Mac and cheese etc

Comfort food is the order of the day - but so is getting some vitamins as well as the carbs and protein - so I ramped up mac n cheese with some vegetables.  It didn't take any longer, and was delicious.

Cauliflower

Mushrooms

Soya milk

Cornflour

Macaroni

Cheddar cheese

Peas

Tomatoes

1.  Chop cauliflower into florets, place in steamer part of steamer pan.  Add a good handful of sliced mushrooms.

2.  Grate quit a lot of cheddar cheese.

3.  Put steamer pan on top of pan of water, heat until boiling.

4.  Add pasta to water, stir once, and replace cauliflower pan above it.

5.  Heat soya milk until simmering, then add slaked cornflour to make a sauce, as it thickens add grated cheese, stir until all melted - season with salt and pepper.

6.  Boil pasta for 10-12 minutes, until it is nearly done. stir occasionally to make sure it's not sticking together.

6.  Add frozen peas to steaming veg.

7.  Slice tomatoes.

8.  In a baking dish add steamed veg and drained cooked pasta, add sliced tomatoes.

9.  Pour on cheese sauce.

10.  Bake for 20 minutes or so.

11. Serve, scoff

Sausage casserole with cheesy dumplings

 

Oh my word.  It's been a few days of cold rain and biting winds.  And, we have no potatoes ... so today - sausage casserole with cheesy dumplings!  Gorgeously comforting - but it gets some veg into the veg dodger too.

olive oil

red onion

garlic

Sausages

Carrots

Swede

Stock

Butter beans

Tin of tomatoes

SR flour

Butter

paprika

mixed herbs

baking powder

Cheese

Yogurt

1.  Chop red onion in slices, sautee in olive oil.

2.  Add sausages and brown on most sides (ie... keep moving them around to get a bit of colour, but don't get neurotic, there is plenty of time for them to cook.)

3.  Peel carrots and swede, chop into bit sized pieces and chuck into the pot.  Add crushed garlic.

4.  Add about a pint of stock and simmer for a few minutes.

5.  Add butter beans, a tin of tomatoes and some water, keep simmering.

6.  Let it simmer for an hour - add more water/stock if it's getting dry.

7.  Make the dumplings.  Rub butter into flour until it resembles breadcrumbs, sprinkle on a teaspoon of baking powder to help the dumplings lift.  Season and add mixed herbs and a good pinch of paprika.

8.    When the casserole is 20 minutes from finished shape the dumplings by adding the grated cheese and a spoonful of yogurt - flour your hands and roll the mix into balls and drop onto the top of the casserole.

9.  Simmer for 20 more minutes.

10.  Serve, scoff

Camping breakfast

 

Left KitchenFairies HQ for a short camping break - so cheese dreams and baked beans for breakfast.  Easy, but delicious.

Olive oil

Butter

Sliced bread

Cheddar cheese

Eggs

Baked beans

1.  Butter bread, make sandwiches with sliced cheese.  Cut into quarters.

2.  Whisk eggs, dunk sandwiches into eggs, seal on all sides.

3.  Fry cheese dreams in olive oil and butter.   Turn over and cook on the other side.

4.  Stack cheese dreams to make room for the beans, add beans and heat through.

5.  Serve, scoff ... don't laugh, it was fab and very welcome.

National Pie Week: Cheese and onion (gf) pie

Look at 'em go!  There was no stopping them diving into today's cheese and onion pie - for day 1 of national pie week.  The pastry was gluten free so that, for once, we could all share the same dinner - the gluten intolerant, the veg dodger and the veggie … oops, we lactose intolerant decided we would "pay the price" rather than miss out on the cheese pie.

Baby roast potatoes
Steamed carrots and cabbage
Baked beans

… and cheese and onion pie

Pastry

Plain flour
Salt
Butter/ butter substitute
Greek yogurt
Cold water
Soya milk (or dairy milk)

The filling

Onions, sliced
Grated cheese

It's dead easy really.

