Posie’s Place

Since we’re all still in the hold of this Global recession everywhere you look there are recipes for using up leftovers and ideas and tips on how to get the most for your money.

A new show which has been very popular on the BBC recently is Economy Gastronomy. It features money saving ideas to allow families to cook tasty, healthy and nutritious food on a budget.

One of the main cornerstones of Econonmy Gastronomy is to have a bedrock recipe which you use as the basis to create multiple meals for the week.

Our bedrock recipe this week was a roast chicken  and in order to use up the leftover roast chicken Arruzo con Pollo was the next recipe in the chain.   The recipe said it serves 4 but it’s 4 huge portions so I would say it feeds 6.

Here’s the recipe, enjoy!  We certainly did.

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Stewart quite fancied some paella after I made Natalie’s Paella recipe the other night the only problem is – he doesn’t like seafood at all. I thought the perfect combination was chicken and chorizo instead and it was really delicious! The recipe is pretty much the same as the recipe I posted the other night (see the link above for Natalie’s Paella recipe) but this time I made the following changes:

I chopped two store bought roast chicken breasts and used this in place of the prawns.  Since my last paella was a little wet I decided to use much less stock and so I only used 600ml of vegetable stock with 150g paella rice.

After cooking for 20 minutes I added the frozen peas stirred well and replaced the lid and turned the heat way down to almost nothing to allow the rest of the stock to be absorbed by the rice and the peas to cook.
Complete sucess!!

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As I said in my post before I went to Glasgow my best friend Natalie is an excellent cook!! Natalie had prepared all of the ingredients to make Paella for my arrival on Thursday but after all the messing around due to my baggage problems we didn’t get back to her house until almost 10pm, we decided to put the paella on hold until Friday night and went for fish suppers on Thursday (very good choice!).

After shopping all day at Braehead shopping center in order that I had some clothes etc and visiting my little grandmother (she’s 84 in January!!) we returned to the flat and Natalie whipped up the most delicious paella. I had a real hankering for it again this week and so I asked Nat to share her recipe. I should have taken some photographs of Natalie’s masterpiece when it was dished up but I was too late and only thought of it after I had already polished off my plate and her and Gareth’s was almost finished but here is what the remained of Natalie’s Paella by the time I got my camera out!

I hope my attempt did Natalie’s version justice! Next time I will buy chorizo from the Spanish deli around the corner and will also use raw prawns instead of pre-cooked.

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Well I’ve made it, my final day of vegetarian week and I must admit I’ve really enjoyed it!! I may make this a regular occurance.

I was in the mood for eggs for breakfast, there was some veg leftover in the fridge which needed used up or would have to go so I thought I would combine them to make a tortilla for breakfast.

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Just in case you missed my blog swap posting over at Meeta’s place here is the recipe I posted.

Since the whole of Europe has been sweltering under a heatwave for the past couple of weeks, the theme for the Monthly Mingle is very appropriately “Beat The Heat”, in addition we decided to use this theme for our blog swap.

I got my thinking cap on and and tried to identify which ingredients really screamed summer sun to me. I didn’t have far to look for inspiration. My tomato plants on the balcony are in full bloom and within the next couple of weeks I will have a glut of tomatoes on my hands. What can be more summery than tomatoes?

So now I had my main ingredient in mind, what would help “Beat The Heat” ?

Gazpacho!! Delicious chilled soup of tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, here goes..

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When shopping other day I managed to pick up a couple of tapas essentials and this prompted me to try a new recipe this evening. I have slightly adapted in so far as I like to roast the potatoes in the oven in olive oil instead of butter.

PATATAS BRAVAS II

(slightly adadpted) from Tapas – Delicious snacks from Spain by Adrian Lissen and Sara Cleary

INGREDIENTS

• 1 Onion, chopped (I used a red onion)
• 2tbsp Olive oil
• 1 Bay leaf
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