Real meals in minutes
...the following ideas are taken from the NEEPS forum.
Ina's favourite teas, done in less than 15 minutes:-
Put on water to boil for pasta. While you are waiting for that to boil, clean and chop one leek per person, set frying pan on heat with a little oil in it. Whilst cooking pasta, cook leek in oil over a medium heat-all done in ten to twelve minutes cooking time. Drain pasta, add to leek and give a good stir. Serve with grated parmesan (or ketchup I suppose, if there are kids involved!)
Another good and quick one is anything to do with couscous. I usually chop an onion, sweat it off in a little oil and add other chopped veg or frozen peas. Add 1 cup of water per person plus one teaspoon of vegetable bouillion, and when that boils add 1/2 cup of couscous. Bring to boil again, and leave to stand for 5 mins.
Total cooking time depends on what kind of veg you use, but usually its no more than 10 mins. Again it can be served with grated cheese or eggs in any form if you need more protein. Alternatively, you can serve yoghurt as dessert for the protein.
Sassinaks "End of the week tea":-
Chop an onion and sweat in a little oil (actually dripping in those days - olive oil was something you put in your sore ears ). Add a huge tin of chopped tomatoes and some mixed herbs. When heated through make the appropriate number of hollows in the surface and crack an egg into each one. Serve when eggs are set. Use lots of fresh bread for the juices.
Townies version of Veggie Rice:-
Cook a pan of long grain rice. Finely chop one medium onion and one yellow pepper and a clove of garlic. Sweat these gently in a large frying pan and season with salt and pepper. Do this while your rice is cooking. Strain rice once it is cooked and tip into fry pan on top of your vegetable mixture. Get a bottle of light or dark soy sauce and shake and stir at the same time to get a nice coating of the sauce on the rice.....but don't drench it...
Serve.Takes no more than 15-20 mins
Flingdizz's Pasta:-
Cook some pasta,chop an avocado and some cherry toms and coat in olive oil and balsamic vinegar to stop the avocado going brown. Once the pasta is cooked, drain and fling in the veg mix along with some chorizo or prawns from the freezer. Gently heat through again and serve.
Ina's Tuoni e lampo (Thunder and Lightening Pasta).
Boil pasta shapes. Heat olive oil in pan, and add lots of chopped garlic and drained tinned chickpeas. Add drained pasta to hot chickpeas and mix. Serve with lots of salad and if you like, parmesan cheese and/or chopped parsley.
Ina said:-
Tatties, unfortunately take a little longer to cook, so they are rarely useful for fast food, however if you always cook a few more than you are likely to need, you can use the leftovers for a quick meal the next day. At home we often had a kind of sautee potatoes with egg: Sweat off chopped onion in a pan with oil:add sliced cooked potatoes and cook for a little while stirring occasionally, break a few eggs over that and "stir fry" until egg is set. In the meantime cook whatever quick cooking veg you fancy (or heat up leftovers), or serve with salad. For the carnivores, you can add some chopped bacon in with the onions at the beginning. Again takes only 15 mins to make.
Ina's Apple pancakes:-
Make a batter from one egg. 2 heaped tablespoons of wholemeal flour, 1/2tsp cinnamon and enough milk to make a stiffish batter. Chop up one apple (including skin), stir into batter, and fry pancakes. Serve with a little honey if you don't find it sweet enough.
Ina's quick pasta soup:-
Per person, bring to the boil one cup of water with one level teaspoon of veg bouillion and one heaped tablespoon of dried mixed veg. When boiling, add one heaped tablespoon of small pasta shapes (letter pasta). Ready after 10mins of cooking. For protein, add one beaten egg into the soup at the end and let it curdle in the simmering soup.
If you know in the morning that you are going to make that at lunchtime, it might help to soak the veg and you can ofcourse add fresh herbs to liven it all up. For rice soup, the rice needs a bit of pre-cooking.
Ina's Sweet Polenta:-
For one, bring to boil 1/2 pint of milk with 3 tablespoons of polenta and one or several of the following: pinch of cinnamon, bit of orange or lemon peel, few drops of vanilla extract, one tablespoon of sultanas. Keep stirring while you cook it for a few minutes. Serve it with stewed or fresh fruit. My favourite is sultanas and apple puree.
