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Your easy tasty one pot meal favourite.

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Ohmother Tue 01-Oct-19 23:35:51

Help. Got guests coming over and need to make a quick, easy, delicious meal for 5!

DoraMarr Mon 14-Oct-19 19:53:17

Sorry, that’s not really quick! A quick dish is any white fish put on oiled tinfoil or grease proof paper, topped with spring onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, parsley and a dash of olive oil. Fold up paper to make parcels, cook for 15 mins in fairly hot oven, serve with potatoes, greens beans, rice or salad and bread. You can make a quick tomato sauce to go with it by frying chopped onion, adding a tin of tomatoes, some herbs and the juice of 1/2 a lemon and cooking until reduced.

paddyann Mon 14-Oct-19 20:06:51

I do lamb with pearl barley, onion and carrots and stock ,takes about 40 minutes if the lamb is cubed quite small and its great with a chunk of crusty bread

grapefruitpip Tue 22-Oct-19 19:23:45

Dora, I tried your beef surprise. Wow, it was good!

Nortsat46 Wed 23-Oct-19 08:48:40

DoraMarr, can my partner and I please come to you for supper tonight? ... we will bring the red wine ??

Cabbie21 Wed 23-Oct-19 09:09:09

I have a quick turn round this evening so I have just thrown s load of stuff into the slow cooker: onions, carrots, sausages, mushrooms and a packet mix of sauce. It will be ready when I get home.

JackyB Wed 23-Oct-19 09:46:20

I wonder what the OP (Ohmother) did in the end?

Calendargirl Fri 01-Nov-19 16:13:45

Bacon and Potato Bake.

Not quick to cook, but easy and tasty.

Thinly sliced raw potatoes. 3 or 4 largeish ones.
Chopped up bacon, 4 rashers shortback.
Cheese, grated. about 5 ounces
Chopped onion.
Oxo cube, dissolved, about 1 pint.

Layer potatoes, cheese, onion, bacon in a decent sized casserole dish.
Finish with a layer of potatoes, put bits of fattier bacon on top, I put all lean bits in the layers.
Pour stock over.
Cover.

Bake about 1 hour at 170 degrees, remove lid, cook another 20-30 minutes till bubbling and crispy on top.

Serve with crusty bread, green salad, seasonal veg, whatever.

Trial and error, adjust ingredients to suit really. DH and I would eat this amount! but depends on how hungry you are.

BlueSapphire Fri 01-Nov-19 20:56:08

Sausage traybake went down very well when my DBil came. I had planned to do chicken pasta bake, but about an hour before he arrived he told me he could not stand cooked cheese. Glad I hadn't started preparing the chicken pasta. Fortunately I had all the stuff in for the tray bake, so a quick change of menu! Sausages, new potatoes, onions, peppers, carrots, apples and mushrooms. All thrown in a roasting tin with wine or cider. Yummy!