1.  Make the pastry by rubbing the fat into the seasoned flour, until it resembles breadcrumbs.  If it's too floury, add more cold butter.  If it's too sticky add a little more flour.
2.  To the "breadcrumbs" add a spoonful of greek yogurt and a splash of cold water.  Form into a dough.  Don't handle too much, it makes it go really hard.
3.  Chill for half an hour.
4.  Cut potatoes into chunks, roast in olive oil and a sprinkle of salt for 1 hour.
5.  Prep veg, put on top of a steamed.
6.  Slice onions, grate cheese.
7.  Roll out half the pastry to form the bottom of the pie.  With gf I find it easier to roll onto baking parchment, and then flip over onto the pie dish.  Often you have to neaten out the edges, and mend small breaks by smushing the pastry together.
8.  Spread a little flour in the bottom of the pie - just to stop melted cheese seeping into the bottom.
9.  Starting with a layer of cheese - layer up the pie filling cheese, onion, cheese, onion ending on cheese.
10.  Top with the other half of the pastry, rolled out.  Crimp the edges with a fork, slash the top a little to let the steam out, glaze with soya (or dairy) milk.  Bake for 30-40 minutes at 180.
11.  Turn the heat on under the vegetables and let them steam.
12.  Pop the beans into the oven to heat through.
13.  Serve, scoff … seconds all round.

Cheese and onion pie - gluten free! ta dah!

Once again we were in need of comfort food - and you can't beat pie, chips and beans … the pie needed to be gluten free, and the chips were baby roasties - the beans came out of a tin.  Altogether delicious - totally hit the spot!  The veg dodger didn't complain about lack of meat once.

Gluten free pastry is incredibly crumbly, so roll it out on greaseproof paper to transfer to pie dish and the top of the pie.  Also, be prepared to patch up cracks!

I am lactose intolerant, but know the price I have to pay for cheese … which is why I use soya milk to glaze and seal.

Gluten free flour
Soya spread (or butter)
Salt
Natural yogurt
Dijon mustard
Potatoes
Olive oil
Onions
Cheese (I used cheddar, but Cheshire and Lancashire or a mixture works well too)
Baked beans

1.  Rub the fat into the flour, with a pinch of salt, until it resembles breadcrumbs.  Stir in a spoonful of natural yogurt, a teaspoonful of Dijon mustard and a splash of very cold water.  Mix until it starts coming together in a ball - add a drop more water if it needs it, more flour if it has got sticky.  When it comes together as a ball knead it gently until it is a convincing "ball".  Do not try to knead it much - the paste is very fragile, as it has no gluten which would normally give some elasticity.  Wrap with reusable sandwich wrap/cling film and pop in the fridge for 30 minutes.
2.  Slice onions into half rings, toss them about so they separate.
3.  Grate the cheese.
4.  Cut potatoes into cubes and toss in olive oil, sprinkle with salt.  Roast for 1 hour.
5.  Roll half the pastry onto greaseproof paper, lightly dusted with flour.  Transfer pastry to a greased pie dish,  patch little broken bits where necessary.
6.  Spread a little flour in the bottom of the pastry case (to help prevent the soggy bottom) - add layers of cheese and onions.
7.  Roll out the lid onto greaseproof paper ducted lightly with flour.  Brush a little soya milk around the edge of the base pastry.  Transfer the lid onto the pie - I held it over the top and did a speedy flip over - patch up the gaps and neaten the edge.  Brush the top with soya milk.  Bake for about 40 minutes.
8.  Put beans in oven proof dish and pop in the oven with everything else, to heat through.
9.  Serve, scoff

Cheese souffle

We have introduced film night to Kitchenfairies entertainment, and, because I can't resist a food ritual I have decided to match the food to the film.  Tonight it was "The Bucket List" - so I asked for bucket list food suggestions.  One of these was cheese soufflé - check here for the others.

