Give me what you got......

[ACJ]

Hey everyone,

I was wanting some new recipes for some budget recipes that are easy and maybe freezer friendly also!!

So throw them at me people........................

[MrsFabuloso]

Savoury mince

Mince- 500g
Tin of tomatoes
Bacon- 2 rashers
1 onion chopped
garlic
6 mushrooms
1 capsicum chopped
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 cup beef stock
worstershire sauce- 1 tbsp
1 tsp brown sugar

These ingredients are really flexible. To add more bulk I often add grated carrot and zucchini, sometimes frozen peas and corn too. I also usually grate the onion and mushrooms, so the kids eat them! I often don't add the sugar and tomato paste and it's fine. If I don't have any of the veggies in the recipe I don't worry either.

Brown the onion, garlic and bacon. Add the mince, break it up as it cooks. Stir in mushrooms, capsicum and tomato paste. I also add any other veggies now too. Add all other ingredients adn bring to a gentle boil. Simmer for 15-20mins. Serve with pasta/rice/mashed potato. Yum!!

ETA, do you have a slow cooker I have some good budget recipes for a sc.

[LimeSlice]

I make a Chicken and Vegie Pie mix with whatever vegies I have in the fridge at the time, some ckicken thighs and a can of condensed Chicken soup....It is SO cheap and tastes ace You can also use the Pumpkin soup or the Beef and vegie for a beefmince mince pie

Just cut up all your vegies, sautee in the pan until a bit soft, then add the soup and a enough water or stock to get the sauce consistency you want.
Put hte mix into a lasange dish, or indivdual ramakens and top with mashed potato or squares of puff pastry, and bake in the oven

[ACJ]

Kellie - I have a SC!! Its my best mate in the kitchen!! Has a lemb roast in it at the moment!!

LS - That does sound ace and both DH and DS will like that too!!

[MrsFabuloso]

Kellie - I have a SC!! Its my best mate in the kitchen!! Has a lemb roast in it at the moment!!

Mmmmm, mmmm!! Can we come for dinner, lol! We're just having store brought rissoles, with mash and frozen veg for dinner how boring!!
Here are a few of our favourite SC meals:

Beef and Veg caserole with Dumplings
700g beef peices
salt/pepper to taste
25g flour
2 onions chopped
550ml beef stock
3 carots sliced (other veg I add is grated zucchini, mushrooms, peas/corn...)

Dumplings
100g self raising flour
1 tsp salt
50g shredded suet (some sort of fat I assume, I use the same amount of butter)
6 tbsp water
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley (I never have this so have never used it!)

Chop the meat to bite sized peices, toss in seasoned flour. Cook meat til browned. Put in the slow cooker. Add onions to the frypan and brown lightly. Stir in remaining flour and slowly add the stock and carrots. Bring to the boil and put into the sc. Add other veggies.

Dumplings
Add all ingredients together and make a soft dough. Roll dough into about 8 balls and add to the sc. Cook on high in the last 45mins of cooking time for the caserole with the lid on.

Chicken in Barbeque sauce
40g butter
whole chicken (I have also used peices and legs) 1-1.5kg
1 onion finely chopped
4 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp white vinegar
mango chutney (I often don't use this)
1 tsp french mustard
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp worstershire sauce

Rub inside the sc with the butter. Heat the remaining chicken in a frypan and cook the chicken all over. Transfer to the SC. Fry onion in the frypan for 2-3 mins. Add the other ingredients to the fry pan and bring to the boil. Pour over chicken in the SC and baste occaisionally.

**To be honest, I don't do any of the pre cooking for any of these recipes in the sc. I just put everything into my SC and cook for the reccommended time, (then do the dumplings at the end for the caserole). I'm a bit of a slap-happy cook!!

Hope you like

[ACJ]

Thanks for the Kellie. I am one of those cooks too....The only thing I ever bron or do extra cooking for when using the SC is a pot roast cause it does taste better if browned off first!! Anything else I just chuck in and cook!! Lol.

[Alan]

1 Sheet of puff pastry
Ripe tomatoes
Olives or Anchovies
Onions
Feta cheese
Splash of Olive oil

Thinly slice the onion and cook in the oil until soft. (you could also add a little garlic to the onion)
Spread the cooked onion on the pastry. Leave about a 5cm gap around the edge.
Slice the tomatoes and place on the onion.
Slice the olives and spread over the top. (if you use anchovies do not use too many)
Break up the feta and place on top.
Bake in oven at about 180-200 for 20 minutes or until pastry is golden.
If you cut half way through the pastry about 5cm from the edge it will help the edge to rise, otherwise you could fold the edge in to give it a double thickness

[ACJ]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh yum Alan!! Will have to definately make that one once this bub arrives!! Can I have feta when BFing??

[LimeSlice]

Can I have feta when BFing??

Absolutely you can!

[Alan]

Here is another one for you
Ripe tomatoes
Chilli
Pecoreno cheese

Cut the top of your tomatoes and scoop out the centre. Add chilli to your taste. Chop this up small and put it back in the tomatoes. Put a slice of cheese on top then put the top of the tomato back. I like to use pecorino cheese because of the texture and taste but I suppose that you could use any cheese of your choice. Bake in the oven for about 15-20 minutes. You could add something like chopped bacon or ham to the filling if you like.

[kirsty_lee]

Ohh.. Now I am remember off the top of my head here lol

Before I give recipe/s I made Chicken Parmagana last night it was bloody unreal, dp was absolutely devo when there was no more. I just bought the leggo's jar sauce, steamed some chicken breast, put them in an ovenproof dish, layed ham over the chicken poured over the sauce, topped with cheese and left in for 10 minutes. Serve it with Salad and it was wicked. So that's cheap and easy.. anyhoo..

Porcupine Meatballs:

500 gr mince
1 onion
1/2 cup of rice
1 egg
(and anything else you normally chuck in your spag bol)

so you pretty much mix the ingredients together and then roll them into meatballs. Don't cook the rice, leave it raw. And then you can make your own spaghetti sauce or just do a jar (i usually make my own but do a jar when im knackered) and you bring the sauce to the boil and then turn it down to like half way and put the meatballs in and put a lid on.. after about 20 mins stir it really gently and put the lid on and say give it another 10 or 15 mins (or whenver the meatballs are cooked) and they are sooo tasty and all the rice sticks out everywhere and the kids LOVE it.

I might come back to this thread though

Ok.. Chop Suey (well my MIL's version)

500 gram mince
1 Onion
1/4 cabbage or 1/2 if you really love cabbage
1-2 packets of 2 minute noodles (i do 2 cause 1 isn't enough, you don't need to flavour sachet, just the noodles)
1/2 tbs - 1 tbs curry powder (depends on how much you like curry)
and a few dashes of Worsesteshire (sp) sauce

Pretty much mix all that together lol. Easy and it tastes so good.. you can serve it with rice.

I might come back to this thread later when I have enough energy to get up and get my recipe book lol