eggs & potatoes- lets get our heads together!

cathodetube

Try this if you like scrambled eggs - Serves 1 greedy person

a few plum or cherry tomatoes
1 white onion
2 eggs - beaten
1 small chilli (red or green)
handful of coriander, chopped
vegetable oil
good crusty bread for toasting plus butter

Saute onion in oil, add tomatoes cook until collapsed, add chilli, having removed seeds if you don't like things too spicy. Then add eggs into pan and stir until just scrambled. Serve on buttered toasted bread with coriander sprinkled on top. The only difficult part is chopping the onion, (and maybe finding the coriander!) and it is all done in one pan. Delish!

cathodetube

Iceland does these very cheaply, sometimes 2 packs for £1. They are good toasted and served with eggs, or grill them with cheese on top. Or use them instead of toast.

Archers

lynzpower wrote: »

Hi all

Yesterday I bought a box of eggs & a bag of potatoes, with a view to using them for meals this week.

I got to thinking , these are some of the cheapest ingredients - that most people on a budget can afford, and surely the most versatile!

What combos can we come up with for these 2 ingreients of kings? I found myself thinking of only a couple - so I'll start:

1. Egg & Chips

2. Spanish omelette ( adding in mushrooms, peppers, sausage, whatever is in, but fine on its own otherwise)

Any other thoughts or recipes on these 2 ingredients?

When my Mum was evacuated during the war, money was so tight that all they actually lived on for most meals was eggs & potatoes! The meal they used to eat all the time was what we, in my family, now refer to as "eggy potatoes".

Chop the raw potatoes up into small pieces & throw into a hot frying pan to brown (cos the pieces are small they'll cook in the pan). Once browned, crack a couple of eggs over the top & stir it all together. The eggs bind the potatoes together. Once the egg is cooked, serve & eat plain or with salad, beetroot or something else suitable.

You can also chuck other ingredients into the pan as it cooks - bacon, peppers, mushrooms, etc.

Enjoy!

randomtask_2

I made Oeufs au nid for lunch today - mash the potato to your own tastes and arrange in a buttered oven dish, forming a well in the middle. Use a fork to create a nest effect on the surface of the potato. Crack an egg into the well, season, cover it all with grated cheddar, bake for 15 mins. Delicious.

Zazen999

Yummy; all of it.
I made a cheese and onion sauce tonight; takes 5-10 minutes.
Chop and onion up nice and fine and cook in light splash of oil [real money saving, use frylite - lasts forever]. When onions are nice and clear, take off the heat and let it cool for a bit [30 secs]. Sprinkle on some flour [just enough to soak up the oil and dry out the onions]. Keep off the heat and add some milk, and whisk in. Pop back on medium heat and keep whisking gently, to stop any lumps. Add a bit more milk - a little at a time, as it thickens up to the thickness that you need. Once it is bubbling away, add the cheese; I add it in lumps and just keep stirring with the whisk. Taste and add pepper/pesto/sun dried tom/chili sauce/whatever you want to be honest. If you can still feel the flour on your tongue, you haven't cooked it enough.
Good with mash, chips, pasta; bread, etc etc.

hollyh

Hi

My favourite egg and potato dish is this

2 Onions (softened)
4 Hard boiled eggs chopped into quarters
8 medium potatoes parboiled and chopped into quarters
All chucked into a ovenproof dish
Cheese sauce poured over ( not sure how much cause i just guessed)
Sprinkle cheese on top
In the oven for about 30 mins

This served 2 adults, 2 teenagers, 2 ten yr olds and a 20 month old.

I might increase the eggs next time.

I served this with corn on the cob which i got cheap from the market and it was delicious even my fussy ss ate it all. :rolleyes:

tenuissent

hollyh, this sounds very much like a meal my three teenagers and 2 friends kept begging for when I rented a tiny cottage for halfterm - but I added a tin of tuna chunks as well as the eggs, and perhaps some thinly sliced leeks, a few frozen peas, anything to add a bit more colour; a greedy mother and five starving teenagers would scrape the dish and they'd ask for it again the next day.... A mountain of free carrots were thrown in with the cottage, so those went in as well, parboiled first.

Bogof_Babe

Here's one I got from a friend... (serves 2, adjust all quantities for more)

Potatoes enough for 2
A few ounces of tasty cheese - depending on whether you like cheese.
2 eggs

Peel potatoes and then slice into rounds - not too thin. Put on to boil - keep an eye on them as you don't want them mashy. Also put on 2 eggs to hardboil - thats roughly 7 minutes to be sure they are hard. Grate the amount of cheese you think you will like - and make it a tasty one.

Roux sauce.

Knob of butter
just over half a pint of milk - not skimmed either semi or full fat.
dessert spoon of plain flour

Put butter and flour into preferably non stick pan then put over heat - keep stirring - gradually add the milk removing from heat to do so - still stirriing. Stir until sauce thickens and is smooth. don't have the heat too high or it will go lumpy. Gradually stir in the cheese and return to heat - stirring. Stir in a good pinch garlic salt if liked. Take off heat.

Strain potatoes and lay in the bottom of a flat dish. Then peel eggs and slice and arrange on top. then more potatoes. Sprinkle with black pepper if liked. Pour sauce over. Slice a tomato and decorate top of cheese and potato pie. Cook for approx. 20 minutes in oven . I have a fan oven and I use 160c