Souffle is notoriously easy to muck up - but if you make sure the cheese sauce is nearly cold before mixing in the eggs, and fold the egg whites in gently, and NEVER open the oven door, then it is achievable.


Soya milk  (about 500ml)
Cornflour
Gouda  (about 100g)
Cheddar  (about 100g)
Parmesan  (about 30g)
butter
4 eggs, separated

1.  Make the cheese sauce by heating the soya milk, slaking the cornflour in a little water and mixing in.  Simmer the sauce, whisking, until it has thickened.  Add grated cheese and stir until melted.  Set aside.
2.  Wait for the cheese sauce to cool, vigorously whisk in any skin which has formed on the top.
3.  Whisk egg yolks until they go a little creamy, stir into the cheese sauce.
4.  Whisk egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
5.  Butter an oven (or soufflé) dish.
6.  Fold the egg whites into the sauce mix.  Start by folding in a spoonful, quite quickly, with a metal spoon to loosen the sauce mixture.  Then fold the rest of the egg whites in, gently, until there are no blobs of white left.
7.  Bake at 180 for 30 minutes.
8.  Serve, scoff, gloat

Leftovers pies ...

I don't know about you, but we always overstock for Christmas … so today was about using as much as poss of the leftovers from the festivities, to make way for the new veg box etc tomorrow.

I didn't want to just resort to big bowls of "whatever" as it was also first week back at work and very cold, so some comfort was needed.

We had left over roast chicken and roast potatoes … the ends of two punnets of mushrooms (chestnut and shitake), a bag of tarragon, and some emmental.  We also had the veg dodger and the veggie, so needed tasty food to suit all needs.

Olive oil
Onions
Garlic
Mushrooms
Cornflour
Soya milk
Tarragon
Chicken (cooked and stripped)
Butter beans (tin)
Emmental (or other melty cheese)
Roast (or cooked another way) potatoes
Carrots
Courgettes
Cornmeal
Italian seasoning (herbs and a pinch of chili)
Fennel seeds
Baby Spinach
nutmeg

1.  Start the pies with the mushroom sauce which will go into both of them by sauteeing the chopped onions, crushed garlic and chopped mushrooms in olive oil.  Toss gently until the onions have softened and the mushrooms have released their water, and this has gently simmered away.
2.  Sprinkle in a tablespoonful of cornflour, stir in to coat the mushrooms, then add soya milk to make a sauce.  Stir until it boils, keep stirring and let it simmer for a minute or two as the cornflour cooks and the sauce thickens, stir in finely chopped tarragon (not too much, or it will taste medicinal).
3.  In one oven dish - empty a tin of drained and rinsed butter beans - top with half of the mushroom sauce.  Layer on emmental cheese.
4.  Chop the chicken into bite sized pieces and add to the other half of the mushroom sauce.  Mix together and transfer to an oven dish.
5.  Top both pies with sliced, cooked potato (or mash if that's what you have) … drizzle with olive oil and bake for 25 minutes or so.
6.  Mix together cornmeal, Italian seasoning and fennel seeds in a bowl.  Slice courgettes and toss in the herby mixture.
7.  Peel, chop and steam the carrots for about 15 minutes.
8.  Fry the courgette slices in a little olive oil - in batches - keep warm in a serving dish while you finish the rest.
9.  Add steamed carrots to the serving dish.
10.  Put a splash of olive oil and a small drop of water into the hot pan from steaming the carrots - add the baby spinach and put the lid on.  The residual heat will wilt the spinach.
11. Stir the spinach (put it over a low heat if necessary, to wilt it) … grate in a small pinch of nutmeg, stir in.
12.  Serve, scoff …

Vegetable frittata with roasted baby potatoes

Well Christmas cooking this year has not been well represented on KitchenFairies.  There are a number of reasons for this … KitchenFairies HQ had more then its normal number of keen cooks, so the meal prep was shared … and I don't have details of all recipes;  a number of us were struck by the lurgy, so were not on top our game; we were too greedy to wait for pics to dive into the delicious food which was put in front of us … ho hum, normal service will be resumed.

