50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

shaz_mum_of__2

Its quiet on here but i had trouble getting page to load so maybe a site prob


Anyway had hubby slaving away in garden pulling up the runner beans and digging over the bed got some curly kale to plant in there later

doing a proper roast dinner

gammon (free from the farm shop when i bought the side of beef,probably because i bought so much)

roast potatoes, the last few runner beans, the first of the chard carrots (shop bought) and home made yorkshires a la Jamie O and also having home grown apples baked with an oat,dried fruit,brown sugar,syrup and butter filling with whoopsie cream....................yummy

I always do onion sauce instead of gravy with gammon

HELP
Got loads of beetroot to dig up but not sure what to do with it i have 4 big jars of pickled already and i prefer it without vinegar,Does it freeze??

i have a soup recipe but got way too much for that !!!


off to plant said kale TTFN

Shaz

boredofbeingathome

Bunny200 wrote: »

I've just managed to buy an old Kenwood Chef on ebay, I'm soooooo excited, how sad! I've been lusting after one for a while, (the Lakeland catalogue is like !!!!!! for me!) but can't justify the cost, started looking at second hand ones and even if it dies in a while at least I'll know whether its worth me buying a brand new one! Right it'll be cakes and pastries all they way to xmas now! Not very 50p had to share!!:rotfl:


......Off to find some recipes and wait by the door for the postman:o

I have a kenwood chef and i wouldn't be without it..hope you get lots of good use out of it.

Lesley_Gaye

Shaz - beetroot is delicious just roasted with a little bit of olive oil, crunchy salt and maybe some sage leaves. I had it in a pub once where they had roasted it with some herbs and put it in a rosemary pastry case with slow cooked balsamic onions, historic!

got-it-spend-it

Shaz I had a divine beetroot rissotto at the River Cottage canteen in Devon. I don't have a recipe but the earthiness of the beetroot works really well in it. Found a recipe here but can't vouch personally for it...http://www.recipezaar.com/11830

catnap53

I was watching 'What to eat now' yesterday, and was looking up some of the recipes, pumpkin, onion and beetroot. Found some beetroot recipes on BBC food

I want to make onion tart, but stirring for 30 minutes is a bit too much for me.

Zzzz

vickiem30

I've posted this somewhere before, but my favourite beetroot recipe is one from the guardian.

Fry an onion in slice and layer sliced beetroot and the sliced onion. pout cream over and bake in a reasonably hot oven for half an hour. Not the healthiest recipe ever, but really nice.

shaz_mum_of__2

Thanls for the beetroot recipes guys i will try the risotto got it spend it and the roated with onion tart thing lesley as i have all the ingredients

Anyone know if pony carrots are edible for us humans ??? got some really cheap in our garden centre and they just look like mucky carrots.............do they keep well too?

Got a sack of spuds and onions already if i get carrots i will hardly need any veg over winter as the garden is still going strong and lots still to come only need cucumbers and mushrooms and the odd celery bunch plus bananas (got apples and pears stored

Shopping bill doesn't seem to be going down much though i guess it hasn't gone up though!! plus i have been adding xmas presssie bits in to basket


TTFN
Shaz

College today for more fun !!! first presentation today wish me luck

Justamum

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

Anyone know if pony carrots are edible for us humans ??? got some really cheap in our garden centre and they just look like mucky carrots.............do they keep well too?

Aren't they just ones which don't fit the supermarkets' ideas of "perfect" so they are sold as pony carrots rather than being chucked away?

Seakay

I'm sure there's something in the rural thread of the greenfingers forum about horse carrots being fine to eat and a great MSE way of getting cheap veg.

Guapa1

Here's a laugh for you. This weekend I decided to make Weezls no knead bread.

I stir up all the ingredients but cut the quantity down so I had one loaf, and 5 rolls. After searching high and low for the loaf tin I bought from poundland last week, I decided to make it in my rectangular pyrex dish.

Now on the back burners of my (electric) cooker was some soup simmering away then I decided to cook some sweetcorn and potatoes in another pot. So I switched that on, and left the kitchen to sit down. The bread and rolls were rising on the front burner.

About 10 minutes later, I could see smoke coming from the kitchen, and I thought how strange, I went in and I had switched one of the front burners on and the dough was smoking, so I quickly moved the dish off the burner and put it on my chopping board. The chopping board must have had some water on it because the dish exploded as soon as I put it down, so my kitchen was covered in glass and dough!