Moving house, no cooker!!!

joeyjac

Hi,

I don't post on here too often but am sure someone will be able to help me...please.

I'm moving on the 20th dec and will not have a cooker until the new year! I'm planning on doing some batch cooking this weekend to freeze so we can just stick them in the microwave when we're in the new house. I have some ideas but am a bit stuck as to what can be frozen then reheated in the microwave.

So far I have

Bolognaise (not sure how I'll cook pasta though)
Chilli
Lasagne
chicken curry

Thats all I can think of!! sorry I'm not very good at this! If anyone can offer anymore suggestions I'd be very grateful

Thanks

Jo

PasturesNew

sausage casserole
cheese/potato/onion pie
pizza - you can buy special "crisping" dishes for microwaves for this sort of thing
sausage and mash

Or, you could look for a combination/microwave oven. These are real ovens. So you can cook even a xmas dinner in one (small though).

Add to that a plug in 2-ring hob and you can boil things too.

If you buy a combination/microwave oven they're great for the future too. Ideal for when you're just heating up small things and don't want to fire up a whole big oven. I found that heating up to 200 degrees only took about 4 minutes to get up to temperature.

e.g. this one - notice it says "Convection Oven - up to 250 degrees"
http://www.247electrical.co.uk/epages/twentyfourseven.storefront/EN/Product/SHAR879SLMA

mumofjusttwo

Have you thought about buying a slow cooker? Good for doing lots of things etc., if you haven't already got one

Rikki

Have you though about getting a slow cooker?

Have a look at this thread. CLICK HERE

Rikki

mumofjusttwo wrote: »

Have you thought about buying a slow cooker? Good for doing lots of things etc., if you haven't already got one

:T:T:T

Great minds.

Nicki

Cottage pie
Stew with dumplings
Casseroles (and serve with couscous which you can make with just a kettle)
soups
Plated whole meals, covered with tinfoil

Not freezable, but you could also do things liked baked potatoes in the m/w and serve with tins of tuna, baked beans, cheese or coleslaw

Are you going somewhere for Christmas lunch as I can't work out how to cook a whole traditional Christmas lunch with just a m/w and no rings. I find it hard enough to cope with 2 ovens and 4 rings and a m/w!

prettypennies

I remember when we moved from Hereford to Bradford when I was a kid. Mum chucked the cooker out and the new one was supposed to be delivered in time for us moving in. It arrived two weeks late, so we survived on toast cooked in front of the gas fire:rotfl: (one of those old ones with the metal grill across the front).

We probably ate other stuff as well, but I just remember thinking it was really cool cooking toast on the fire .

Olliebeak

A few years ago, I came across a small oven (abandoned in an empty flat) that doubled as a grill with two hotplates on top. The idea was that we would use that until we 'could afford' a new cooker. I learned to get along with it so well that I left it about two years before getting a cooker. When I did get one, my daughter's cooker 'died a death' about the same time and the mini-cooker went to her house for about 6 months. Then it came back to me and was loaned to somebody else moving into a first-time flat. It found it's way back home to me once again until I've now loaned it to OH for his flat (even though he's sort-of living with me). I just know that if I DARE to throw it out - that it will be tempting fate just a little too much! I think it's original owner paid around £80 for it when new. It only runs from an ordinary socket.

This is pretty much the same as the one I had.
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Belling_127__5684124

These days though, there are those halogen ovens that will take a turkey. One of those along with a microwave and slow cooker would just about get you through most meals until your cooker arrives.

The joys of moving home eh! Good luck.

joeyjac

Thank you all very much for your replies, my DH dragged me to B&Q last night to look at bathrooms (something else new house doesn't have!! what am I letting myself in for!)

I'll try to reply to some of your posts.

Mumofjusttwo/Rikki ~ I have a slow cooker, didn't even think of using it! Normally I precook meals on the hob before I put it in the slow cooker, do I just leave it for longer when I can't do that?

Nicki ~ Thankfully my best friend has offered to have us on christmas day, Thank god for good friends.

Thanks to everyone not mentioned too.

Jo