The Tesco's Challenge: 2nd Tesco's order and Gammon cheese and onion flan

Well it is Tuesday, and the Tesco's order was put in last night for delivery today.

So what have I got left from the previous week shopping:

4 Chicken breasts
4 pork shoulder steaks
1 Gammon Streak
500g of pork sausage meat
Chillies - which I have chopped up and frozen, they are easy to pull apart and use
9 eggs
1 very very large piece of ginger (I got the order wrong on the weight), so I am going to store it in the freezer cut into usable chunks for when I need it - http://www.wikihow.com/Store-Ginger
500g of cheddar cheese
110g of pecorino cheese
6 Onions
750g butter
2 bulbs of garlic
825g of Trex
250g of Halloumi
765g of mature Cheddar cheese
300g Un-smoked thick cut back bacon
1.065 KG pork belly
1.3 KG white potatoes
1 KG long grain rice
3.7KG Strong white bread flour

Food wastage this week - 169g of Cabbage

Total cost of this weeks food order- £23.41p

Items on this weeks food order:

2 X Tesco Salad Onions Bunch - £1.34
800g Tesco Beef Steak Mince - £2.74
1 X Tesco Green Cabbage - £0.76p
400g Tesco Everyday Value Closed Cup Mushrooms - £0.95p
400g Tesco Fresh Beef Casserole Steak - £3.30p
500g Pre-Packed Leeks - £1.70p
600g Tesco Unsmoked Thick Cut Back Bacon £4.00p
2.5KG White Potatoes - £1.35p
Tesco Mixed peppers 3 pack - £1.65p
6 Tesco Free Range Medium Eggs - £1.48p
500g of Tesco Everyday Value Penne Pasta - £0.30p
250g Tesco everyday Value Lasagne Sheets - £0.39p
3 Pack Tesco Organic Garlic - £0.90p
4 Loose Brown Onions - £0.46p
2 Loose baking potatoes - £0.64p
5 Loose Carrots - £0.44p
1.1KG of Green beans - £1.00p - Yes you have read this right !!

I now have a problem - I asked for 50 loose green beans, Tesco substituted this and I now have 5 bags of 220g green beans, which would have cost £5 but they charged me £1 in a price match. The problem is what the hell am I going to do with them all.......

So last night my mind turned to tonight's tea, and whilst I was digging through the freezer , I came across a lone 250g un-smoked gammon steak hiding at the back of the freezer, which I got for my wife when I went on a two week walk, so out it came, to defrost overnight. The good thing about this recipe is you can use whatever you have as the filling.

Gammon Cheese and Onion flan

Serves 4 people
Cost - approx £2.00
Ingredients:

250g of Gammon
1 onion - thinly sliced
2 TSP of oil
250g of plain flour
125g of butter
Pinch of salt
approx 100 ML of Cold water
2 medium eggs
150 ml of milk
1 TSP of mustard powder
Salt and pepper
65g of grated Cheddar cheese

Method:

Trim and cut the meat into small cubes
In a frying pan add a little oil and heat gently, add the onions and allow to cook on a low heat for about 20 minutes or until very soft and translucent, stirring occasionally so they do not burn. Once cooked remove with a slotted spoon and set aside
Turn up the heat a little and add the meat to the frying pan, and cook the meat through until slightly browned. Once cooked remove with a slotted spoon and add the meat to the onions and mix
For the pastry, add the flour to a large bowl and add the butter and salt, and gently rub in until the butter and the flour look like fine breadcrumbs
Take a TBLSP and add one TBLSP of water one at a time, mix with a knife until the mixture comes together and you can form a ball of dough with your hand
Wrap the dough in cling film and put in the fridge for at least 30 minutes
Grease a flan dish
To roll out the pastry, take a sheet of grease proof paper and lightly sprinkle with flour. Place the dough in the centre and flatten , sprinkle the top of the dough with a little flour and roll out, until it is large enough to line the base and sides of the flan dish. The benefit of the grease proof paper is that you should be able to pick up the paper with the pastry on it and turn it over, rather than trying to get it of the bench
After the flan dish is lined with the pastry pop it back in the fridge for 30 minutes, then trim the edges. Note - you could blind bake the pastry for a crispy base, but I like it unbaked
In a bowl whisk the eggs, milk, salt and pepper and mustard well
Take half the cheese, and sprinkle onto the base, then add the gammon and onions, pour in the whisked eggs and milk, and then sprinkle the rest of the cheese onto
Place in a pre-heated oven 220 Degree C, and bake for 40 minutes
Cool on a wire rack and enjoy !