August 2008 Grocery Challenge

Brilliant and Easy Chicken Fried Rice from leftovers was a great success I almost wish I'd had double of everything and made it for us all

1 cup plain boiled rice cooled
1 clove garlic finely sliced
1 blob ginger paste
2 tbs veg oil
1 cup diced precooked chicken from rubber chicken
2 in strip of red pepper
2 in strip green pepper
Handful frozen peas
2 in onion chopped
2 dashes of soy sauce

Method.

Heat oil in wok / large fry pan till v hot.
Add garlic and ginger,turn heat down.
Add peppers - 2 mins.
Add all other ingredients and stir vigourously for 5 mins till heated through.
Serve with 2 egg omelette chopped up and plonked on top or stir through if you prefer.

I didn't add salt as my rice was previously salted and soy is salty.

OH loved it,so did I but I only managed to get a smidge of it.

Have put on menu plan for next month as DD9 liked it too.

Any recipes for sweet and sour chicken or pork you lovely lot????

annelouise

This is a good low cal BBQ/Sweet and Sour tasting dish

Diet Coke chicken
Chicken diced
chopped onion
sliced mushrooms
1x can diet coke
couple of splashes of Worcester Sauce
5 tbsp tom sauce

Lightly brown chicken with the onion and add the mushroom. Add the coke and sauces. Then cook until the sauce goes sticky, keep stirring it so it doesn't stick to the bottom and burn
Serve with rice/noodles


Thanks for the sweet and sour recipe Angelnikki I wish I had that before I got my BOGOF jars in Mr M

annelouise-Wow! Great food present!!
SFT

Evening all

Well first things first..im soooo excited that its sad :rotfl:
I was talking with hubby earlier about that gardening thing i had my eye on..i was umming n aahhing as hubby had given in and agreed to buy me a remoska for xmas :T -he won't normally buy me "housey things" for pressies ... and i was trying to decide if i wanted the remoska or the garden jobby most -trying to decide which would save most money in the long term... and his answer !!!! -"have the garden thing for your birthday" :j .... ok my birthday is 22 december.. so i will "have" to have it early -only so i can get the free irrigation system of course ... which means next year all the salady, oriental leaves and some strawberries can go in that..freeing up the other tubs for more veggies :T ...plus i can use it to start all my seeds off:D -im allready saving loo roll tubes for all my beans n peas
Hubby was quite amused as i was singing the virtues of "space saving" hubby wondered where exactly i was going to find room for it :rotfl: ..well we have 1 neighbour with a toddler so i can't put things right up to the fence, and the other side has a puppy who tries to pull things through :rolleyes: so i can stand it next to the fence on the dog side as it won't reach anything:T
Ok...excited rambles over

Today was a NSD afterall... the Naffi was still waiting for is flour delivery -so i got my money back again :j we will probably nip on Tuesday on the way back from golf and see if it is in yet:D

Savingfortravel... I think we are like you and your OB .... My hubby will eat just about anything but roast parsnips, sweet potato and apricots... so he is very easy to please :T and like you i stick my head in the freezer/cupboards and work out from there.. I just list 7 meals and then pick as we go along -depending on the weather, what we are doing and what wants using first:p .
Im doing rather well on the NAFFI whoopsies at the moment -but the biggest saver for me has been to start eating normal sized portion rather than mega ones and getting the ratios right between meat, carb n veg... at one time we used to eat huge portions of meat at a time :rolleyes: oh and having a liking for a lot of the old recipes we used to have as kids like savoury meat roll, breast of lamb stew etc
We always seem to prefer the "concoctions" i come up with too rather than "proper recipes" :rotfl: which is great for using up odds n sods from the freezer/fridge;)

Hi Turbo....
At the moment im using all sorts of tomatoes -from tiny plum to big bruisers.. I have 30 plants on the go :rotfl: so rather than keep eating them im cutting them into 1/2 1/4s and throwing in a tin with garlic, olive oil, salt n pepper and roasting -you can add any other veggies... courgettes n peppers went into todays.. then im bagging them up as they are. When i was doing them before i would blitz them down..but now im leaving them so i can put them in pasta or casseroles or even on toast mmmmm.. or blitz them down when i defrost them

right i will get off and catch up with everything else..
have a good night everyone

A NSD today for me. Found a jar of mincemeat lurking in the cupboard so I made that into a pie with the addition of a couple of wrinklie apples, peeled cored and chopped. Had enough left to make 12 small mince pies and 12 jam tarts with the leftover pastry. Made beef casserole for tea and I have enough of that left to make a pie with suet crust pastry tomorrow. All a bit stodgy so will have to go back to the salads on Tuesday.