Tips & Ideas
Cooking Steaks
Cooking steak isn’t hard if you follow very simple rules . 1: Bring your steak to room temperature before cooking . Do NOT get it straight from the fridge and put it in the pan 2: Oil the meat NOT the pan 3: heat the pan 4: season with pepper before cooking , salt after… Read More
Yorkshire Puddings
Crack your eggs into a cup ( 2 or 3 eggs ), put into a bowl add the same amount of plain flour and liquid Or and this is how I do it 4oz flour, 2 eggs 1/2 pint milk. Make this batter well in advance and chill , overnight is great . I get the… Read More
Getting the most from a turkey/chicken
I bought a half price frozen turkey in Aldi this week for £5.49. I defrosted it and cooked it in my slow cooker yesterday for 10 hours on low. When I took it out I left the juices in the slow cooker. Then I stripped the meat off the carcass and added all the bones,… Read More
Salad Bars
Whilst shopping this morning I couldn’t help but notice the amount of people filling up containers at the salad bar . £2.69 for a salad that’ll do 1 maybe 2 meals at the most. No thanks! Please don’t be fooled into buying these. You can make flavoured cous cous, pasta and noodle salads for pennies… Read More
Store Cupboard Basics
Plain flour Self raising flour Honey Sugar Vanilla essence Garlic Ginger Mixed herbs Paprika Chinese 5 spice Chilli powder Soy sauce Veg oil Lemon juice Cornflour Oxo cubes Stock cubes Porage oats Tomato purée Tinned tomatoes Pasatta Pasta Rice Noodles Cous cous Spaghetti Feel free to add your essentials xx Lorna xx
Halogen Ovens
Cooking for only one or two of you? Have you thought about investing in a halogen oven? Generally there’s just me and OH at home and I don’t always want ( or have room in freezer ) to batch bake to utilise the whole oven when it’s on. So at the end of the year… Read More
