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Ratio: Cauliflower Cheese

by Ann Storr | Jan 15, 2020 | Cooking With Kids, Freezer Friendly, Little Bit Of Meat, Main Meal, Midweek Recipes, One Pot Meals, Recipes, Soft Vegetables, Vegetarian Recipes

Knowing how to make a basic white sauce is one of the world’s best things. It’s cheap when you know how to make it for yourself. It’s full of goodness and can be used to stretch other food nice and far. Most Brits love a cauliflower cheese, but of course you can shove...

How to make your own white sauce

by Ann Storr | Jan 15, 2020 | Freezer Friendly, One Pot Meals, Recipes, Soft Vegetables, Vegetarian Recipes

How to: make your own white sauce Making a white sauce can seem like a waste of time when you can buy a jar. But making your own is cheaper, is fresher and I be more delicious. If you are buying your milk in reusable glass bottles, and if you can get flour from a...

Ratio: Pasta with pork & greens

by Ann Storr | Jan 1, 2020 | Lazy Afternoon Cooking, Leftover Fish, Leftover Meat, Little Bit Of Meat, Lots Of Little Leftovers, Main Meal, One Pot Meals, Recipes, Soft Vegetables

Ratio Cooking: Pasta with Pork & Greens Pork and greens is a classic combo; the fatty sweetness of the pork and earthy bitterness of greens means all cultures are loving it. This recipe is based around chorizo and courgette, but feel free to substitute any broccoli...

Recipe: Turkey Pilaf

by Ann Storr | Dec 18, 2019 | Cooking With Kids, Leftover Christmas, Leftover Meat, Little Bit Of Meat, Lots Of Little Leftovers, Main Meal, One Pot Meals, Recipes, Soft Vegetables

Recipe: Turkey, pistachio & pomegranate pilaf Christmas is a time of feasting - and wasting. If you struggle with leftover turkey and can't face another turkey curry, then may I suggest this pilaf? It's simple, needs only onion, cinnamon and rice. Sprinkle over some...

How to make your own frozen greens

by Ann Storr | Nov 16, 2019 | Freezer Friendly, Leftover Baking, Recipes, Soft Vegetables

How to: make your own frozen greens So you bought a bag of greens, because it's much better if everyone eats their greens, right? Meh. If I don't cook up a bag of spinach as soon as it hits my house, I just look at it, and think about it, and think about it some more....

How to cook garlic and herb mushrooms

by Ann Storr | Nov 16, 2019 | Lazy Afternoon Cooking, Lots Of Little Leftovers, Recipes, Soft Vegetables

How to: make your own garlic mushrooms Mushrooms are one of the most popular foods chosen in the UK; with loads of trying trying to reduce the amount of meat we eat, they can provide that lovely umaminess. Also cracking with a full English. However, supermarket...

Ratio: Basic Quiche

by Ann Storr | Nov 7, 2019 | Healthy Lunch, Lazy Afternoon Cooking, Leftover Baking, Leftover Meat, Little Bit Of Meat, Lots Of Little Leftovers, Main Meal, One Pot Meals, Recipes, Soft Vegetables, Vegetarian Recipes

Ratio Cooking: Quiche As a veg-box customer I've got used to making quiche from loads of different things. Using just egg yolks for luxury, or an egg and an egg-white when that needs finishing up. Half a jar of roasted peppers and a few olives? A little bacon and...

Ratio: Time

by Ann Storr | Oct 19, 2019 | Food Waste News, Recipes

Ratio Cooking, StorrCupboard Hi loyal StorrCupboard visitors. I am still working in the background. But I've been working, delivering events, devising and giving workshops, hosting events, making calls, and being a parent, a daughter and a friend. The reality is that...

Leftover Green Pepper Jambalaya

by Ann Storr | Jul 21, 2019 | Lazy Afternoon Cooking, Leftover Fish, Leftover Meat, Little Bit Of Meat, Lots Of Little Leftovers, Main Meal, One Pot Meals, Recipes, Soft Vegetables

Jambalaya Creole and cajun cuisine has always interested me, and I don't really know why. I think because the flavours and layers and history are fascinating - how French, African-diaspora, American and English histories combine. I started cooking some Louisiana...

Leftover Green Pepper Curry

by Ann Storr | Jul 18, 2019 | Dodgy Dairy, Midweek Recipes, Recipes, Soft Vegetables, Vegetarian Recipes

Green Pepper Poriyal This green pepper recipe was a fluke find, many years back. I was staring at some green peppers and feeling fed up, because I don’t like them. But I had them and I needed to eat them. And not wasting food is, sometimes, just cracking on through....