it 'crispy fry' them. you can break them up or leave the little ones whole.
When its all starting to look 'done' throw in the chunks of corned beef and keep stirring them gently while they brown.
squirt in a couple of dollops of brown sauce (or to your taste) and serve
...................Corned Beef Hash!

Maitane

I have a few of them there continental back up recipes because we always keep jars and tins in our pantry.

A favourite is pasta with anchovies and sundried tomatoes or capers. Also, with chopped tomatoes and tinned pulses you can make plenty of things like minestrone with broken up pasta and pesto as the seasoning or using paprika, cumin and coriander, adding butter beans and tomatoes will make a type of spicy baked beans.

camelot1001

No 'tinned' recipes from me but if we asked what was for dinner we were told 'Liver and Lampwick'.

JIL

Tuna pasta.
Small tin sweet corn
Tin tuna
Tin creamed mushrooms
Cooked pasta.
Mix it together and warm it up.

Spanish omlette
An onion sliced
Tin new potato
4 eggs.beaten
Fry onion really slowly, add slice new pots, stir in egg and let it set.

Miss_Purple_Hat

Chicken supreme and pasta. I used to really like it, but haven't tried it again in forever.

Pasta (from dried)
Tin of chicken in white sauce
Tin of sweetcorn

Cook pasta, heat the tinned stuff together in a saucepan, serve.

Super easy! Used to be one of the caravan meals my mum made.

room512

We make corned beef hash (like meritaten) but we mix some grainy mustard with worcestershire sauce and marinate the corned beef whilst the onions and tinned potatoes are cooking before adding it to the pan and cooking for a minute.