Showing posts with label alternative food ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alternative food ideas. Show all posts

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Gluten Dairy free Frugal Eggy Ring leftovers

In the last recipe I yakked about using buckwheat to replace rice, etc, and here I've used leftover buckwheat mixture although you could easily use leftover rice or cous cous.
Grab your leftovers, toss into a bowl and mix in a fresh egg, stir to thoroughly combine.
Get your egg rings (or whatever shape you use) and spoon the leftover eggy mix into the egg rings.
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Put the lid on the pan to speed up the cooking of the top section, lower the flame and wait a few minutes.
These easily come out of the egg rings and are great both on their own as a light meal/snack or as part of a full meal.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Stuff yer bread rolls, give us a meat pie!

Now, hopefully you're able to see this post.
Cos that means the scheduling thingie in Blogger has worked.
Otherwise this will remain sitting in my "edit" pile of 'drafts'.

Anywho, this is a combo of frugal foods, healthy foods, home cooked foods and fast food for time poor people.
I read this on the interwebs somewhere so I cannot take credit for it.
This is NOT a gluten free/dairy free recipe but it could easily be adapted to be one.

A local bakery sells yesterday's rolls, 4 per bag, for $1.50.
I snaffled a bag as I had planned on making Curtis Stone's pot pies but this was even better.
I sliced the top off the rolls, then gutted them.
Ripped their innards out - which was saved to be made into breadcrumbs for stuffing but will probably end up in the chook food.
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I chopped 1  250 gram chuck steak, sauteed it in a pot with a little oil, a sliced leek, 2 spring onions finely chopped, 8-10 small button mushrooms diced and 1 cup of diced capsicum.
Add in 1 cup water, a teaspoon of Moroccan  seasoning, 1 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning, a little beef stock and let simmer on a low flame for a few minutes.
This is enough for 4 rolls.
Let cool.
I added a little grated cheese in the very base of the gutted rolls, for flavour and to strengthen the base.
Spoon in the pie filling, plop the lid back on and pop into a moderate oven for approx. 20 mins.
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  • I greased the tray on which they sat but next time I'd use baking paper.
  • The very top could be sprinkled with more grated cheese, although I want to only fill halfway next time and break an egg into it, then cook whole.
  • Leftovers could easily be used as the pie filling.