These are my Beanie Balls-or Vegan meatballs if you must. I’ve made them today ready for the freezer which is why they are in cake tins. My mix made 16. These are rather delicate so best to handle frozen rather than thawed. Ingredients: 1 tin kidney beans drained 1 teaspoon garlic granules A sprinkle of
Let’s talk sugar! There are so many types out there both white and brown not even mentioning the “fancy” ones. Thinking of what is used most. Granulated, Caster, Icing, Muscovado, Demerara, Soft Brown, Dark Brown, and the list goes on. I am just going to focus on white sugar though. I only buy one type
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I’ve been making more Vegetarian dishes recently and I am going back to what I cooked within the 1970s and ’80s which is Beans and Pulses and T.V.P. T.V.P. is Textured Vegetable Protein and comes in many forms. Mostly today it is ready prepared and sold as Veggie mince. This is often frozen and can
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People often ask if they can make rice pudding without the use of an oven. The answer is a simple Yes. The real difference is that this pudding won’t have any skin on the top so if you actually don’t like the skin anyway this is definitely for you. Ingredeints 200g pudding rice/arborio rice/short grain
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This may seem a strange idea but I have a surplus of tinned spaghetti of which I am not fond. I wanted to find a way to use it up and it suddenly occurred to me that it is just a tomato sauce with pasta made from wheat flour. Wheat flour is a great thickener
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Submitted by: Miki Knight Soaking dried beans overnight in bulk and cooking the next day will save time and money. I soak various beans overnight, pinto, black turtle, cannelloni, haricot, chickpeas, soya beans etc Cook next day times vary between 60 n 90 mins, read packs… I always do a hard boil for 10 mins
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Submitted by: Sarah-Jane Handley Chickens are often on offer and even full price are a very cheap source of protein. Here are some ideas using whole chickens cut into portions. 5 whole chickens cut up and marinated up to cook tomorrow. A big pot of stock bubbling away. I paid £12.50 for the chicken. 10
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I made a white sauce a different way today as I wanted to cut back on dairy. This is for vegetarian lasagne. Ingredients 1 can butter beans -use beans and liquid A little plant milk if required About a tablespoon or so of cornflour A little salt and pepper to taste 1 or 2 teaspoons
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Some very easy to make tortillas-far nicer than anything you can buy in a packet. You have some extra protein in the gram flour also. Ingredients 120g gram flour 60g plain flour 60g spinach 270g water Pinch of salt and pepper Method I added in a bit more spinach around 80g in total, a little
Since going vegan I have really missed sandwich spread. I had a go at making my own today and very good it was too! I didn’t measure out so just went with it…..Method Diced carrot, onion, celery and cabbage, softened slightly in the microwave for under 1 min on high Diced pickled cornichons Frozen red
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