Recipes

[Mary Gair]

Homemade healthy chips:

 

1. Put the oven to 220c.

2. Take some medium or large tatties (Maris Piper are best) and start slicing them by cutting them lengthways dauphinoise but 1cm thick. Then slice them again to make them look as if they're chips.

3. Put them in a baking tray and put some seasoning and oil spray, put it in the oven for 20 minutes.

4. It's ready to dish up! Why not add some flavour by adding grated cheese or new breaded cod from co-op (only takes 16 minutes to cook though)

 

I'd hope that people would give such nice comments on my chips.

 

You can make them a little bigger, if you par boil them for 2 minutes first! I toss in a colander with a splash of groundnut oil and some salt & pepper.. then into the oven! again 200 for for 20 mins.. just a chunkier version of your original ones.. which I will try later!

[CrunchieSquirrel]

Best risotto to ever have:

1 shallot, halved and sliced

2 garlic cloves, crushed

1 orange pepper, cut into brunoise or macedoine (finely diced)

3 mushrooms, sliced

250g risotto or arborio rice

500ml hot chicken stock

250g tin sweetcorn

couple of dashes dark soy sauce

 

1. Fry the shallots and garlic together for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the pepper and mushrooms for a further minute.

2. Add in the rice and cook for 1 minute or it absorbs the oil.

3. Add the stock carefully, then stir and sesaon and cook for 10 minutes.

4. Add the sweetcorn and stir it in.

5. Put couple of dashes of dark soy sauce then serve with a small sprig of parsley. Serves 2 people, generously.

 

My grammar is very bad, use a knob of butter to fry the shallots and garlic.

[mogling]

Tried this recipe for rolls, in the Breadmaker- worked really well, lovely soft rolls!

 

I used sunflower oil instead of butter, just put everything in the breadmaker, water first.

Found they needed longer than 18 mins though.

 

Wholemeal baps recipe

 

260ml warm water

1 tsp sugar


1 & 1/2 tsp yeast

50g melted vegan margarine (we use vitalite)


225g wholemeal bread flour

50g plain white flour


175g strong white bread flour

1 tsp salt

 

Add sugar and yeast to water, stir and leave for 10 minutes until it foams
Mix flours and salt in bowl
Mix in the yeasted liquid
Knead for 10 mins by hand or 5 mins using mixer with dough hook
Cover bowl with cling film and allow to rise for 1 hour

 

(this can also be done in a bread maker on the dough setting, just add
the ingredients in the order given in the manufacturers instructions -
some require the water first, others the flour and it does make a
difference)

 

Knock back, knead lightly for 1 minute
Cut into 8 equal pieces
To create the bap shapes, on a floured surface keep pulling from the
outer edges to the centre and rotating until it is round, dust with
flour all over and place on a floured baking sheet
Dust with flour and cover with lightly oiled cling film
Rise for 30 minutes in a warm place
Remove cling film and dust again with flour – the flour helps prevent
the outer surface from burning so be liberal with it
Bake in a preheated oven at 200c for 18 minutes
Remove and allow to cool

 

Tip: to make the baps extra fluffy, add half a 200mg vitamin c tablet,
finely crushed between 2 teaspoons, to the flour.  This works
especially well for breads made in a bread maker.

[Hakon J]

Does any one have a good recipy for dumplings. Is it half sued and half flour.

[alchemy]

Think you need twice as much flour to the suet, if you are making herby ones i'd mix them into the flour (self raising) before you mix in the suet and enough water to make a sticky dough. Amounts dependent upon how many you want/need and how large/sml you want them. If you're cooking them in with a stew they'll need a good 20 mins cooking time. Hope that helps.

[Hakon J]

Many thanks! yum. yum.

[Malcolm]

• 250g self-raising flour

• 125g really cold butter

• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

 

 

method

 

• Preheat your oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5

• Put your flour into a mixing bowl

• Using a coarse grater, grate your cold butter into the flour

• Add a pinch of salt and pepper

• Using your fingers, gently rub the butter into the flour until it begins to resemble breadcrumbs

• Add a splash of cold water to help bind it into a dough

• Divide the dough into 12 pieces and gently roll each into a round dumpling. The dumplings will suck up quite a bit of moisture so if your stew looks dry - add a cup of boiling water and give it a good stir

• Place the dumplings on top of your fully cooked stew and press down lightly so that they’re half submerged

• Cook in the oven or on the hob over a medium heat with the lid on for 30 minutes

[piggywiggie]

does anyone know where I could get some easy to make (I cant cook) gluten/wheat free meal ideas??

