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On the economic recipe ideas, tried this last night and it delicious

Savoury Tart

for 4

3 slices of bread made into breadcrumbs, soaked in 500 ml milk. leave for 10 mins then mash with a fork. Cook 125g bacon chopped or a small pancetta amount, or lardons. Chop up a Mathesons smoked sausage. or 400g of cheap saus (or leftovers)
Cooked and then chopped up/ Beat together 4 medium eggs, 1 teasp dry mustard, salt and pepper, and 100g grated cheese. Then add the breadcrumb mix, saus bacon and egg mix together. Grease a dish pour in and sprinkle with remainder of the cheese, and dust with smoked paprika powder. Oven at 190o C cook until set in middle....we had with baked beans,,it was lovely.

I haven't given a size for the dish, as the recipe didn't give it..I suggest doing what I did and wait until all mixed together, and judge, worked for me. Took for half of this mix about 50 mins.
Regards Jan

We have visitors and they have asked for one of my husbands Italian dishes for our main meal but tomorrow we shall try this dish, OH will have the baked beans but I do not like them,

Carbonara is our main meal today , we like all pasta dishes.

I have just been looking through the old thread of Just Jeans with recipes on it and thought this might be a good addition to this thread.

Banana Bread

Group 1
2tblsp melted butter
1tbls milk
2 over ripe bananas
1 egg
handful of chopped walnuts (optional)

Group 2
1 /1/2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp bicar of soda
1/4 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 tsp salt

preheat oven 200c/400f/gas6
grease a medium size bread tin
mix group 1 ingredients together in bowl
add group 2 mix well
pour mix into tin
cook 25/30 mins
or put into small cases cook 10-15 mins

lovely moist loaf........enjoy.......

A new to me Chicken Dish.

Chicken,Chorizo &Paprika for Soup or Casserole. About 4 Helpings.

2 Chicken fillets, chopped
3 chorizo, chopped
1 onion,1/2 red pepper,1/2 yellow pepper both chopped
2 teaspoons paprika
4 cloves of garlic
400g tin chopped tomatoes
3\4 pint of chicken
1/4 teaspoon sugar. Salt & Pepper to taste.
Fry onions, add chorizo and cook for 5 minutes
Add chorizo, peppers, garlic, paprika and cook for five minutes.
Then add everything else for 15 minutes and season to taste.
Take out 2 ladles full and liquidise and then return to th saucepan and stir. Serve with Creme Fraiche

To turn into casserole,
Cover the base of the casserole with rice and then stir in the mixture and add mor rice to cover the top. Cook for 1hr 15mins at 180c. ( according to your oven you may wish to change the heat.)

Then find a bottle of wine which you like and have with the meal!


Bridget :-)

Nudged up for AnninGlos

Thank you MMA. I have been out so only just got round to this. I wanted to add this recipe.

Hit and run tray baked chicken serves 4
Oven preheated to 160

4 large ripe tomatoes
2 red onions
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
6 chicken thigh fillets
4 garlic cloves
Half bunch fresh thyme (15g)
½ tsp smoked paprika
2 Tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar

Quarter tomatoes, cut onions into wedges, deseed peppers and roughly chop. Add all these to tray with chicken thighs. Squash garlic cloves, add to tray, pick over thyme leaves and sprinkle over with paprika. Add oil and balsamic vinegar and seasoning. Toss everything together really well to coat, spread across tray, make sure chicken isn’t covered by vegetables. Roast for about 1 hour or until chicken is golden and cooked through, turning and basting a couple of times with the juices.
Serve with a green salad, or with rice, polenta or crusty bread to mop up juices.
Per serving 340 calories.

Note I have used bone in thighs, cook a little longer and make sure they are cooked. Calories will be higher if skin left on.

I haven't checked but nudging this up for Ldy Scozz in case there are Christmas recipes in here somewhere.

Good morning to everyone who has ever posted on here.
Yesterday I came back to Genes and left Anc...y
I missed all the chats, learning everything I can think off, and the fun. I still use some of the Recipies and cake already for Christmas.
I hope to hear from some of you

Bridget

Lavender's Best Vanilla Fudge

250 ml milk, whole or semi-skimmed
50 ml cream, single
350 g caster sugar
100g unsalted butter
1 tsp best vanilla extract (in brown bottle!)

18 cm flat, rectangular dish for this quantity
heavy based pan

Sugar thermometer (don't attempt recipe without one)

I treble recipe and use a large, heavy based pan the size of a big pressure cooker and large, rectangular china dish

Grease tin

Put milk, and chopped butter in pan.

Heat slowly, stirring occasionally until melted.

Keeping heat fairly low, stir in caster sugar until dissolved. Do not let it boil until dissolved or fudge will not work.

Bring to the boil, stirring. It takes forever to reach the Soft Ball stage, 115 deg on a sugar thermometer placed in the pan with the glass bulb under the surface.

Stir almost continually so that the mixture does not stick to the base and burn.

Remove from heat.

Stir in the vanilla essence.

Beat by hand for about 10 mins until gloss disappears. It is so much easier if you have an electric mixer. Recipes recommend an electric hand mixer. I don't have one but recently been pouring it into the Ken*ood. Take huge care as mixture boiling (probably shouldn't be recommending to do this). Won't take too many minutes to achieve a very thick mixture with almost no gloss.

Pour into greased, china casserole.

When half-set, cut lines to make square. Leave until cool.

If a little soft, it may be left overnight to dry out.

PS A few spoonfuls of soft brown sugar may be substituted for caster which gives a nice flavour too.

Do not rush. Recipe can take a couple of hours to make, leave loads of stirring time.

Not suitable to make with children due to boiling sugar.

Makes lovely Xmas gifts, wrapped in cellophane and tied with ribbon.

I have never tried the single quantity, always doubled or trebled it. :-)

Fudge !
Already I think of trying this

Bridget

Hello everyone, I expect that you will be amazed to see me on here!
Well yesterday I decided to come back to genes and so far so good.
The sun is shining, Jet and Joe my two dogs are laying on the Veranda husband has music going and I am here.
Hope to hear from you

Bridget :-) :-)

That fudge sounds good, makes my teeth ache reading it Lol :-D

Just making a triple batch of fudge.

Have added a glug of sweetened condensed milk as part of the liquid. Yum :-D

Haven't tried it yet, but could add chopped cherries or walnuts after is completed, i.e.. thick, and before putting into dish. Or pressing into surface before cooling.

Mmm sounds good. :-)

Good to see you Bridget. Hope all is well with you and all your family

Mary xx

Today I was thinking if anyone would like this to continue.
I am sure that since November 2012
Meanwhile I just want to say how nice it is to be back
Bridget :-) :-)

Bridget, please let us keep it going. :-)

I would be delighted to,keep this going, after all we all need food!
Do you have any thoughts as to how we can make sure that new people would join us?
Sometime to day I will look in my books to see if there are foods that might just get us going.
Bridget :-)

Good day to you all. Last night we had terribly weather and as some of you will know we live on a high level and can see the fantastic Castle and the Sea.

Rain started at around 6pm, husband went to the English bar but I just could not leave Jet and Joe our Dogs.

The rain was so bad that some came into our house and of course it went every where...then just as I thought that it would last for ever the rain stopped. I managed to dry most of it when husband came home to take me out, how I enjoyed that.

Today the sun is shinning :-D :-) long may it last

Maybe if you edited the title Bridget and added 'recipes welcomed' to the Culinary delights it might attract notice. :-)