Onion Relish

Onion Relish

Ingredients:

• 8 Onions
• 2 Bay leaves
• 25ml Olive oil
• 200g Brown Sugar
• 2 teaspoon mustard seeds
• 150ml Balsamic vinegar
• 150ml Red wine vinegar

Method.

Fry up the onions, bay leaves, in the oil till the onions are just starting to go brown.  Throw the rest of the ingredients in and simmer till they have reached a syrupy stage then put in a clean jar and leave for a couple of months.  Its as easy as that.

Toad in the Hole

Toad in the hole.

Six Sausages

150 grams of plain flour

Two eggs

150 ml water

150 ml milk

pinch of salt.

Put sausages in a deep oven proof dish and place in an oven at 190 C.  Cook till sausages are going brown

While they cook mix up the batter.

Pour in the batter mix and cook in oven for a further 30 -40 minutes.

You can tell its done when the top is golden brown.  Not black. Black is bad!

Chicken in BBQ sauce

Really easy this one.

Chicken
Pepper
Onion

Chop chicken in a pan and start it cooking, then chop up a pepper removing the pips and pith.  Chop up an onion and throw them in the pan. cook until the peppers and onions are just going soft and the chicken is cooked all the way through.

Pour on BBQ sauce and stir till its hot then serve .

Italian Cold meats.

Very simple.
From the supermarket.
Packet of pepperoni
small tubs of:
Olives
Sun dried tomatoes
Pasta in sauce
Bread role.

Fajitas

This is a real favourite with my kids, a bad movie and fajitas on a Friday night.

For One-two

Shopping List:
Chicken Breast
Two Peppers
One Onion
Bread Wraps
Salsa mix
Sour cream mix (I use the squeezable bottles as they last longer)

Olive oil
Cajun or Fajitas seasoning.

Cut up a chicken breast and put it in a pan with a little olive oil and some cajun spices.

Throw in a deep pan and fry up till chicken has turned white and is cooked all the way through. (Not Red) season with salt and pepper.

Obviously these have a long way to go.

Cut up two peppers and an onion and fry up in another pan.

Just wrap in the fajitas thin bread wraps.

Dinner Lemon Fish

Lemon peppered fish with salad.

Wednesday is an easy day for meals, as little fuss as possible.

Lemon peppered fish is out of the deep freeze, from a large bag I bought, 20 minutes in the top oven.

The Salad is a mixed leaf salad straight out of the supermarket bag, with a little salad dressing poured on.

Chicken with Pasta

For one.

1 Chicken Breast
1/2 Tin chopped tomatoes
Handful of pasta
Handful of mushrooms.

Put the Pasta in boiling water, chop chicken into inch lumps and drop into pan with some olive oil and italain herbs.
Chop mushrooms and put in fry pan and cook.

After 20 minutes drain pasta, and add to chicken, add the mushrooms and pour in the chopped tomatoes.

It looks almost edible.

Pork Loin Chops and Veg

Pork Loin Chops

I cook these in a halogen oven, until they are nice and brown, usually 25 minutes at 180C.  I like halogen ovens because you can see stuff cooking in it, and therefore its quite hard to burn anything. Also its easier to clean than a conventional oven. But Pork loin chops can be grilled as well.

Steamed Veg.

The other essential in my kitchen is a steamer. In the bottom I put potatoes, pouring boiling water in and adding a pinch of salt, the middle container holds chopped veg, such as carrots and swede, and in the top green veg, such as french beans and broccali.  Everything gets cooked for about twenty minutes then I test what its like.

I use gravy grannuals so that's just boiling water poured in