Recipe collection: Pork - cooked

This collection is for using anything that might be left from a roasted pork joint

Pork Shepherd's Pie
Pork in a piquant sauce
Pork and Apple Bake
Pork in sweet and sour sauce

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: Cheesy Beef Pie

10 oz Cooked beef
8oz cooked potatoes
Process the above so minced together.
Stir in
2 oz grated cheese, 2 egg yolks and salt and plenty of pepper.

Whisk the 2 egg whites until stiff. Stir in 1tbsp into the meat mixture then fold in the rest.
Put into a greased baking dish and scatter a further 2oz of grated cheese on the top. Bake in oven preheated to 180C for 30 minutes until cheese on top has browned.

Serve with green veg (and tomato ketchup!)

Menu for w/c 9th March

Made, and froze, about 4 pints of curried parsnip soup over the weekend using the last parsnips from the garden.
Aim for next few weeks is to eat up a good number of the meals we have frozen over the past few months as we have been adding more to the freezer than we have been taking out! Also for this week: hopefully enough pork left over from the roast on Sunday for one evening meal and one lunchtime salad.

M Cassoulet (from freezer) with salad
T Slow cooked lamb and vegetables (from freezer) with baked potatoes
W Sweet and sour pork with egg fried rice
Th Spaghetti with pesto chicken and pine nuts
F TBD

Salads
Blue cheese and walnut
Carrot, cheese and pumpkin seeds
BBQ coated pork with coleslaw
Tuna nicoise

Menu for w/c 2nd March

Very good, if I do say so myself, roast beef yesterday. So some left over beef recipes later in the week!

M Meatballs in tomato sauce. Taglietelle to accompany
T Fatty Pork and Lentil stew
Belly pork was on offer and found this very good looking recipe in one of my Nigel Slater cookbooks (can't find it referenced online) Update: very similar to a cassoulet. Next time, it is definitley a repeatable recipe, will add half again more lentils
W Quorn escalopes and chips
Th Cheesy Beef Pie
F Take out - it's someone's birthday!

Salads
Coronation Chicken Portion of Chicken Pasanda made on Saturday, with added yogurt and sulatnas served with rice salad and shredded iceburg lettuce
Beef and Blue Cheese
Rice Salad and Ham
Beef and Beetroot with an attempt at making a better horseradish based dressing than last time. Update: dessertspoon of horseradish sauce to about 3tbps of yoghurt with half tbsp oil and a splash of white wine vinegar/lemon juice worked a treat

Recipe: Root Vegetable Bake

Selection of root vegetables (parsnips, carrot, turnips, potatoes etc) - cooked and mashed
Leeks - sliced and cooked
Cheddar Cheese

Stir cooked leeks into the mashed root vegetables and put into oven proof dish. Cover with grated cheddar cheese and bake in oven preheated to 180C until cheese is bubbling. Serve with a green veg and chutney.

For the carnivores this also goes well with cold ham.

Menu for w/c 23rd Feb

Start of Lent this week

M Jacket Potatoes, sausages and coleslaw
T Root veg bake - followed by pancakes of course
W Slugs (common name Tortellini!) and sauce
Th Risotto Milanese with Lamb Ossobuco
F Coq au vin (from freezer)

Salads
- Chicken and Ham with beetroot
- Mozzorella and Oven baked tomatoes Halve a punnet of cherry tomatoes, scatter with torn basil leaves, drizzle with olive oil and cook in a medium oven for about 30 minutes. Cool
- Ham and Coleslaw
- Tuna Nicoise