Broke !

andym1

Was (am) totally broke, on the way home asked the butcher for 2.25 worth of lambs liver. Delved into freezer and found some frozen veg and threw in the last of the pasta and Taa Dahh !


Was lovely. My next trick will be harder. For next week I have...2.5kg rooster spuds, 1 bag onions, 1 bag carrots,2 couliflower, ! cabbage, tray mushrooms, 2 lb frozen mince and 4 tomatoes... Thats it... No money only enough for bus fare, bread and milk. My dry larder is full of herbs etc.
Sort me out for the week you lot. If you want I will post exactly what I have. I live on my own so its only me.
Help !

mike65

make a soup

Cook all the veg until fully mashable, put into blender if you have one or just get busy with a potato masher until you have a thick goo. Empty into a large saucepan and add milk stirring strongly as you do so add black pepper, basil, thyme etc to increase the flavour. You should have a good number of bowls.

As for the mince - make burgers (have you got an egg?)

andym1

mike65 wrote: »

make a soup

Cook all the veg until fully mashable, put into blender if you have one or just get busy with a potato masher until you have a thick goo. Empty into a large saucepan and add milk stirring strongly as you do so add black pepper, basil, thyme etc to increase the flavour. You should have a good number of bowls.

As for the mince - make burgers (have you got an egg?)

No egg, before I posted I counted up my money, I have 14.65 till next wednesday. I dont mind, I have a warm flat, A warm bed, Internet, coffee and my health ! and if I need a 20 my mammy is always there !

catho_monster

that's a heap of food!

First thoughts, I'd make carrot soup with dried cumin and chilli if that's in your cupboard stash, with a splash of milk.
I'd make potato wedges for dinner one night, on their own, because that's just something I like to do every now and then.
I'd bake a potato another night, and top it with chilli, made with some of the mince, the tomatoes, chilli powder and cumin if they're in your cupboard.
Cauliflower soup, with a dash of milk, potato if it needs thickening.

ElleEm

Off the top of my head:

Homemade meatballs (mince, herbs and onions)with mashed spuds, sauteed mushrooms and cabbage.
Potato wedges and homemade burger (mince, onions, other herbs/spices- garlic powder, chilli, cumin, coriander if u have them). You could cut shapes into sliced bread and toast it, fashioning a sort of bun the burger. fry some onions and use a bit of tomato.
Shepherds pie (mince, carrots, mushrooms,onions, tomatoes) maybe with mashed cauliflower instead of spuds.
A soup is also a great idea with the carrots and cauliflower.

Minder

andym1 wrote: »

Was (am) totally broke, on the way home asked the butcher for 2.25 worth of lambs liver. Delved into freezer and found some frozen veg and threw in the last of the pasta and Taa Dahh !

Where's the pasta in that beautiful photo?

the beer revolu

andym1 wrote: »

I dont mind, I have a warm flat, A warm bed, Internet, coffee and my health ! and if I need a 20 my mammy is always there !

I really, really, really wish more people could look at what they do have and be thankful rather than bitching and moaning about what they don't have.

The amount of people with warm comfortable houses, good food in their bellies, cable TV, internet and petrol in their relatively new cars that think they are on the poverty line pisses me off no end!

blueshed

a mince beef and potato curry or stew. something like this http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2961/beef-keema-curry.aspx and http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mince_with_herb_14547.

RoseBlossom

Minder wrote: »

Where's the pasta in that beautiful photo?

The yellow things, unless I'm mistaken...

Wish my dinnners looked like that when I just threw things together!

andym1

Minder wrote: »

Where's the pasta in that beautiful photo?

Sitting on top of the carrotts !

Alun

andym1 wrote: »

Sitting on top of the carrotts !

Funny looking pasta .. the cross-section through them is all wrong. Those look like yellow beans to me, i.e a component of the mixed veg.

EDIT: thought the photo looked a bit too professional ... it's a cropped version of this ...

http://www.coppercountyfoods.ca/frozen-ready-meals/beef-ready-meals/liver-and-onions_84122

Faith

Alun wrote: »

Funny looking pasta .. the cross-section through them is all wrong. Those look like yellow beans to me, i.e a component of the mixed veg.

EDIT: thought the photo looked a bit too professional ... it's a cropped version of this ...

http://www.coppercountyfoods.ca/frozen-ready-meals/beef-ready-meals/liver-and-onions_84122

How odd! How did you find that?! According to that link, there is no pasta. The yellow stuff is wax beans (never heard of them myself).

andym1, care to explain?

Alun

Just typed "liver and onions" into Google Images:)

That's a US based site, so the beans might be a US thing, but I'm sure I've seen them or something similar in frozen 'exotic' mixed veg packs.

LaChatteGitane

In Belgium we call them butter beans (well, boter boontjes). They are a variety of the French bean/green bean
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?hl=nl&sa=X&tbo=d&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4GGHP_nlBE435BE435&biw=1024&bih=474&tbm=isch&tbnid=jmo-rrUjVbZRUM:&imgrefurl=http://gstuff.co.nz/shop/garden/index.php%3Fmain_page%3Dindex%26cPath%3D5_33%26zenid%3Dd3d637b2c74cbc9b46e1ec676acff074&docid=_Shc0ebw3qCYqM&imgurl=http://gstuff.co.nz/shop/garden/images/butterbeansgoldenwax.jpg&w=612&h=621&ei=BSD9UPLvKqKc0AWY1ID4DA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=758&vpy=113&dur=1748&hovh=226&hovw=223&tx=163&ty=102&sig=101097959442046475741&page=3&tbnh=139&tbnw=152&start=26&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:30,s:0,i:178


It looks like someone (OP ?) has been pulling our leg.