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When I first retired on 31 December 2002 I asked my colleagues to write some recipes in a small book for me. So I am going to add them to our list,


from Val,

Line an ovenproof dish with mashed potato and fill with layers of tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks or onions.
Pour over the veg a tin of macaroni cheese and top with some grated cheese,
cook on 190c until golden brown and then simply enjoy eating it.
A variation is to use pastry instead of the potato.

from Vanessa

Rather than serving G and t in pint glasses - cut the top off a water melon, place a funnel in the top and pour the pint of Gin into the watermelon. Chill and serve sliced, the melon absorbs the gin.

very refreshing!


From Judith

Cherry and Banana Loaf
4oz of glace cherries
2 ripe bananas
8oz of self raising flower
6oz of sugar
4 oz Magarine
2 large eggs

Grease and line a tin
Mix flour, margerine, sugar and eggs
Peel and mash the bananas and add to the mixture
Add the cherries.
Beat the mixture for 1 minute
bake on the centre shelf at gas mark 3, 160 c for 1 to 1.1/2hrs


From Christine

Champagne mixed with Archers OOOOOH!


From Roger

Fish Soup

Chop two small sweet onions and add a crushed garlic per person
and cook in a large casserole dish in a small amount of olive oil for 2 to 3 minutes,

Add one crushed or chopped dried chilli, a teaspoon of dried oregano and a pinch of saffron threads.
Stir for about a minute
add 750g tinned tomatoes, or fressh, and bring to the simmering point and leave to bubble for 2 mins.

Add 500ml of water and bring to the boil
T
hen add the fish, anything you fancy such as haddock, monkfish, clams,mussels, cockles, prawns, fresh tiger prawns are greatand they only take 3 to 4 mins to cook,
serve with Crusty bread,

This will serve 4 people if you use 850g to !Kg of fish.

From Jane

3 Mars bars
1 tbls milk
1/2 pint of double cream
1 egg white


Thinly slice the mars bars and put into a heatproof bowl with the milk,
Melt slowly over a saucepan of simmering water. When everything has melted cool for 10 mins stirring occasionally.
Whip the cream until it holds its shape and the stir a large spoonful into the Mars mixture,

lightly whisk egg white and fold into the chocolate mix,
Pour into a bowl, cover and leave in fridge overnight,

Enjoy


from Denise

mix together one tablespoon each of lightly fried sliced onion, chopped cold Gammon and 3 oz of cheese.
Stir into a lightly whisked blend of 2 eggs, quarter oint each oof milk, single cream and pepper to taste,
Spoon into a 7inch sponge tin lined with shortcrust pastry and bake for 10 mins at 400F or mark 6 and a further 30 mins at 350F or mark 4 until flan has set.

Lovely hot or cold with a glass of something chilled,,,not water!!


From Katie

12 oz of dried fruits
8 oz of SR flour
4 oz of sugar
1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg, and of mixed spice.
3/4 cup of milk
2 eggs
4oz melted butter
A big dash of Almond essence

Mix together all the dried ingredients
Mix egg, milk and add to dry ingredients
Add melted butter and Almond essence. mix well
Put Cake in Cake tin and cook for 2 hrs on gas mark 2

Leave to cool and the enjoy!


from Katie (again!)

Prawn Pil Pil a Spanish dish

Stir together in a bowl
a big dash of Olive oil
Crushed garlic, sun dried paste.,Passata.,chilli powder and a dash of sherry.
Pour on top of prawns and cook in oven for about 15 mins medium heat.
Serve as a starter with some warm crusty bread


Bye for now and I hope that you enjoy cooking some of these recipes.

Bridget

COPPER FARTHING SALAD.

1 Kilogram Carrots, sliced
2 Green Peppers (Optional)
2 Onions
l Packet Tomato Soup
1 Cup Water
Three-quarters Cup Vinegar
Half Cup Salad Oil
1 Cup Sugar
2 teaspoons Worcester Sauce
1 teaspoon Mustard powder.
Salt and Pepper.


- Cook the carrots until they are half-cooked and drain

- Mix the other ingredients and bring to the boil.

- Pour the hot sauce over the carrots.

- Cool and refrigerate.





MARMITE CAKE.

75 grm Butter
160 grm Sugar
1 Egg
200 grm Flour
2 teaspoons Bakig Powder
250 ml Milk.

- Cream the butter and the sugar

- Add the egg and beat well

- Sift the dry ingredients and add to the egg mixture.

- Pour into a greased round pyrex pie plate.

- Bake for 25 - 30 minutes.

Topping: 115 grm Butter - melted
2 teaspoons Marmite
50 grm grated Cheese

- Mix all the ingredients together and then pour over the hot cake.
Return to the oven for about 5 minutes.

Serve hot.




Val in SA.

