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smoked salmon is not what i think of as cheap food. having said that the trimmings are 90p at both tesco and sainsbury. they are perfect for scrambled eggs, or pasta dishes where you'd cut or flake the salmon anyhow. plus because its smoked it had a strong flavour so you can use 1/2 a pack for 3 eggs and still feel there is tons.
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The thing about eating well but cheaply is not just the main ingrediants but the flavorings that you use with it. Having a decent selection of herbs and spices makes all the difference.
Morrocan Roast veg with Lemon and Mint Cous Cous
Whatever veg you can get cheap, courgette, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, etc.
Oil - Olive for preferance
1 Lemon
Dried Mint
Moroccan Spice mix ( not that cheap but lasts ages, or mix up your own if you have a decent spice collection)Roughly chop the veg and chuck in a roasting pan. Drizzle with oil, sprinkle with a teaspoon of spice mix. Mix well to coat and chuck in the oven.
Zest the lemon and squeeze for the juice. Mix with oil to mak a dressing and add a teaspoon of died mint. Mix well and leave untill the veg is done.
Add the zest to the cous cous when cooked.
Drizzle the dressing over the cous cous and pile the veg on top.
Eat.
Chorizo stew
Sainsbury do a reasonably priced chorizo sausage - The horse shoe one, not the ready sliced or chopped stuff. Costs about £2 but will do three meals for two people.
1/3 Chorizo sausage
1 can tinned tomatoes
1 can beans - Butter, Haricot, Canelini whatever you fancy.
2 loves garlic
1 onion
Oil to cook.
Mixed Herbs or whatever you have
Tomatoe puree
Salt
PepperRoughly chop the onion and garlic and fry gently in a pan.
While that cooks cut a third of the chorizo and slice.
Make space in the pan and add the chorizo in a layer so that it cooks, when the fat starts to melt flip the slices and cook a little more.
Add the tomatoes, beans, herbs salt, pepper and half a can of water. If you are feeling flush or have a bottle open anyway add red wine instead of water, and a squeeze of tomatoe puree.
Stir and leave to cook on a simmer for half an hour.
Eat.
You can make it go further by serving with bread or add a couple of sliced pork sausages to turn it into a proper cassoulet. Fry them with the chorizo at the start.
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Ham joints were reduced from £8 to £2.
About a month ago I bought an enormous 4kg shoulder of pork which was reduced to £2.12. Had about 12 servings out of it.
I braised some of it in cider - really good:
Start sautéing some onions in a cast-iron casserole.
Make half a dozen deep incisions into the meat with a long, thin knife.
Into each hole stuff half a clove of garlic, some rosemary, and a pinch of toasted fennel seeds. Slice the skin and rub in some salt.
When the onions have caramelised, take them off the heat and deglaze the dish with 2/3 bottle of very sweet cider, then place the pork and some bay leaves into it.
Put on a tight-fitting lid (add a cartouche of greaseproof paper) and put into a low oven (120 degrees) for 4-6 hours or so, basting every hour to keep the pork really moist.
Then remove pork, put pan on heat and add some roux to make a sweet onion gravy - while this is doing its thing, I blowtorched (!) the pork skin to make crackling.
It would've been nice to braise it with some whole fennel, but I didn't have any. I just served with some green beans.One thing I'm fond of doing is getting some really straggly cheap bits of pork hock, pounding them out thin and flat, and rolling them up around some chopped garlic, a bit of fresh parsley and a few toasted fennel seeds. Then tie it up really well and cook in your pasta sugo for a few hours - and serve on top of your plate of pasta. Good cheap 'nice dish for Sunday evening' type meal. Sometimes if you ask the butcher you'll get a cheap trotter thrown in, too (although perhaps not in That London since they're fashionable right now).
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Tonight, saltfish (pollock) with onions, peppers and potatoes...
I normally gently simmer everything in the same pot but I think I'm gonna try steaming it...Soak cod for 24 hours, change the water a coupla times... Drain and pat dry before cooking...
Thinly slice one large white onion, two red peppers and enough potatoes for two people... Thinly slice a coupla cloves of garlic and finely chop one fresh chilli...
Layer the potatoes in the bottom of your steamer, layer the onions on top of the spuds then place the cod on top of the onions... Sprinkle the garlic, chilli and a little sweet paprika over the fish fillets then drizzle with lots of good olive oil...
It'll probably take around 30mins to cook the potatoes through... Serve with some green beans or whatever's cheap at the market that day...Saltfish £1.89
Potatoes 30p
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mrs_com made a huge amount (jamaican grandma style giant aluminium pot) of mwambe over the weekend. It was awesome. However, you put whole scotch bonnets in to get the heat right but they are not intended to be eaten. Clearly one slightly disentigrated and was not removed. I thought is was a tomato. I ate it. I could see through time.
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smoked salmon is not what i think of as cheap food. having said that the trimmings are 90p at both tesco and sainsbury. they are perfect for scrambled eggs, or pasta dishes where you'd cut or flake the salmon anyhow. plus because its smoked it had a strong flavour so you can use 1/2 a pack for 3 eggs and still feel there is tons.
i regularly make us poached eggs with salmon and hollandaise for breakfast and the 90p saino's salmon is perfect for it. get 2x meals for 2 out of a pack (served on top of toasted muffins so no need for loads).
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thats a marrow. Courgette means small "courge", courge is French for marrow.
Similar in Italian, where 'zucca' is the marrow and 'zucchino' the small marrow. The word generally used for a courgette in Germany is "Zucchini". I think that, as with 'graffito/graffiti', the distinction between the plural and the singular has largely been lost in the loan word.
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Ham joints were reduced from £8 to £2.
I had always wanted to try cooking a ham in Coca Cola so just put the joint into the slow cooker over night with a 500ml bottle of coke.
This morning the ham was cooked to perfection. I was planning on reducing the cooking juices down and finishing the joint off in the oven with the juices, and some mustard as a glaze. But when I got back this evening the juices had turned into a delicious rich jelly which does not really taste of coke at all.
Looks like ham sandwiches will be on the cards for a few days.