[pgkevet]

Another cheap quickie;
Finely chop a punnet of chestnut muchrooms, two large onions and 2 slices of bread - really chop it all fine. Mix with  a pound of beef mince (preferably the cheaper higher fat sort - this is tasty not heathy). Powder an oxo cube into it, a goodly dollop of salt and black pepper - mix it all up and throw in an egg and mix some more. Squash that into patties between your palms.. with my size hands i end up with 8 goodly sized burgers slow fried. The bread will hold juices into the pattie.

For the ultimate indulgence use a perforated spoon to collect all the scraps onto one slice of bread, a spoon of the waste cooking oil onto that and another slice of bread for a burger sandwich - a perfect 3 am snack followed by some real coffee (I just perked a 50:50 mix of kenyan and columbian)

[DavidandCollette]

I'm just off to get some mince..........

[Womble]

I just perked a 50:50 mix of kenyan and columbian

At 4AM after making burgers!?! 

[pgkevet]

I just perked a 50:50 mix of kenyan and columbian

At 4AM after making burgers!?! 

It was sunny yesterday. I knackered myself getting the petrol chipper running and stuffing huge numbers of thick branches through it... was so crocked and muscle spasm'ed that i crashed out 6pm and woke 12.30am so i thought I might as well do some cooking and made myself a 4 day supply of food.....

...it's OK for you fit youngsters without stuffed backs....

[Maysie]

I wish I hadn't just read this, at lunchtime, with nothing in our fridge!