Cheats Pizza Calzone
2020-07-14 08:27
A italian style vegetable mix, with the added flavour of a toasted wrap and cheese. Really low-effort to make, but tastes good.
Originally based on a NHS healthy eating recipe, I've added some of the flavour/fat back in (sorry).
Can be made without the lardons if meat isn't your thing. If meat is your thing, then lardons can also be swapped for slices of (pre-cooked) chicken, sausage etc.
Baked Potatoes
2020-07-14 08:25
Crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, baked spuds are a bit of a staple food. You can top them with pretty much anything you want and get a wide variety of different meals - slathered in cheese with beans running down, or topped with a bit of coleslaw
Korean Beef Bulgogi
2020-07-06 11:52
Bulgogi recipes tend to use crushed pear juice to help tenderise the meat, but using coca-cola works too (and it's probably easier to get).
Marinade the meat overnight for best flavour.
Variations on this are fairly easy, you can stir some chopped pepper (as pictured) into the pan, reduce the punch a little by substituting the spring onion for chopped spinach etc.
Either way, you end up with tasty tender steak strips, which go well with rice. To make it even better, serve some Oi Muchim on the side.
Korean Cucumber Salad (Oi Muchim)
2020-07-06 11:41
A Korean cucumber salad, essentially cucumber and carrot in a lightly spiced vinaigrrete.
The spring onion can be replaced with chopped spinach to reduce the punch a little. Either way, works very well served alongside Beef Bulgogi
Sloppy Joes
2020-07-05 09:01
We don't really have/see Sloppy Joes here, they're very much a US thing, so I thought I'd give them a go. Simple to cook and make, and taste much better than they look, even if they are a little messy to eat
Using Chipotle instead of the barbecue sauce is a good improvement, or simply piling some jalapeno slaw into the bun with it. Serve with a bowl of chips and some salad
True American style would use cheese slices rather than cheddar, but I wanted proper cheese flavour in there.
Cheese Scones
2020-07-05 08:52
I prefer fruit scones, layered with cream and jam, but a savoury cheese scone is nice too - especially when still warm from the oven and coated in butter.
This will make 6 reasonable sized scones
McDonalds Hash Brown
2020-04-06 09:51
McDonalds closed all of it's restaurants as part of the Coronavirus response. However, they've shared a recipe card with The Mirror so that we can make their Sausage and Egg McMuffin at home - as an added "bonus" they included instructions to make a hash brown to go on the side.
Depending on the size of your potato, this will make several
Sausage and Egg McMuffin
2020-04-06 09:47
McDonalds closed all of it's restaurants as part of the Coronavirus response. However, they've shared a recipe card with The Mirror so that we can make their Sausage and Egg McMuffin at home.
They've also shared a recipe for a Hash Brown so that we can have one of those on the side.
It's probably the simplest of their recipes that they could have shared, and does seem to taste pretty close to what you get in one of their branches (though, unsurprisingly, isn't nearly as convenient to make as it is to order). The only thing I really found is that it's hard to make the patty's as thin as they do, meaning you can't easily build a double sausage and egg mcmuffin
The recipe makes 1 - just multiply the measurements by the number you want to make
Cinnamon Soda Bread
2020-03-22 14:11
Soda bread can be a bit heavy and flavourless, so I figured I'd try and sweeten it up and give it a little bit of flavour. Ginger takes some of that edge back off.
You can use all Plain or all Self-raising if you don't have one or the other.
Best served hot with a thick glob of butter - even better if you make an open-face sandwich with bacon and steak on top
Seperating Isopropyl Alcohol and Water
2020-03-15 10:08
Not really a recipe in the sense of what I normally post here, but it seemed like the best place to file it all the same.
With COVID-19 raging worldwide, vulnerable people in our family, and limited availability (due to others hoarding/panic buying), I wanted to make my own hand sanitiser. Unfortunately, I only had Isopropyl 70% on the shelf, which isn't sufficiently strong once watered down with the other sanitiser ingredients.
This is a technique to seperate the Isopropyl and water from a 99.9 Isopropyl solution, in order to extract more concentrated alcohol - it's not technically purification as we're not doing anything to the alcohol itself.
Water and alcohols like Isopropyl are miscible - they can be mixed together in all proportions, so there isn't a way to "filter" the alcohol out.
This process is known as "salting out" or dehydrating Isopropyl. Essentially what it's doing is taking a mix of Isopropyl and water (such as you might have in Isopropyl 50% or 70%), and dissolving salt into the water to make brine - the heavier brine will sink to the bottom forming a seperate layer.
Care must be taken with this, Isopropyl is extremely flammable. It can also be absorbed through the skin and poison you.