Yes all you student dudes, you can cook. Listen......
Created | Updated Sep 21, 2005
To all you studenty type people out there who live on pot noodles and beer. Yes you, you know who you are.
When your Mum phones you and asks if you are feeding yourself sensibly do you cross your fingers behind our back and swear you are eating the regulation five portions of fruit and veg a day?
When she asks you if you make sure to eat breakfast and you reassure her you always have porridge or weetabix, do you feel a twinge of guilt that you started your day with half a tube of Pringles washed down with the dregs of last night's beer?
Would you like a guide on how to eat cheaply without too much faffing around with fancy, expensive ingredients?
Do you secretly yearn for a bit of homemade bread pud or some comforting cheesy mashed potato? Maybe an easy, cheap but lush sauce to dollop on your plain old pasta? A quick, easy but good looking pudding, come on, you know you love pudding!
Ah, but do you know the difference between a desert spoon and a table spoon? Do you know the average weight of an egg? How long to boil potatoes? How many beans make ..a chilli....?
Would you like to discover the secrets of the kitchen previously unknown to you because you were always hunched over your PC at home or off raving in the woods at weekends when your Mum offered to pass on the hints and tips you would need in order to achieve a healthy, balanced diet on a budget?
Ok, sign up here for a week by week guide on shopping cheaply, understanding the mysteries of cooking and unlock the power to impress your friends with such culinary delights as
Spicy wedges
Roast vegetables and cous cous
Simple pasta sauce
Home made pizza toasts
Lentil Curry sauce
Bread pudding
Easy biscuits
Vegetarian lasagne
Apple crumble
Bapple!!!!!
Sausage and bean cobbler.
All sorts of 'splodge' (one pan delights.)
A couple of specials...'Tarmac pie' and 'Muck' yummy sticky chocclie delights.
How to cook all the basics from potatoes to roast dinner.
Where to buy the cheapest ingredients.
What you need in your cupboard to create quick but impressive late night snack ( even when you are drunk!)
To start then:
YOUR STORE CUPBOARD
When you are moving into student digs or a flat of your own for the first time get someone to gift a box with all these essentials to you as a moving in present or buy a couple a week until you have all the basics to work with.
Soy sauce
Balsamic vinegar (or at least a small bottle of white wine or apple cider vinegar)
Tube of tomato puree
Dried basil (or mixed herbs)
Black pepper
Salt (preferably a good sea salt)
Vegetable stock cubes
Bottle of cooking oil (virgin olive oil is best but a good vegetable oil if you can’t run to olive)
Curry powder or paste
Powdered ginger
MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS HAVE SOME
Dried pasta
Flour (self raising)
Rice (brown rice is easier to cook then you think and nicer to eat)
Couscous
Lentils (red ones cook quickly, green ones more slowly but taste better)
Sugar
Margarine, which is suitable for baking with
Raisins
Dried soups (good for quick pasta sauce)
Eggs
TINNIES
Baked beans
Chopped tomatoes
Chickpeas
Sweetcorn
Tuna and ham (if you are not veggie)
Potatoes
EQUIPMENT
If you can, make sure you have at least two saucepans, a frying pan (wok is great if you have one) a sieve, a meat tin and a couple of flat baking tins.
A large bowl, a good sharp vegetable knife, a tablespoon (that’s the large one, not the one you eat your pudding with) and a flat ‘spatula’ type thingy for flipping eggs and burgers.
Watch out for the recipes………..coming soon………
spidey
When your Mum phones you and asks if you are feeding yourself sensibly do you cross your fingers behind our back and swear you are eating the regulation five portions of fruit and veg a day?
When she asks you if you make sure to eat breakfast and you reassure her you always have porridge or weetabix, do you feel a twinge of guilt that you started your day with half a tube of Pringles washed down with the dregs of last night's beer?
Would you like a guide on how to eat cheaply without too much faffing around with fancy, expensive ingredients?
Do you secretly yearn for a bit of homemade bread pud or some comforting cheesy mashed potato? Maybe an easy, cheap but lush sauce to dollop on your plain old pasta? A quick, easy but good looking pudding, come on, you know you love pudding!
Ah, but do you know the difference between a desert spoon and a table spoon? Do you know the average weight of an egg? How long to boil potatoes? How many beans make ..a chilli....?
Would you like to discover the secrets of the kitchen previously unknown to you because you were always hunched over your PC at home or off raving in the woods at weekends when your Mum offered to pass on the hints and tips you would need in order to achieve a healthy, balanced diet on a budget?
Ok, sign up here for a week by week guide on shopping cheaply, understanding the mysteries of cooking and unlock the power to impress your friends with such culinary delights as
Spicy wedges
Roast vegetables and cous cous
Simple pasta sauce
Home made pizza toasts
Lentil Curry sauce
Bread pudding
Easy biscuits
Vegetarian lasagne
Apple crumble
Bapple!!!!!
Sausage and bean cobbler.
All sorts of 'splodge' (one pan delights.)
A couple of specials...'Tarmac pie' and 'Muck' yummy sticky chocclie delights.
How to cook all the basics from potatoes to roast dinner.
Where to buy the cheapest ingredients.
What you need in your cupboard to create quick but impressive late night snack ( even when you are drunk!)
To start then:
YOUR STORE CUPBOARD
When you are moving into student digs or a flat of your own for the first time get someone to gift a box with all these essentials to you as a moving in present or buy a couple a week until you have all the basics to work with.
Soy sauce
Balsamic vinegar (or at least a small bottle of white wine or apple cider vinegar)
Tube of tomato puree
Dried basil (or mixed herbs)
Black pepper
Salt (preferably a good sea salt)
Vegetable stock cubes
Bottle of cooking oil (virgin olive oil is best but a good vegetable oil if you can’t run to olive)
Curry powder or paste
Powdered ginger
MAKE SURE YOU ALWAYS HAVE SOME
Dried pasta
Flour (self raising)
Rice (brown rice is easier to cook then you think and nicer to eat)
Couscous
Lentils (red ones cook quickly, green ones more slowly but taste better)
Sugar
Margarine, which is suitable for baking with
Raisins
Dried soups (good for quick pasta sauce)
Eggs
TINNIES
Baked beans
Chopped tomatoes
Chickpeas
Sweetcorn
Tuna and ham (if you are not veggie)
Potatoes
EQUIPMENT
If you can, make sure you have at least two saucepans, a frying pan (wok is great if you have one) a sieve, a meat tin and a couple of flat baking tins.
A large bowl, a good sharp vegetable knife, a tablespoon (that’s the large one, not the one you eat your pudding with) and a flat ‘spatula’ type thingy for flipping eggs and burgers.
Watch out for the recipes………..coming soon………
spidey
