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[Icey]

Give me some inspiration, I'm an excellent cook (big myself up) and I'm looking to try some new things.

They need to be inexpensive and use stuff that I would have laying around the house. (Picture lots of spices, tin tomatoes and the usual store cupboard stuff - I'd rather not buy things I might only use once!)

Have searched back for Miss HK's Grandmas Pasta Sauce recipe which I intend to have a go at this week

Things that recipes need to avoid : Cheese, Mushrooms and 'Cream' based things. (Not me being fussy, but HWMBO!)

So, recipe suggestions if you would!
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[colin1]

This will involve you going to the shop at some point to buy a big pack of beef mince and plastic food bags.

Turn a food bag inside out, and put it on your hand like a glove. Then with that hand, grab a hand full of beef mince, turn the bag right way round, with the mince still inside it.

Form the mince into a ball in the middle of the bag, squeeze it together between cupped hands, then flatten your hands, and work it into a flat disc.

You are making a beef burger. The beauty is, you can make a few of these, leave them in their food bags, folded over, and put them in the freezer. Because they have a big surface area, they will defrost quickly.

I wdnt cook from frozen but i guess u probably could.

Best way to cook them is on a griddle pan, but a frying pan will do.

Serve on lightly toasted bread with sauces and salad of your choosing.

You can also add a bit of spice in with the mince if you want, the meat juices will take its flavour nicely.

I would also recommend spaghetti carbonara, but that involves cream and cheese and you said you dont want those.

My recipe for a non-cream pasta sauce would be,

chop up carrots, onions, celery as small as you can, and cook over a low heat in plenty of oil

make meatballs using a similar technique to the way above, but dont flatten them and make them smaller

put them on a baking tray in the oven at about 200C for about 30mins

cook pasta with plenty of water and salt

when veg is really soft so that the onion is clear, add grushed garlic, and fry for a bit longer, then add passata (liquidised tomatoes) and mix well

drain pasta but save some of the pasta water, about a mug full

mix pasta into the veg sauce so its well covered, slowly stir in the pasta water, at first the sauce will thin, but then it will take on a creamy consistency, this loosens the sauce nicely, if it gets too watery, just stir it a bit more until the water is absorbed, you need to add the pasta water bit by bit

add meatballs

If you want to add spices, id suggest freshly ground black peppercorns, rosemary, or ground dried chilli flakes, and add it to the sauce not the meatballs
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[Mal]

Would appear my St David's Chicken recipe that I've posted before has gone missing:

St David's Chicken

Ingedients (per person)

1 Skinless, boneless chicken breast
2 rashers bacon, diced
½ a leek, chopped
1 tbsp honey
¼ pint chicken stock
1 tsp butter for frying

Method

1. Add the butter to a hot frying pan/wok. Once melted, add the chicken and bacon and fry for 5 mins to seal and colour the chicken.

2. Add the chopped leek, stock and honey and bring to the boil. Once boiling turn down the heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes.

3. Serve on a bed of rice.

If you want a vegetarian version, substitute Quorn fillets for the chicken, Quorn bacon for the bacon and veg stock for the chicken stock. You don't need the butter, as the Quorn doesn't need sealing, just put everything in the pan all at the same time and follow instructions from step 2.

Mal
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Remember to season that beef.... some salt and pepper and whatever is your personal preferance

Daz.
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[YUN]

This is quick and easy and can be eaten warm or cold. Defo something you can just conjure up if you need a quick fix and have spare bits and bobs in the house.

boil pasta
bung in anything you find in the fridge e.g fresh veg (if frozen, you may have to cook them first). Olives work well and cherry tomatoes. can even chop up some random boiled eggs.
any type of meat you can find in the fridge- just pan or wok fry it....can use just chopped up ham if you are lazy.
mix olive oil, vinegarette and LOTS of chopped/mashed garlic in a bowl.
put all contents in a large mixing bowl, season with salt and peppar - and voila....you're done!
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[Harold_Shand]

What you need are Spicy Bean Burgers.

You shall need:

1 large onion
1 large carrott
1 tin kidney beans
dried chilli (or not) to taste
a fistful of any flour

-Drain your kidney beans and mash them up with a fork.

-GRATE your onion and carrott and fry them for a bit.

-Add mashed kidney beans

-Add chilli

-Add flour and give a good mix up for a minute

You may like to shape your mix into 'burgers'. You will need a pastry cutter or something, there's bound to be something lying about.

-Stick them under the grill for a bit.

Sounds like a lot of effort, but it's really not. Considering you are just using the shit that's normally left in the cupboards for months, they are lovely. Melt a bit of cheese on and some tomato sauce
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[hellkat]

Okay, this is kinda *garlicky*

Its called Raw Sauce.

You need:
* Half a dozen garlic cloves, the bigger the better
* A REALLY LARGE handful of parsley
* a dozen fresh tomatoes
(we used plain round ones, plum ones might be interesting, but they're more fleshy than juicy, and you need juice in this recipe)

* And some spaghetti.

Mince the garlic
Chop up the parsley
Chuck it all in a bowl

Bring two saucepans of water to the boil.
Bung the spaghetti into one, and the tomatoes into the other

Leave the spaghetti to cook
Take the tomatoes out almost immediately.
(You only want to split the skin of the tomatoes so they are easy to peel, not cook them)

Plunge the tomatoes into ice water and skin them, then mash them into the bowl with the parsley and the garlic.

When the spaghetti is cooked, drain it and dish straight out onto plates with a hefty dollop of the sauce.

Eat immediately.

You don't really need parmesan because its a bit of a headfuck all on its own, doesn't need embellishment.

Its VERY garlicky, can be quite messy, and its perfect for hot summer afternoons out in the garden

Best eaten with ice cold "spicy" german white wine (I'm thinking Muller Thurgau but you don't get that much over here) and it is quite easy to concoct, even when you've already had too much wine (first time I had it, we were wankered on a summery auckland afternoon of indulgence in rioja, Kahlua and grappa, so its easy enough to make even pissed as a newt - which the guy who gave me the recipe always was )
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[stinkwheel]

I always like doing cold couc cous with hot meat.

Make up the cous cous with veggie stock and olive oil. Allow to cool.

Add some or all of the following:
Mint
Fresh corriander
basil
toasted pine nut kernels.
Little cubes of fetta cheese
Finely chopped chilli
Chick peas
cherry tomatoes
Fried onion
finely chopped raw onion
Fried garlic
olives

You get the idea.

I like this served in a bowl with hot minted lamb or sliced saffron chicken on top.
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Beans on toast FTW!
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