Three Cheese Macaroni Bake

Ingredients:-

1 pint Bechamel or cheese sauce
250g wholegrain macaroni
1 beaten egg
125g Mature cheddar cheese
1 tbs wholegrain mustard
2 tbs chopped chives
125g Red Leicester
60g Stilton

Preheat over to gas mark 5.

Make sauce and set to one side. Cook the macaroni, drain and put in ovenproof dish.

Stir the beaten egg, grated cheddar, mustard, chives, salt and pepper into the sauce and spoon over the macaroni.

Sprinkle with Red Leicester cheese and crumbled Stilton. Cook for 25-30 minutes until the top is bubbling and golden.

Simple White Sauce

Base sauce for lasagne, cheesey pasta etc, to make a pint

Ingredients:-

50g butter
50g flour
600ml milk

Melt butter in a non stick pan.

Add the flour and stir with a wooden spooon until it forms a paste.

Add 1/3 of the milk, whisking so that lumps do not form.

Add the remainder of the milk in thirds, constantly whisking.

Season with S & P and allow sauce to cook out and thicken.

Remove from heat and add whatever your recipe requires.

Crabstick Cakes

Ingredients:-

2 packs crab/seafood sticks (32 sticks) chopped into very small pieces
80g dried breadcrumbs
6 tbs mayonaise
2 eggs, beaten
1/5 tbs mustard
2 tsp worcestershire sauce
S & P


Chop crabsticks into very small pieces and put into large bowl. Add the dried breadcrumbs, mix well and add the beaten egg. Add the mayonaise, mustard, worcester sauce and S & P to taste and mix until ingredients have combined.
Mould into around 12 rounds and fry in hot pan until each side is golden brown.

Courgette Lasagne

Ingredients:-

Dried lasagne sheets (9 or 10)
Oil for frying
1 onion, finely chopped
700g courgettes (about 6), coarsely grated
2 garlic cloves, crushed
250g tub ricotta
50g strong cheddar
350g jar tomato sauce for pasta
2 tbs tomato puree
Mixed herbs

Preheat oven to 220C/gas mark 7.




Heat the oil in a large frying pan and fry the chopped onion.
After 5 minutes, add the grated courgettes and garlic and continue to fry until the courgette has softened.

Stir in two thirds of both the ricotta and the cheddar and season to taste.

Heat the tomato sauce in the microwave for 2 minutes on a high setting until hot. Stir in tomato puree. In a large baking dish, layer up the lasagne, starting with half the courgette mix, then the pasta sheets, then the tomato sauce and repeat.Top the lasagne with broken up pieces of the remaining ricotta, sprinkle over cheddar and parmesan cheese .Bake on the top shelf of the oven for about 15 minutes until the pasta is tender and the cheese is golden.

Tuna Noodle Bake

Ingredients:-

80z Dried tagliatelle pasta
1 onion

Sauce:-

2oz soft tub margarine
2oz plain flour
1 pint semi skimmed milk
1 teaspoon mustard
2oz grated cheddar cheese
1 tin tuna in brine
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp salt

1oz crumbled crispbreads
1 packet cheese and onion crisps


Preheat oven to gas mark 7.

Cook pasta according to packet. Saute onions (and any other veg you might want to add).
For the sauce, melt marge in a pan, stir in flour and remove from heat.

Gradually stir in milk until smooth, very slowly bring to the boil whilst stirring until thickened. Remove from heat and stir in cheese and mustard.

Mix together drained pasta, cheese sauce, onion, celery (if used), tuna, worcester sauce and salt. Transfer to dish and cover with crumbled mix of crispbreads and crisps.

Bake for 25 minutes or until golden on top.

Choppie's Lasagne

Ingredients:-

Chopped Vegetables:-
Onions
Celery
Carrots
Mushrooms
Garlic

Pinch dried herbs
800g lean minced beef (fresh)

1 tbsp Tomato puree

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 Tin chopped tomatoes

Sauce (if not using jar of lasagne sauce for quickness)

25g Butter

25g Flour

300ml Milk

Pinch nutmeg

60 Cheddar Cheese

30g Grated parmesan cheese

Non cook lasagne sheets

Preheat oven to  200 degrees

Heat olive oil in a hot plan and fry the vegetables until slightly soft. Add herbs worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper. Add mince. Add tomato puree and continue to cook until the mince is brown. Add tomatoes and leave to simmer.

For cheese sauce melt butter in a saucepan (not non stick) before adding the flour with a wooden spoon and stirring to form a paste. Over a gentle heat, add first third of milk, whisking to prevent lumps. Add rest of the milk a third at a time, whisking as you go. Season with salt and pepper and nutmeg. Allow sauce to cook out and thicken, remove from heat and add cheese.

Spoon half meat into dish and place pasta sheet on top. Add just under half cheese sauce and spread evenly before adding second layer of meat. Add second layer of pasta and pour over remaining sauce. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Clean edge of dish and bake for 20-25 minute or until golden brown.

Home Made Tortilla Chips & Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:-

1 packet of flour tortillas
Oil
Grated Parmesan Cheese
Tin of chopped tomatoes
6 or 7 Spring Onions
Crushed garlic
Mixed herbs
Seasoning

Brush each side of a tortilla wrap with oil. Using kitchen scissors cut into 10 pieces and put under a low grill under they are brown or crispy.

Pile chips onto a pile, cover with grated cheese and microwave until the cheese melts.

For the sauce, mix together tomatoes, chopped spring onion, garlic and salt & pepper.

Serve chips hot with tomato sauce.