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[MrsFabuloso]

Homemade Baked Beans

Ingredients:
450 gm dried haricot beans,
1 tablespoon oil
1 onion, finely chopped
3 tablespoons honey
4 tablespoons tomato puree
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 teaspoons French mustard
Salt to taste

Method:
Pour boiling water over the dried haricot beans sufficient to cover them. Leave for one hour, strain beans. Put beans back into bowl, cover with more boiling water and leave till next morning.

Drain and rinse beans. Add fresh water and cook until tender for about one and a half hours.

Heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
Drain the beans but reserve 2 cups of the liquid. Heat the oil in a deep pan and cook the onion until soft. Add drained beans, the reserved liquid plus all remaining ingredients. Mix well and bring back to the boil. Place in a casserole dish and cook, covered, for 20 minutes. Remove lid from casserole dish and cook for a further 20 minutes.

Serves 4 - 6.


Noodle Omlettes

Ingredients
2 packets of two minute noodles
200 gm mushrooms, sliced
1 teaspoon oil, to cook mushrooms
1/3 cup diced ham
6 spring onions, chopped finely
1/2 cup grated carrot
1/2 cup finely shredded cabbage
6 eggs, beaten
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 tablespoon oil to cook omelettes

Method:
Cook two minute noodles without using the flavour sachets. Drain and cool slightly. Keep the sachets aside.

Cook the mushrooms in a small pan with the teaspoon oil.

In a large bowl place cooked mushrooms, the warm noodles, ham, onions, carrot, cabbage, eggs, noodle sachets, salt and pepper. Mix well.

Gently place large spoonfuls of mixture in hot oil in your frying pan. Turn over when golden brown and set underneath. Before doing each batch ensure that the mixture is well stirred as the egg will drain to the bottom of the bowl quickly.

Serves 4

**My kids love these,and it's one way to get my egg-phobic son #1 to eat eggs! I don't use the mushies or cabbage, but add other veggies like zucchini.


Potato and bacon Bake

Ingredients:
6 large potatoes (large means very large)
1 onion, chopped
2 teaspoons oil
200 gm bacon pieces
1 can baked beans in tomato sauce
2 cups of grated cheese



Method:
Pre heat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

***** the potatoes all over and micro-wave till cooked. Leave aside until cool enough to handle.

Fry the onion in the oil till turning golden and add the bacon pieces. Cook for 3 minutes more.

Slice the potatoes and then assemble everything in a deep oiled casserole dish in this order:

Place one-third of the potatoes over the base, top with half the onion and bacon mixture, then half the baked beans, and one-third of the cheese. Repeat this layering. Top with the remainder of the potatoes and then the remainder of the cheese.

Cook at 180 degrees Celsius for about 35 minutes.

Serves 4 as a total meal or more if you add salad or hot veges on the side.

[Doula Kelsey]

Ok, so this is quick and really easy and hell yummy, but a little naughty, but my kids and Hubby love it.
It's a hit with them all (and that says a lot as we are 2 adults, 3 teens and 2 youngins!)

Tuna pie with potato topping (no pastry)

6 Med Potatoes cooked and mashed
salt and pepper to taste
1 Leek thinly sliced
1 carrot diced
2 sticks of celery diced
1 Tablespoon of plain flour
300 millilitres of thick cream
2x185 grams of tuna in oil
310grms corn
1.5 cup of frozen peas
6 tablespoons of grated cheese
2 tablespoons of diced parsley
20 grams of butter

Melt butter, add leek, carrot, celery. cook til soft (bout 5 mins) add flour
and cook 2 mins. Stir in cream, simmer til thick. Stir 1 min, add tuna
corn peas, cheese, parsley, salt and pepper. cook 5 mins. Transfer to
casserole, top with mash. Sprinkle remaining cheese and place under grill for 2 mins

Alternatively (and i cook regularly..for my family/army!!)
Baked Spuds. Always cheap and easy. Add whatever you like from basic butter and sour cream to baked beans,
feta, bacon pieces, red onion....whatever you like....easy and well loved and very filling!!

Have a quick cake in one pot type option too called Choc porridge cake if your interested

[Phteven]

The $120 Food Challenge

Every week I aim to post 7 main meals, 2 desserts and 1 sweet treat such as a cake or slice for lunches that will combine to a total cost of approximately $60 per week. In addition to this budget, I post one or two recipes from the following categories: Breakfast, Something Special, In Season, Kids in the Kitchen and Recipe Basics. That’s up to 12 recipes and ideas every week.