This recipe is a great one for using up all sorts of vegetables and cheese which are loitering in the fridge - and any cheese which is hanging about.  I used mainly cheddar, but also some nice soft French cheese (I have forgotten the name - it wasn't brie or camembert … but along those lines …) and a little feta.

Olive oil
Potatoes
Onions
Leeks
Garlic
Mushrooms
Red pepper
Courgette
Parsley (optional, or use a pinch of dried herbs)
Leftover cheese (see above)
Butter
Eggs
Cheddar - grated

1.  Toss the potatoes in olive oil and roast (at 180ish) for about an hour.
2.  Chop and sautee onion, leeks, garlic … in olive oil - add chopped mushrooms, pepper, courgette … and whatever else needs using up in olive oil, until almost done.  Turn of the heat.
3.  Stir bit sized chunks of leftover cheese into the mixture and top with a handful of baby spinach.  Leave to wilt.  Stir in gently after a minute or two.
4.  Butter an oven dish - transfer the veg into it when the spinach is nearly fully wilted.
5.  Whisk eggs (8 in this case) vigourously to get some air into them.  Pour onto the veg mixture - prod and shake to get the egg into all the gaps.  Top with grated cheddar and bake for about 30 minutes.
6.  Serve, scoff

Fritatta

Sunday teatime - no real plans, and the chickens have been laying, so a swoop of leftovers, and a chopping of some veg, a grating of some cheddar and this delicious thing was born.  If you have leftover potato wedges it is very, very easy - but they are optional, or you could boil and chop potatoes to add anyway.

Olive oil
onion
mushrooms
red pepper
frozen peas
cold leftover potato wedges
eggs
cheddar

1.  Sautee chopped onion in olive oil.
2.  Chop the rest of the veg and add them to the onions, then chuck in a handful of frozen peas, stir around until warmed through.
3.  Whisk eggs lightly with a fork and pour onto the vegetables.  Turn the heat down and "fry" gently for about 4 minutes.  Turn the oven on to about 180C.
4.  Grate the cheese and sprinkle over the eggs.
5.  Move the pan to the oven for 10 minutes. The cheese should be bubbling and golden, and the egg will be set through without going dry.
6.  Serve, scoff ... if you are more organised than me you could have a lovely green salad alongside.

Cauliflower and cabbage cheese, butter bean ragu and roast potatoes

Sometimes you just have to use up a load of veg which are sitting in the bottom of the fridge - this was one of those days.  I liked it, but then I like "school" cabbage ... other people didn't like the cabbage in with the cauliflower, saying it was overcooked ... but, actually, it was still pretty darn good - and cheap too.

Potatoes
Olive oil
Onion
Garlic
Chilli flakes
Mushrooms
Red pepper
Vegetable stock
Butter beans
Cauliflower
Cabbage (obvs, optional, see commentary)
Soya milk
cornflour
Cheese (assorted leftover bits, including some blue)
Mustard

1. Chop potatoes and roast in olive oil.
2.  Chop onion and sautee in olive oil, add crushed garlic and chopped pepper and mushroom.
3.  Add a sprinkle of chilli flakes, and a cup of veg stock, simmer.
4.  Steam cauliflower and shredded cabbage - when done move to am oven dish.
5.  Add drained butter beans to the mushroom and pepper mix, transfer to an oven dish and keep warm in the oven until the rest is ready.
6.  Make the cheese sauce by heating soya milk, add slaked cornflour and cheese.  Stir in a spoonful of mustard.  Stir and heat until cheese is melted and its think and lovely.  Pour over the caulifloer and bake for about 15 minutes.