[Malcolm]

does anyone know where I could get some easy to make (I cant cook) gluten/wheat free meal ideas??

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/diets/gluten_free

[piggywiggie]

I made some wheat free cakes for the hubby for valentines day (although I did it for the day before) he said he couldnt taste the difference! He even took some of them to share at work! I was quite proud of myself actually!

But cant live off cake..... I still need to learn to make simple wheat free meals. Pasta and tuna is getting boring....

[MJ]

does anyone know where I could get some easy to make (I cant cook) gluten/wheat free meal ideas??

 

if you're partial to a good curry try one of the spice recipe cards that you can get in places like scoop idoit proof instructions (my daughter and her friends can do them) and if you keep the card and like the curry you can buy the spices and "do it yourself" next time. none of the worry of the additives of a shop bought sauce or take away. It makes the house smell amazing too.

[piggywiggie]

if you're partial to a good curry try one of the spice recipe cards that you can get in places like scoop idoit proof instructions (my daughter and her friends can do them) and if you keep the card and like the curry you can buy the spices and "do it yourself" next time. none of the worry of the additives of a shop bought sauce or take away. It makes the house smell amazing too.

 

I LOVE curry, I always forget about Scoop! thanks for that!

[mogling]

Beremeal Bannocks

 

{Recipe from a sheet I got from the Quendale Mill years ago along with some beremeal they had milled there. Orkney beremeal available in Scoop. And the Aywick shop

 

8oz beremeal

2 oz SR Flour

1 heaped tsp baking soda

1 level tsp cream of tartar

1/2 tsp salt

1 oz marg or 1 tblsp cooking oil

Buttermilk {or milk} to mix.

 

Sift dry ingredients together

Rub in marg / oil

Mix to a fairly soft dough with buttermilk / milk

Roll out into rounds, then cut in quarter

Bake on a hot griddle till brown, or in the over at 425 / Gas 7 for approx 12 mins.

 

 

Beremeal Gruel

 

1 pint water

Half a cup o beremeal

1 tsp rock salt

 

Bring water to boil and keep it boiling vigourously

Add salt

Slowly sprinkle on beremeal, Stir vigourously to avoid lumps forming

Boil vigourously for 10-15 mins.

 

... sounds exhausting!!!

[Ina]

Beremeal Gruel

 

1 pint water

Half a cup o beremeal

1 tsp rock salt

 

Bring water to boil and keep it boiling vigourously

Add salt

Slowly sprinkle on beremeal, Stir vigourously to avoid lumps forming

Boil vigourously for 10-15 mins.

 

... sounds exhausting!!!

 

 

I used to make something similar at a time when I was skint and for whatever reason had a bag of beremeal left in the cupboard... But I made it without salt, with half milk/half water, and I'm sure I didn't boil it for 10 minutes! Was a very nice alternative to porridge. Maybe cooking time could be reduced if you left the meal in the water for a few hours beforehand? I do that with porridge, too; it means it just needs bringing to the boil (while stirring all the time), and then turning off the heat and leaving it for a few minutes. Saves on energy (the electrical type and your own).

[mogling]

After emptying a tray of squares of Tablet, there was quite a lot of crumbs left, so I stirred it into a peerie bowl of plain yogurt and left it in the fridge overnight.

 

Well, the next day it had all dissolved in - the flavour!! The best ever Toffee Yogurt!!

 

So am going to have to make another pot of toffee just to make more Toffee Yogurt it was that good!

 

 

Tablet Recipe:

 

2lbs Tate & Lyle Granulated sugar

Tin Carnation Condensed Milk {DCM}

DCM tin-ful of milk {Green or blue}

1 tsp Vanilla Essence once taken off the boil

{Yes, that's right - Nae Butter in Jeannies recipe!}

 

Melt very slowly in a large pan.

Bring to the boil, slowly.

Boil until it really darkens in colour & thickens a bit {30 mins?}

Take off the heat, beat in Vanilla

Pour into tray, mark into squares once cools & sets a bit.

 

Stir approx 1 Tblsp crumbs into 4 Tblsp or so of Plain Yogurt & leave overnight in fridge, covered.

 

Eat too quickly, make more Tablet to repeat again!