Packets and tins - fallback meal

skintscotslass

Hi Lurkio

Thought we had scared you away!!!

My fav fallback is sweetcorn fritters. Mix a 200g tin of sweetcorn, 4 tbsps corn flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 1 egg in a blender/food processor. I usually blitz it up quite fine, but you can leave it chunkier if you prefer. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry off blobs of batter mix. You can put various ingredients in the mix, such as chillies, spring onions etc (I know its not storecupboard but I generally have these lying about the fridge). Serve with chilli/tomato/brown sauce. Suitable for breakfast/brunch/late snack from pub.

HTH

Lurkio

skintscotslass wrote: »

Hi Lurkio

Thought we had scared you away!!!

no - I think it's a time thing... I will join in at some stage. Honest

skintscotslass wrote: »

My fav fallback is sweetcorn fritters. Mix a 200g tin of sweetcorn, 4 tbsps corn flour, 1 tsp baking powder and 1 egg in a blender/food processor. I usually blitz it up quite fine, but you can leave it chunkier if you prefer. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry off blobs of batter mix. You can put various ingredients in the mix, such as chillies, spring onions etc (I know its not storecupboard but I generally have these lying about the fridge). Serve with chilli/tomato/brown sauce. Suitable for breakfast/brunch/late snack from pub.

HTH

Oooh I read about these somewhere else on here aaages ago. Sounds yumscrum :T :T

Lurkio

scotnan wrote: »

We always have a packet of long life bacon brunch in the cupboard .

Couldn't find them in Tesco yesterday (OR tomato Ketchup crisps which are supposed to be back)


:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

skintscotslass

Lurkio wrote: »

no - I think it's a time thing... I will join in at some stage. Honest

I believe you. Millions wouldnt lol

Oooh I read about these somewhere else on here aaages ago. Sounds yumscrum :T :T

I think they are best eaten with chilli sauce when we come home from the pub

lindadykes

Tuna again!

Tuna Plait
Fry a chopped onion, add a tin of tuna and grated cheese - let cool. Roll out some pastry to a rectangle - puff or shortcrust - ready made chilled/frozen or packet mix! Lay the filling down the middle of the pastry then make slashes in either side of hte pastry and "Plait" them one at a time over each other. Bit hard to describe but you could just put filling on one side and fold the other over like a giant pastie - bake till golden brown and serve.

My usual quick standby - Tuna Melt - serve with salad and it makes a nice light meal.

Mix a tin of tuna with mayonaise. Toast 4 slices of bread. Divide tuna between the toast slices and top with grated cheese. Place inder the grill till cheese is melted and flecked with brown bits.

champys

Tuna seems to be the no. 1 standby - it keeps popping up!

My cats would approve....... :-)

BigMummaF

We have a corned beef hash, made from bashed up boiled spuds & a tin or two of chopped up corned beef, depending on how many you are feeding. Literally drain the taiters, mash in the corned beef & serve with tinned veg or baked beans or whatever.

The other week I opened up a tin of hotdogs, cut them into little pieces & warmed them up with a tin of chopped toms & diced onion. Have to say that it was served with the unmentionable pasta but I guess you could do a similar thing with a tin os spag rings or something:p

sandy2_2

lindadykes wrote: »

Tuna Plait Fry a chopped onion, add a tin of tuna and grated cheese - let cool. Roll out some pastry to a rectangle - puff or shortcrust - ready made chilled/frozen or packet mix! Lay the filling down the middle of the pastry then make slashes in either side of hte pastry and "Plait" them one at a time over each other. Bit hard to describe but you could just put filling on one side and fold the other over like a giant pastie - bake till golden brown and serve.

I used to do something similar, but it was called 'Cowboy pie'
You use baked beans and cubes of corned beef (with cubes of cooked potato..or tinned) for the filling

liz545

Saute a chopped onion in butter until soft and golden, then add any/all of the following depending on what you have in stock: 1tsp cardamom pods, 1/2 a cinnamon stick, 2 bay leaves and stir for a minute or two. Add 1 cup rice and stir well to coat the grains in the butter, then pour over 300ml stock (chicken/veg, from a cube is fine) or water, pop a lid on and leave it over a low to moderate heat for 15 minutes, then turn off the heat and leave it to stand with the lid on for 5 minutes before serving. Add a knob of butter and some salt and pepper. If you've got them, you could add in some cooked chicken, frozen peas, chopped spinach/greens or sauteed mushrooms, but if not, just serve as it is with a dollop of mango chutney.

With all due thanks to Nigel Slater for the recipe that's saved me from getting a takeaway countless times! :T

sazziecee

I use tinned meatballs too, for the kids, I have used noodles with it before but now I seem to use spaghetti more often, and stir it through so that either the gravy or tomato sauce mixes throughnand coats it.

I also use smoked sausage and stir it through spaghetti or pasta with some tomato puree and maybe sweetcorn.

My fave quick meal is tinned mackerel on toast, closely followed by tinned spaghetti bolognese on toast