Cooking ideas/receipes

Hi all

I need some help. I can't say I am the best cook.. So I am getting a little lost for ideas for meals. Silly question for you but how would you cook a fillet of fish , like haddock or cod? In the oven in foil? Do you season it? Put oil in... God I an crap !!

Can anyone tell me how to make chilli con cairne from shwartz with quoth mince? You are all laughing at me right now I bet!!

Help a poor girl stick to the plan ladies

Oh oh and if you can tell me what your fav thing to make is too , I need some inspiration

Jo xxxx

Wow I hope my thumbs lose weight so I'm not stopping around this iPhone and spelling everything wrong!!!

I'm not sure bout cod but I looovee to pop a chicken breast in tin foil add as much veg as you want maybe some frylight or low fat butter. Salt pepper, I love herbs so bash em in. Then pop in the oven for 30-40 mins at 180c then walk away. A meal in tinfoil. So simple and yet so tender.

I use a jar of concarne sauce. But I usually cut up an onion veg. Fry off the mince/quorn--I don't use oil for mince but you'd need it with quorn. Then I add onion sauté for a few mins, add veg sauté for another few. Then I add in the jar of sauce/packet. The jar comes with kidney beans and there's a ww one. I use tesco pretty sure it adds like 2pp to the meal. Then boil up rice, while you carne simmers away. Then tuck in

Hope this helps. Good luck. If you feel adventurous and want a choc treat. But the jus-rol puff pastry, roll out till bout 1/8inch thick then add a small teaspoon of nutella into the corners, fold over, cut and repeat make about 10. Not sure of points. Nutella should be one, but can't remember points for pastry. It was v. Good on discovery--like 1/2point for a SHEET. But there great treat enjoy, best of luck cooking.

Jojobear said:

Hi all

I need some help. I can't say I am the best cook.. So I am getting a little lost for ideas for meals. Silly question for you but how would you cook a fillet of fish , like haddock or cod? In the oven in foil? Do you season it? Put oil in... God I an crap !!

Can anyone tell me how to make chilli con cairne from shwartz with quoth mince? You are all laughing at me right now I bet!!

Help a poor girl stick to the plan ladies

Oh oh and if you can tell me what your fav thing to make is too , I need some inspiration

Jo xxxx

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Hiya!! hehe don't worry about it everyone has to start somewhere!!!

If you get a fillet of cod or haddock try to get it skinless and boneless. Smoked haddock is lovely by the way.

My mum would cook it in milk just bring it to a gentle simmer. You can use the milk to make a sauce (like parsely sauce with plain cod perhaps?), or just have it plain.

I usually bung it in the oven in some foil as its the least hassle. You can add a wee tickle of butter if you have an extra point

chilli con carne is pretty simple. Fry: mince, onion, (mushrooms? i like mushrooms in mine) add chilli powder or your scwartz stuff, then tinned kidney beans/tomatoes... and a bit of stock, an oxo cube works okay because you have lots of juice from the tomats et voila.

i like it because you make it all in one pan and i'm very lazy

i like omlette, its quite easy to make for us novices! Nice with bits of potato, peppers, onions, ham etc

chicken a la king is lovely, will get you the recipe later on when i'm home from work

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply I will give all these ideas a go!!! I may marry a rich man that can hire a chef!! Xx

haha sounds like a plan, i'll fight you for him xx

Ive just had a really easy but yummy tea!!!

King prawns with onion, peas and mixed peppers with 60gms of sweet chillie philly and with pasta!!!

Hmm that sounds interesting

i had a lovely tea...............kfc fillet tower meal
sorry just couldnt resist!!
im back it tomorrow tho, i usually stick to ww meals as i no exactly how to point them, i just add veg,salad,or a garlic baguette to make it more interesting. Good luck, and about finding that rich man to hire you a chef....why not marry a chef who is rich?? get 2 in 1 xx

Jojobear said:

Hi all

I need some help. I can't say I am the best cook.. So I am getting a little lost for ideas for meals. Silly question for you but how would you cook a fillet of fish , like haddock or cod? In the oven in foil? Do you season it? Put oil in... God I an crap !!

Can anyone tell me how to make chilli con cairne from shwartz with quoth mince? You are all laughing at me right now I bet!!

Help a poor girl stick to the plan ladies

Oh oh and if you can tell me what your fav thing to make is too , I need some inspiration

Jo xxxx

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Haddock & cod - you can bake it in foil as others have said, or you can steam it in a steamer (just put the fish in your steamer and cover with foil and steam for around 20 mins), this is how I do mine.

With the schwartz packs, if using quorn mince, I would do it as follows:

Chop your onion and fry it in a little frylight. Then add your mushrooms (if using them) and fry until soft. This should give you enough moisture to then add your quorn mince (if not spray a bit more frylight in). Give it a quick fry and then follow the instructions on the pack - i.e. adding in your tinned toms, water etc.

xx