I think I’ve exhausted my easy dinner allowance for the week. Last night I couldn’t be bothered so made French toast for dinner 😂
I took out mince meat for tea, but I don’t exactly know what I’m going to do with it just yet. I know how to make meatballs, and that’s about all I’ve memorized with mince just yet. And I’m not fond of spaghetti, but do have a few jars of passata in the cupboard
Man, you’ve got dinner sorted! This is student food from the vault. Known as ‘savory mince’, but there’s no recipie - you just use what you have on hand as well as the mince.
Fry up a chopped onion (any size) in a couple of tablespoons of oil/fat over medium heat. Add the mince and stir it about with a wooden spoon until it changes colour. Add a cupful of passata and 1 cupful of chopped mixed veg (frozen). Add a generous gloop of hot sauce if you like spicy. Add a splosh of soy sauce. Stir. Let this simmer on low heat while you chop a largish potato into dice, rinse the potato dice under the cold tap and put it in a microwave safe container to blast it in the microwave for 3 mins til nearly done. Stir the potato and blast it for another 2 mins. The sauce is ready when you start to see a bit of oil float to the surface. Stir this back into the mixture before serving.
Put potato in serving bowl and add a generous quantity of the mince mixture on top. Eat with a spoon in front of the screen/text book/whatever.
Substitutions : Add 2 tsps of onion powder or garlic powder (or both) to the mince before frying if you don’t happen to have an onion on hand. Add 1 tsp garam masala if you like spice but not heat instead of the hot sauce. Use any mixed diced veg you have in the freezer. Add a bag of spinach and stir it through the mince mixture if you feel you need greens. Or 1 chopped cos lettuce if you don’t have spinach. If you aren’t using soy sauce, you may like to add some salt.
The cooked mince mixture freezes well, so any leftovers can be stored in a container there and just heated up in the microwave the next time you cbf cooking.
This mince mixture is basic and very flexible - you can use it as pie filling, over pasta or just over hot toast if that’s your fancy.
1 shallot = half an onion. The rest is close to being bullshit. Once you’re confident in the kitchen, then shallots start to matter, but starting out just use ordinary onion.
airing the place out cause everyones crook means I cant have the AC on so just sitting here steaming myself on the couch apparently.
so warm today I think i will take it slow and do work in the evening too
dinner will just be easy
We might be getting the old ‘bachelor’s handbag’ for our evening meal.
Cannot be arsed cooking in this weather
oooof now theres an idea why the f am I cooking?!
Not that I support Woolies, but their smokey chicken (nashvile, or memphis or something like that) is absolutely my fave roast chicken.
If you can get your hands one one, do it. Make sure to steal other things from there, so you get your money’s worth though.
I think I’ve exhausted my easy dinner allowance for the week. Last night I couldn’t be bothered so made French toast for dinner 😂
I took out mince meat for tea, but I don’t exactly know what I’m going to do with it just yet. I know how to make meatballs, and that’s about all I’ve memorized with mince just yet. And I’m not fond of spaghetti, but do have a few jars of passata in the cupboard
Man, you’ve got dinner sorted! This is student food from the vault. Known as ‘savory mince’, but there’s no recipie - you just use what you have on hand as well as the mince.
Fry up a chopped onion (any size) in a couple of tablespoons of oil/fat over medium heat. Add the mince and stir it about with a wooden spoon until it changes colour. Add a cupful of passata and 1 cupful of chopped mixed veg (frozen). Add a generous gloop of hot sauce if you like spicy. Add a splosh of soy sauce. Stir. Let this simmer on low heat while you chop a largish potato into dice, rinse the potato dice under the cold tap and put it in a microwave safe container to blast it in the microwave for 3 mins til nearly done. Stir the potato and blast it for another 2 mins. The sauce is ready when you start to see a bit of oil float to the surface. Stir this back into the mixture before serving.
Put potato in serving bowl and add a generous quantity of the mince mixture on top. Eat with a spoon in front of the screen/text book/whatever.
Substitutions : Add 2 tsps of onion powder or garlic powder (or both) to the mince before frying if you don’t happen to have an onion on hand. Add 1 tsp garam masala if you like spice but not heat instead of the hot sauce. Use any mixed diced veg you have in the freezer. Add a bag of spinach and stir it through the mince mixture if you feel you need greens. Or 1 chopped cos lettuce if you don’t have spinach. If you aren’t using soy sauce, you may like to add some salt.
The cooked mince mixture freezes well, so any leftovers can be stored in a container there and just heated up in the microwave the next time you cbf cooking.
This mince mixture is basic and very flexible - you can use it as pie filling, over pasta or just over hot toast if that’s your fancy.
We love this for a lazy mince feed Asian beef
Thanks! Alas, I think I’m missing most of those things. I don’t have hoysin or oyster sauce, or actually even garlic
Also, I’ve got no clue what a shallot is
1 shallot = half an onion. The rest is close to being bullshit. Once you’re confident in the kitchen, then shallots start to matter, but starting out just use ordinary onion.
its like an onion? but not.
It’s just a little onion and a touch milder tasting.