Recipe: Sage and Onion Stuffing

Mince 1 onion in food processor

Heat 1 tbsp oil in frying pan and gently cook onion until soft

Put 3oz white bread and 1 tbsp of fresh sage leaves into food processor and process to get breadcrumbs

Add to onion with a lightly beaten egg and mix all together. Make into stuffing balls and cook for 30 minutes alongside roast/potatoes.

Recipe collection: bread

Bread past its freshness can be used in numerous recipes. If none take your fancy immediately, create breadcrumbs (process slices torn into chunks in a food processor) and freeze them.

Cheese Pudding
Monmouth Pudding
Meat Rissoles
Oven baked Potato Croquettes
Sage and Onion Stuffing
Schnitzels

Recipe: Monmouth Pudding

My variant of an easy, and cheap, pudding

450ml milk
35g sugar
35g butter
Zest of lemon
175g fresh breadcrumbs
2 eggs lightly beaten
5 tbsp strawberry jam

Put milk, sugar, butter and zest into a saucepan, bring to boiling point. Take off the heat and stir in breadcrumbs. Leave to cool slightly before stirring in eggs. Whilst this is happening melt the jam either in microwave or in small saucepan.

Place half the mixture in the bottom of a greased 2pint oven proof dish. Spread over half the jam then repeat with remaining mixture and remaining jam.

Cook in oven preheated to 170C for 40 minutes or until a knide inserted into the centre comes away clean.

Serve with ice cream

Recipe: Cheese Pudding

I am ending the week on a cheap classic (as in I remember it being made by my mother on a regular basis). Definatley one for the kids when they get to college.

Preheat oven to 200C
Half pint of milk - heat to boiling point.
Add 4oz fresh breadcrumbs (small cubes of white bread do just as well) and 1oz of butter.
Stand for 5 mins
Add 4 oz grated cheddar cheese and season
Mix in 1-2 eggs (I normally use 2 medium)
Pour into greased 1 pint dish and cook until risen and brown on top (25-35mins depending on depth of dish - insert a skewer and it will come out clean if it is cooked)

In summer server with new potatoes and a green veg
In winter serve with baked potatoes and a green veg


Probably worth noting at this point that I have 3 chickens who between them produce an egg a day in the depths of winter (2 or 3 per day during the summer). Free range eggs are therefore readily available in this household. With teenage son still in rapid growth mode, we also have numerous ends of bread loaves. These ends only get fed to chickens as a very last resort. You'll spot the theme!