Kitchenwitch cookery
Ranked #12,255 in Food & Cooking, #218,006 overall | Donates to Women's Peace Campaign
Cooking with NanLT
Over time, here at Squidoo and now elsewhere, I have been promoting good, wholesome home cooking using seasonal and local produce. My recipes are easy to follow for even the least confident cook and create delicious meals which can be enjoyed by the whole family.
This cooking lensography has been split into several pages, you can reach them via the handy tabs at the top of each page, or by clicking between the pages using this handy box which can be found at the top of each page.
Table of Contents
Home - Roast Dinners | Leftovers & Frugal Cooking
Side Dishes & Accompaniments | Seasonal Dishes
Puddings, Desserts, & Treats | Recipe Resources & Politics
Roasts
Table of Contents
Roast Dinners
Recipe Cards
We love roast dinners
Nothing can beat sitting down to eat a roast dinner with friends and family. Besides tasting good, Sunday lunch gives us a day during the week when we can sit down together as a family and have a good meal.We clear the dining table of whatever project the boys might be doing that week, pull out the serving dishes (well, the various casserole dishes), and sit down together at the table.
Daddy carves the meat using the carving knife and fork handed down to him by his grandfather. Mummy dishes up the sides for little boys. Pour a glass of wine.
Cheers!
Frugal Meals Table of Contents
When pennies count
Creating filling meals for a busy family
During the week, I use up leftovers from our Sunday roast and plan meals around whatever is planned for the week. Trying to accommodate the tastes of two adults and two children with varying degrees of Asperger's Syndrome who both have particular food issues.One won't eat cooked carrots and cannot tolerate any sauces or gravies or his foods being mixed together. The other has to top and tail any food he gets before eating it.
I do not want to cook two meals, or three, so I have gotten creative in working around their food issues. Before making a meat pie, for instance, I will pull out meat, veg, and potatoes and keep those aside on a plate to be reheated before eating for Thing 1. He does like some pastry, so if we have a pastry crust we will cut out shapes and cook those separately for him to have on his plate. When we have carrots I always leave a couple to the side for him.
My husband travels frequently, so I have to plan around his travel schedule as well. I don't want to be stuck with too many leftovers or plans for larger dishes when he isn't here. That is when I tend to fall back on the simpler dishes.
Leftovers and Frugal Cooking
frugal meals during a busy week
a great way to use up leftover roasts
Ethnic dishes
when minutes count
Casserole dishes
Amazingly versatile
Table of Contents
A Little Something on the Side
Sides Make the Meal
There never seems to be much focus on side dishes, but they really do make the meal.I know that I associate different vegetables with different dishes. Broad beans with gammon. Green beans with fried chicken. Peas and corn with shepherd's pie.
We have to have applesauce with pork dishes, chutney and baked beans with sausages, and bread sauce with roast chicken and turkey. They go together.
I fully admit that I don't get very imaginative when it comes to vegetables. Steamed or lightly boiled with a small bit of butter over the top is good enough for me. I go with the idea that good food doesn't need lot of fancying up, and I know I am using very good vegetables.
Side Dishes and Accompaniments
rounding off the meal
Helpful Hints and Recipes
- Allrecipes - UK site
- Reader submitted recipes
- All recipes - US site
- Reader submitted recipes
- Welcome to The Foody UK and Ireland
- The Foody UK and Ireland all that's best in British food
- Cooking Videos & Video Recipes from Chefs and Users at lookandtaste.com - Look and Taste
- Online cooking videos at lookandtaste.com. Our website provides video recipes, chefs videos, healthy food tips, cooking tutorials and much more. We help nurture and develop people's love of food. Learn how to cook with lookandtaste.com
- My Supermarket
- mySupermarket makes supermarket price comparison easier for you. Compare supermarket prices & save money while shopping from Tesco, ASDA, Sainsbury's or Ocado
- Online Conversion - Various Cooking Conversions and Calculators
- For all your converting needs
Kitchen wear
A cook needs a good pinny.
Table of Contents
Seasonal Cooking
Seasonal Foods Taste Better
Do you agree?
I try to buy foods when they are in season as much as possible. They taste better, they look better, they're more nutritious, and they cost less.
But, what do you think?
Do foods eaten when they are in season taste better than those grown and eaten out of season?
Definitely! Seasonal foods have a better flavour
NanLT says:
Absolutely, they taste better!
No! I've never noticed any difference in taste
Seasonal Dishes
Autumn
Talking Seasonal Cooking
Seasonal Cook Book
Table of Contents
After Meal Treats
Much to my family's dismay, I don't make puddings and desserts very often. Quite frankly, by the time we get to the end of a meal, I'm too full to eat one anyway.Anyway, this way the after meal treat really is a treat. Something we all can enjoy and look forward to.
after dinner drinks
Puddings, Desserts, and Treats
Desserts from Allposters
Table of Contents
Resources and Politics of Eating
The Politics of Food
Whether we like it or not, food and politics are firmly entrenched. Every decision we make in the grocery store reflects upon these politics.Free range / Organic / Traditionally grown (meaning the way foods are produced for eating these days) / where we shop / what we buy
It is all political.
