Recipes

[Silver_Shiney]

Picadillo (from Mexico)

1 onion
750 g minced meat (pork, beef, turkey)
Lard
1 can of chopped tomatoes
4 small potatoes, cut in small cubes
1 red pepper, diced
50 g almonds
50 g raisins
50 g candied citron
2 small bananas
50g olives (optional)
Half a teaspoon of hot chilli powder or one small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 stick cinnamon
2 cloves
1 tablespoon sugar
Bay leaf and thyme
Salt and pepper

Brown the onion and meat in lard until meat is hard. Add tomatoes. When thick, add parboiled potatoes, almonds, raisins, citron, banana cut in rounds, pepper, olives, chopped chillies and parsley. Season with Cinnamon, cloves, sugar, bay leaf, thyme, salt and pepper. Leave to simmer until mixture is thick and meat thoroughly cooked. Serve with white rice and tortillas.

[Silver_Shiney]

Watercress salad (as a starter)

Each per person:

Two small new potatoes, boiled and cooled
One large radish
Two tablespoons of fresh peas, cooked and cooled
3-4 large sprigs of watercress

Put potatoes at bottom of small bowl, toss sliced radish, peas and watercress and put over potatoes.

Drizzle with vinaigrette and garnish with shavings of Parmesan cheese.

This is a based on a dish served in Marco Pierre White's Brasserie Blanc in Bristol.

[Dark Knight]

Cheese on toast from Derby

toast some bread, put some cheese on it
put it under a hot grill to the cheese is bubbly
and going a nice golden colour
remove before it burns , bacon optional but reccomended
add brown sauce

eat

sorry SS but too good to resist

[Silver_Shiney]

DK

You didn't specify what sort of cheese.

I apologise for omitting the instruction to "eat"

[Dark Knight]

SS
I would leave the choice of cheese to the individual, as everyone is different

[Silver_Shiney]

SS
I would leave the choice of cheese to the individual, as everyone is different

some people are more different than others...

[The Tinker]

How much are they charging for the starter outof interest? Probably cheaper to pop up to DKs for cheese on toast (prefer Applewood cheese by the way on mine).

[Onelife]

Pasta Bake from poverty stricken Worcestershire

Pasta bake sauce - Tesco’s

8 Rashers of smoked bacon

6 Small mushrooms

2 onions

1 good handful of cheese

Fry onion till golden brown, slice mushrooms, cut bacon, chuck it into a bowl, add pasta sauce, sprinkle with cheese then finish off with bacon rind.

Throw it in the oven, scoff it all down... if you're waiting to have your cholesterol checked... cancel it.

Enjoy...not alot

OL

[Silver_Shiney]

How much are they charging for the starter outof interest? Probably cheaper to pop up to DKs for cheese on toast (prefer Applewood cheese by the way on mine).

They're not doing it any more, Tinker, but it was around the £5 mark, I seem to recall.

[HK phooey]

Shiney chap, anyone who eats fruit and meat together is not entirely well.

[GillD46]

Shiney chap, anyone who eats fruit and meat together is not entirely well.

Why? Lots of recipes combine meat with fruit,

[HK phooey]

Gill, yes they do, but that doesn't make it right. Tinned tomatoes in a recipe are fine but that's as far as it goes IMO. Tinned pineapple on gammon, oranges bunged up ducks, apple with pork, the hideous list goes on!

[Andrea S]

HK, On a hot day I fancied something

[Andrea S]

Oops, stupid phone. I fancied something refreshing and ordered a fruit salad as a dessert. When it arrived, it was a massive green salad, piled high with prawns, ham, strawberries , raspberries and pineapple. Accompanied with mayonnaise. Weird

[Dark Knight]

Hk has a phobia about anything not slopped on a plastic tray , by the prison canteen lackeys and the IOW is still reeling about the introduction of garlic bread and guacamole

[qbman1]

You should have seen what happened when they tried to serve up Chicken Maryland - bananas everywhere !

[Silver_Shiney]

So, Helen, you'll be turning your nose up at Chicken Veronique, trout and almonds, pork and apricot, duck and cherry sauce, turkey and cranberry sauce as well as those you've listed?

[Dark Knight]

SS
they don't have any of that on the prison isle, they have only just got Pot Noodle

[HK phooey]

Yes I wil shiney, fruit and meat is a nasty combination. Btw are you and Mervyn twins?

[HK phooey]

Yukkie, just googled chicken Veronique, wouldn't eat that if you paid me, not only would I heave at the chicken/grape combo but it sounds like something that George and Mildred would have served at a dinner party

[welshynurse]

In that case HK, not sure you would like the chicken korma I made recently. The recipe called for apple, raisins, dried apricots and bananas!

[Andrea S]

I guess we all have some food hang ups. My other half loves cauliflower and love cheese, put it together and he would run a mile. He likes mustard, I like horseradish , both hot so I suppose it is purely down to taste.

[GillD46]

In that case HK, not sure you would like the chicken korma I made recently. The recipe called for apple, raisins, dried apricots and bananas!

If it wasn't for the chicken, that would be right up my street.

[welshynurse]

In that case HK, not sure you would like the chicken korma I made recently. The recipe called for apple, raisins, dried apricots and bananas!

If it wasn't for the chicken, that would be right up my street.

I guess it would work just as well with an alternative to chicken. I'l put the recipe up tomorrow, off to work now though!

[GillD46]

In that case HK, not sure you would like the chicken korma I made recently. The recipe called for apple, raisins, dried apricots and bananas!

If it wasn't for the chicken, that would be right up my street.

I guess it would work just as well with an alternative to chicken. I'l put the recipe up tomorrow, off to work now though!

That would be great, I can substitute with tofu.