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Right want to make a reasonably good meal tomorrow....
Needs to be cheap as possible and I will only have 2 hours to prepare and cook it..
HELP...
Spam and porridge.
Cheap, nutrrious, quick to make - place porridge oats in bowl, add milk, open can of Spam, place contents artistically in centre of bowl.
Really Good!*
*If you like Spam and porridge.
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my 9 year old made [url= http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/proper-blokes-sausage-fusilli ]this[/url] unaided on sunday - he wants to be a chef - right tasty
Ian Munro - you are Jamie Oliver and I claim my £5
Easy, poo in a sandwich for starter, then anything you want as it will be a vast improvement.Try this as your main.
[b]Beef Medallions[/b]
1 1/2 pounds) beef tenderloin
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
4 tablespoons butter, divided use
4 large garlic cloves, finely minced
1 medium onion, chopped
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
2 cups beef broth
2 cups dry red wine
1. Cut tenderloin crosswise into 12 equal rounds. Pound beef rounds to flatten to generous 1/4-inch-thick medallions. Season lightly with salt and pepper.
2. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches, cook beef in skillet until brown on outside but still pink in center, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer beef to plate. Add remaining butter to same skillet.
3. Add garlic, onion and thyme to skillet; sauté until tender, about 3 minutes. Add flour; stir 1 minute. Add broth and wine. Boil until sauce thickens and is reduced to 1 1/4 cups, stirring occasionally, about 12 minutes. Return beef and any collected juices to sauce in skillet; heat through, about 1 minute.
Makes 4 servings.
Risotto - I like pea and ham personally.
But be sure to get good parmesan shavings to go on top of it.
I can do a meal for two for about £4 - but be sure to get some nice ham. I keep meaning to get fresh peas too, but frozen ones work well anyway.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/delicious-roasted-white-fish-wrapped-in
this looks nice 🙂
Not very cheap though! Fish £££££ Asparagus ££££
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[url= http://ihatemymessageboard.com/2009/04/23/a-whole-chicken-in-a-can/ ]Chicken In a Can - recipe here[/url]
how cheap whats the budget?
And how many people?
Lancashire hotpot, Delia has a good one, hugely tasty, main expense is lamb. Just get a side dish and my advice would be red cabbage and you can buy that in a jar.
ahh yeah I have a load of fish frozen so can use that. Its Pout.
Budget maybe £15 at a stretch as I will get some wine to.
how many people with the £15?
You could do a nice chowder.
Just two; me at the girlfriend and this is tomorrow...
Rice'n'beans or a simple curry...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/simplegoanchickencur_67869.shtml
Why do all the suggestions have meat in them? Isn't that the expensive bit that most people really ought not to eat as much of?
Well if it's a special occasion then:
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[url= http://ihatemymessageboard.com/2009/03/29/pork-brains-in-milk-gravy/ ]Hard to go wrong with pork brains in milk[/url]
Why do all the suggestions have meat in them? Isn't that the expensive bit that most people really ought not to eat as much of?
Because meat is much nicer than leaves and grit and nuts and whatever else goes in veggie rubbish. Someone pass me a dead cow.
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including the pout for £15 you can easily do 3 courses assuming you have some basics. For example:
hearty:
starter bread the pout and make goujons with tartar + salad
main lamb chops with lentils
desert little mini bread and butter puddings
thai(ish):
starter thai fish cakes
main green chicken curry
dessert poached pairs
impossible to mess up:
starter hmmm well you'll have to find something else to do while that ragu cooks
main a proper ragu with pasta
desert tiramisu
belly pork, chorizo and canellini bean caserole, its on the bbc website, great reciepie, and dead easy - basically bung it all in a pot and cook
Remember Meat is murder
Tasty, tasty murder 😉
impossible to mess up:
desert tiramisu
Have you ever made tiramisu????? It takes ages and is very easy to mess up (unless they are from the supermarket in cartons).
Remember Meat is murderTasty, tasty murder
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Delia - [url= http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/poultry-and-game/chicken/stir-fried-chicken-with-lime-and-coconut.html ]Stir fried chicken with lime and coconut[/url] - fantastic tasting, looks good, and apart from marinating the chicken it's less than half an hour from starting to on the table
[i]Why do all the suggestions have meat in them? [/i]
I'm presuming the OP wants the diner in question to still like them afterwards.
Chorizo soup/stew
1 Chorizo sausage - sliced
Ham - usually gammon steaks x2
Butter beans
red lentils
1or two onions
garlic
chilli
x2 veg stock cubes
Finely chop onion and soften in frying pan, add garlic and chopped chilli (little bit) to taste and add diced gammon steaks. When gammon almost browned add sliced chorizo to pan and cook till browned.
