ok Bear you asked for here is what I " cook " here is the list of JAR / Pkt I use....
Please excuse the spelling but I cant spell and havent done my food shop yet so have no Jars as refence...
Devilled Sausages
Taco mix
Spag bol
creamy country chicken
chicken cattachtorrie
almost all the chicken tonight jars....
rogan josh
butter chicken
karma ( i think thats what it called)
Hollandaise sauce BHL loves this stuff but havent found it in a jar yet that tastes the same as when he goes out...
I think that might be it I am a really borning cook as I said in the other thread I just dont find food exciting so cant be bothered cooking to much....
Please try to keep in simple as I am a mother to 3 winkies who's BHL is away more than he is home so will be doing this without back up to keep them out of the way....
One of my favourite and really really simple salads is a cucumber salad with yoghurt & dill sauce.
Can't give you quantities as I jsut chuck things together to taste:
Thinly sliced European Cucumber (the long skinny ones, or Lebanese would work, too). A mandoline type slicer is really handy for that.
Dressing:
plain yoghurt (I use mostly greek style yoghurt)
salt
freshly crushed garlic
chopped dill (generous)
a dash of red wine vinegar (depending on how acidic your yoghurt is)
a little olive oil
combine all in a bowl with a small whisk or fork until creamy
Mix with the cucumber and let stand in the frisdge for 1/2 hour to let the flavours develop
This is really refreshing and goes well with greek dishes or comfort foods like lamb stew. And oh so simple.
I made a capsicum and tomato sauce the other week. It turned out very nice, expect DH though I should have added some chilli. Well I would have, but our chillies are not quite ready yet. We had been inundated with tomatoes and it was a nice way to use them up. We already had some jars of pasta sauce made and have just started to use them. They are really quite yummy.
Think it has been ages since I have bought biscuits for the house (have bought the odd packet if I have had to go somewhere last minute). Been baking cakes as well. For lunches rather than resorting to tins of spaghetti for the girls I have been whipping up veggie piklets with our home grown veg. The girls seem to really love them.
I have been feeling so much better for home grown veg and homemade food. Whilst it is not all time, it is most of the time. I tend to be snacking less and really looking forward to some of the dinners we have been having lately. Silverside with homegrown cabbage is quite good.
would love some advice on what to do with the last stash of cherry tomatoes we have. I had to pull them off the vine still green. They have been sitting in the window sill for about 4 weeks and som hav an orange tinge, and thats about it. Some have even gone rotten so I better do something with them quickly
If I cook them, will they taste like normal tomatoes?
Mabello - try putting the in a bag with a banana...It may help them ripen a little, may not at this stage.
You could try making a green tomato chutney from them...
Just waiting for our veggie patch to take off. We are getting lettuce at the moment, but not much else. Ooh and we now have chickens! So I am always looking at ways to use eggs.
I admit to still have the odd jar of ready made stuff on the shelf, it has come in handy for back-ups, but that should reduce as we will have a heap more homegrown food that will require preserving in some way.
It is intersting with the baking, I noticed that my eldest does not ask to buy biscuits from the supermarket, but she does put in requests for what I am to bake next.
Vege frittata is always a good way of getting rid of eggs!!! If you have a friend who is crafty and does stuff you want, you can always exchange eggs for stuff I do that with a friend who helps me with sewing stuff... I give her 12 eggs a month.
Home-made chicken stock using the left-over chicken carcass when I buy a cooked chook on the w'end. I list a lot of herbs etc, but just use what you have in your pantry, you don't need to go and buy anything for this. If you don't have the vegies, pop something else in or leave them out.
I do this in the slow cooker on low overnight & then freeze in the morning.
Chicken carcass
1 or 2 large onions
2 carrots
2 sticks of celery
1/2 a head of garlic
3 bay leaves
1 whole chilli
parsely
mixed herbs
a sprinkle of whole peppercorns
top up with water
Basically rough chop everything, don't be fancy or fussy, place on the bottom of slow cooker, pop chicken carcass on top, fill up with water and leave on low overnight.
In the morning, use a soup ladle to ladle the stock out, put it through a seive into a jug and then pour the liqid into your containers for freezing. I use those fruit plastic containers with the screw top lids.
Makes about 3 litres and costs next to nothing - a couple of $ max. And saves buying stock at around $3 a litre for the Campells stuff or using stock cubes which aren't really that great.
If anyone has a recipe for beef stock, I'd like that too.
Beef stock: just replace the chicken carcass with meaty beef bones and marrow bones. I also like to use beef osso bucco. The meat can be eaten with some horseradish and boiled/steamed vegies.
You don't have to roast the bones, but it will give a darker, richer flavour - same goes for chicken, if you fry the chicken off to get a nice dark amber colour before deglazing the pan.
I have a recipe for butter chicken, if it hasn't been done already
(sorry, not sure on exact amounts... but don't stress, you can't really go wrong)
Ingredients:
~500g Chicken breast, cut into pieces
Tandoori seasoning
Small pot of natural yogurt
Hunk of butter (errr... maybe 50g)
1/2 ts garlic (crushed or chopped)
1/2 ts ginger (crushed or chopped)
1/2 poddle of tomato paste (or more if you want it more tomatoey)
~100-150 mL cream
1/4 ts chilli powder
1/2 ts garam masala
Marinate chicken in tandoori & yogurt (overnight or a least a few hours).
Cook chicken (fry pan will do).
Melt butter, cook in garlic & ginger, then stir through tomato paste. Add cream, and spices.
Add chicken (and yogurty stuff it cooked in) to sauce.
Cook through.
hi girls, made my own butter chicken tonight, using spices, tinned tomatoes and cream. none of this Pataks/Sharwood stuff. I work with indians and they said that stuff is not real indian. so I found a few recipes. I must say the dont call it 'butter' for nothing - it called for 10 Tablespoons of butter!!!
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I do that with a friend who helps me with sewing stuff... I give her 12 eggs a month.
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