October week

So the children are off for October week and they are staying with me all week. Bit straped for cash this month so I've planned a week of great meals for only £55. That's lunch, dinner and dessert costing £5.93 per day for three people....not bad Ashley!

Menu for the week:

Dinner
Corned beef and braised vegetables
Corned beef hash (made with the left overs from the corned beef)
Fish cakes, broccoli, leeks & carrots
Salmon with a creamy spinach & lemon thyme sauce with home made garlic flat bread
Chicken & green bean penne pasta
Breaded Turkey escalope topped with cheese and served with braised cabbage and new potatoes
Minced beef and onion pie with broccoli, carrots and mashed potato

Lunch
Tomato soup (heinz the children will not have another tomato soup!!!)
Home made lentil soup
Scotch broth soup
Homemade ham sandwiches - (boiled ham then roasted with brown sugar & honey)
Cheese sandwiches
There will be plenty of soup left for the other days......

Dessert
Apple pie (Olivia loves this pie from tesco! only a £1)
Apple crumble
Plenty of yoghurts and fruit also
Eton mess made with homemade meringue

Todays dinner is going to be the Corned beef :

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo piece of top side
• 1 onion peeled and roughly chopped
• 3 leek tops cleaned and chopped roughly
• 1 carrot chopped
• 2 bay leaf
• 4 black peppercorns
• Large pinch of special steak seasoning (schwartz)
• Good splash of worchestire sauce
• 3 carrots peeled and left whole
• 3 large potatoes (I've used maris piper) peeled and halved
• 1 savouy cabbage cut into wedges (12 wedges per cabbage 1 or 2 wedges per person), keep stalk on when cooking

Method:

1. Place the beef, chopped vegetables, steak seasoning and worchestire sauce in large pan and cover with water. Bring to the boil skimming off any scum. Cover and leave to simmer for 2½-3 hours, until the beef is tender, topping up the water now and then if necessary.
2. Add the carrots and potatoes bring back to the boil. Simmer for about 10 minutes. Then add the cabbage and simmer for another 5 minutes.
3. Take the beef out and carve across the grain as it will keep the beef in one peice and feel easier when carving. Arrange the vegetables and potatoes on the plate with the beef. The cooking stock can be thickened if you wish but to be honest just use the stock as is for the gravy.....

Thats dinner number 1...

Dessert tonight will be apple pie so no cooking just warm up and serve.

Tomorrow mornings breakfast will be scotch pancakes and syrup...lovely- recipe tomorrow morning.

Bonus material......Lentil soup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_kCgRv8qE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Have a good day people :)