Gone-With-the-Wind Stew

Hello! :D This is SilverDawn, here with a post on Gone-With-the-Wind Stew. 

That may sound odd, but it basically means a stew made from whatever is left in your cupboards and refrigerator. Here are some suggestions of what you can use in your stew:

• Tomatoes
• Tuna, sardines, or some similar fish
• Leftover pasta
• Lentils
• Leftover potato
• Kidney beans
• Green beans
• Baked beans
• Chickpeas
• Leftover rice
• Red/green/yellow/orange pepper
• Broccoli
• Peas
• Onion

The ingredients are optional though, except the tomatoes which are essential. You only need about three of the ingredients mentioned above, or of your own ingredients. This recipe is pescetarian, but if you want to add chicken or beef or some other meat then you can. Here are the instructions!

Start by chopping your vegetables (and "vegetables"*). 

Once you have done that, put them in a saucepan, and with the help of a grown-up put them on a low heat. As they cook, put in your other ingredients and stir well. Also put in a tablespoonful of ready-made tomato or vegetable soup, and stir it in. Do not let the stew stick to the bottom of the saucepan.

Once it looks like stew (I cannot show a photo as I don't know what ingredients you'll be using) then it's ready! You may have to heat it up a little.

Once it's finished, serve with bread and butter. Enjoy! :D


* = Some fruit (such as tomatoes and peppers) are called vegetables when they are really fruit. All fruit have seeds in them, whereas vegetables don't. ^.^

Chicken Soup

Hello! In my family, we are vegetarians, so we don't eat meat - so I will post a recipe I found on a different website as Springclaw requested a post on chicken soup.

INGREDIENTS TO SERVE 6

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• 2 onions, peeled and sliced
• 2 sticks celery, finely chopped
• 2 carrots, peeled and finely diced
• 25g/2oz plain flour
• 1.2 litres/2 pints chicken stock
• 450g/1lb cooked chicken, skinned and shredded
• 1 tbsp freshly chopped parsley

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

METHOD

Gently fry the onions, celery, and carrots in a large pan over a medium heat until they start to soften. 

Stir in the flour and cook for two minutes. Add the chicken stock and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring as you do so. Season with salt and pepper, and then reduce the heat and let it simmer for ten minutes, until the vegetables are tender. 

Add the cooked chicken and heat the soup so it's the right temperature. Stir in the parsley to serve. 

I hope this recipe is what you were looking for, Springclaw! And I must say as I was writing it I wished I could eat it - but I won't stop being a vegetarian. 

By the way, talking of vegetarians, I'll be posting some vegetarian cooking soon. :)

Kale Chips

I know what you are thinking, "KALE CHIPS?!?" But trust me, they are GOOOOOOOOD!! Here's what you need:

• Kale
• Seasoning (salt)
• Pan
• Oven

Okay, seems simple right? Yep! This is super simple. You rip the kale into pieces (can't really explain how big, but they shrivel up when you cook them), then put them on the pan. Then put them in the oven for about 10-15 minutes, but keep and eye on them so that they don't burn. Oh yeah! I forgot, put the salt on before you cook them!! XD

 

That's kinda what they will look like

Then, if you want to save them after just put them in  a ziplock bag in the fridge! They are SUPER healthy and YUMMY!!!!!! 

Mozzarella Salad

Hello! This is Dawn, and I'm posting on mozzerella salad. It's really easy, and yummy! :D

You will need...

Mozzarella!

Tomatoes!

Basil!

And olive oil!

Cut the mozzarella into chunks, and put them on a dish. Then cut the tomatoes into eighths and put them in. Add a few drops of olive oil, and then put the basil leaves on top. 

And you're done!

So easy, yet scrumptious and healthy!

Banana thingy

Meep!
I'm finally posting! :3

I don't know what this thingy is called, but it's one of my two favourite foods :3 and it's very simple!

Ingredients:

Bread

Bananas

Cheese

Ketchup

Utensils:

Oven

Knife

Method:

1. Get a slice of bread, and spread a thick layer of ketchup on it. Put it to the side. (Do several pieces.)

 

2. Cut the banana into small round pieces and then place each bit on top of the ketchup.

  

3. Then, get a large thin piece of cheese (havarti and cheddar are good options) and place it over the bread-ketchup-banana.

 

4. Put it in the oven and wait until the bread is toasted!

 It's delicious, even though it sounds pretty odd!

(Sorry I don't have a pic of the finished result >.<

~Kinyonga

All picture credits go to their original owners.

Scrambled Eggs - very easy!

Scrambled eggs are probably the easiest recipe out there! You can make a full meal out of just scrambled eggs, toast, and some vegetables! Here's how to make scrambled eggs!

INGREDIENTS

(serves four)

• Eight eggs
• Several tablespoonfuls of milk
• A teaspoonful of cumin seeds (optional)
• A small chunk of cheese (optional)

METHOD

Whisk the eggs in a bowl until the yolk and the white combine completely. Add the milk and the cumin, and then pour into a saucepan. While it heats, keep stirring to make sure that it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Once it's beginning to look normal (see finished picture), add the cheese. Be careful not to cook for too long. Serve it once it looks like this:

Then, you can put it on some buttered toast, with some lettuce, and you've got a good meal! :)

Credit for the photos (off Google again) goes to their respectful owners. 

Pancakes

Ingredients:
 500g flour

6 eggs

Milk

Butter

Utensils:

 Whisk

Bowl

Spoon

Frying pan

Method:

1. Put five of the six eggs in the bowl, along with the flour.

2. Mix well, with an electric whisk preferably - it's much faster.

3. Then add about two tablespoons of milk.

4. Next put the last egg in...

Egg yolk!

5. Then get out some butter, and put it in the microwave for about thirty seconds.

6. Pour the butter into the mixture, and add some more milk.
(Be careful - the the whisk can get stuck in the mixture!)

You may have to scrape it off with a spoon...

7. By now it should look more liquid.

  

Just an other whisk...

Or two...

8. Great! Now put it in the fridge for about an hour to allow it to cool and set.

9. Heat up the stove and place a frying pan on it.

10. Place some butter in the frying pan and wait for it to melt.
The melting may take a little while the first time, but then speeds up.

11. Pour in the pancake batter!

Meep!

12. Flip the pancake so each side gets cooked! (Or, if you're feeling less brave, just use a spatula and turn it over.)

13. It should look like this when it's cooked!

 Brilliant! Place the pancake in the oven while the others are being cooked.

YUM!

*sigh* I could eat a gazillion of those...

Bye for now!

~Kinyonga