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With skyrocketing electricity prices my oven gets very little use at the moment. Maybe one day.
Do you know Pigs In blankets? My adopted son's favourites: sausages wrapped in bacon :)
Now I cook just for myself I invested in a little Remoska, its great. Cooks / bakes just about everything, does chicken really well. Very economical to run and easy clean. My oven days usually are to do baked egg custard and gingerbread at fairly low temps in my small oven. The big oven gets used when I make a cheese souffle, which is not that often. Gone are the days when I cooked up feasts for multitudes.
Custard is dead simple: get a glazed ovenproof dish place inside another filled with hot water (bain-marie), warm in the oven (140-150c) Heat 1 pint of milk to just below boiling point. Beat 2 eggs with sweetener (I use Xylitol instead of sugar), add vanilla if like. Pour on the milk, stir and pour into warmed dish in the oven. I add sprigs of lemon balm or grate nutmeg on top. Bake for 45mins - 1 hour until set. This gives a firm custard (like creme brulee), I tend to use 1 large egg to get a lighter consistency.
Do you mean the pigs? Dead easy: string sausages wrapped in bacon. There's also Toad In The Hole where you bake then in a batter.