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Cover your pan with a lid, or if you don’t have a lid, a larger pan upturned to make a Dutch oven type thing, a baking tray laid flat across the top, a sturdy dinner plate that will withstand some heat, or some cooking foil will do the same job. Reduce the heat very slightly so it’s not absolutely boiling, and cook so the fish poaches through, which should take around 8 minutes. Stir in the cheese at the end to melt it into the sauce – you can reserve some for the mash if you’d like to. Monroe had a brief relationship with a male friend which resulted in a son. [11] She also had a long-term relationship with a woman which ended shortly after Monroe told her partner she was considering a mastectomy. [65] Then take your bananas and slice them thinly, and sling them into a large mixing bowl. Add the oil of choice and mash vigorously with a fork until roughly smooth. It may look a little gross at this point, but persevere with me, as this lumpen mess will turn into something delicious before your very eyes. (It’s what I say to myself in the mirror most mornings, too, but I promise with the banana muffins it is actually true…) First pop your fish out of the freezer the night before and place it in a food safe bag, container or covered bowl in the fridge to defrost. Add the mixed frozen veg too if you like, but it’s much of a muchness as they’re already cooked, so if you don’t at this stage, they’ll be fine later on. Pour in the milk – or water and yoghurt – add the lemon juice and mix in with a fork to form a smooth batter. Lightly flour your work surface and get everything ready for the battering and frying.

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When the ham or bacon is cooked, toss everything in the frying pan into the saucepan along with the frozen peas. Stir and cook through for a few final minutes until the peas are tender, then serve. Mix the tomatoes, beans and spices, layer and bake. Doesn’t need any cooking before it goes in the oven.

Towards the end of the cooking time, pour the remaining 300ml milk into a microwave safe jug. Add 300ml cold water, then add the butter or spread, and the instant mash, and stir well to combine. Microwave on full power for 1 minute, remove and mix well with a fork to break up any lumps, and return to the microwave for another minute on full power. Remove and stir again. Serve, or if you’re anything like me, eat it from the pan in front of the telly to both feel ludicrously decadent, and save on washing up. When frying, I use a milk pan and pour in 5-7cm of oil, and fry in batches. If you are using a larger pan, you will inevitably use more oil. As always when deep-frying, do it carefully. Now all your – what is called in the restaurant industry – ‘mise en place’ is in place, it’s time for the hot stuff. Place the pan on the largest hob ring on the highest heat, and cook the veg for 2 minutes, giving it a stir to disturb it so it doesn’t catch and burn, and cooks evenly.

In 2017, Monroe said she had developed acute arthritis, citing the condition as a partial cause for her suspending her campaign for candidacy in the National Health Action Party. [70] Her arthritis led her to develop a dependency on the prescription drug tramadol. [13] In January 2019, Monroe wrote a piece in The Guardian that stated she was recovering from alcoholism and discussed how drinking had affected her work and personal life. [71] She attended drug rehabilitation in 2021. [13] After the 20 no-cook minutes, either remove a quarter of it and blend it to smooth if you have a blender, and return it to the pan, or leave it as is if you’d prefer. Give it your last one-minute blast of heat to get it hot hot again, and serve. First peel your onion, and very very finely slice it. Very finely slice your celery, and mince or coarsely grate your carrot. You want the veg to be as small as possible, because it won’t be cooking for very long, so you want to maximise the opportunity to get as much flavour from it as possible and get it as tender as you can in the time you have. If you have a small bullet blender or food processor, now would be an excellent time too give it a whirl, but if you don’t, don’t worry, a sharp knife and/or grater and some patience will still get the job done. a b "ESAB Introducing...David Hadjicostas MBE – Essex County Fire & Rescue Service". The safeguarding blog. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015 . Retrieved 27 July 2015. Remove the pan from the heat, and fold in the pasta. (Folding in is a cookery term that basically means ‘gently stir it without mooshing it about too much’.) Tip it into an ovenproof dish, making sure the pasta is pretty much covered in the sauce, add more cheese on top, and optional breadcrumbs if you like that kind of thing, and pop it in the oven at 180C for 45 minutes.