Pork chop, mushrooms with cheese, potato wedges and tomatoes

As the omnivore of the household I sometimes get a real treat at teatime - catering for the veg dodger and the vegetarian means I can have a bit of everything!  Today was pork chops in apple juice and mustard gravy for the veg dodger, and cheesy mushrooms for the veggie - accompanied by potatoes wedges, courgettes fried with onions and roasted tomatoes... the veg dodger managed some mushrooms - and there were lots of onions and apple juice in his gravy too ... ha - take that veg dodger!

Potatoes
Olive oil
Onions
Garlic
Pork chops
Mushrooms
Cherry tomatoes
Courgettes
Apple juice
Chicken stock
Wholegrain mustard

1.  Cup potatoes into wedges, toss in olive oil and a little salt.  Bake for 45 mins- 1 hour.
2.  Toss tomatoes in olive oil and salt, and bung in the bottom of the oven with the potatoes.
3.  Do the same with the mushrooms - ie.  in a dish in the oven.
4.  Chop onions and crush garlic, sautee in olive oil.
5.  Remove a spoonful of onions to another pan, add the courgettes 5 or 6 minues before serving - then fry them.
6.  Add the pork chops to the rest of the onions and brown slightly on both sides.
7.  Pour apple juice and stock into the pork chops, add a big spoonful of wholegrain mustard and simmer (about 15 minutes).
8.  Turn the mushrooms over, and add a piece of cheese - return to the oven to melt.
9.  Last 5 minutes - fry courgettes, check gravy for seasoning.
10.  Serve, scoff.

The best cheese on toast snack thing ever

When you fancy something ..... hmmmm .... tasty ....

Nice bread
Red onion
Celery
Cheese
Pecans

1.  Toast the bread.
2.  Finely chop onion, celery and apple.
3.  Chop, or grate, cheese - mix into the fruit and veg.
4.  Chop nuts and add those too.
5.  Squish onto toast, place back under the grill for long enough for the cheese to melt a bit.
6. Scoff

Late night snack

Blue cheese and figs go really well together - so though this is butter some crackers and layer cheese and stuff on top - I have included it in this blog as it is tasty, tasty, tasty.

Fabulous cheese, as ever, from The Crumbly Cheese, Todmorden Indoor Market.








Crackers
Butter
Cheddar
Tomato
Cucumber
Basil
Blue cheese
Figs

Potato pie

Really didn't know what to call this ... omeletta al formo?

Basically it is Greek inspired comfort food at its best.

Potatoes
Olive oil
Onions
Garlic
Spring onions
Cherry tomatoes
Crumbly lancashire
Oregano
Chives
Eggs

1.  Boil sliced potatoes until almost cooked, drain and tumble into an oven dish.
2.  Gently sautee chopped onion and garlic, add to the potatoes.
3.  Chop cherry tomatoes into halves, and chuck them in too.
4.  Crumble over cheese (grate if you're using a more cheddar type cheese).
5.  In another boil whisk the eggs (I used 4, it depends on how many potatoes etc), oregano and chopped chives.  Add chopped spring onion.  Pour over the potato mix.  Drizzle with olive oil.
6.  Turn everything over a couple of times, so that it's mixed and stick it in a hot oven for 45mins (ish)

It's as easy as that!

Chicory, celery and kholrabi pasta bake

Interesting selection of veg in the veg box this week - but they don't lend themselves immediately to hearty winter warmers.  I could've made several delicious salads ... but, what with snow and everything ... just didn't fancy that.  So, a bit of a think, a few staples and condiments from the cupboard - and dah-dah

It would have been lasagne, but I had no gluten free lasagna, so I used what I had which was gf fusilli - mixed it with the veg sauce - topped with tomatoes and grated cheese.

