Category: Main Meals

500g pork pieces (or more)
2-3 large kumaras
1/4 tspn nutmeg
2-3 cooking apples
1 tspn salt
1/4 cup orange juice

In a hot frying pan, brown the pork pieces.
Peel apples and slice in a casserole dish on top of pork.
Peel and slice kumaras into 1cm slices and arrange on top of pork and apple.
Sprinkle with salt and nutmeg.
Pour over the orange juice and cover with a lid.
Cook in 180C oven for about an hour or until kumaras are tender.

1 medium to large chicken
115g butter
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup celery, chopped
2 rashers lean bacon, chopped
4 tblspns flour
450ml milk
1/4 tspn nutmeg
1/4 to 1/2 tspn dry mustard
1/4 tspn mace
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/8 tspn tobasco sauce
Black pepper

Topping:
2 cups soft fresh bread-crumbs
25g butter
1 tblspn chopped parsley
Pinch mixed herbs
Black pepper

Method:
Simmer the chicken until tender.
Reserve stock.
Remove meat from bones.
Chop up and place into a shallow casserole dish.
Fry onion, celery and bacon in butter until sauteed.
Then add flour and cook for two minutes, stirring constantly.
Slowly add milk and 450mls of the chicken stock.
Bring to the boil.
Season, and pour over the chicken.
Leave until a skin forms over the top.
Cover with topping.

For special occasions, small sausages, tomato wedges and bacon rolls could be used as garnish.

Casserole can be prepared a day before.
Reheat in oven and brown topping.

Cream 50g Butter.
Blend in 1/4 tspn salt, 1 tblspn finely-chopped parsley and 1 tblspn lemon juice.
Very nice with grilled steak or chops.

1 medium turkey (abt 5kg)
1 orange
1 large onion
2 tblspns oilve oil
Salt and pepper
1/4 tspn dried rosemary
1/4 tspn dried oregano
175g melted butter
4-6 slices bacon
1/10L dry white wine
Juice 2 oranges
2 cloves garlic finely chopped
1 tspn chicken stock

Dice the unpeeled orange.
Chop the onion finely.
Toss in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper, rosemary and oregano.

Place turkey in roasting dish and loosely stuff with above mixture.
Brush well all over with melted butter.
Dust with salt and pepper.
Cover breast of turkey with the bacon and to stop it drying out.
Preheat oven to 160C and cook turkey for 30 minutes.

In the meantime, make basting sauce, using rest of melted butter, orange juice, garlic and chicken stock mixed in 1 cup of hot water, salt and pepper.
Baste turkey several times in that first half hour.
Now cover the turkey with tin foil and continue cooking. Baste frequently, i.e. every half hour and replace foil.
Half an hour before turkey is ready, remove foil and bacon.
Takes 3.5-4 hours approx. to cook altogether.
Juices can be used for gravy.

Wholemeal pastry:
1.5 cups wholemeal flour
Pinch salt
90g margarine or butter
2-3 tblspns water

Filling:
250g cottage cheese
225g creamed sweet corn
2 slices ham or bacon
2 eggs
1/2 cup grated cheese
1/3 cup milk
grated nutmeg

Method:
Rub margarine/butter into flour and salt until the mixture resembles bread-crumbs.
Add water and mix to a firm dough.
Turn into a floured board and knead lightly until smooth.
Roll out thinly and line a 20cm flan dish.
Chill 15 minutes.
Mix all filling ingredients in bowl.
Season to taste.
Pour into flan dish.
Smooth the top and bake for 35-40 minutes in oven 190C

1Kg stewing steak
1/4 cup flour
2 tblspns brown sugar
2 tblspns vinegar
2 tblespns tomato sauce
1 tspn curry powder
1/2 tspn ground ginger
1/2 cup water
1 tspn worcester sauce

Mix all together and leave to stand 2 hours before cooking.
Bake at 150C for 2 hours.

Cooking time – 3 hours

500-600g braising steak, trimmed of fat and cut into pieces approx 6cm square.
Place in casserole dish and sprinkle 1/2 cup flour over.
Rub flour into meat and just cover with water.
Add 1 tspn beef stock and 3/4 tspn salt.
Mix well.
Put lid on casserole dish and place in pre-heated oven 160C.
Cook 2 hours.

Next, peel and slice 2 large onions and brown well with 1 tblspn dripping in a frying pan.
Add onions to casserole dish and mix.
More water may be added, but do not add too much extra.
Cook for 1 more hour.
Serve with pumpkin, peas and mashed potato.

Cook 500g mince in your usual way.
Pour into pie dish

Cover while hot with the following batter:
2/3 cup flour
1 egg
1 tspn BP
Small cup milk
Beat until consistency of cream. Add a little more milk if necessary, or flour if too thin.
Stir in 25g melted butter
Pour over meat.

Bake in good oven 180C, till topping is cooked.

500g blade steak
2 cloves garlic
1 x 35g mushroom soup powder
2 tblspns tomato chutney
Seasonings
1/2 cup water
1 tspn all-spice
1/2 cup frozen green beans

Trim fat off meat, cut up and brown in pot with small amount oil.
Add chopped garlic.
Mix soup to a paste with the chutney and add to meat.
Cover and simmer gently for 50 minutes, or till tender.
Add beans and cook a further 8-10 minutes or till beans are cooked.
Serves 4.

6-8 servings (main course)

1.5 cups green split peas
3L water
2 pigs feet
1.5 tspns salt
3 leeks thinly sliced – or – 2 medium white onions sliced
1 stalk celery chopped
3 medium-sized potatoes peeled and cubed
leafy tops of 1 bunch celery
250g piece fat ham – or – 1 large smoked sausage – or – 250g frankfurters sliced
slices of pumpernickel bread

Soak the peas in water to cover overnight.
Drain the peas and place them in a large pan with the water, pigs feet and salt.
Bring to the boil, lower the heat and simmer slowly for 3 hours.
Add the leeks, celery, potatoes and celery tops and simmer another 30 minutes stirring occasionally.
Add sausage or frankfurts and simmer 10 minutes more.
Discard the pigs feet, remove ham, sausage or frankfurters.
Slice sausage and serve on buttered pumpernickel or toast, accompanied by bowls of hot soup.

Mix together: 3 eggs, 1 tablespoon oil, 1 chopped onion, 1/2 cup self-raising flour, 1 cup grated cheese.

Then – Pour over silverbeet or spinach and top with 2 slices bacon.
(Optional: tomatoes, corn, mushrooms, asparagus.)

Bake 3/4 hour at 180C