Yorkshire Pudding / Popovers

This is a work in Progress as I've not got them quite right yet.

70g Flour
Pinch Salt
120 ml milk
1 egg (large)

Makes 10 in 10-15 mins (depending on oven temp)

Sausage Pasta

3 Sausages (Good ones. Never eat bad sausages)
12 Mini Plum Tomatoes (or cherry)
12 Black Olives
2 forkfulls of capers
Tomato Puree
Mirin or White Wine
Cajun Seasoning
Mozzarella (1/3 ball)
Rocket

Pasta

Skin the sausages, and break up in frying pan with a wooden spoon. Fry up for a little until browning. Add a good squeeze of tomato puree and mix in. Add a splash of mirin (or white wine), and simmer for a few mins.
Half the Tomatoes and Olives and add along with the caper. Turn down to a medium heat and simmer for 10 mins.
The add a good sprinkle of cajun seasoning, mix well.


Meanwhile Cook the pasta according the to the pack.

Add the cooked pasta to the rest, and serve, tearing the mozzarella over the lot, and sprinkling a little rocket over the lot.

Serves 1

Cajun Chilli

This was delicious.

400g ground pork
1 med onion
1 rib celery
1 bell pepper (I used green)
2 cloves of garlic, sliced
1/2 tin tomatoes
1 pack (200g) passata
1 sm can refried beans
1 chicken stock cube made up in ~200ml boiling water
1 teaspoon salt & smoked pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
2 teaspoons oregano
1 teaspoon thyme
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspsoom sodium bicarb (baking soda, if you will)
Olive oil

Heat oil in pan and brown the meat. Chop the vegetables and add. Cook until the onions are goings soft (10-15 mins). Add everything else except the bicarb.
Bring to a simmer and cook for an hour with the lid on the pan, stirring every 15 mins or so.
Add the bicarb, and cook for another 10 mins or more. Thicken with cornflour if necessary

Makes 2 servings.

Pancakes

Simple I know, but there are lot of variations on this recipe out there on the net. This one works for me.

50g Plain Flour
1 large Egg
150ml Milk
Pinch of Salt
Butter for frying

Makes 4-5 (despite the usual claim of 8!)

Measure out the flour & salt into a pyrex jug and form a well. Add the egg(s). Beat the egg using a fork until mixed, and slowly incorporate the flour. Beat until smooth. Add the milk a little (20ml) at a time, and beat again until smooth. Eventually you won't need to keep beating.
(If doing 3 or more batches together, you'll probably need a mixing bowl rather than jug)

Heat a little butter on a frying pan (a good frying pan is the key to good pancakes - or at least easy pancakes. Special "crepe" pans are wonderful). Let it melt, but not brown.
Pour in enough batter to cover the bottom of the pan. Cook until firm on the base.
Turn with a spatula or flip if adventurous. Second side will take less time to cook than the first. Add a bit more butter every 5-6 pancakes.

Serve... however.

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UPDATE:

Good housekeeping recipe is;
125g flour
300ml milk
1 egg
pinch salt.


Also works for toad.

Mashed Baked Potatoes

1 1/2 Baking Potatoes per person
Double Cream

Pierce the skins of the potatoes and microwave  for 10 mins. Let cool a bit and put them in the oven at 180 for half an hour.
Take them out, cut them in half, and spoon out the insides leaving the skins intact. Mash up with a fork until smooth, and add a little cream (only a couple of tablespoons) and mix in. Spoon the creamy mash back into the potato skins, and return to the oven for 10-15 mins until the tops are beginning to brown.

Prawn Enchiladas

1 pack of raw tiger or other large prawns
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1 red onion
~12 cherry tomatoes
3 Tortilla wraps (large)
1/2 lime.
Manchego cheese
Spicy Italian seasoning
Cajun Seasoning
Lea & Perrins

Chop the peppers into triangles, ~1 1/2 cms a side, place on a foiled baking tray covered with a glug of olive oil, and add another glug over the peppers. Shake around a bit until covered, and place under a medium grill until starting to char.
Quarter the tomatoes, and once the peppers are done, place them in the baking tray, sprinkle with salt, and grill until charred.
Halve the onion, and slice finely. Fry up slowly in oil until turning translucent. Add the peppers, and season generously with the cajun, and sparingly with the Italian seasoning, and a splash of Lea & Perrins. Cook for another minute, and add the prawns and cook until pink.
Turn off the heat, add the tomatoes and the juice of 1/2 a lime. Mix well.
Spoon the mixture out into three wraps in a large pyrex dish. Wrap up loosely and grate the Manchego over them all, until covered well. Place the whole lot under the grill until the cheese is starting to brown.

Pepper Lasagne

4 Bell Peppers (1 red, yellow, orange & green)
1 Large Onion
1/2 - 1 large tub picked peppers from the deli counter (slightly piquant with feta)
2 Tins Chopped Tomatoes
Lea & Perrins
1 chicken stock cube

1 1/2 pints milk
~200g mature cheddar, grated
Mozzarella
3 heaped spoons sauce flour
olive oil
butter

Garlic Italian Seasoning
Ground Nutmeg

Preheat oven @ 150C
First, the Peppers / Tomato sauce;
Chop onion into small pieces, fry until almost translucent. Add the peppers chopped into long, fine strips. Fry for a little while over a low heat.
Give a good sprinkle of the garlic Italian seasoning and cook for another 2 mins or so.
Add the tomatoes, a good splash of lea & perrins and the stock cube crumbled straight into the pan. Cook for a few minutes, and add the pickled peppers. Simmer on a low heat until nice and saucy.

Then, the cheese sauce.
Melt a small block of butter in a good glug of olive oil. Once melted, add the flour, stir in and cook for a few minutes, stirring so as not to let it stick / burn.
Add the milk, slowly, stirring or whisking as you go. Add a little nutmeg, and some garlic Italian. Once all in cook until it's starting to bubble around the edge, but not boiling. Add the cheese by the handful; it should melt straight pretty much straight away.
Cook until nice & thick - might need some cornflour.

Build the Lasagne - layer peppers, then pasta, then cheese sauce, then peppers, then pasta, then cheese sauce.
You'll need a very large pyrex dish for this.
Slice the Mozzarella and lay on top.

Cook for 40 mins in the oven, or until the top is browned nicely.

Serves 6