Discussion
As a new student with a love of food, I thought I would start a thread so all of the student PHers (and anyone else with a good idea for that matter) can post their quick, cheap and easy meals that taste great.
Recipes, advice, suggestions are all welcome - what do you need in a student stock cupboard? Ways to cut corners - anything.
I'll go first with a Sausage and Bean casserole I cooked tonight...
Ingredients:
Sausages - best you can afford tends to be a good plan
Onions (mine had gone mouldy so didn't go in)
Carrot(s) - mine was massive so I used one, regular sized carrots maybe 2 or 3
Peppers - used 2 as I had cheap and little ones
Mushrooms
Can of chopped tomatoes/passata (doesn't matter which - ended up using both as I was cooking for several meals so needed more fluid)
Crushed garlic
Beans of your choice - I used cannelini beans, can use chickpeas or lentils as well
Seasoning of your choice - I used a wide range of stuff, from Worcestershire sauce to Franks hot sauce.
First step for me is to prepare all your ingredients - dice the veg, crush the garlic and get everything ready - saves rummaging around the cupboards when you are wanting to start getting things ready!
Next you want to heat some oil in a decent sized pan, and fry your sausages till they are brown - remove your sausages and put them to one side.
Add the veg to the pan and let it soften:
Then add the sausages again. Once everything is cooking along nicely, add your tomatoes, season and leave to simmer:
Once it's reduced to how you like it, serve! It's great to have some bread with it just to mop up all the sauce leftover. I made enough for 3 dinners and a lunch this time round, so it actually worked out pretty economical - the biggest spend was the sausages I think as I had to use the uni co-op rather as I forgot to get anything out the freezer:
Aand the final close up! Tasted great, really pleased with the outcome. Had a nice kick cos of some spices I put in there but a really rich tomato-ey taste.
Feel free to post pics of your own studenty recipes - even if its just a new take on an old favourite like beans on toast!
Recipes, advice, suggestions are all welcome - what do you need in a student stock cupboard? Ways to cut corners - anything.
I'll go first with a Sausage and Bean casserole I cooked tonight...
Ingredients:
Sausages - best you can afford tends to be a good plan
Onions (mine had gone mouldy so didn't go in)
Carrot(s) - mine was massive so I used one, regular sized carrots maybe 2 or 3
Peppers - used 2 as I had cheap and little ones
Mushrooms
Can of chopped tomatoes/passata (doesn't matter which - ended up using both as I was cooking for several meals so needed more fluid)
Crushed garlic
Beans of your choice - I used cannelini beans, can use chickpeas or lentils as well
Seasoning of your choice - I used a wide range of stuff, from Worcestershire sauce to Franks hot sauce.
First step for me is to prepare all your ingredients - dice the veg, crush the garlic and get everything ready - saves rummaging around the cupboards when you are wanting to start getting things ready!
Next you want to heat some oil in a decent sized pan, and fry your sausages till they are brown - remove your sausages and put them to one side.
Add the veg to the pan and let it soften:
Then add the sausages again. Once everything is cooking along nicely, add your tomatoes, season and leave to simmer:
Once it's reduced to how you like it, serve! It's great to have some bread with it just to mop up all the sauce leftover. I made enough for 3 dinners and a lunch this time round, so it actually worked out pretty economical - the biggest spend was the sausages I think as I had to use the uni co-op rather as I forgot to get anything out the freezer:
Aand the final close up! Tasted great, really pleased with the outcome. Had a nice kick cos of some spices I put in there but a really rich tomato-ey taste.
Feel free to post pics of your own studenty recipes - even if its just a new take on an old favourite like beans on toast!
For when you have no clean dishes or pans:
1) Boil kettle
2) Put spaghetti (Tesco value, 99p) in kettle, reboil.
3) Reboil again
4) Add tomato sauce (Tesco value 49p), stir.
4.5) Optional - if you're treating yourself, add some salt and pepper.
5) Reboil.
6) Eat from kettle.
BOOM Spaghetti Neopolitan
1) Boil kettle
2) Put spaghetti (Tesco value, 99p) in kettle, reboil.
3) Reboil again
4) Add tomato sauce (Tesco value 49p), stir.
4.5) Optional - if you're treating yourself, add some salt and pepper.
5) Reboil.
6) Eat from kettle.
BOOM Spaghetti Neopolitan
jas xjr said:
When I was a student we ate a lot of curries. Once you have built up all the spices, it is very cheap to cook curries .
Pasta is cheap too
What my (admittedly asian) flatmate is doing. Curry every night. They are amazing though, even if I have to leave the room due to the fumes of all the spices. I just want to get a bit of variance in my diet.Pasta is cheap too
captainmatt said:
What my (admittedly asian) flatmate is doing. Curry every night. They are amazing though, even if I have to leave the room due to the fumes of all the spices. I just want to get a bit of variance in my diet.
The fumes arise from regional / personal preferences. You do not need to burn the spices 
ambuletz said:
A years supply of food aye 
Almost seems a challenge to get through it in less time than that.
Hoover. said:
The cheapest way is use all the ingredients from someone elses cupboard, and anything that doesn't have your name on it in the fridge 
While storing your own stuff in a carrier bag which you'll have hung out of your bedroom window to keep it fresh. Works brilliantly (in winter).
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