I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Edwardia wrote: »

OH just handed me some clotted cream ice cream mmm

Yum. Waaitrose used to do the most own-brand delicious clotted crean and strawberry ice-cream but I haven't seen iit for years! It was very sweet, very creamy and very dreamy .

ETA: just seen it on MySupermarket for £2.49/L, now with a cow on the pacakging. All is well .

Good Morning,

Happy Mothers Day!!! DD burst in my room at 6.30am shoving cards & presents in my face lol, even a balloon :eek: How on earth she hid a balloon without me knowing I have no idea lol

Kirri I did indeed resist the muffins, they are now looking pretty on a stand with a bow waiting for mum who's coming over for lunch

Breakfast was last of the rice krispies (yay another box gone) dd had other cereal
Lunch will be a chicken dinner with swede, carrots, savoy cabbage, roasties, stuffing & yorkshires
Chicken is roasting as I type, it smells great
Dinner will prob be a boiled egg for dd, I doubt I'll have anything after lunch maybe a slice of toast this evening

Another great haul Lyndsey!!

Have a lovely day all if you're a mum or not

BE x

Kirri wrote: »

Thanks Lynsey, it's been a difficult week, I just feel I am being totally ripped off, I am paying almost as much as a relative who has been driving for 1 year!!! Anyway not much I can do about it.. Just hope it goes through the MOT but with my luck probably not!!

I know the feeling Kirri, I have been driving for 18 years with no accidents or points (touch wood) and feel I am being ripped off. When I first passed my test I had my own insurance for years. I left work on maternity leave and my ex-husband and I only had one car then so I was a named driver on his insurance. When I left him and got my own car I took out my own insurance and they charged me as if I was a first time driver as I had lost my own no claims bonus. I was well miffed :mad:

Tracey

lyra wrote: »

what sort of quantities does it make please? Would love to do it for my parents

4kg of carrots reduced down sufficiently to fill a 2L pyrex container, so quite a lot . It took about 90 mins to reduce down, with constant stirring, but I have found a microwave recipe that will save you loads of time: http://showmethecurry.com/desserts/carrot-halwa-gajjar-ka-halwa.html

That amount does last a long time as you only eat a small amount at a time, alternatively you can freeze it. I would suggest reducing the grated carrots until they are really red, and then adding sugar to taste as carrots are naturally sweet anyway. I tend to add a lot less sugar but my parents compensate by warming it and then dousing it with double cream; I prefer it warm with vanilla Carte D'Or.

Had a marathon cook-in today! Made a load of food today so my parents won't have to do much when they get back, and got the deep fryer out for the first time in years! Made piles and piles of broccoli and baby spinach pakoras using some chickpea flour that had been hiding at the back of cupboard for years! Unfortunately my falafel (which I had intended to make in bulk and freeze) were a disaster - I think the mixture was too loose despite following the recipe - which meant that they started to break up in the oil . I fried about a quarter of the mixture before deciding to give up on them - mixed the cooked ones back into the uncooked mixture, piled it into a loaf tin and baked to create a chick-pea loaf. I think I'll freeze it in individual slices and eat with salad as and when.

Then cleaned the house throughly including mopping and polishing the floors which I hate . Knackered but chilling now .

Sofiaki wrote: »

Now pondering about using frozen spinach to make a quiche ... perhaps with mozarella ?

Sounds lovely but I would probably use a mixture of a creamy / soft cheese, and something blue and veiny for a strong flavour. Oh yes I would also recommend squeezing the spinach after you've defrosted it otherwise you'll end up with a soggy bottom!

Hope it turns out well.