Frugal Recipe Corn Beef Hash

Its a time of frugal recipes for most especially for me this week as this week its the turn of the car to blow up. So  really not wanting be eating beans on toast for the umpteenth time again. I decided upon Corn Beef Hash. Mr T did question whether I knew how to cook it , I smiled through gritted teeth and imagined clubbing him to death with a Maris Piper ( not really although ...)

Ingredients

1 Tbsp olive oil

1 Tbsp butter

1 small onion

1 tin of corn beef

enough waxy yellow potatoes for the number of people who will be dining.

1/2 cup beef stock

1 tsp yellow mustard

1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

pinch of sugar

sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

1. Finely dice the corned beef and onion.  Peel the potatoes and boil them until they are fairly cooked but not mushy.

2. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large pan over medium-high heat.  Sauté the onions until soft.  Add the potatoes, corned beef, stock, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and sugar.  Add salt and pepper to taste.  Stir well, lower the heat, cover the pan and cook for 5 minutes.  Uncover, stir, cover again, and cook for another 5 minutes.

3. Now at this point you could continue cooking on the heat for another five minutes until all the liquid has been absorbed, stiring occasionally.  Raise the heat to medium-high and cook until the hash becomes crusty.  Stir, let the hash sit for a while and then stir again. 

But as J and Mr T were out at rugby practise I decided to put in in the oven so I transferred the ingredients to a lightly buttered Denby dish.

3. I cooked the Corn Beef Hash for around 20 minutes at 180c though you can turn it down quite a bit if people are going to be late ( looks at Mr T)

Frugal Recipe Corn Beef Hash.

The Easiest And Quickest Sponge Cake In The World Possibly !

This is the quickest sponge cake you will ever bake in your life leaving you time for other activities.

Ingredients 

1 egg

2 oz self raising flour.

2 oz low fat spread.

2 oz soft brown sugar.

Tablespoon Lyle’s Golden Syrup 

You could also melt a square of chocolate at the bottom of a microwaveable cup etc.

Mix the self raising flour , sugar and spread and egg all together till looks smooth !

Put a tablespoon of golden syrup into the bottom of the cup / mug   

Obviously the amount of cake  mixture you put in will vary depending on the size of the cup/mug aim for about a quarter.

Any left over mixture can be used in another cup/mug or even a ramekin.

Place in the mircowave for no longer than 3 minutes otherwise your cake will burn.

Once you hear that magic ping then take out and enjoy!

You will find the cake rather moorish !! and so simple with ingredients that you will probably all ready have in the cupboard.

How To Clean Brass With What Is In Your Home

Vinegar, Salt and Flour: These are extremely versatile home staples can be combined to make a paste to clean tarnished brass. 

Dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt ( though I just just used a couples turns of my salt grinder )into a tablespoon of vinegar (any vinegar will do I used red wine vinegar and add flour until the mixture becomes a paste. Then you rub it into the brass ( I used a teaspoon to do this )leave for about 10 minutes, then rinse with warm water and buff dry.

I’m aware It’s Autism Awareness Week

It’s Autism awareness week or something like that ~ I’m Autistic I’m aware there job done but alas it would be a very short blog if I did that . 

“ Hurrah I hear you cry “

And there is nothing like a lockdown to pull you out the routine and thank the lucky black cats I have my humour to help me through.I have dogged determination and a need to do stuff now. I’m very chilled about this lockdown stuff and hats off to the wonderful NHS and key workers , well done everything and everyone. I’m solitary by nature but that’s just how I am.That’s not to say I don’t get struck down by sheer panic like I did the day of the Boris lockdown address I didn’t sleep a wink .But my husband on the other hand slept like a log grrrr but that’s just how the cookie crumbles.

I fail at times to get jokes people tell me Miranda is funny but I just don’t see it and I would rather watch paint dry. I actually did watch paint dry as my husband painted a feature wall but now we need another tin of paint and you can’t get them at the minute.

Routine is out the window and it’s only essential trips out now either so yesterday was the prescription run.No actual running was taken oh no I walked briskly though stopping only to leap into hedges to maintain the 2 metre distance.

The picture s I took on way way to get my prescriptions before anyone gets their knickers in a twist.

Gardening On A Lockdown

I do not have an allotment but I do have a garden , last week and this week and this week it has been gardening task. I managed to get some of my gardening waste taken on the regular collection before the local council wield decided to prioritise the black bin collection.The gardening tasks were pruning , tidying and mowing the lawn and painting the garden fence although even one and his cat seems to be doing this as I can not find more of the Harvest Gold I need to complete the fence on the right side of my garden. A few weeks before all this virus lark kicked off I bought one of those raised beg vegetable things on legs and I swapped milk for carrot seeds from my neighbour.