Cooking/recipe advice with disability

DigForVictory

+1 for training young son. It really does pay off. Then praising son, suggest he shows Dad? Add a pinch of rivalry & they come on in impressive leaps.

Student son clearly already burdened at present but he may blossom in the kitchen given time and support rather than competition?

*Always* teach them to make enough for two meals and portion the other half into the freezer.

Says happily indolent mother of three (who learned this from Her Mother!) & who now shops to a list supplied by family & shrugs when one child flounces off & eats fishfingers while the rest of us eat something else. But who roars like a tiger when someone has eaten something *I* was going to cook with.

Bets of luck!

elona

My DDs love "dinner party chicken" but don't realise how easy it is.

Slice a chicken breast almost right through horizontally - open it out like a book. Spread a tiny amount of mustard on it very thinly and then a dab of easy garlic - add a low fat slice of cheese or else low fat cheese spread- put it back into the original shape and roll a bacon rasher round it. I usually put foil over it and bake for about half an hour or so.

It is nice hot or cold, with salad or wedges or jacket potato etc. I use one chicken breast per person and any left over can be sliced thinly and used as a sandwich filling with a bit of salad or tomato to bulk it out.

suki1964

Chicken and chorizo tray bake

Chicken thighs - skin on
Chunky chopped chorizo
New potatoes - halved

Tip into an roasting tin, drizzle some oil over, add salt, pepper and maybe oregano or thyme, slam in the oven till chicken cooked and going crispy, about an hour on 220

mirry

myonlysunshine wrote: »

Thanks Mirry, some great ideas, will def give them a go 👍🏻😊

Your welcome. It's not easy when you have only so many spoons a day.....Do you know about the spoon theory?

I also have a dishwasher which makes life easier, I used to faint when having to stand too long at the kitchen sink, so it's made a huge difference.

myonlysunshine

mirry wrote: »

Your welcome. It's not easy when you have only so many spoons a day.....Do you know about the spoon theory?

I also have a dishwasher which makes life easier, I used to faint when having to stand too long at the kitchen sink, so it's made a huge difference.

Yes I know about the spoon theory, the only problem is I think I've got a cutlery drawer full of spoons!! 🙄 The dishwasher is my hubby's and sons job I refuse to do it (stomps feet!)

Thanks Mirry 😊

myonlysunshine

suki1964 wrote: »

Chicken and chorizo tray bake

Chicken thighs - skin on
Chunky chopped chorizo
New potatoes - halved

Tip into an roasting tin, drizzle some oil over, add salt, pepper and maybe oregano or thyme, slam in the oven till chicken cooked and going crispy, about an hour on 220

That sounds lovely Suki, I've just added chorizo to my online shop weirdly! Thanks 😊

myonlysunshine

elona wrote: »

My DDs love "dinner party chicken" but don't realise how easy it is.

Slice a chicken breast almost right through horizontally - open it out like a book. Spread a tiny amount of mustard on it very thinly and then a dab of easy garlic - add a low fat slice of cheese or else low fat cheese spread- put it back into the original shape and roll a bacon rasher round it. I usually put foil over it and bake for about half an hour or so.

It is nice hot or cold, with salad or wedges or jacket potato etc. I use one chicken breast per person and any left over can be sliced thinly and used as a sandwich filling with a bit of salad or tomato to bulk it out.

Thanks Elona! We love mustard with chicken recipes so will give that a go! 😊

myonlysunshine

DigForVictory wrote: »

+1 for training young son. It really does pay off. Then praising son, suggest he shows Dad? Add a pinch of rivalry & they come on in impressive leaps.

Student son clearly already burdened at present but he may blossom in the kitchen given time and support rather than competition?

*Always* teach them to make enough for two meals and portion the other half into the freezer.

Says happily indolent mother of three (who learned this from Her Mother!) & who now shops to a list supplied by family & shrugs when one child flounces off & eats fishfingers while the rest of us eat something else. But who roars like a tiger when someone has eaten something *I* was going to cook with.

Bets of luck!

Lol that made me laugh!!! The junior loves to peel but hates anything else, it's a start tho! We uses to do a lot of baking when he was younger, he's a maths wizard and loves counting and measuring stuff so I thought he would carry on but he's getting lazy...!!!

suki1964

myonlysunshine wrote: »

Lol that made me laugh!!! The junior loves to peel but hates anything else, it's a start tho! We uses to do a lot of baking when he was younger, he's a maths wizard and loves counting and measuring stuff so I thought he would carry on but he's getting lazy...!!!

Peeling is a great help. Get him to peel and boil a massive pan of spuds. Boil them. Take out some at par boiled state, cool them and freeze them ready for mid week roasties. The rest mash cool and freeze in bags for mash on the days when you have no help. Just defrost and nuke as required adding butter then

Get him to peel a load of onions then chop them in the fp. Freeze in portions. Peel a load of carrots and parsnips and use the fp to slice. An hour together will fill the freezer with building blocks to make meals easier another day

cbrown372

I spotted a split dish for a slow cooker in Aldi the other day might be a good idea if you don't want to add say tomatoes to half a meal?