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Cooking for the freezer - vegetarian

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  • Galtizz
    Galtizz Posts: 1,016 Forumite
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    Vegetable lasagnes

    Slice up veg (whatever, I used just corgette and a bit of carrot but you can use whatever you have)
    Put in a pan with a tin or 2 of tomatoes and some garlic and herbs,
    When nearly cooked build into a lasagne, finishing with a pasta layer.
    Pour cheese sauce over the top covering all of the pasta.

    Leek and cheese lasagne

    Chop up leeks (2.2lbs)
    Melt 12oz butter in a pan
    Add leeks
    Cook for about 10mins till cooked.
    Drain the leeks over a bowl, saving the buttery juice
    Build lasagne with a layer of pasta then leeks, grated cheese, 1tsp thyme (you can use any herb, but recipe says thyme) then pasta etc. finishing with a layer of leeks and making sure the leeks cover the pasta.
    Put buttery juice into a measuring jug and make up to 12floz with hot water
    Pour around the edge of the lasagne sheets (if you pour it in the middle the leeks move).

    This is really nice and quite cheap too. Don't use too much cheese or it can be a bit rich (can't remember the amount given in the recipe sorry)
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  • savvy
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    Hmmm just having stir fry tonight, and thought what if you pre-prepared the veggies and them froze them? You could freeze a mix of sliced carrots, cabbage, onion, pepper, courgette etc. Not sure if beansprouts and mushrooms would freeze well. I put tofu, sea salad, cashew nuts, and sesame seeds in mine too, not sure about freezing though.

    Anyway they sell these bags of frozen stir fry veggies in supermarkets, but this way you get what you want. Then all you would have to do is chuck the noodles in for 4 mins, and add spices etc to the veggies. Might work :confused:
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  • ksh123
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    it seems that most of the free recipe pages are from american sites. What do all you cooks use when the recipe calls for a 'cup' of something, or even a third of a cup? I don't know how to translate that measurement.
    thanks
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  • tiff
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    Theres a post on here somewhere where someone listed measurement conversions, but I bought some American measuring cups, you can get them in Tesco and probably other supermarkets. Its just so much easier to get a set of cups out than my scales which live in the back of the cupboard.
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  • Galtizz
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    ksh123 wrote:
    it seems that most of the free recipe pages are from american sites. What do all you cooks use when the recipe calls for a 'cup' of something, or even a third of a cup? I don't know how to translate that measurement.
    thanks

    I think 1 american cup is 274ml I use my measuring jug and fill it up to that point (roughly)
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    Ah but a cup of flour wont be the same weight as a cup of carrots say, will it?
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  • Galtizz
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    It won't but it's 274millilitres (sp?) which is volume not weight. I use a measuring jug up to the 274ml(ish) mark to measure out carrots, flour, stock, chocolate chips or anything else that needs cup measurements.
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    Oh right, I see. Sorry I'm not the brightest spark sometimes!
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  • ksh123
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    thanks folks, that's really helpful, and I'll look into the Tesco measuring cups too.
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  • savvy
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    Galtizz wrote:
    It won't but it's 274millilitres (sp?) which is volume not weight. I use a measuring jug up to the 274ml(ish) mark to measure out carrots, flour, stock, chocolate chips or anything else that needs cup measurements.
    Some jugs do have the cups measurement on the side anyway.
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