Store-cupboard supper? What's yours?

[BroccoliSpears]

I really really really can't be bothered to go to the supermarket.

We have no fresh veg in the house, apart from a couple of onions, probably some green tinged spuds and some garlic.

Got lots of dried or canned pulses.

Frozen peas and spinach in the freezer.

Got things like rice, pasta, couscous.

Lots of herbs, spices and other 'ingredients'.

Ooh - a couple of eggs too.

What shall we eat? What's your storecupboard supper?

A good one is cooked pasta mixed with mayonnaise and cheese (if you have got them) as a base and then you can chuck anything else in - peas, sweetcorn, ham, chicken - whatever really.

morrocan type of thing? Chickpea/couscous onions fried crispy erm maybe with authentic spinach frittata ?? Sounds like yuove been rummaging in my cupboards 'bout what weve got in here.

You could do a bean and spinach and pea curry with rice.

Fried rice with peas and spinach

Bean stew with tinned veg and onions

Ours is pasta with tinned tuna and tinned sweetcorn. Maybe a bit of cheese grated over. DH loathes it - says it smells like cat food.

Have you beans?

Fry off onion, peppers, carrot, mushrooms, whatever. Chuck in assorted beans (kidney/haricot/butter/baked etc), add tin tomatoes, tom puree squirt, garlic, tons of paprika, pinch chilli, some random herbs, pinch sugar, squirt lemon juice, season vigorously and cook for unspecified period.

Voila, spicy bean stew, yum with baked tatties but could go well with rice/pasta. I'd chuck the spinach in somewhere too.

Sickeningly healthy but rather good, and tastes even better for lunch the next day .

Sorry, no fresh veg - d'oh! - use spinach instead.

Cheese and potato pie with beans.

My staple store cupboard dinners:

Chickpea tagine (ingredients: 2 cans chickpeas, 2 cans tinned tomatoes, an onion chopped, 1 tblsp cumin powder, 1 tablesp cinnamon, 1 teasp cumin seeds, a cinnamon stick, a bay leaf, a cup of water).

I also do the pasta bake thing, much like ceebee - i cook pasta and drain, bung in a handful of grated cheese and a squirt of salad cream and a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce then whatever veg I've got (stirfry or grill first) top with more grated cheese and bung under hot grill. Comfort food!

pasta with tuna and peas
pasta with slow cooked tomato sauce
pasta tossed with garlic, lemon and fresh herbs
pasta carbornara

tinnned bean salad (beans, onion, mustard and french dressing made with good quality red wine vinegar)

rice and peas (shred onions, cook slowly till soft and then up the heat to caramelise them, add spices). Meanwhile cook rice and peas and serve together

ceebee - pasta, mayonnaise and cheese? Really? Am grimacing here!

CSB - that does sounds delicious. Am now torn between greedy and lazy. Lazy is still winning.

Something Morrocan sounds like a plan. Ooh - maybe some fried spinach and pulse patties - bind with egg - serve with rice. Make up a tomatoish sauce with tinned toms... hmm

tuna with cannellini beans,anchovies and olive oil, plus spring onions and peppers if you have them - and some pitta
ds loves rice or egg noodles with peas and tuna and a dash of soy sauce

LAGabriel - that tagine sounds good. And quick.

Had forgotten I have fresh toms. Pasta and tom sauce!

I always think we've got NOTHING in the house when actually we could probably live off what we've got for days. Tell me it's not just me that does that.

Broccolispears - don't knock it until you have tried it

Oh sod it, get a chinese

Dominos pizza for us tonight

Broccoli - not, it's not just you!

supper's toast here

I have three that I can rustle up really quickly when we have nothing really left.

risotto. Chuck whatever veg you do have in a pan with rice and stock, add some italian herbs and cook for 15 mins. I usually keep long life cream in, so can add some of that, and parmasan and the kids love it.

Pasta with tomatoes, herbs, and whatever else comes to hand.

chickpea curry, chickpeas out of a tin, passata, spices and onions, serve with chapatis, or make puris if I don't have chapatis in.

Dp and dd would be thrilled if I let them have toast for supper pointy!

Chopster - what are puris and how do you make them?

give 'em toast. You can't beat it. Hot buttered. I had some last week with smoked mackerel on it. t'were ace.

crab linguine, minus chillies and parsley if really desparate.

Pesto pasta of course

pasta with a tin of tomato soup and cheese mixed into it.....dh made this once when i was ill and i thought "yuk" but it's actually ok!

Spaghetti Puttanesca - spaghetti (or other pasta) with sauce made from tin of tomatoes (or jar of tomato sauce) with tin of sardines, half tin of anchovies, a few capers and a few black olives from a jar chopped, garlic if you have it. Cheap and healthy too.

puris are small puffed up breads. They are really easy to make, it's jsut flour (chapati, or half wholemeal, half white), salt and water to make a dough that springs back when it is pressed. Leave the dough to rest while you make the curry, and then roll them out into 6" circles, and deep fry on each side to the count of three, pressing down lightly with a spatula so that they puff up into big flakey balls. We like to add turmeric and chilli to the mix too, and they are also great in the morning for breakfast with indian tea.

Alternately, and more healthily, you can use the same mixture to make parathas, and do them in a flat frying pan and just drizzle a little oil around it and fry til cooked. These are nice with chopped spring onion mixed in.