5 cheating italian Recipes

chicken thighs , excess fat and skin removed, oil, oil, i small rib celery, chopped small, leek, sliced, onion, halved and sliced, chestnut mushrooms, sliced, carrots, sliced, baby potatoes, skins on, halved, pack cubetti di pancetta (200g, just over 7 oz.), or use thick cut unsmoked bacon cut in small pieces, garlic minced, italian style herbs, hot stock, any kind (see below ), mixed dried mushrooms (porcini, chanterelle, shiitake etc), i cheated and used some chicken gravy granules (bisto best roast chicken gravy), about 4 rounded tsp. (to thicken and season).

ground beef, five brothers roasted garlic and onion pasta sauce, italian sausage (i use cabanassi), cheese, butter, flour, milk, salt, pepper, mixed herbs, pasta (i use lasagnette), onion, garlic cloves, minced

i box white cake mix ( i use duncan hines), water, oil, egg whites, coconut, chopped pecans, cream cheese frosting (i usually make 1 1/2 batches), cream cheese room temperature, butter room temperature, powered sugar, vanilla

dried borlotti beans , soaked overnight in cold water (you can cheat and use 1 x 400g tin of borlotti or cannellini beans if you want), olive oil, onion, roughly chopped, garlic cloves, roughly chopped, stalks celery, roughly sliced, dried basil, dried oregano, dried sage, dried thyme, brown button mushrooms or 150 g portabella mushrooms, roughly chopped, courgettes, roughly sliced, tomatoes, & juice , roughly pulped, good quality vegetable stock, red wine, salt & freshly ground black pepper, plain flour, butter, softened, lamb chops