I've made my decisions. You have to make your own as well.
Recipes, Resources, and Making It Political
Please Sign My Cookbook
Let me know you were here
-
-
OhMe Jan 22, 2012 @ 6:23 am | delete
- This wonderful Cooking Lensography sure makes me hungry.
-
-
-
capriliz
Oct 21, 2010 @ 11:37 am | delete
- Oh, you have so many delicious looking recipes! I can smell the roast beef now.
-
-
-
pkmcr Aug 19, 2010 @ 1:30 pm | delete
- Who could resist a lens that has a British Roast Beef Dinner in it! Great lens and super use of the multipage format
-
-
-
vallain Aug 3, 2010 @ 3:14 pm | delete
- I love the table of contents on each page. Sure makes it easy to navigate.
-
-
-
jptanabe
May 7, 2010 @ 4:51 pm | delete
- Goodness you've made me hungry! I can almost smell your delicious food - great job.
-
-
-
skiesgreen
Nov 4, 2009 @ 10:42 pm | delete
- Beautiful lens. We used to have Sunday roasts in Australia but its far too hot in summer and too busy in winter for them now. But we do manage a good meal 5* and fave. You can set me a place at your table anytime,.
-
-
-
susannaduffy
Jun 23, 2009 @ 6:27 pm | delete
- I love your work - I never know what I'm going to find in there. Can I come over to dinner at your house?
-
-
-
EverythingMouse May 22, 2009 @ 3:02 pm | delete
- Beautifully illustrated and well written. Now I feel hungry!
-
-
-
tdove
Apr 6, 2009 @ 12:45 pm | delete
- Thanks for joining G Rated Lense Factory!
-
-
-
Treasures-By-Brenda
Apr 6, 2009 @ 8:51 am | delete
- Great work on your recipe lensography! I love your kitchen witch, too.
Welcome to the Culinary Favorites From A to Z group! Don't forget to come back and add your lens to the lens link in the group.
Brenda
-
- Load More
The Food For Everyone Foundation's mission is to teach and assist families everywhere to grow successful and sustainable vegetable gardens, and really enjoy the experience.
About the Author
More Kitchen Witch Cooking
by NanLT
NanLT lives with her family in the United Kingdom. Over the years she has cooked thousands of meals and she is sharing them here with you now.
Pleas...
more »
- 221 featured lenses
- Winner of 24 trophies!
- Top lens » Ben 10: Colouring Pages
- This lens »
Won purple star
Explore related pages
- Yorkshire Pudding - How do you eat yours? Yorkshire Pudding - How do you eat yours?
- Mrs Beetons recipes for Tartlets Mrs Beetons recipes for Tartlets
- Traditional English Food And Recipes Discover Cumbrian Cookery Traditional English Food And Recipes Discover Cumbrian Cookery
- English Food Explained English Food Explained
- Pub Grub Pub Grub
- Mrs Beetons Recipes for Bread Puddings Mrs Beetons Recipes for Bread Puddings
Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course (Vol 1-3)
Delia's Complete Cookery Course: The Classic Edition (Vol 1-3)
Amazon Price: (as of 06/02/2012)
From Wikipedia:
Delia Smith CBE (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for her interest in teaching basic cookery skills. She is the UK's best-selling cookery author, with more than 21 million copies sold.
The Hairy Bikers
They make cooking look easy
Mums Know Best (Hairy Bikers)
Amazon Price: $24.01 (as of 06/02/2012)
Si and Dave undertake a nationwide search for Britain's lost recipes - those forgotten gems or secret scribbles handed down through the generations - for a landmark TV series. The Bikers send out a call-to-arms for mums, daughters and their grandmothers to unlock their private recipe archives and share with, and learn from, other mums of all races and backgrounds. This is a heart-warming and down-to-earth recipe book that takes place against beautiful British backdrops throughout the summer. Here yummy mummies, Northern matriarchs, West Indian foster mums and ladies of the manor all come together with recipes to share, tips to swap and techniques to learn, in a book that contains 112 different recipes.
The Hairy Bikers' Best-Loved Recipes: Mums Still Know Best
Amazon Price: $23.88 (as of 06/02/2012)
When Hairy Bikers Si and Dave toured the UK in search of ordinary moms and their families' favorite recipes, they had no idea they would unearth such a wealth of talent, tradition, and nostalgia. So began their search for best-loved dishes. This beautiful cookbook brings together more than 100 of the nation's favorite recipes from the season two of BBC2's Mums Know Best. It includes Si and Dave's personal family recipes as well as their favorite recipes that they discovered through the mums they meet and the recipe fairs they hold. Episodes include Comforting Food, High Tea, School Dinners, and Al Fresco. An irresistible collection of recipes that will inspire readers to keep cooking with love for the people that matter to them most.
