Something from "nothing"

Thanks, you have all given me some ideas to pass onto DD who felt she was running through the same old meals week in and week out.

A very good store cupboard standby is a tin of ratatouille. By adding different herbs or spices, plus whatever else you might have to hand, it can make the basis of a pasta sauce or curry.

A meal made in a hurry may moons ago when I forgot to buy potatoes -and it remains a family favourite. We were meant to be having gammon rashers, sweetcorn and potatoes, but as I said, no potatoes. I cooked about 1 - 2 oz of rice each, stirred the sweetcorn and some butter into it, made some cheese sauce and we had gammon rashers with rice-and-sweetcorn with a couple of spoons of cheese sauce to bring the twoi together.