Add contents of frying pan to casserole dish (including the oils from chorizo for flavour).
Add 250grms red lentils (make sure to use the ones you don't need to pre-soak)
Add tin of butter beans
Add two veg stock cubes
Add hot water up to top of casserole dish.
Cover, place in pre-heated oven (200 deg C) for 45 minutes or until lentils are softened.
Check periodically and add extra water if required.
Serve with fresh crusty bread.
Will easily feed 4 people.
You are all middle aged aren't you? I thought it was only those born in the 1940s who had to have meat in every meal.
+1 Lancashire hotpot.
Gordon Ramsay's is easy and bloody lovely.
Just use lamb neck (ask your butcher for it off the bone - but keep the bones to enhance the (packet) stock - don't bother making your own (nice but needs time)).
I did this for about 6 of us and the cost of the lamb came to £3+ from the butcher in the village.
[url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/recipes/article1859299.ece ]clicky-linky[/url]
I thought it was only those born in the 1940s who had to have meat in every meal.
And only those born in the '90s that have to preach about eating it.
There was a non-meater on 'come dine with me' last night. That's all I have to say on the subject. I'm still marvelling at the genius of chicken in a can. Going to get a can for unexpected guests.
Yum!
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Sweet bejebus IanMunro - that is RANK!
Talking of chicken though - my fave recipe for a roast one is (sorry about this) the Jamie Oliver one where you carefully peel the skin back then ram the space between it and the meat full of butter and lemon peel, then push the left-over lemon into the neck. It is more moist than a very moist thing on heat.
Mmmmmmm
that looks hideous. Still, better than being offered a plate of weeds.
cheap, you say?
Chop an onion
gently fry in olive oil to sften
chuck in a fair amount of chopped smoked bacon bits
once browned, add a tin of plum tomatoes, not chopped
add 1/8 to 1/4 dried chilli flakes
lid on saucepan and simmer on lowest heat for 20 or 30 minutes - you wan the tomatoes to be sauce, not tomatoes
lid off stir and simmer for another 20 or so minutes - you want thick sauce
= basic spicy tomato sauce to be served with pasta
feel free to add other stuff, black pepper just before serving, sliced mozarella on top of pasta+sauce, cheap chianti when the lid comes off, garlic at frying stage, basil at lid off stage, meatballs at some stage, whatever.
Sweet bejebus IanMunro - that is GENIUS!
m_f, agreed, that's a fantastic way to cook a chicken.
Still, better than being offered a plate of weeds.
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fish pie
some fish, eg cod, and or salmon whatever is reduced will work
lightly fried/griddled with some onions and garlic
put in casserole dish
1 or 2 cloves to taste (thats cloves the spice things not garlic)
a load of chopped parsley
1/4 cup of milk
a handfull of prawns/ muscles- precook if required
(optional) a handful of peas
mix it all up and add a good layer of mashed potato on top
grated cheese o
30-40 mins in the oven
serve with broccoli and asparagus
mmmmmmm
BigButSlimmer - that sounds like a simple amatriciana recipe - I do that myself lots and it is really good. I would suggest putting garlic in too, then top with parmesan.
Mmmmm
Easy chicken, Chunky Chicken in cans from Marks and Sparks, comfort food. Always have a can or 2 stashed for emergencies in this household!
I am sorry, but chicken from a can, whether whole or conveniently cut into chunks just sounds wrong. I am sure it is very nice, but it just doesn't appeal to me. I would rather get a whole cooked chicken from the supermarket/butchers if I wanted something really convenient.
Mastiles, you're always dicky-opposite 😉 It's what makes this site work tho'. Do you know the provenance of some of those shop cooked chickens?
mastilles - yup, there's any number of things that can be done with it.
plus, next to no time to do, just a bit of waiting about which can always be spent productively getting into arguements on stw
3 decades out mastyles.
I'm just surprised that you guys are so fixated by eating meat.
[i]I'm just surprised that you guys are so fixated by eating meat. [/i]
It tastes nice. HTH
3 decades out mastyles.
Just as you were two decades out 😉
Mastiles, you're always dicky-opposite
LOL I know - sorry. It would be boring if we all came on here and agreed about stuff all the time though.
Do you know the provenance of some of those shop cooked chickens?
I have no doubt the details are very grim, just as it is for lots of the meat many of us eat. Don't get me wrong - I don't have anything against tins of cooked chicken because of how it is made, simply because it seems wrong to cook a chicken then put it in a can in the first place - it just doesn't appeal.