The Brexit Cupboard: Recipe Edition

[PerverseConverse]

Hi everyone,

I'm really pleased that so many of us are forward planning/purchasing as a buffer in the event of No Deal and thought it would be good to share recipes we can make with our store cupboard essentials. Recipes that are based on long life or shelf stable items that can have fresh or frozen ingredients added as available.

Here's my basic pasta sauce recipe:

I tin chopped tomatoes or carton/jar passata
1 tablespoon tomato purée
1 teaspoon garlic purée (or to taste)
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried parsley
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 teaspoon sugar

You can add chilli flakes or paste to spice it up and red wine to make it richer.

For extra nutrition roast some peppers and courgettes and onions and add at the end. Simply blend together with a hand blender. It's the only way I can get my children to eat veg with pasta.


I use alone or add quorn mince (we are veggie) and too with plenty of grated cheddar. It's a cheap, quick and easy meal.

[BlackeyedGruesome]

Trouble will be finding stuff the children will eat, though if I eat different things I can save their favourites for them.

[BlackeyedGruesome]

Would dried milk make a sauce?

If so, flour oil dried milk sauce, pasta and tinned veg. Peas sweetcorn, green beans and mushrooms might be good. Though frozen veg would work too.

Must experiment

[BlackeyedGruesome]

Also I remember some concoction I made with mushroom soup sweetcorn and rice when I was a student.

[Unescorted]

Chorizo (any long life smoked sausage), olives (optional), beans and tomato - fry the chorizo & onion. throw in garlic add tin of beans (butter beans work really well). Add splash of vinegar (Sherry works best but any is an ok substitute) & pinch of sugar. Add tomato (tinned or fresh) , smoked paprika & chilli (both optional). You can also throw in greens or spinach if you want. Serve with rice, cous cous, pasta or spuds. Can also be used for flat bread filling.

Kedgeree - use the long life smoked mackerel from Aldi. We also sub in green lentils instead of rice to mix it up a bit. Leek instead of onion works well too.

Egg method for carbonara and use porcini instead of fresh mushrooms.

Derbyshire oatcakes - just sub out the milk for water & leave the oatmeal to soak overnight

Tuna Mornay - white sauce add tuna & cheese (if you have any) pour over short pasta. Eat as is or bake in the oven.

Just a cooking without much energy tip - for a substitute slow cooker use a cool box /bag and fleece blankets. Cook the meal in the pot to the point everything is boiling. Wrap the pot in the fleece blankets and shove in the coolbox/ bag. leave for several hours as if it was a slow cooker.

[cloudtree]

If using soup as a sauce, the condensed ones work best IMO (remembered from student days many decades ago!)

[cloudtree]

they also work for pie filling

[cloudtree]

Orzo pasta also very good for throwing into tinned soup to bulk it up and turn it into a more filling meal.

[Ophiophagus]

I dont think this thread is very helpful to be honest.

I mean, sure, these recipes will all be great for the 3 weeks of food you have, but what then?

These are the kind of things you will actually need to know:

www.confused.com/car-insurance/roadkill/roadkill-recipes

[cloudtree]

. I'm hoping to avoid roadkill stew. The cats often bring us a squirrel though, thoughtfully prepped by them biting the head off (since they like to crunch the brains).

Or else I'll have the ability to eat normal food for much longer than 3 weeks. Might be the better option.

[borntobequiet]

And what if there are petrol shortages so limited roadkill?
You need this:
www.news.com.au/technology/science/experimental-protein-reactors-produce-basic-food-from-carbon-dioxide-and-electricity/news-story/6c08578e2086fd4588bce94ddcd8d1b3

[borntobequiet]

Unless the electricity goes off, of course.

[cloudtree]

that was supposed to be a . But gin is always a good substitute in the event of the shelves being cleared of grins.

[PerverseConverse]

I saw dried vegan "eggs" in the health shop yesterday. They apparently make scrambled eggs, omelet, suitable for baking. Wonder if they'd make egg mayo?? I don't do eggs as the thought of them makes me 🤮 but vegan alternatives might be ok for emergencies.

[Ophiophagus]

Powdered eggs. Staple food during ww2 rationing (serious point).

[BlackeyedGruesome]

There are vegan egg replacers as well for this who are allergic. Be careful to check they are the egg free ones as there may be ones with dried egg for bakers not vegan/allergies

[Apileofballyhoo]

Lots of info on chickpeas and chickpea water (aquafaba? aquafava?) as egg substitutes for baking. I think chickpea flour works too.

[elfycat]

We eat this all the time, it's about the one 'veggie' dish DH likes.

Quick Bean Chilli

1 tin tomatoes with garlic
1 tin kidney beans in chilli sauce
1 tin cannellini beans
1 tin Asda bean salad
1 packet chilli powder mix (we use colemans)

Bung in a saucepan and heat (longer makes for deeper flavour, but I've made it in the time rice cooks) serve over rice or jacket potato.

[PositivelyPERF]

I’m only commenting so I can save all those brilliant recipes. 😁

[BlackeyedGruesome]

Cottage cheese with curdled milk.

Leave milk to curdle
Put a muslin cloth or thin piece of cotton in a sieve and pour milk through material to collect the solids. Gather up material, tie the top and allow the remaining liquid to drain for about 24 hours.

Keep in fridge when done. Eat with salt and pepper.

[borntobequiet]

Hollow laughter re the cottage cheese, because that’s what we used to do with gone off milk in the early 70s, when quite poor, in a bedsit with no refrigerator.

[SusanWalker]

For sauces sachets are a good substitute. Most only need water. The creamy ones can be made with uht milk.

Or you can make a white sauce with just milk and cornflour, so no need for butter. But it's very bland.

Adding mustard to cheese sauce reduces the amount of cheese needed.

[georgedawes]

Thanks for all the recipes! I do a similar recipe to the one in the OP, often do it in the slow cooker as it does brilliantly in there. I add a bit of wine to the sauce too if I have any opened.

@TheElementsSong can I ask where you buy frozen herbs? I always kill the fresh ones we have so it would be great to have some. Parsley we seem to be keeping alive so far, but that's it!

[PestymcPestFace]

Moron proof muffins.
Can cope with any liquid: milk, juice, water with a splash of lemon or booze. Plus any flavour bits: fruit (fresh or dried), nuts chocolate. Don't seem to mind gluten free flour either. Eggs can come out of the freezer.

In bowl one:
2 cups flour
1 cup oats
half to two thirds of a cup sugar
2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 cup of bits

mix

In bowl 2:
half to two thirds of a cup of oil
2 eggs
1 cup liquid (milk or juice and water mixed a bit of alcohol is ok)

mix

stir the wet ingredients into the dry and mix a brief mix. Divide evenly between 12 muffin cases.
bake at gas mk 5 for 24 mins

This mornings batch hand one cup of GF oats, one cup GF flour and one cup of mixed chestnut flour, ground almonds and cocoa. Plus used olive oil and only half a cup of chopped chocolate, coz I was feeling mean and could not be bothered to open another bar.

Really quick and easy to make, plus high on the feel good factor.

[BlackeyedGruesome]

The cottage cheese is my grandmother's recipe from before the war.

[TheElementsSong]

@georgedawes

I buy Waitrose frozen herbs that come in resealable bags. They have parsley, basil, dill, coriander (and possibly others) and also chopped chilli, garlic and ginger. In years past I have also bought Knorr branded ones that came in little boxes.