Ready Steady Cook
One of the advantages of going on exercise to Poland was that we'd stocked our vehicle up with some 'real' food to supplement the rations we'd get.3 days into a rather boring exercise and it was my turn to cook.
Preparation Time: 5 mins.
Cooking Time: 10 mins.
Eating Time: about 90 seconds.
Ingredients:
Pasta - any sort will do.
1 x tin of frankfurter sausages
2 x onions
1 x clove of garlic
1 x can Heinz tomato soup
Dried Mixed Herbs
Dried Chilli Flakes
- Boil some water and put your pasta on to cook.
- Slice your sausage, onion and garlic. Fry.
- Once your pasta is cooked, chuck the contents of your frying pan in with the pasta.
- Add tomato soup and season with your herbs and chilli flakes.
- Warm through.
fired down the range by DC at 6:32 pm
16 Comments:
Ooh. I have all of those ingredients at home RIGHT NOW.
If only my selfish family wasn't insisting on roast turkey breast.
Katy - ah well there's always tomorrow.
I won't say what I'm thinking about British cooking. I really won't.
i remember being on exercise and what in normal circumstances would look and taste revolting suddenly took on haute cuisine type standards, filled you up and did wonders for morale
No sauce so fine as hunger, I guess.
How is it that army food's more complicated than my dinners? *Tries to remember what non-prechopped-and-bottled onions and garlic look like*
God, student (or rather, my) cooking is depressing.
I remember (many) years ago, when compo was issued i.e. tins of ready cooked food had to be reheated.
We usually managed to find at endex, that we had all sorts of things left over.
Aha! Time for all-in-stew.
Just what it says, tins of M&V (meat and veg), oatmeal blocks, cheese, hardtack, whatever we had left, chuck it in a pan and heat.
Every time we did it, it tasted different, but every time we did it it was fantastic.
Foilwoman - as Hugh says below things can take on a different slant when you've been eating rations for a while. British cuisine these days is actually really good and varied.
Hugh - spot on.
Jamie - don't you students just live on tofu or something like that?
Pete - I've had a few good "all-in's" as well. And sometimes "All In Curry" which was the same with half a bottle of tabasco added for effect.
is that you ? :-)
That dish needs a name!
Paul
You'd pay £50 for that in Jamie Olivers "15", and probably wait 30 minutes whilst the fat-tongued freak over-cooked it too.
Univ. Soldier: I've actually had many nice meals in Britain, although I am still recovering from seeing someone actually order and eat creamed corn on a pizza (a rather strongly worded post about that in the early days of my blog). Aside from the sad abuse of pizza (obviously not taken seriously enough as a crime against nature), no actually complaints from me about British food.
One more for the student cookbook. :)
FJL - if only :)
Laura - at home I'm a bit of foodie but you are right - it all depends on the occasion.
Savante - Pasta al Frankfurter?
Eggbanjo - I've suffered from someone who liked far more tabasco than is healthy.
Foilwoman - I'd definitely agree with you on the corn thing.
Z - maybe I should turn my blog recipes into a book and win a prize with lots of money - oh on second thoughts someone just did that didn't they?
Chilli always spices things up.
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