Today, we ate the last of the Quorn Casserole I made a couple of weeks ago. I bought Quorn chunks on offer for £1 a bag and made 6 portions out of that. To make Quorn casserole, I use a chopped onion, half a head of celery, 6 carrots, a green pepper and made a casserole. I used veggie gravy mix to thicken and cooked it in the oven. We ate it with rice. So far so good and very healthy. That's where our good intentions ended.
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| Frugal advice, cook in the microwave, steaming uses too much gas. |
The suet pudding mix that I bought will make pastry, dumplings, jam roly poly, spotted dick, and also, as I made today, Treacle Pudding - it's actually made with golden syrup, I buy half a litre from Tesco for 89p.
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| Bought from Approved foods for £1.50 and should last us for months and has many uses. |
To make Treacle Pudding, mix 250g of dumpling mix with 145 ml of milk, one egg and three tablespoons of sugar. Pour plenty of golden syrup into the bottom of a pudding basin, pour pudding mix over the top and place in the steamer. It will need an hour to steam. I gave up after 30 minutes and was concerned about the cost of the gas, so I microwaved the pudding for 5 minutes. Insert a clean skewer into the pudding at a angle, if it comes out clean, then the pudding is cooked. It's the same way to test sponge cake.
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| All hail the golden pudding |
The finished results are a thing of beauty. I'm sure suet puddings are unique to Britain and places where Brits settled. Don't even start me on the calories, it has beef suet in it!!!
We had ours with cream, as Morrisons had loads going at 25p, so I picked some up last night. I don't recommend this to anyone with a weak heart, or high cholesterol or if you don't own elasticated trousers. However, puddings of any sort, make Dearly Beloved go weak at the knees and as he's forgoing meat in the name of frugality, then at least I can do is make the poor bloke a sticky pudding xxx
12 comments:
Hi FQ
Looks lovely! Out of interest, are you still counting points or are have you stopped doing that? (don't blame you if you have stopped!).
Donna
Hi Donna, I am doing my best but I am not counting points today! I think the pudding and cream was about 20 points! The main course was 6 points, breakfast was 4 and supper is no point soup, the silly blow out is the pudding
I need to check out approved foods - how much do you need to spend/purchse tro account for th edelivery charges! Pudding looks like a good idea!!!
Louise - Eeek
Tha looks like a very yummy pudding. Must admit that puddings are my weakness. However I am trying to be good in order to tone up and loose a little weight, oh and be frugal at the same time. Will have to place an order with approved foods but a little like eeek I'm not sure how much makes it a viable option?
Hope your daughter is doing ok in her flat and feeling better.
Much love x x x
Oh I LOVE suet puddings!
At the moment I am very fond of Lidls "Eridaceous Greek Yogurt" which comes in a resealable bucket and I serve it in lieu of cream or custard [I put 2 tbsp in a ramekin on the table - that way we don't pig out] It lasts AGES in the fridge. We are just coming to the end of a "best before 15th feb" pot and it tastes as fresh as ever.
No idea what the WW points are for it tho!
Thanks again for 'approved foods' tip. The bread mixes and cup-a-soups are especially great
blessings x
Great recipes there thanks and hope you enjoyed the food it appears you did x
Oh please tell me what "spotted dick" is. I am just a crass American and laughed out loud when I read that. But please don't ask me what I think a spotted dick is.
That treacle sponge pud looks scrummy.
To Tana, don't be vulgar! :O))
I really love your recipes and the one you posted the other day [15p burgers] I am hoping to make next weekend.
But where do you get all your energy from? I am also a Head of English and never seem to have any time. I've spent all day writing a new Shakespeare scheme of work for the new spec and even then my dept will moan that they don't know what to do
Anyway I must stop moaning and celebrate the fact that my 5 week old granddaughter has just become a member of her local library - another potential reader in the family
Viv
Steamed puddings, both sweet and savoury, are indeed a very British dish. I taught the Daring Bakers how to make then a few months back and virtually no-one who had not spent time here had any idea what they were or had ever steamed anything other than veg unless they cooked asian food which has steamed buns and so forth.
My boys (7 and 3) were miming eating the spotted dick and syrup pudding off the screen!
Hi viv- as a matter of interest which spec did you choose? we've gone with wjec and won't touch shakespeare until the autumn term, when all of year 10 have taken language - nice to 'talk' to another head of english xx froogs
I noticed you said you get migraine and I thought you might like to know there is a link between migraine and eating quorn. I used to be a vegetarian for many years and a family member showed me an article about it something to do with the fungus quorn is made from. I just know as a sufferer anything is worth trying to prevent them.
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