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Some great recipe ideas. What about pies?
Homemade fudge is a great little sweet treat. Perfect with coffee to finish off a meal or as a little energy booster, it keeps for up to a month in an airtight container.
golden granulated sugar 500g
whipping cream 500ml
Baileys 50ml?
white chocolate 150g
step 1Butter and line a 22cm x 22cm tin, leaving a small overhang. Put sugar, cream and Baileys in a large pan and, stirring slowly, bring it to a simmer. make sure the sugar is dissolved (it will stop feeling grainy on the base of the pan), then turn the heat up to a rolling boil.
step 2Adjust the heat until the mixture bubbles without getting too near the top of the pan. Keep bubbling, stirring occasionally, until a small amount of mixture dropped into a glass of cold water will form a soft ball that you can pick up on the end of a teaspoon.
step 3At this stage, the bubbles will have gone from being large and unruly to smaller and more even. stir in the chocolate and pour the mixture into the tin. cool and cut.
Strawberry Fool
Strawberries, 225g
Double Cream, a medium pot
1/2 lemon
Icing Sugar, to tasteWash and remove the stalks from the strawberries. If you picked the strawberries yourself, the fluffy hull would lift out as you pull of the stalk. Place the hulled strawberries in one of the bowls.
Crush the strawberries with a potato masher until you have a lumpy puree. If there is too much liquid, strain some away. This stops the fool from getting too runny.
Whip the cream in the other bowl with the rotary whisk until, when you lift up the whisk, the cream forms little mountain peeks.
Using a tablespoon, fold the crushed strawberries into the bowl of cream, using the spoon like a paddle, until the strawberries are all completely folded in and there is no more white cream. Add a squeeze of lemon juice, to taste.
How much icing sugar you need, depends on how sweet you like it. Sift in a little, heaped spoonful at a time, folding it in well. Keep tasting the mixture, until it is just right.Using fresh berries, bananas, and eggs, creates these delicious muffins. First, mash two bananas into a large bowl. Then, whisks four eggs until they are blended well. Next, places a few berries into each compartment of muffin tin. Finally, pours the mixture over berries and places them in the oven.
These muffins do not contain any flour, and as a result, they bake extremely quickly. It only takes 12 minutes in the oven until they are ready!
Traditional Danish Meal!
Called Burning Love in Danish, or Brændene kærlighed..
If you are looking for a healthy meal, then this is definitely not it. But cheap, oh yes!!!
Serves 4
Make mashed potatoes enough for 4 – 50p
500g cooking bacon -Morrisons 60p
2 big white onions 10p
(Optional Butter 25g – 20p)
Black Pepper 2pDice bacon, fry it in the pan to crispy, take out but leave the fat in pan. Add the onions fry not to crispy but until good colour, add the bacon back on. Then add pepper and the butter if you want to.
Serve a big spoonful on top of the mash! Serve with pickled vegetables..
For 4 large portions £1.42 (without pickled vegetables). 35p per person.
The pickled veg her is around an extra 10p per person. Home pickled
Muffins:- Melt 80g butter ( or buttery margarine) and beat 150g vanilla yoghurt and 1 egg into it, then stir in the blueberries ( I normally use 100g defrosted from frozen berries, but the fresh blueberries were free) Stir in 80g sugar. Sift 200g of plain flour with 4tsp of baking powder, then gently stir through into the wet mix ( only just mix, you should have lumps – do not over stir). Spoon mix into 9 giant muffin cases to fill completely and bake at 190C for about 15 minutes.
Total cost ( I am adding in the cost of 100g frozen berries even though my blueberries were free) 99p, so each muffin is 11p.Cheese scone ring:- rub together 160g self raising flour and 40g butter/margarine. Beat 1 egg, 100g cottage cheese with chives and 1tsp strong made english mustard together. Tip into the flour and mix to a soft dough. Shape into a round and cut down into 6 wedges, then cut 20g strong cheddar into 6 strips and put on each of the segments. Bake 15 minutes at 190C. Total cost 42p, 7p each wedge.
Cherry scone ring:- Rub 160g self raising flour and 40g butter/margarine together, add 30g sugar and stir. Stir in some chopped glace cherries. Beat 1 egg with 3 tbsp vanilla yoghurt and a little vanilla extract. Mix all together to form a soft dough, form into a round and cut down into 6 wedges. Bake 190C appx 15 minutes. Total cost 54p, 9p a wedge.
Quiche. Mix 8oz leftover creamed potato with 8oz plain flour, 2tbsp oil and 1tsp dried sage, make into a soft dough. Use 2/3 to press into a quiche dish ( don’t roll, just use the heel of your hand to push and flatten). Chop 1/4 pack cooking bacon into bits and scatter over the pastry. Blitz 100g cottage cheese with chives and 4 eggs together, then pour into the dish. Bake 20 minutes at 190C, until golden. Total cost appx 80p
Flatbread:- flatten the rest of the potato dough out and push your fingers into it. Melt a small knob of butter and mix a little dried chilli and 1/2tsp smoked paprika into it, then spread over the dough. Chop up a couple of sweet chillies/ a bit of capsicum/ etc.. and sprinkle on the flatbread with a bit of seasalt. Bake 20 minutes. Total cost appx 20p.
I cooked everything in the oven in one go, to save on fuel.
Simple Soup. The recipe makes 2 portions.
250gr potatoes, cut into chunks
60gr leek, sliced
60gr carrot, sliced
1 stock cube (I used chicken but veg is fine)
400ml water.Put everything in a pan and simmer/boil for 20-25mins until potatoes and carrots are soft.
Take off the heat and blend.
That’s it!
Tasty, easy and nutritious. You can add spices if you like but it’s not needed.Cola BBQ ribs
One bottle of cheap cola but not diet!
One large onion cut in half
4 garlic cloves smashed or a top of garlic powder
Dsp of whole peppercorns
2 bay leavesAdd all of them into saucepan with 2 racks of ribs
Add water to cover then bring to the boil
Simmer for 1 hourThen either find a good recipe for bbq sauce OR I just cheat and use asda bbq sauce (£1) coat ribs well (I use a whole bottle for 2 racks) put on a baking tray on low for an hour. Delicious finger food!
PS… don’t let on about the bbq sauce cheat lol. It’s really amazing how tender the meat is. It just falls of the bone and melts in the mouthIndian shepards pie made for freezer.
Makes a change from usual shepards/cottage pie.
you can also do a Mexican version and a Spanish version of cottage pie…
Have various meats, lamb mince, chicken and sausages too,
1lb lamb mince, with 2 chopped onions, browned off, 4 carrots, peas and garlic added, then I added 2 tablespoons of curry powder and a handful of sultanas and cooked through. Added a little lamb stock and tom purée. Transferred to oven dish and topped with mashed spuds that I mixed mint sauce and peas through.Bannoffee pie
INGREDIENTSripe bananas 2 sliced
golden caster sugar 250g
butter 100g
caramel 100g, from a jar or tin (Nestlé Carnation Caramel works well) plus 2 tbsp for the top
white chocolate 100g
eggs 2
self-raising flour 200g
METHODSTEP 1
Heat the oven 180c/fan 170c/gas 4. Melt the sugar, butter, caramel and chocolate together until smooth. cool a little, then add the eggs and fold in the flour and banana.
Pour into a lined 20cm square tin and add a few blobs of caramel to the top, bake for 45-50 minutes or until risen and set.
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