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I’m not really a great fan of TV cookery programmes, but I have to admit I have a soft spot for Nigel Slater. He just seems to be more in touch with the real world. I really enjoyed his “Simple Suppers” series that was on recently: and it’s still available on iplayer. One of his recipes from the series was “Tidy Friday Pan Fry” which basically used up the last contents of the fridge at the end of the week. Even though it’s Monday I’ve taken inspiration from this idea and come up with “Hungry Monday Pan Fry” which used stuff I had in the fridge. It is completely flexibly and could easily be made vegetarian by omitting the bacon and adding, say, some mushrooms or whatever else you have.


Hungry Monday Pan Fry

1 onion, finely chopped
4 rashers of bacon, chopped into small lardon
4 small potatoes
½ dozen cherry tomatoes
½ small cabbage finely shredded

Cut the potatoes into quarters and put into a pan of cold water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for about 15 minutes – until just done.

Meanwhile put some oil into a medium frying pan and when it has heated add the bacon bits and cook until crispy. Remove the bacon from the pan and put to one side. Now add the onions to the pan and fry until softened.

By this time the potatoes should be ready, cut them into smaller chunks and add them to the onion mixture, and continue to fry gently.

Now put the cabbage into a separate saucepan and cook until just done (probably only a couple of minutes). In theory you should now add the bacon, tomatoes and cabbage into the frying pan and fry for a couple of minutes, possibly increasing the heat until things start to crisp. However, I didn’t have enough room left in the pan so I just served the cabbage on the side!

Serve with lots of nice wholegrain mustard.

And sorry there are no photos, but it was cold and snowy – and we were very hungry!!!








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