Just been reminded of something some friends and I discussed a little while ago
as a lot of people, when we were growing up we went through a few hard times, and the parents had to come up with cheap dinner options to keep us going.

these are things that are generally very personal to a family, and are much loved, yet remain slightly embarassing.

This particular one comes from Mrs V's mum, who was aghast to find that we still eat it with gusto.

take one tin of corned beef and mash with one tin of baked beans.

roll out ready-made puff pastry and put the beef and bean mixture onto one side of it.

roll the other half of pastry over the top, slash the top and bake until golden brown.

Devour.

incredibly cheap, fine dining :-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:47, 19 replies)

I have all of those ingredients.
I may have to try this.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:50, closed)

Hehe...
It's corned beef hash, in a pie!

Genius!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:50, closed)

Whack some cheese in there too!
Mmmmmm....
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:51, closed)

Excellent.
That's dinner sorted.
( Moey, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 15:57, closed)

ha ha!
Inedibly cheap!
(ice9, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:06, closed)

You were posh
I had it without the pastry...

*goes off to root around in cupboard for tin of corned beef*
(rockdoctor, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:11, closed)

Patent that
... and flog the option to Fray Bentos. I'd much rather eat corned beef / beans filling than the fucking dog meat they call 'Steak & Kidney'

*retches*
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:11, closed)

Beats my student effort:
Half a pan of rice.

Whole pan of water.

Boil until soft.

Drain.

Liberally add Soy Sauce.

Eat over the course of the week....
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:14, closed)

I had a similar thing...
Cook up a load of cous cous.

Drain.

Add as many sachets of mint sauce as you could steal from the pub.

*blushes*
( Cawl, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:19, closed)

I am the winner
1. instant mash
2. far more water than is needed for said mash
3. potato soup!

*severs artery*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 13:08, closed)

SSSSHHHHHH
....don't tell Greggs
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:14, closed)

We
Did and still do, do something very similar with sausage meat.
Take one greased pryrex dish, roll pastry over bowl to form bottom and sides of pie - then fill the pie with sausage meat till you're about half an inch from top. Then tip a tin of beans over the sausage meat (or if your're really classy a tin of heinz barbecue flavour beans). Liberally season with pepper and salt then use the rest of the pastry for the top of the pie.

About an hour at 180-200 degrees in the oven and - voila! Sausage and bean pie! Food of the gods...
(uk_viper stopped lurking on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:25, closed)

Oooh,
That sounds amazing too!

I'm gonna have to buy some pastry.
Fantastic!
( Cawl, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:29, closed)

Enjoy!
But beware - it is horribly, horribly addictive and probably not very good for you either - same as all good things... :-)
(uk_viper stopped lurking on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:39, closed)

Actually...
That sounds pretty good - I can finally sneak mah beans into dinner without having to eat them alone...Thanks! That's super creative.
(aeon chicken Like the Millenium Falcon, only slower and noisier, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 18:32, closed)

This...
...sounds delicious.

And more nutritious than what I've eaten so far today...half a box of crunchy nut cornflakes and a chocolate orange.

I dare anyone to say they miss being a student!
(Holloway_Girl To err is to be human, to be a fool is to believe, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 19:04, closed)

I'm inspired!
I'm making apple and cherry pies today, so I'll have crust left over. Will this work with regular pie crust, not puff pastry?

I'll try it tomight and let you know how the nippers liked it...
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 24 Oct 2008, 21:25, closed)

We used to get that for school dinners
the dinner ladies named it "cow boy pie".
(lympicita_ie, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 2:25, closed)

Ready made pastry?
Posh bastard.
(simon shitting mason, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 15:41, closed)