Weaver’s Sausage Sensation

Weaver’s Sausage Sensation.

 

2 large carrots,

1 large parsnip,

1 large potato,

1 large onion,

1 large turnip (white).

1 pint of vegetable stock

4 sausages cut into chunks (Linda McCartney red onion and rosemary)

Half a savoy cabbage -  shredded

Handful of runner beans topped, tailed and cut into pieces,

Tin of chopped tomatoes

Tin of cannelini beans,

Put carrot, parsnip, potato, onion and turnip into large casserole.

Add vegetable stock (made with a cube) to cover and cook in the oven for three quarters of an hour until the vegetables are cooked.

Take  out of the oven and add –sausages, cabbage, runner beans, chopped tomatoes and cannelini beans,

Cook for another half hour.  

Serve in large soup bowls.

Heinz Tomato Soup and other crowd pleasers!

Tin of tuna, 2 grated carrots, 2 beaten eggs, salt & pepper, microwave 3 minutes. Awesome breakfast/brunch.

1 or 2 tins of Tomatoes depending on taste - experiment?
1 tin of carrots
1 tin of Baked Beans
1 oxo
1 large or 4 small pickled onions!!!!!!!!!
1/2 pt of water.

 Blend.  Throw in pan, bring to boil, and thats it and its gorgeous. True comfort food.

We all have food memories from our childhood.

Nana Shumacher’s soup. My nana's family came to UK at the outset of the 1st World War. Her grandad was a clockmaker and his skills were sought after by Hitler's gang ie toolmaking shkills which would have been utilised for warfare ie ammunition to be used against other countries including UK. He escaped from Germany and had a clock business in York. Nana met her future husband, my grandad and moved to Grangetown where he worked in the Steelworks. Nana was always conscious of frugal living and was keen to cook good nutricious food within a tight budget especially with 5 children to feed. My cooking has been influenced by nana who passed her love and passion for cooking to her 3 daughters. Auntie Dot - who was an avid home cook and who looked after me whilst mum worked . Auntie Joan was a great baker too. Mum could cook a good dinner. It was always fun at Christmas when all 3 of them would be in the kitchen together it was only a matter of time before the sparks started to fly often over the thickness of the gravy, the timing of the sprouts or if it was time to put the yorkshire puddings in! I still have the jug the yorkshire pudding mixture was made and whilst it is chipped and repaired I could never part with it. So this is nana Schumacher's soup recipe. Always receives compliments 

Nana Schumacher's soup.

Basic stock of pease pudding, boiling water, and vegetable stock cubes.

Onions

Potatoes

Carrots

Peas

Leeks

Any left over cooked vegetables.

Using a large bowl blend the pease pudding with boiling water until a suitable consistency.

Blend dissolve stock cubes with boiling water. Add to pease pudding mixture in large pan.

Prepare vegetables and cook for 15-20 minutes. Add to pan – depending on thickness add more water if required.

Rice Pudding (My version)

One thing which never ceases to amaze me at Slimming World is the originality and strangeness of some of the recipes. I wonder who on earth puts some of the ingredients together.....so I was experimenting with a Rice Pudding recipe - using cream soda! One of the gals had tried it out and thought it was too sweet and sickly - so I tried my own take on it, but using lemonade instead of cream soda. I didn't have any pudding rice so tried long grain rice. Basically I put some rice into a microwave dish and topped up with a can of diet lemonade. Microwaved on full power for 10 minutes and checked to see the lemonade had not dried up. I added another can and microwaved for a further 10 minutes then left to stand for 10 minutes then stirred in a tablespoon of crème fraiche. Tasted absolutely gorgeous. Comfort food in a matter of minutes. Tip - use a large microwave dish as the lemonade rises a lot!