Recipe: Pink Curry

Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast per person
• 1 red pepper
• Curry powder
• Chili and garlic sauce
• Garlic (fresh or sauce)
• Sliced courgette
• 1 small carton of coconut milk
• 75g of rice per person
• Cooking oil

Method

1. Measure out rice and put in saucepan
2. Boil enough water in a kettle to cover the rice. When boiled add to the rice in the saucepan.
3. Set the rice on the hob at the lowest heat and leave to cook. Keep checking it so that it doesn't stick to the pan - make sure there is plenty of water in the pan.
4. Heat oil in pan. Chop chicken into pieces and fry in oil.
5. Slice and add courgettes and pepper. Fry with chicken in pan.
6. Add curry powder to taste and stir in to chicken mix.
7. Add garlic sauce and chili sauce to taste. Stir, and simmer for a few minutes.
8. Add the carton of coconut milk and leave to cook on a low heat for about 10-15 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through.
9. Check rice to see if it is cooked.
10. When chicken and rice are ready, drain rice and serve with the curry.
11. Eat!

Recipe: Pork (or Chicken) with marmalade and stuff

This is one of Mr C's recipes. Again, I'm not sure how healthy this one is, but it tastes nice.

Ingredients:

• 1 pork steak or one chicken breast per person (fresh or frozen)
• 1 large onion
• Some marmalade
• Enough cheese to put on top of the pork/chicken
• Vegetable oil

Method:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees
2. Put a small amount of vegetable oil in the bottom of a baking dish, so that the bottom of the dish is covered
3. Place the chicken/pork in the dish
4. Chop the onion and scatter over the pork/chicken
5. Put about half a tablespoon full of marmalade on each piece of meat
6. Put a thin slice of cheese on each piece of meat
7. Bake in the oven according to the instructions for cooking found on the meat packets
8. Check meat is cooked before serving
9. Serve with potatoes and/or fresh vegetable

Recipe: Fish Finger Korma

This is a recipe I made up in my student days. It has since become famous, appearing in the Choir Cookbook, and other people have even cooked it!

Ingredients:

• As much rice as you want per person
• 2 fish fingers per person
• 1 carton of coconut milk*
• Korma powder*
• 1 medium onion*
• 1 green pepper*
• Other veg of your choice*
• A bit of margarine or cooking oil

* All of these ingredients can be replaced by a jar of korma sauce, if you're feeling lazy.

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees (or whatever it says on the fish fingers packet)
2. When oven is ready put in fish fingers, as per instructions
3. Boil water for rice in kettle
4. Put rice in saucepan and add boiling water
5. When rice has boiled turn right down to the lowest heat and leave to cook
6. When fish fingers are ready take them out of oven and turn oven off
7. Fry onion in oil/marge until transparent
8. Chop the fish fingers into four pieces and add to pan. Stir
9. Add vegetables to pan and stir
10. Add korma powder to taste. Stir
11. Add coconut milk and stir
12. Leave to simmer until rice is cooked or for a minumum of 10 minutes, stirring occassionally
13. When sauce and rice are cooked serve and eat

Steps 7-11 can be replaced with the adding of the jar of korma sauce.

The fish fingers can be replaced with tinned tuna, which should be drained of liquid before it is added.

Recipe: Pretend Pizza(s)

I just invented this recipe this afternoon, and I thought I would share it with you.

Ingredients:

• As many rounds/slices (depending on what you call them) of bread as you feel hungry enough to eat
• Tomato or brown sauce
• Cooked chicken or ham (if you are a carnivore)
• Vegetables of your choice (excluding carrots, which don't work well oven baked)
• Fruit of your choice
• 1 spring onion, or one quarter of one medium onion
• Cheese
• Garlic (if you like it)
• Worcestershire sauce (if you happen to have any)

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees (sorry I don't know the equivalent gas mark)
2. Spread bread with tomato/brown sauce as thick as you like
3. If you are eating meat, tear up the chicken or ham and place on the bread
4. Chop onion, garlic (if you're using this) and veg and place on the bread
5. Slice cheese and place slices on top of the bread
6. Add a dash of Worcestershire sauce, if you have it
7. Place pretend pizzas in oven for 10 minutes, or until you smell burning
8. Take pretend pizzas out of oven
9. Turn off oven
10. Eat pretend pizzas

It's a nice easy thing to make if you're not in a cooking/making much effort mood. I'm not sure how healthy it is, but if you use plenty of veg and brown bread it might not be too bad.