cooking

mingbop

:mad: I hate cooking & have no recipies or cookery books or know how., but the husband is going into hosp this week, I dont drive and live remote, so need to live on the store cupboards. Could anybody give me EASY recipies please for --
pancake mix. I have pkts of the stuff.
sausages. ( I have liver & bacon as well).
long grain rice. I hate it but I'm desperate:D
apples.
and lastly, I have an awful sweet tooth. I really get ratty if I have no sweeties or choc in the house. Is there anything cheap and easy to make for that ?
thanks in advance and I love this forum!

peb

OK - calm down. (sorry - vision of Michael Winner appeared).

DO you have a microwave - if so there are loads of cake type things you can make.

Do you have interet access at Home? if so use one of the sites such as BBC food where you can put a list of ingredients in and get recipies.

I think that the pancake mix is hte same as Yorkshire Pudding (anyone know? I don't buy mixes) and if so you could do toad in the hole. Also sweet pancakes if you have jamor icing sugar.

If you get a sweet craving will toast with jam do?

Skint_Catt

stew the apple (chop it into a saucepan on a very low heat), make the pancakes (someone else will tell you how I'm not so good or are there instructions on the pack?) stuff one with the other, sprinkle with sugar and yummy! There's your sweet!

mingbop

oh wow. gobsmacked. two great helps already ! thank you xxx. I havent heard of the bbc site ever, all my (longish) life I have avoided cooking like the black death. And enjoyed it about as much.

mingbop

got internet yes and got microwave yes. But it's only ever been used to make soap in ! LOL

Skint_Catt

www.cookingbynumbers.com is not too bad for the basic cook either! (I should know!)

Skint_Catt

Just grill the sausages and have a breakfast sandwich, or have with baked beans (heated in bowl in microwave) and mash (instant Smash or boil real potatos and then mash with a little milk and butter!)

Catt xx

newlywed

There was a recipe on here for microwave flapjacks (only type that every come out right for me) - just porridge oats, marge, syrup and sugar - all zapped and very easy... will go find the post for you...

newlywed

Here you go:

I get the kids to help make them and when they come out of microwave we press choc chips in the top
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2850161&postcount=4

I use a the lid of a glass casserole dish to make them in as it's just the right size
Just leave to cool before cutting up or they crumble into a mess

newlywed

Here's the recipe thread link for the microwave sponge pudding - as well as variations you can do:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=523656&postcount=134

squeaky

For a bet - your microwave book will have a recipe for liver casserole in it.

For another bet - You've lost the book!

You can make sponge or suet puddings in the microwave, even dumplings to have with syrup.

Sauages, boiled egg, (both chopped) peas sweetcorn, and bits of cheese (added just before serving) is really nice.

Bacon butties! Egg banjos

You can make a three course meal from three slices of toast. Honest

Just give me a shout if you'd like the recipes for any of these. Except the bacon butties

Just for stamps:- we have a cooking collection here:-

The Complete Cooking Collection

And there are all sorts of cheap and easy recipes in it. Main ingredients are listed in alphabetical order and each thread usually has several recipes for each item.

And finally - a list of recipe requests that have easy in the title:-

easy recipes list