This is another ridiculously quick and easy supper, and pretty cheap too (depending where you shop) – certainly well under £1 per serving. Works well with runner beans as well. serves 2: 1 pack green beans (89p from Aldi, I think) 125g of pasta (fusilli, quills, whatever – Aldi fusilli is 49p for 500g, so that’s…
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indian black-eyed peas
I made a batch of these for a friend’s curry evening, and they were so nice, I’ve just made another huge batch for us! I might have gone ever so slightly overboard with the quantities, so think on if you’re going to try this 🙂 1kg black-eyed peas (£3.69 for 2kgs from our local Indian…
basic lentil mix
This is one of my standards – you can use it for lasagne, moussaka, shepherds pie … anything you do with mince, really. There are just two of us in the household, but I always cook for at least six so I can freeze some. Also, this recipe is a bitsa, using up what I…
chicken and coconut curry
I had a yen for a chicken curry at the weekend; we make (and eat) a lot of chicken and coriander, but I wanted something different, dammit. So I trundled up to the Jacksons at the top of t’rerd, and came home with two packs of mixed thighs and drumsticks for a fiver, which Pete manfully…
up to my elbows in vegetables, and some venison
We seemed a bit overrun with veg, for some reason, so something had to be done. So into the medium slow cooker, diced small, went: 2 leeks 4 carrots ½ swede 2 (manky) courgettes They were cooked off with a little olive oil, on a low setting, and made two big tubs of veg…
meatballs and tomato sauce
The mystery butcher’s bag in the freezer turned out to contain about 150g of sausagemeat, clearly bought for sossidge rolls for the festering season. Hmm … what to do? I added some chopped mix herbs to the meat, and mixed it all together. Into the slow cooker went onions, garlic, a diced courgette and some…
home made pizza
For some reason, we hardly ever have pizza, and I’m not sure we’ve ever made it. So we decided to remedy that on Saturday. There was a small tub of tomato purée in the freezer, and some pork and duck stuffing balls (from Waitrose, no less!), and it seemed a good way to deal with them….
butternut squash, red pepper and feta quichelings
I had a party to go to last night, and wanted to make a contribution to the festive board. Looking at the ingredients in the fridge and freezer, I settled on squash and red pepper filo parcels. There was no feta in the fridge, but no matter – I hurtled up to Jacksons to buy…
onion gravy
We love onion gravy, but it’s really best when you have time to cook the onions slowly, and I never think about it in time. But this time, I did! I cut three onions in half, and sliced them as thinly as I could, then put them in the baby slow cooker. Also added a…
a piece of brisket
Another siren call from T L Norman’s chill cabinet, this small piece of brisket (maybe 1.25kg or so – I didn’t weigh it) went straight into the freezer when I bought it. I fetched it out on Saturday, and slow cookered it thus on Sunday: I seared the brisket (all in one piece) in a…