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Almost Anything goes Egg Dish (Yes, another original name!)
Easy peasy!
Great for left-overs. Simply combine foods that go well together, add eggs
(the number depends on the size of your dish, but the idea is to cover the other
ingredients), a little milk, and put in all in a shallow dish. Bake on low
until cooked through.
Some good
combinations are mushrooms and chicken, silverbeet and chicken/meat, or bacon,
egg and tomatoes. Have a go at making something up!
Fish Dish
This is my children's
favourite. Very simple, very economical, and make from ingredients that
are usually found in the pantry. The following recipe can feed a family of
two adults and 2 or 3 little ones. If you add vegetables and bread it
could be stretched even further.
50g butter
2T flour
1- 1 1/2 cups
milk
400 -500g spiral
pasta
1 can of smoked fish
(about 450g)
Method: Make a
white sauce by melting butter in a saucepan and adding the flour. Slowly
add the milk and stir continuously until the sauce begins to thicken.
Meanwhile cook the pasta as usual. When the sauce is ready, add the
drained smoked fish. Put the pasta on the plates and pour the smoked fish
sauce over the dish.
Potato Dish
Yes, we are very
creative with naming our dishes! LOL. This is another very cheap
recipe. Great for Saturday nights, and wonderful for potluck
dinners. Also very easy to increase or decrease the amount of servings.
Cooked potatoes - the
amount will depend upon the size of the dish. You want to have enough
potatoes to make several layers. For a 3 liter casserole dish use about 8
medium sized spuds. For a roasting pan, use about 12 spuds. You can
either slice the potatoes, or use mashed potatoes.
A Can of condensed
soup. Use something like beef & barley or minestone.
Grated cheese.
Firstly put down a
layer of potatoes in the bottom of your dish. Next layer is soup.
Then grated cheese if you wish (or you could just leave the cheese for the
topping.)
Repeat the process
until you have used all the ingredients, making sure that the potato is on top,
and then add cheese on that. Bake in moderate oven for about half an hour,
and then grilled the top if you need to. Yummy!
. The following two
dishes use sausage meat, which is a very cheap meat to buy.
Sausage Meat
Patties
A roll of sausage
meat (which from memory has about 250g)
Packet of soup mix -
something like onion or mushroom
1 cup hot water
Method: Slice the
sausage meat into 1cm thick slices. Fry in oil until brown, turned and
brown the other side. Drain the oil and pour over the soup mix and add the
water. Let it gently simmer for a couple of minutes, turning once. A 250g
roll will make enough patties for 4 - 5 people.
Sausage Meat and
Kumara Pie
500g Sausage Meat
1 finely chopped
onion
2 medium sized,
grated kumara
1 unpeeled and grated
apple
1 cup grated cheese
4 beaten eggs
pepper
Line the bottom of
your dish with the sausage meat. Mix the rest of the ingredients in a bowl
and put on top of the meat. Bake in moderate oven for about three quarters
of an hour. If you add vegetables and bread this recipe would feed six
people.
Mince and Potato
Dish
This one takes a
little time to make. It could be done in stages over the day, or you could
cook twice as much potatoes the day before to save time. This is one of my
hubby's favourites.
oil
500g mince
2 finely chopped
onions
One can of whole
tomatoes in puree
750g potatoes
salt and pepper
2 Tablespoons of
flour
Cooked potatoes -
about ten medium sized spuds.
white sauce - made as
in the fish dish recipe above, and add one egg and one cup of grated cheese when
finished.
Fry the mince and
onions in the oil until brown. Put in a dash of salt and pepper, and
add the flour. After another minute add the can of tomatoes with the
puree, and slice the tomatoes up. Cook the mixture until it thickens.
Put the above mixture
in a dish. Next cover with the potatoes, either sliced or mashed.
Then top with the sauce. Bake in moderate oven for about half and
hour. Grill the topping if necessary, so it's nice and brown.
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