Thank you for all your comments about the Minders job, I'm so relieved he was successful & it will save us a lot of money.
Now on to the bacon scraps, I'm sure you all know about rubber chicken, it's something I do regularly. I make one chicken do for a roast dinner, then a chicken & ham pie, pasta bake, special fried rice & finally soup. Sometimes I use bacon scraps instead of ham in the chicken pies, I can buy a bag of scraps for 99p & this is what I make. I use about a quarter of the pack in the chicken pie & pasta bake.
I use another quarter to make bacon hotpot, fry the bacon scraps, layer the bacon in a dish with sliced potato & onion, starting & finishing with a potato layer. Make a thinnish white sauce & pour over the layers, sprinkle with breadcrumbs cook in the oven til the potato is cooked through & the top is crunchy.
Breakfast toad, This is like toad in the hole, but uses fewer sausages, cook another portion of the bacon scraps along with some sausages. Cut the sausages into 3, scatter the sausage pieces, bacon scraps & some mushrooms in a metal dish, pour over batter cook as for normal toad.
Minestrone soup Fry the bacon in a large heavy based pan, add a pint of water, any veg sulking in the corner of the fridge cook until veg are done, add 2 tins of tomatoes & some tinned beans even cheapy baked beans will do & some oregano, serve hot with chunks of bread.
Of course the scraps can also be used for bacon sarnies, quiche & omelets.
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You are so inventive. My Mum used to make a similar hot pot but she would add a layer or two of tinned corn. It was lovely.
great recipes. where do you get the bacon scraps from?
All of the supermarkets by us have gone over to having packets of "cooking bacon" chopped up in little pieces. That means if the batch of bacon is quite fatty, you can't trim some of it off. I've recently found a butcher who sells 2lb bags of cooking bacon unchopped which I prefer. It means that I can remove any decent short rashers to use as bacon, trim fat off the rest and chop into any size I want.
We do bacon, onion and hotpot too. We learned it from Jocasta Innes' Pauper's Cookbook which I was given when I was a student in the seventies. We also make a load of meals with bacon in and find them both tasty and economical. Stirfry with a reduced pack of beansprouts and various other bits of veg is a favourite too
I love bacon hotpot. My mother use to make it. Jo is right about the supermarkets I get my bacon bits from the market, good usabe pieces of bacon.
Sue x
I wish I could eat bacon. Still having problems since my gall bladder was removed
Cheese soup - soften some onion, carrot and bacon, add @ tbsp plain flour cook for a minute, add @ pint of stock, mustard powder to taste, marmite if inclined, mixed herbs, simmer 20 mins. Add grated cheese. Works really well without cheese. Cooking bacon is a lifesaver for me. I also add it to my left over cooked chicken stir fried with veggies and condensed chicken soup added. Also bendy veg soup. Also omlet filling... I love bacon scraps.
great ideas......
Gill
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