Olive oil
Onion, diced
Celery, about a cupful, diced
Kholrabi,  (half) peeled and diced
Mushrooms, diced
Chicory (endive), chopped
Garlic
Oregano
Mustard
stock
soya milk

Pasta shapes (GF fusilli today... but you knwo, whatever... )

Tomatoes, sliced

Cheddar, grated

1.  Gently sautee diced onion and celery in olive oil.
2.  When a bit soft add kholrabi and mushrooms, keep softening for a bit, add garlic and oregano.
3.  Cook pasta in boiling water.
4.  When veg are softenning a bit, add some stock (and/or white wine) and a teaspoon of mustard, simmer for a bit.
5.  Add chopped chicory, simmer.  I let the sauce down with a little soya milk because it was looking a bit dry, and I thought it would add a little "creaminess" - it worked.
6.  When the pasta is nearly done, drain it and mix it with the veg mix and put into an oven dish.
7.  Top the pasta mix with sliced tomatoes, and a drizzle of olive oil.  Bung in the oven at 180 C.
8.  Grate cheese and sprinkle on top of bake after 10 minutes.  Bake for a further 20 minutes until bubbling and lovely.

Serve, scoff.

I used to peel my squash .... not any more!

Well, I used to peel my squash ... but I have seen Jamie Oliver tell me it's not necessary so many times now, that the last couple of times I have cooked squash - I haven't ... and do you know?  he's right!  Infact. it's probably nicer unpeeled.  The first time was butternut squash - which I thought - OK, that makes sense it's not too tough a skin - and it was delicious. Tonight was acorn squash (I think, I'm not an expert) much tougher skin - it was absolutely fabulous.

So from start to finish:-

Roast beetroot

Beetroot
Olive oil
Garlic

1.  Roast beetroot (whole, skins on) in olive oil, with garlic cloves in the pan - covered with foil - for about 2 hours.
2.  Allow to cool.
3.  Remove skin, and chop, toss in a little balsamic vinegar.

Roast squash

Squash
Olive oil

1.  Cut the top and bottom off the squash, scoop out seeds etc, cut inot wedges.
2.  Roast wedges in olive oil for an hour or so.

.. at the same time

Spicy potato wedges

Potatoes
Olive oil
Cajun seasonning
salt

1.  Chop potatoes into wedges.
2.  Roast in olive oil, sprinkled with cajun seasoning and salt for about an hour.

Cheesy kale and cabbage

Olive oil
Leek
Garlic
Kale
Cabbage
Mixed cheese, diced (we had stilton, gorgonzola, cheddar and cheshire left over from Christmas)

1.  Sautee chopped leek in olive oil.  When soft aff crushed garlic.
2.  Add kale - shredded, after cutting out tough stems.  Add to the pan, with a splash of water.  Simmer for 5 minutes.
3.  Add shredded cabbage, and simmer again.
4.  Chuck in diced cheese, transfer to an oven dish and bake for 20 minutes.

Serve, scoff... have seconds.  Blimey, it was good.

Leek and potato gratin

We arrived at our home from home for a few days - not late, but quite tired - and there was an Aga... yay!  There was also quite a lot of house to explore, and a fire to light and curl up in front of ... so, a nice comforting bowl of yumminess...

Olive oil
2 big leeks
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
Fennel seeds
Green beans
Potatoes
Dry white wine
Cheese, grated
Sliced tomatoes
Soya milk
Corn flour
Seasoning

1.  Chop and wash the leeks, sautee in olive oil, add fennel seeds and crushed garlic.
2.  Chop and boil the potatoes, steam chopped green beans on top of potatoes.
3.  When leeks are nearly soft add dry white wine, simmer for a few minutes.
4.  Drain potatoes.
5.  Make a sauce of leeks by adding soya milk, a fork full of cornflour slaked in water, and grated cheese.  Simmer for a few minutes, stirring while it thickens.
6.  Mix potatoes and leek sauce mixture in ovenproof dish.
7.  Top with sliced tomatoes, and grated cheese.
8.  Bake in lower part of hot Aga oven for 30 minutes.

Explore holiday home....