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I am back on line at leat in the late afternoon at work until telephone line reconnected at new abode.
Another recipe from a friend called Sue

Pork and Clams

1. 500grams of pork cut into rough cubes, coat in seasoned flour and fry on allsides in olive or sunflower oil until lightly browned, then remove from pan and place in a warm oven.
2. Add a tablespoon more oil to the pan snd loghtly fry an onion which has been finely sliced, wih 2 cloves of garlic sliced or pressed and cook until transparent and slightly golden.
3. Add 4 chopped tomatoes and 250grams of sliced mushrooms 1/2 a sweet green pepper deseeded and sliced.
4. Add the pork and cook on the hob add 240gram tin of tomatoes, 2 teaspoons of Worcester sauce and one teaspoon of dried mixed herbs.
5. If the stew feels to dry add some vegetable stock.
6. When the pork is tender and the vegetables almost cooked add in a handful of washed and cleaned clams, checking that none ar open after cleaning!! VERY IMPORTANT TO CHECK.
7. Heat in the stew until the clams open, check the seasoning and serve with a selection of vegetables of your own choice.

Sue cooked this meal the first time I went to her home for dinner...it was excellent


Bridget

I think most recipe book sort the recipes according to ingredients, type of meal. i.e. starters, main course, sweet, sundries and within each, meat, fish, vegetable meals (don't want to call anything vegetarian as you would have to be very careful with other ingredients that theyw ere suitable for vegetarians.)

Get a Brace of Pheasant from the Butchers ( Oven Ready) put in a Casserole dish add Shallots and Garlic, bung in a bottle of decent Red,put in the oven for about 1hr. Nice,Reduce the juces down to use on whatever veg you desire with it, In a Posh restraunt its called "Jus" anywhere else its jus t plain gravy.**M**.

Catchthecat, If you soak it in Red Wine,It makes the Onion taste far better.**M**.:o)>.

Hello everyone
1. I arrived in UK safely and have just spent evening with my daughter.
2. I am not back in the UK permanently, it is for 6 to 12 months. We still have our main home in Spain and some freinds are satying there with my two dogs Jet and Joe and their dog Boris.
3, Thank you all so much for keeping this thread alive, I am delighted with its success will amke appointment in Monday to meet the SSAFA rep to discuss next step.
4, have two new recipes to add during this week may get more from the staff at the new work place.

Aileen

Thank you for your comment, Please post thoose recipies as soon as you can.


EVERYONE

PLEASE GIVE FEED BACK ON ANY RECIPES YOU HAVE TRIED, ALSO WE NEED MORE SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW THE RECIPES SHOULD BE ENTERED,
LUNCH, MAIN MEALS, SUPPERS, TEAS, DESERT ETC OR AS THREE COURSE MEALS, OR BY MAIN INGREDIENTS ETC OTHER WISE ANN AND I WITH THE SSAFA REP WILL HAVE TO DECIDE,

used caps to emphasis I would like everyone to have some input, I know my nickname is Bossy Boots, but do not want to prove it!!!


Night Night


bridget

Evening.

What a lovely thread. I have been having a look at some of the recipes and they are great.

I'll copy them if I may and when I get a bit of time will put up some recipes I have which might be of interest.

Aileen xxx

Sounds as though you have it all worked out and the extra money will certainly help. Please though, do give up if it is too much and don't go on for the sake of it when you are no longer enjoying it. Good luck with it, a new life for you!!

Ann x

OK Ann you have a point

Not in any special orde

1. The income goes into our savings for the future, having put 5 out of 6 children through uni, paid three times for IVF which failed, helped with weddings and two divorces etc etc.. the savings looked grim


2. I do still get a lot of joy doing my work and this will be much less harrowing than a nursing Home AND if OH thinks it is getting to much he will simply say enough is enough

3. we will be bale to see more of the family and visit friends who constantly visit us.

4. we will see the grancdchildren more and spend some valuable time with them,

5. e have the wonderful knowledge that we are coming back and I have a clause which allows me to leave at six months if I wisg, the company are supplying the accommdation in a arther elegant house and they are paying for the car!!

^ OH will be able to pay a few visits to his favourite football Team West HAm


Anyway Ann Thanks for caring enough to ask the question


goodnight

bridget

Well, I imagine you wouldn't do this if you didn't want to, but why you would want to leave your beautiful home for a rented apartment for six months I don't know. Over and beyond the call of duty!!!! Still if it is what you feel you need to do, go for it!!!

Thanks for the message Ann, I must be in my second teens!!!


Bridget

You will be so busy Bridget that you wont have time to realise he is not there before he arrives.

Thanks for the explanation.

Ann
Glos

Ann

Tahini is sesame seed paste


hope that helps, widley available in super markets in UK

Thanks for all the copying, will be seeing SSAFA next week, I have to call them on Monday.

feeling a bit down this evening as OH now not coming over until 1 or 2 of November, only about a week later than we thought but it sounds a long way off


Bye for pow


Bridget

copied to here.

