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Vegetable Soup

Very cheap and makes a lot. Ok, it's not a side of steak but it's a better dinner than bread & butter!

Ingredients Potatos (4 - 6) Pumpkin (just a bit) Carrots Chicken Stock Scrunch of salt Tomato Pasta Method

Dice up potatoes into cm sized chunks. Put large pot on to medium heat, slosh some oil in the bottom. Put all the potato chunkettes in and stir em round the pan. Make sure they don't stick (trust me!) This helps sorta seal the veges or something. Then do the same for the pumpkin. Ditto far carrots. Once things have been sizzling add the salt, chicken stock, tomato paste and then pour in a jug of hot water. Then stir some more. Once you're sure things won't blow up put a lid on the pot and make some money for an hour or two. Serve when ready.

Variations Let it cool down and reheat the next day Add some MicroPasta&tm; before serving Fry some onions & garlic right at the beginning Ditto fo...

Toasted Sandwiches

The most versatile snack food known to mankind!

Ingredients Bread Cheese Some kind of filling! Method

Butter bread. Turn over and place filling inside. Put in toasty maker and wait. When they start getting vocal take em out and eat. Repeat as needed. For filling ideas see below...

Variations Cheese & chilli sauce Ham, cheese & pesto Baked beans & cheese Spagheti & cheese Mustard, ham, cheese etc

Sugar Buns

A soft, round light coloured biscuit with a slightly sweet taste. Not at all hard like a regular biscuit, almost more of a cake consistency. Very yummy.

Ingredients 1 cup of flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder ~1/4 cup of sugar 1 egg some milk if needed Lots of chocolate buttons Method

Mix the flour and baking powder in a bowl. Add the margarine and rub into the flour. Yes, this is messy! Rub until it's like bread crumbs. Note that you really need to get this part right. If it is too buttery then you'll get rather flat and soggy buns! Not sure how important this is, but lift and "sprinkle" the mixture back into the bowl. This adds air apparently. Add in the sugar, stir in roughly. Amount of sugar isn't critical. Add the egg and mix. If it's still too crumbly, add in a tiny amount of milk and stir some more. You don't want it too sticky! Finally add lots of chocolate buttons to the mix and roughly mix in. ...

Spagheti Bolognese

Cheap & quick, and very very very tasty.

Ingredients Speghetti (bout 1 pack for 6 people) Mince (bout 600grams for 6) Jar of bolognese sauce (worth it, makes enough for 4) Couple of onions Salt, pepper, ginger & some garlic Method

Slice up onions, garlic. Place into large pot on medium heat and saute. Meanwhile heat a large pot of water to boiling point. Once the onions are on their way, add the mince to the pot. Break it up so it doesn't look too much like mince. Add a twist of salt & pepper as needed. Once mince is starting to look cooked add the garlic and some ginger, then add the bolognese sauce shortly after. Keep the heat on and try to reduce it a little... makes it taste better and it'll make less mess when trying to eat it! 12 mins before you're ready to serve put the spaghetti into the boiling water. Keep it boiling(ish) and stir occasionally. Once everything is done, serve & get someone else to...

Stir Fry

A quick & easy one pot + one pan meal that even tastes good.

Ingredients Pork (snitchel can be good) or Chicken Rice (1/4 cup per person) Baby corn Sauce (cantong is good) Sunflower seeds Method

Heat up frying pan really hot. Put in some sunflower seeds, then add olive oil. Put rice on to cook just before putting finely chopped meat into frying pan. Stir rice after a few mins to stop it lumping together. Keep stirring meat. Once almost cooked put in corn & then add sauce slightly later. Turn down when sauce starts bubbling. Ditto for rice. Rice takes about 8 mins too cook supposedly. Keep cooking till rice is done (test by biting, shouldn't be crunchy!) When all done serve rice, then add meat/sauce, then finally top with something nice looking.

Variations Different meat Use onions/garlic instead of sunflower seeds Different kinds of sauces Try using pizza sauce & cheese Swap rice for pasta

Pizza

My not so secret pizza recipe

Ingredients 1x pizza base (pros like to make their own; I'm too lazy for that!) Sauce for base (pizza sauce, tomato paste, sweet chilli sauce or even BBQ sauce work fine) Cheese, preferably mozeralla Meat Pinapple Capsicum Method

Fry the meat, I usually use snitzel and add some cajun spice. Coat pizza base in sauce, add cheese, pinapple and meat. Then add more cheese. Cook for 15 mins at 180°C-ish.

Variations

The world is your oyster!

Lolly Cake

Diane's secret recipe, kindly provided for all the world by yours truly :-)

Ingredients 100g of melted butter 1 pack of crushed malt biscuits 1/2 a tin of condensed milk 1 pack of fruit puffs or eskimos - cut up into bits coconut flakes or whatever they're called Method

Mix it all together, then roll it in the coconut and put it in the fridge till it sets. It's so easy a monkey could do it!

Fried Rice

Quick, easy and rather cheap, plus it uses up left over rice ingredients Cold rice (leave uncovered in fridge overnight) Misc vegies (carrots, yams, onions, whatever) Precooked meat of some description methodFry onions in a bit of oil in a frying pan. Add yams (or whatever) and cook. Then chuck in meat and fry some more. Finally add in cold rice and fry the whole thing, stirring continuously. Mix in a few drops of Worcester sauce. Serve after a few minutes (when the rice starts looking edible) with some spicy sauce. Enjoy. variations Use froxen mixed vegies (its one way to get rid of them)

Chocolate Mud Cake

Escape from boring food! This is absolutely amazingly chocolatey and guaranteed to immobilise anyone. ingredients Flour (1 cup) Baking powder (2 tsp) Salt (1 tsp - optional) Sugar (2/3 cups) Cocoa powder (6 tablespoons) Milk (1/2 cup) Melted butter (2 tbsp) Vanilla (1 tsp - optional) Chopped nuts (1/2 cup - optional) Brown sugar (1 cup) Boiling water (1 1/2 cups) methodMix flour, baking powder, salt, (white) sugar & 2 tablespoons of cocoa. Add milk, melted butter & vanilla & mix till smooth and yummy looking. Stir in nuts (if wanted). Put into a largish dish, leaving a bit of extra space. Then mix rest of cocoa, (brown) sugar & boiling water. Pour over the top of the pudding and bake for 40 mins at 350°F. Leave to stand for 10 mins before serving with lots of ice cream! Stolen from Mum's cook book. variations Use white sugar instead of the brown. Skip the vanilla, chopped nuts and sal...

Chicken Burritos

The tastiest and yummiest and most non-boring thing I can cook.

Ingredients Burritos (6 pack) ($4) 2 tins of baked beans ($2) 2 chicken breasts ($5) Cajun spice (1 jar lasts for a good 6 months) Method

Remove skin from the chicken, dice into small chunks and chuck in the hot frying pan (with a dash of oil in the bottom). After a few minutes drown them in the Cajun spice and keep the chicken moving round. Once most traces of salmonella have gone open up your beans, drain some of the sauce if possible and pour in. Mash them up a bit to get a slightly, erm, soupier mixture that looks less like beans and chicken :-) Once almost done microwave / heat in oven the burritos. Then it's time to make the buggers...

Place one burrito on the cutting board. Spoon some of the mixture from top-center to middle-center. Fold the bottom edge over mixture. Fold left side over mixture. Fold right side over.

You should now have a ni...