Gourmet grub on a skinflints budget.

Rosti are really tasty and cheap too - basically they are a grated potato pancake but you can add all sorts of things to them. One of my favorites is celeriac, potato and apple rosti.

You start by par-boiling a couple of medium potatoes until they are half cooked, then let them go cold (I put them in cold water to speed this up).
Meanwhile you grate about a quarter of a head of peeled celeriac and put the result into some kitchen paper to squeeze out most of the water. Then you do the same to about half a peeled and grated apple.
Now grate the cold potato into a big bowl and add the celeriac and apple, some salt and pepper and stir all together. Then add 1-2 beaten eggs.

Heat up some olive oil in a frying pan and when its hot throw in dollops of the egg/stuff mixture and spread it out with the back of a spoon til its about 1/2 inch thick or theereabouts.
Cook until it's nicely browned and then flip and do the same to the other side.

Put on some more kitchen paper on a heated plate in the oven and keep going until they are all cooked, Share or be a gutty and eat them all yourself.

Yum.

Edit: Celeriac will turn brown and manky once cut so once you've cut out the quarter you're planning to cook it's a good idea to rub the cut surfaces of the remainder with something like lemon juice to stop them aging badly.

3 slices of wholemeal bread and 3 poached eggs is fairly filling

K-9 wrote: »

Well diced beef but I call it stewing steak from childhood memories, ideal for stew but of course it never tastes like Mams! They actually do some great bargains on meats, worth checking their website every week to see what the special is.

Large pack of mince for €4, would do spag bol for 2 days. When the mince is fried put it in a colander and rinse with boiling water, takes away the taste of fat that can ruin a bolognese and makes buying expensive steak mince irrelevant.

You're right about centra; I used to work near one and they often had really good meat deals like lumps of round roast for about 5 euro a kilo; round roast is actually kind of crappy for roasting since it is a bit too dry, but makes great stew or chili once cubed. Oh there's another good cheap eat; chili!

wandatowell wrote: »

get your left over bones, throw them in a pot, add some broth, a potato

And baby you've got a stew going.



or something like that

can you bring home the bones from kfc to do this?