Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: Janeymiddlewife on August 13, 2011, 20:41
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DD is (hopefully) off to Uni soon, we are having a "cook-in" tomorrow where I have promised to teach her a few "signature" dishes. She isn't fond of very much cheese, is addicted to quorn (expensive!), I have a few ideas up my sleeve, but what would you teach her? I'm aiming for 4 main courses and 2 puds.
Thanks :)
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I've only ever used Quorn once, years ago for a veggie chilli not con carne, to cater for a veggie visitor. Nowadays I'd rather do something like a veggie chilli using green lentils or a mix of soy mince and mung beans as the 'meaty' bit.
A good old pasta with a tasty and possibly spicy tomato based sauce - red onion, garlic, chilli etc..... doesn't need cheese.
A Biryani. :)
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Oooh, hadn't thought of biryani, would that cook in a slow cooker as she has a small one?
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I'm a veggie student =) The most frequent dishes I make are Spaghetti, Lasagna, Cottage pie, Stir fry and Quorn chicken curry.
For puddings the best things are ones that don't require many ingredients and little washing up, they're also really good if they use up things that are going to go off, like banana bread!
Also the best way to make new friends is to know how to make chocolate cake!
I tend to make double quantities of everything then freeze half so I don't have to bother cooking later.
(The basic rule for students is the quicker the better!)
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Oooh, hadn't thought of biryani, would that cook in a slow cooker as she has a small one?
Probably, I don't see why not, but you'd have to do some research or get someone on here to say yes. :)
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Vegetarian sausage casserole/cassoulet. There are endless variations on this depending on what is in the fridge and you can throw a tin of baked beans in as padding. Cheap and tasty.
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I'm a veggie student =)
Also the best way to make new friends is to know how to make chocolate cake!
EXACTLY - which is why I'm teaching her to make pizza, even though she doesn't like it!! :D
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Pitta bread pizzas are genius too!
Basically you get a pitta bread, but on tomato puree, sprinkle on your toppings put in the oven until it looks like pizza, and then you have a pizza in like 10 minutes!
Tins and frozen things will also become her best friend! Fresh things are always the first to be stolen or go mouldy! (Milk will be stolen as soon as it is put in the fridge! I bought a mini fridge for my room in halls to hide the precious things (Milk and bread!) away otherwise ten minutes after i'd put them in the kitchen they'd be gone again.
Soup is also good to make! And as long as she goes with a massive bag of pasta she'll be fine even when the money's running out or she doesn't have time to go to the supermarket. In my exam week I didn't have time to go out and all I had in was pasta and cans of soup, they were a life saver!
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I seem to remember that for most students all recipes fall at the first hurdle.
"Take a clean dish..." indeed!
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I seem to remember that for most students all recipes fall at the first hurdle.
"Take a clean dish..." indeed!
:D :D :D
Wish us luck, we're off to Lidl with a list and £30 cash, the idea is she'll cook all meals for herself all week - I'll give it til Tuesday ;)
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That long? ;)
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The menu (she was over by £2.50 but I let her off as she had to buy everything including flour, sugar & oil from scratch)
Veggie Shepherd's pie
Mediterranean / Spicy pasties (depending what we have left)
Veggie lasagne - all from basic veggie mix - sort of ratatouille
sweet potato & spinach dhal
falafels
Pizza
Fish pie
Haddock & sweetcorn fishcakes
Chowder
Cheesey potato bake
Veg korma & potato & spinach pakoras
So far we've made the basic veggie mix, doing the pastry as I speak and about to put the dahl on, I'll update you later :blink:
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Fish pie
Haddock & sweetcorn fishcakes
Chowder
Fish was an animal last time I studied biology. They die a nasty suffocating death too >:(
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Guess she's a pesca whatjamacall it then. Unfortunately Relatives in the US introduced her to lobster, clams & crab - which I've told her she won't be getting here, unless she catches and cooks them ::)
Lasagne, pasties & shepherd's pie going into oven now, dahl in slow cooker, off to the pub with her in a minute, will do the rest when we get back provided we're not too inebriated :D
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Guess she's a pesca whatjamacall it then.
Why ? Isn't it rather illogical to kill and eat fish if you won't kill and eat birds and mammals :wacko:
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Since when was a teenager ever logical? :) They KNOW they are right and you are always wrong (well at least for the next 10 years!) :D
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She's just someone that doesn't like meat or poultry..but will eat anything else even if it swims :nowink:
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She's just someone that doesn't like meat or poultry..but will eat anything else even if it swims :nowink:
eggsactly.............................................I'll get me coat :nowink:
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Since when was a teenager ever logical? :) They KNOW they are right and you are always wrong (well at least for the next 10 years!) :D
Ah... How true ::)
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When I was 15 I knew for a fact that my parents were the most ignorant, unreasonable, reactionary, uneducated thickos there had ever been in the history of the world.
When I was 18 I was astonished at how much they had learned in just 3 short years.....
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Oh... that's a very old joke dear ::) :lol:
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Oh... that's a very old joke dear ::) :lol:
Mark Twain I believe? - except I think he discovered how much his parents had improved at the age of 25, not 18 - I'll go along with that as DD is 18 :D
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I survived as a student on has browns fried eggs and baked beans. If i was very lucky i managed to cobble together a packet of super noodles and added some frozen peas and sweetcorn to them!
I think you have prepared your daughter very well!
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I think you have prepared your daughter very well!
Absolutely. Son, daughter, teach them to cook at an early age and you will give them the tools they need to survive. :)
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they already know how to buy McDs :nowink:
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they already know how to buy McDs :nowink:
And they're hardly in danger of going near meat with one of those either! :lol:
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sorted :lol:
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and pot noodles are a hit with students - with no meat in either :)
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At uni my friend and I used to live off pasta tossed with olive oil, garlic, black pepper, oodles of chopped courgettes and topped with cheese. If we were splashing out, some chopped black olives were nice in it as well.
Pasta is a student's friend and it's well worth keeping a big bag along with some tins of chopped tomatoes, garlic and herbs in the cupboard, because then she can chuck in whatever veggies she likes!
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Heh you can train her all you want, she will still end up living on super noodles and kebabs.
Veggie or not, we all surcome in the end heh
Lew
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I've never had a supernoodle or a kebab in my life. A few can refrain!
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Students also become very good at lying!
::)
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I'm a qualified accountant, it's not the student part that made me good at lying...
(It's okay i'm training to be a midwife to compensate for the accounting sins!)
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hehe im sure we can all forgive you that one ^_^