Anyone tell me what tahini paste is please?

OK, I am taking time out from packing and sorting so here a re few recipes as promised.


1. A family line recipe from the Irish side of me.

Brown Raisin Bread

1 teaspoon of Baking powder. 3 cups of coarse flour or Plain white strong flour,
1 cup of raisins
I teaspoon of bread soda
1 and 1/4 cups of butter milk, it is available in most supermarkets in Uk
1and 1/2 cups of fine or pinhead oatmeal
21/2 cups of molasses pr black treacle
2 tablespoons of oil flor or olive oil is what I use.
11/2 cups of wholemeal flour
1 tablespoon of sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt.


Now is the easy part


1. Mix all the dry ingredients together.
2 Mix the oil, buttermilk and molasses and add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
3. mix until everything is moist.
4. Roll out on a well oiled and floured flat tray and bake at normal bread temp for 1/2 hr to 3/4 of an hour

I have not put temp because each persons oven seems different for bread.!!!!

This recipe is also used in a restaurant that is well known in Dublin and is great food.!!! Not allowed to name it, sorry!

Recipe


Cous cous / Tabbula salad

Make using either couscous or tabboula

120g of either couscous or croacked wheat.
boiled water
2 juiced lemons
75ml of olive oil
120g of flat parsely finely chopped
5cms of cucmber finely chopped
I large tomato finely diced including pips etc.

Method

Place cracked wheat or cous cous into a large bowl and pour over the boiling water until just covered BUT not soaking.and leave for 15 mins and then drain and allow to cool/
When cool add the Lemon juce, Olive oil, parsley, tomatoes and cucumber

Season to taste and serve

Fruity Coleslaw

1/2 white cabbage finely shredded
2 large carrots peeled, grtaed or finely shredded
1/2 red onoing finely sliced
1 apple cored peel if wished, I do not peel them, and chop into medium size pieces
1 table spoon of large raisins
2 tablespoons of mayonaisse
3 to 4 tablespoons of Greek yogurt
seasoning to taste

Simply mix everything together and then enjoy eating it!

Three bean salad

This is so nutritous it is frightening!!!

2 oz of any three of these. cannellini, black bean, butter beans, kidney beans, pinto, haricot etc but NOT baked Beans. Rinse and drain the beans
1 red onoin finely diced
1/2 of an Avocado just ripe and diced
1 clove of crushed garlic,
1/2 red pepper finely diced
seasoning to taste
1 or 4 tablespoons of olive oil 1/2 fres lemon or lime juice.

Mix everything together and serve.


I smoked mackerel skinned and flaked
1/2 tub of cream cheese

Mix well and season to taste

Hummus120 g of chickpeas, tinned or fresshly cooked. In spain I use the jars and rinse well.
2 lemons juiced
2 tablespoons of Tahina paste available in supermarkets
2 cloves of garlc and crush them
2 tablespoons of good olive oil
seasoning to taste
Liquidise chickpeas untle they are mushy
Add tahina, oil and lemon and whiz until smooth, season to taste and add a little cold water if you wish to have a thinner or lighter mix.


Roasted Red pepper and Feta cheese

2 roasted and skinned red peppers or cheat with a small jar of ready prepared peppers.
I block of feta cheese
some black pepper
1 teaspoon of lemon juice
Whiz everything together and I add 1/2 of a fresh chilli as well because we enjoy spicy food.


My children named these Bliss Balls!!!!

60gr dried apricots chopped finely 60 g dried stined prunes also chopped finely
1 or 2 dried figs chopped finely
1 heaped Tablespoons of pumpkin seeds and of sunflower seeds
30g of currants or raisins
80 gr porridge oats or 60 g of oats and 20 g of ground almonds
4 Tablespoon of coconut milk use the thick milk from the top of the tin OR 1/2 of freshley squeezed Lime jiuce
1 table spoon of tahini paste or peanut butter
1 tablespoon of runny honey

Mix everything together, preferably by hand making sure that the tahini or peanut butter is well mixed in.

Then with clean damp hands mould firmly into plum size balls and set aside in the fridge for about 10 minutes or until you need them


They can also be varied by rolling the balls in coconut , chopped nuts or toasted nuts.


More later or next week unlees I am more organised!!


bridget


Let me know if anyone makes these as we need to show that they are tried and tested recipes

copied to here.

I chop pumpkin up small dice or slice just put in a pyrex dish with a lid, cook on high for about 5 min give it a stir cook a few more mins mash with a fork leave to cool, drain if a moist pumpkin.

cheers Annabel (who's off to bed )

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Thanks Annabelle How long and how do you cook pumkin in the microwave?