Tip: make a simple "tarty" sauce to dunk the roes in by mixing natural yoghurt with lemon juice and chopped parsley. Peel and finely slice the onion, and add to the pan. Sweat on a low heat for a few minutes until it starts to soften. Tips: if making this soup for little mouths, do not chop the chilli or use the seeds inside. Instead, halve the chilli down the middle and rinse it under a cold tap to remove the seeds, then add to the soup whole during cooking. Remove before blending. Cook on a gentle heat for a few minutes to soften, season with salt, and sprinkle in the flour. Mix briskly so that the flour coats the onions. My small boy loves making the thumbprints in these and spooning in the jam, and it's a happy rainy-day activity to do together.If you like, pulse the soup in a blender until smooth. Serve hot, garnished with a sprig of fresh parsley and a slice of red chilli in each bowl.

This blog is free to those who need it, and always will be, but it does of course incur costs to run and keep it running. If you use it and benefit, enjoy it, and would like to keep it going, please consider popping something in the tip jar, and thankyou. Death threats, sexism and online abuse...three Essex women tell us of the downside to overnight success on TV". The Echo. 12 November 2013. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015 . Retrieved 27 July 2015. Blitz in a blender to achieve your desired consistency. I leave mine a bit chunky but it can be blended smooth. In 2013, Monroe appeared in a six-week advertising campaign for Sainsbury's supermarket. [34] Writing in The Guardian in 2013 Monroe said she had accepted the equivalent of the living wage for the six weeks that the campaign ran and donated the remainder of the fee to charities including a food bank. [35] Monroe appeared on BBC television's late night political programme This Week in June 2015 [36] and again in May 2019. [37] This recipe first appeared in my Guardian column in 2013, where the prices have been helpfully preserved for posterity – and comparison. It is not a vegan recipe, for the purposes of accurately comparing the rise in prices in basic food products over the past five years, but can easily be made vegan by using your favourite brand of vegan sausages. I hope that readers understand why I am choosing to do this – I no longer eat pork sausages, but there are plenty of people who use my old recipes who do, and I cannot accurately demonstrate the rising cost of food without doing it across *all* of my recipes from that particular period of time.I’ve wanted to develop this idea from a mad little kernel in my wild head, into a fully fledged recipe, for several years now, and I’m delighted to finally share it with you. It’s all the fun and flavour of a fish pie, in 15 minutes, in one pan, and it’s an enormous hit in my household. Especially with me, because I do the all of the washing up. It’s not made in the traditional way, and I’m sure that there will be some ruffled fins somewhere about the sacrilege of that, but for the convenience and speed and general simplicity of it, it’s worth upsetting a few people. They’re not exactly breaking my door down to scrub my pans anyway. First peel and very finely chop the onion and garlic. If you have a bullet blender, magimix or small chopper, you might like to use it here. If you haven’t, don’t worry, it’s simple enough to do by hand. Toss into a large pan (either a saucepan or a shallow frying pan will do) with the oil and salt, and bring to a medium heat for a few minutes. Now turn your oven on to 180C, and grab a suitable dish, one that looks like it will hold the same amount of lentil-mushroom-ragu that you have. Spread a layer of ragu into the bottom of the dish to cover it. Lay lasagne sheets over the top, leaving no gaps between them if you can help it. Spread a thin layer of white sauce onto the dry pasta. Then repeat: ragu, pasta, sauce, until the ragu is all used up. Top with a final layer of pasta sheets, then a generous layer of white sauce, carefully spreading it right to the edges. Sprinkle breadcrumbs generously across the top, and carefully place into the centre of the oven. Bake for 40 minutes, until golden and crisp around the edges. A knife inserted into the middle should go through the pasta easily. If not, bake for a further 10 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4, and lightly grease a baking sheet in preparation. Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl with a wooden spoon until softened and well combined. Add the egg yolk and the peanut butter, and mix until the peanut butter is evenly distributed through the mixture. Spoon in the flour and stir to make a soft dough.