Shepherds Pie Potatoes

Ingredients:-

1 pack lean mine (500g should do)

Splash water and beef oxo cube

As many baking potatoes as people to serve

Chopped up:-

Carrot

Celery

Onion

and any other vegetables you want to include.

Preheat oven to 200 degrees, gas mark 6

Prick pototaoes and microwave according to size.

Heat oil in frying pan, add chopped vegetables and fry until soft. Add mince and cook til brown. Add splash of water and crumble the oxo cube into the pan, mix with mince.

When potatoes are done, cut in half and scoop out potato into seperate dish. Mash potato with knob of butter.

Fill each skin with the mince mixture and top with the mash. Sprinkle a small amount of cheese and put in the oven for around 20 minutes.

Scotch Pancakes

Ingredients


50g caster sugar
100g flour (plain or self-raising)
1 egg
Splash of milk

Add the flour and sugar to the bowl (for best results, use sieve).
Add egg and mix into sugar and flour using a whisk. You will now have a floury, dry, lumpy mixture. Smooth this mixture out by gradually adding and whisking in splashes of milk. The aim is to have a relatively thick, smooth batter, about the same consistancy as double cream, so you will not need a lot of milk.

Moisten a paper towel with vegetable oil and then use this to grease a thick based frying pan (the thick base is very important). Then heat the frying pan. When the frying pan is hot, ladle in some of the batter

As a rule of thumb the pancake is ready to be turned when bubbles start to form on the surface. Turn and cook until the surface is golden brown (in total about 2 minutes). Remove from pan and re-grease using paper towel if necessary.

Toad in the Hole

Ingredients:-

1 tablespoon sunflower oil

8oz Plain Flour

4 free range Eggs

250ml Semi Skimmed Milk

S & P

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C /gas mark 6.

Pour the oil into the bottom of a dish, and arrange the sausages over it in a single layer. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven.

Whisk together the flour, eggs and half of the milk until smooth. Gradually mix in the rest of the milk until a smooth batter is achieved. Season with salt and pepper.

Pour batter over the sausages until3/4 covered. Return to the oven, and bake for 35 minutes, or until the centre is risen and browned. Don't worry if the underside seems slightly soft, as this is normal.

To make individual yorkshire puddings, add a small amount of oil to each hole in a muffin tin and heat in the oven. Once oil is hot, ladle batter into each hole - cook for 35 minutes or until puddings have risen.