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Quick n Easy "Bring a dish" ideas for lunch please!

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Haribolicious · 16/01/2009 09:38

Have a baby shower lunch at work next week but am rubbish in the kitchen so have no ideas! Would appreciate something that is easy to put together but savoury and preferably eaten cold as I have to take it into work.
Unless I get some help from you lovely ladies, it will be fruit salad

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Cies · 16/01/2009 09:47

What about some sort of salad.

A nice coleslaw? Homemade it's actually nice

O I do a really nice salad of shredded red cabbage, shredded carrot, shredded apple and raisins with a very vinegary dressing. It actually improves from sitting in the dressing for a couple of hours, so you would be fine to make it the night before and take it in for lunch.

Otherwise you could go down the quiche / tart /sausage roll route. Where frankly if you can't be arsed to cook don't like cooking you can buy really good ones quite cheaply.

Gorionine · 16/01/2009 09:55

little cheese and spinach quiches?

Haribolicious · 16/01/2009 10:17

Can you post a recipe for the quiches please Gorionine? Is it acceptable to cheat a little and buy the pastry cases or I could just get ready-made pastry actually
I can be arsed cooking Cies(!) and I do like to cook but I'm just not very good...I need a recipe to follow - I'm not very adventurous and am not confident enough to adapt recipes and add my own twist. I want to make something and don't want to cop out totally and buy something.

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TheDevilWearsPrimark · 16/01/2009 10:21

puff pastry layered with spinach, ricotta , black pepper and finely chopped fried onion.

Bake in a big slab, cut into squares and serve with greek youghurt.

OhBling · 16/01/2009 10:43

I second the salad idea - I do a lovely rocket, blue cheese and fig salad with a dressing made of sherry/wine vinegar and olive oil.

Gorionine · 16/01/2009 10:47

I make my own shortcrust but for today I let you of if you buy some.

Pastry

250 gr plain flour
1 flat tsp of salt
125 gr of butter or margarine
Water

all in one bowl, rub fat in flour until it feels sandy, add a bit of water slowly, until you reach dough consistency

preheat the oven to 240 degrees centigrade

filling for cheese ones

I do not really have measures for that because I usually just play it by ear:

grate some cheddar cheese
Make a "liason2 with one egg, abit of milk, salt pepper and ground nutmg to taste.

Method
roll dough to about 1 or 2 mm cut round shapes with biscuit cutter ( a glass works as well if you don't have cutters)

grease a muffin tin and flour it, put the cut pastry in add some of the grated cheese and a teaspoon of the liaison (usually enough but you will see) do not fill too much as the filling tends to swell when in the oven)
cook in oven until smelling lovely and looks golden brown.

for the spinach ones I make a bechamel (I think it is the equivalent of white sauce)

a bit of oil in a pan, let heat, add about 1 heaped tbsp of flour,

when flour and oil are "blending, add some milk, depending on what qtty you want carry on mixin it all until the milk thickens. At that stage I add chopped frozen spinach and leave on a low heat stove until spinach defrost. When the mixture looks ready, add some grated cheese, salt pepper, nutmeg to tast and procede ad before with the dough.

you do not need a liaison for the spinach one.

I am really sorry not to be able to give more precise measurements but I hardly ever weigh nything.

Haribolicious · 16/01/2009 11:34

Fab - I will have a trial run this w/end!!
I also like the sound of the puff pastry layered with spinach and ricotta TDWP can you post the recipe/method please?
Salads are good but thinking that they won't be as easy to eat standing up whereas quiche can be cut and eaten by hand if necessary!
Thanks everyone!

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