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Post by ilsonterrier on Apr 8, 2020 21:24:57 GMT 1
Wow, so risotto is an elite food. One thing that I struggle to get my head around is the concept that some foods are somehow "elite". It's food. Put it in your mouth, chew and swallow. Whether you live in a palace or a portakabin you still have tastebuds and a physiological need for nutrition. I'd never made a risotto until about 5 years ago - I always thought it looked too difficult. Then my son made it at school so I had a go as well. Now I realise it's easy and it's something we enjoy. In fact tonight's tea - bacon, mushroom (sorry Epsom, just ordinary ones ) and onion risotto. One portion of leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
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Post by Stewpot on Apr 9, 2020 16:59:00 GMT 1
Giving a run out to one of my old favourites, so easy in the slow cooker. Spicy slow cooked chicken casserole. Or if you don't have a slow cooker, do it in less cooking time in the oven.
No real recipe, I just went for it one day, and it keeps changing according to what I have. Dice up 3/4 chicken breasts, fry off in a pan. One large onion on a gentle fry for 5 mins. Lob this in the slow cooker. The sauce prepared in a plastic jug - 1 can chopped tomatoes, and 2/3rd's of a cup of chicken gravy. Add to that what you want, I added teaspoon of marmite, a few good slugs of Worcs sauce, teaspoon of paprika, salt and pepper. Speed up the process give it 3/4 mins in microwave then add to the slow cooker. I then gave that 3 hours, then added diced/chopped mixed peppers (red,orange,yellow), potatoes, carrots. Couple of hours for that, then for the last hour or so halved mushrooms, and a tin of spicy taco mixed beans in spicy tomato sauce (Tesco/Asda sell 'em). Also I had some chick peas left in freezer so they went in today.
Always turns out ok, and again not an expensive meal. Can freeze any you don't use for another time.
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Post by Headless Chicken on Apr 9, 2020 22:21:20 GMT 1
Wow, so risotto is an elite food. One thing that I struggle to get my head around is the concept that some foods are somehow "elite". It's food. Put it in your mouth, chew and swallow. Whether you live in a palace or a portakabin you still have tastebuds and a physiological need for nutrition. There's almost an irony in that a lot of the perceived elite food is what was peasant food, both because the ingredients are generally cheaper and you are avoiding waste. Yeah, you may overpay in restaurants for it, but you certainly don't if you have the knowledge to do it yourself.
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Post by Tinpot on Apr 10, 2020 10:58:08 GMT 1
One thing that I struggle to get my head around is the concept that some foods are somehow "elite". It's food. Put it in your mouth, chew and swallow. Whether you live in a palace or a portakabin you still have tastebuds and a physiological need for nutrition. There's almost an irony in that a lot of the perceived elite food is what was peasant food, both because the ingredients are generally cheaper and you are avoiding waste. Yeah, you may overpay in restaurants for it, but you certainly don't if you have the knowledge to do it yourself. Yup. Ox cheek being one such example. Tuna used to be considered as something you might (or might not!) give to your cat. The irony that people suggest I have "posh" food when I eat pheasant. When we were really struggling a good few years back, the pheasants I got for free from a local shoot were an absolute godsend. I suppose in a sense they were a "Toff's food bank"! Even if you buy them oven ready it's often cheaper (and tastier) than a lot of ready-meals.
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Post by est1908 on Apr 10, 2020 19:27:12 GMT 1
I know plenty of folk are still doing supermarket trips, so maybe things haven't changed much. But for those having shopping delivered, it makes you think more about planning meals properly. Not that meal plans are anything new, but folk might be doing stuff that's a little more frugal that others might like to know about. Just done what I think is referred to as Huevos Rancheros. 1 tin of chopped Tom's 3 eggs 4 rashers of bacon (chopped) Dry fry the bacon, add the Tom's, then pop the eggs in and allow them to cook in the pan as a fried egg (ish). On toast, nice cuppa, that's three of us done till teatime... I do something similar, just add a couple of splashes of Worcester Sauce...
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