Townies Pesto:-
Blitz basil leaves, rocket leaves, pine nuts, parmesan, lots of garlic and olive oil in a food mixer. Tip into a large jar or container and cover with olive oil to seal it and preserve the colour. Boil some pasta shapes, drain and mix with dessertspoons of pesto.......yummy.
Tuna Melts from zombiecazz:-
Mix a tin of drained tuna with some finely chopped onion, salt, pepper, lemon juice and mayonnaise. Toast bread on one side, coat with mayonnaise mix and grated cheese. Grill until cheese is bubbling lots.
Alternatively use diced chicken and add a little chopped celery and grated horseradish.
zombiecazz's Left over Fritatta:-
The day after you've had a roast dinner keep some of the potatoes and cooked veg from the dinner. Next day dice them. H
eat a little olive oil in a frying pan, stir fry the veg and potatoes to heat through (you can also add a little garlic is wished).
Beat up a couple of eggs with a little milk, add some seasoning and pour over the veg mix. cook on the bottom side and then put pan under a grill to cook the top.
Serve with a nice salad and/or some hot toast.
Zombiecazz's Pesto With Ham:-
Slice an onion and half a pepper. Saute with a little oil, add some chopped ham and mix through some freshly cooked pasta with a large dollop of pesto.
Diana's Pasta and Pesto:-
Boil wholemeal spaghetti in the bottom of steamer with broccoli in the top of steamer. When pasta is cooked, drain it, toss in the broccoli and stir in some pesto (preferably homemade- I freeze mine in ice cube containers then bag it up so I've always got some ready to go).
This is the last of the meals in minutes from the old site but I hope that more will appear.
Misteralz's Power Beans on Toast:-
Cut a couple of slices of crusty white bread about 5/8 to 3/4" thick, set aside.
Add a tin of Heinz beans to a pan and turn up the heat. Add a dash of Lea & Perrins and some Tabasco as required. Chop some chorizo into little cubes and add to the beans. Keep stirring until it starts to go mushy, this is when you can put the toast on. Butter toast and top with properly mushy beans! Total time taken: less than ten minutes. Obviously that only serves one, so increase quantities as required.
WildGarlic's Spicy Chick Peas:-
This is one of my favourite standby meals and the recipe is never accurate. It's a bung it in recipe.
Onions
Tinned tomatoes
Chickpeas - tinned (if using dried then you'll need to soak and cook before doing this recipe)
Spinach
fresh coriander leaf
spices of your own choice
It's as simple as softening the onions, adding the spices (I sometimes use a spoonful of patak's curry paste - available from the Neeps Food Co-op), adding the tomatoes and chickpeas and cooking til hot.... just before serving add the spinach and coriander leaf - and a dollop of yoghurt if you fancy it.
Serve with bread/rice/bulgur wheat/cous cous/quinoa - whatever you fancy. I also like to eat this cold.
PictishPunkGirl's Mushroon Soup:-
Chop a quantity of mushrooms small & fry in butter and a little oil with a finely chopped clove of garlic. When they're soft, stir in some flour to thicken then add water gradually to a soup like consistency. You can add a bit of veg stock cube to taste. Simmer for 5 minutes then put through a blender or mash the mushrooms about a bit. Mmmmm.
PictishPunkGirl's Blackberry Crumble:-
Boil up blackberries with a bit of water, sugar & a sprig of lemon thyme. Get some butter & rub into SR flour til it goes like breadcrumbs then add sugar & mix through. Top the berries with crumble mix & put in oven til it's golden. Serve with cream or custard.
Fluffywelshsheep's macaroni and cheese:-
4 oz macaroon per person
about 4 oz of grated cheese per person (this can change depending on cheeseness)
cook the macaroon in big pot (dependants on amount of servings) with water (boil)
once cooked drain of water and place macaroni in a serving dish.
Then keeping big pot on a low heat place one ladle of macaroni in to pot then one ladle of cheese and fold in the pasta and cheese until all is in the pot.
Once you happy that the cheese is 'stringy' you can then place in serving dishes.
Fluffywelshsheep's Prawn Pasta:-
this is what i eat when everyone in the family is having mac n cheese (i can't eat cheese)
Steam some prawns and cook the pasta then once both is cooked place on a bed of freshly prepared salad (cherry tomatoes, lettuce, beetroot, sliced carrots, etc)
Season to taste and possible add some salad cream
yum yum really quick to do too.
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