Scoff.  Have seconds.  And another glass of wine.  And ...... relax!

Courgette and mushroom rarebit with sauteed potatoes

Quite late home, and no clear idea what to make for tea - this emerged, and was tasty.

We love baby roasties - or home baked chips, but I wanted to speed them up, so I zapped them (chopped) in the microwave first, then shallow fried them while the oven heated up - then finished them for 20 minutes in the oven.

The courgette, mushroom bake started out as an idea for mushroom rareabit with griddled courgettes - but ended up all in the same dish with the eggy cheesy mixture over the top.  It worked though!  What to call it?   No idea!

Baby roasties

Chop potatoes into bite sized pieces.  Microwave for 2 minutes, toss, microwave for a further 2 minutes.

Shallow fry in hot olive oil.  Toss, when a bit browned transfer to over dish and bake with the veg.

Courgette and mushroom rarebit

Cur 2 courgetted longways into 3.  Gently fry in olive oil until the crunch has gone and there's a little colour on them.

Meanwhile, put 4 field mushrooms, gil side up in baking tray greased with olive oil.

Bake for 10 minutes.  Turn mushrooms over, add courgette strips.  Bake for 10 more minutes.

Grate some cheddar and mix with 4 beaten eggs.

Slice 2 tomatoes.

Turn beg over in the baking dish. add tomatoes to the top.  Bake again for 10 minutes.

Shred some basil.

Sprinkle basil onto veg, and top with cheese and egg mixture.  Bake for 12 (ish) minutes until top is golden.

Serve and scoff!

potato and cabbage gratin, with cumin - and beetroot and carrot burgers

I have included a pic for completeness - but it's an awful one.  This is a shame because the dinner was delicious.  And comforting.  That was important after a long and trying week.

The feature today is the potato and cabbage gratin the beetroot and carrot burgers have featured earlier.  I have made them a few times now and they freeze beautifully.  Just bake them from frozen.

Potato, cabbage gratin, with cumin.

Chopped potato (1 huge, today)
Shredded cabbage
Olive oil
Chopped onion
Crushed garlic
Cumin seeds
Corn flour
soya milk
grated cheddar

1.  Boil potato with cabbage steaming on top.
2.  Sweat onion in olive oil, until soft.  Add garlic and cumin.
3.  Make the sauce by adding soya milk to onions, slake the corn flour in a little soya milk and stir into the onion mixture.   Simmer and stir while it thickens.
4.  Tip the cabbage into an oven proof dish, drain the potatoes and add and mix through.
5.  Add 3/4 cheese to the sauce and pour over the vegetables.  Sprinkle the last of the cheese on top.
6.  Bake at 180 for 25-30 minutes, till the top is bubbling and golden.  (The burgers will be great in the oven for the same time).

Comforting, and tasty. I'm supposed to avoid lactose - and cheese gives me head aches - but sometimes, just sometimes ... you have to say it's worth it.

Mushroom rarebit

Busy, busy day.  Work stuff, and family stuff.  But also yummy stuff in veg box.  So, my solution here was quick and easy stages, with some time for phone calls in between the cooking.

Olive oil
Garlic
Mushrooms, field
4 eggs
Cheddar, grated
Tomatoes
Brocolli
Runner beans


So, whack oven up to HOT.

Put mushrooms into a baking dish which has had a splosh of olive oil to lubricate it.
Roast mushroom (stem side down) for about 15 mins
Meanwhile, prep and chop vegetables for steaming.

Put veg on to steam.
grate cheese, stir in mustard - stir cheese and seasoning into lightly whisked eggs.
Stick egg & cheese mix onto upturned mushrooms - bake for 20 mins.
Realise there is too much egg and cheese, and that you forgot to put the sliced tomatoes on the mushrooms - so make tomato rarebit as well - egg& cheese on tomatoes - baked for 20 minutes

It was absolutely delicious.  No really!