Dead easy and tasty recipes

[flook]

Just for us two, flook. Pea and ham soup: tin of mushy peas from the Asda Smart Price range, couple of rashers of bacon, cup of water and a vegetable stock cube thingy (I use the jelly ones!), a little pepper. Method: chop the bacon into pieces, fry and leave on the side. Tip mushy peas into saucepan and mash with a potato masher. Add cup of water and stock cube. Heat on medium until it begins to bubble. Add fried bacon. Cook for a couple of minutes more on a lower light! A crusty cob may be added if yer about to embark on a bike ride!

you lost me at pea sorry, rather have fish pie......

 

[Charlie Chuck]

I overcomplicate cooking and even my simplest ideas wouldn't constitute "dead easy".

My signature would be mushroom and chorizo risotto. Takes about an hour overall.

you know what to do blue.

 

[kippax4ever]

1 large Spud..cut into chips shapes..cook in the chip pan.
1 Barm..cut in halve add marg/butter..
Put chips into Barm job a good un...

 

[Charlie Chuck]

Stuff a chicken breast with spinach, smoked cheese and sun dried tomatoes.
Mix a sauce of mustard, dried Italian an herbs and wine vinegar, pour it over the stuffed chicken breast
Heat some olive oil in a skillet over a medium high heat and brown chicken breast/sauce for 4 minutes, turning occasionally
Put skillet in medium oven for 16 minutes.
Remove skillet from oven, remove chicken breast from skillet and allow to rest for 5 mins. Add a splash of noilly prat to skillet and mix with mustard sauce over a high heat. Add some more spinach to the skillet to wilt. Finally add some creme fresche, reduce heat to low and stir into sauce.
Pour over chicken breast and enjoy will salad or charlotte potatoes.
End to end, 25 mins for a gourmet quality meal.

It’s a pleasure

That sounds tasty. I'm onto it soon.

 

[Charlie Chuck]

1 large Spud..cut into chips shapes..cook in the chip pan.
1 Barm..cut in halve add marg/butter..
Put chips into Barm job a good un...

That is so simple and tasty mate. But you'll be surprised just how many are totally clueless as to the most basic culinary skills.

Many years ago an ex girlfriend had me in stitches. She had a well educated uni friend who was very academically intelligent, but had zero practical cooking skills or comnon sense.

She asked my ex to do toast. Ex looked at her and thought she was joking. Turns out she'd never used a toaster. Ex said put bread in toaster turn dial to 5. Wait till golden brown toast pop out, and butter. Ex nipped to the loo and on returning to the kitchen, she burst out laughing when she saw her mate had spread butter all over the casing of the bloody toaster, the dizzy cow!

True tale.

 

[kippax4ever]

That is so simple and tasty mate. But you'll be surprised just how many are totally clueless as to the most basic culinary skills.

Many years ago an ex girlfriend had me in stitches. She had a well educated uni friend who was very academically intelligent, but had zero practical cooking skills or comnon sense.

She asked my ex to do toast. Ex looked at her and thought she was joking. Turns out she'd never used a toaster. Ex said put bread in toaster turn dial to 5. Wait till golden brown toast pop out, and butter. Ex nipped to the loo and on returning to the kitchen, she burst out laughing when she saw her mate had spread butter all over the casing of the bloody toaster, the dizzy cow!

True tale.

She must have been a Blonde,mate lol,,
Been with a few girls who cooking skills weren't desirable,But one stand to mind,she couldn't make jelly used cold water instead off hot,
never understood why it never went off.
Same girl asked me what i wanted for tea,i said fancy cheese & milk(usually cooked in a pan)..You guessed it got home cereal bowl with cold milk & cheese.

 

[Charlie Chuck]

She must have been a Blonde,mate lol,,
Been with a few girls who cooking skills weren't desirable,But one stand to mind,she couldn't make jelly used cold water instead off hot,
never understood why it never went off.
Same girl asked me what i wanted for tea,i said fancy cheese & milk(usually cooked in a pan)..You guessed it got home cereal bowl with cold milk & cheese.

Haha. I love a bit of cheesy dip on my full English brecky now n' then.

 

[stonerblue]

FISH PIE.

400/450gms of any fish, Cod Pollock Coley finny haddock(smoked)Basa or salmon are good. Cut into 3cm chunks. Or buy a pack of fish pie mix, available at most supermarkets.

A handful of frozen prawns.

1 tin of Campbells condensed cream of celery soup. Cream of Asparagus or mushroom are also good.

*5-6 medium potatoes/or packet mash for convenience and time saving.

50gms of grated cheddar/Stilton also works well

Black or white pepper.


1 medium or 3 cherry tomatoes

I bunch of broccoli

Pour soup in pyrex dish rinse tin with a bit of water of water, stir into soup.

Add a sprinkling of pepper,and salt if needed.

Add fish and prawns. Peel and cut spuds, cut into quarters, add to slightly salted boiling water. Boil till a fork goes through spuds fairly easily, but don't overboil.

Mash spuds adding a splash of milk and small nob of butter( about size of 2 or 3 sugercubes) Use a spatula to spread mash over fish and soup.

*Also packet mash works well for those wanting to save time/convenience. I think half fish pie mix to half mash ratio is fine. For example, if the pie mix is say 4cm deep, add same depth of mash to the pie mix into the pyrex/casserole dish.

Put grated cheese and thinly sliced tomatoes on top of mash.

Put in a pre warmed oven at 200° or gasmark 6. Cook about 30 minutes or until cheese is bubbling and tomatoes nice and cooked.

Serve with boiled broccoli.

This makes 2-3 adult sized portions for less than a fiver.

Also, boiled eggs can be added if you fancy. Put 2-3 eggs in cold water, bring to boil. When water starts boilng, time for 4 minutes. Then pour water from pan and let eggs cool. When cool, peel shell rinse in cold water and cut into quarters. Add to fish pie mix before spreading on mash. Adding eggs with garlic flat bread/ or baguette or two will easily feed a family of 4.

My own recipe, Enjoy.

Simple??

 

[stonerblue]

 

[Charlie Chuck]

Simple??

It is to me mate. But my parents owned a cafe, and on Sundays my mum would teach me too cook and bake from being young. She still swears blind that I made her egg n' toast with a cup of tea when I was 3. I was young, but I must of been older than that.

I would never of trusted either of my kids at that age with boiling water.