Help me please - your family recipes

[peckarollover]

Im just about to start compiling a recipe folder for my childminding business.

I want to be able to show the parents the kind of ingredients Im using and the meals I provide.

It will also be handy for me when Im planning meals for the week.

Could you post with recipe name, ingredients and method

I will be forever grateful!

Every day meals suitable for kids of all ages (and possibly adults too) would be great.

I just spotted this while feeling huge relief that my ds3, who has a horrible snotty cold/cough, has just eaten a huge lunch and gone off to sleep peacefully for the first time in ages! I was thinking of calling it Lucky Chicken Pie, but I'm delirious with lack of sleep myself, so perhaps you could call it herby chicken pie instead

So here goes: quantities are vague because you may want to make one large pie or several smaller ones in individual dishes
Take some left over roast chicken (or gently poach a couple of chicken breasts in water flavoured with a peeled onion cut in half, and a bayleaf). if poaching, remove chicken from liquid and cool. Keep liquid. Cut chicken into small pieces; meanwhile start to make a white sauce, using butter, flour and milk. If available, mix the milk with some of the poaching liquid, to a consistency you like the look of. Depending on the appetites of your charges and thier nutritional needs, you could add cream to the sauce too. Peel and chop some potatoes, boil and mash. When white sauce is ready, add chopped chicken, some frozen peas(or other similar sized vegetables), about a tablespoon of finely chopped tarragon. Stir to mix. Pour this mixture into ovenproof dish(es), top with mashed potato and heat through in a preheated oven (200c/fan 180c)until potato begins to go crispy. If using individual bowls, put a higher ratio of sauce to potato to stop it going too dry.

Good luck; my little man (22m)ate 2 large bowlfuls!

tuna baked pots are a real fave in my house: mix up 1 tin tuna with a chopped shallot or small onion, a red pepper, some salad leaves and a bit of dressing ( as we don't really like mayonnaise), also 1 small tin sweetcorn if you like. Serve with baked potatoes....yummy! the quantity I have just described feeds 2 hungry adults or probably 4 kiddies.

ps that should be one LARGE tin tuna!

PeckaI am doing a cookbook fundraisersee my thread and I am sure that the Mums would not mind if you used them--I will be putting them in my book here in the US. How are you today? PC ok now?

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Thank you Sally!!!!