What's For Dinner Today ???

Private_and_Confidential

Well my wife has been for the weekly shop today, whilst I tiled the downstaires toilet floor.

Upon her return she proceeded to put away the food, and clear out anything that was bin worthy - including 2 Sweet Potatos.... "Nooo" I said as I retrieved them from the bin (they were wrapped).....

Result... I have just made a delicious Sweet Potato and Chillie Soup - Frozen it in portions ready for next weeks lunch.

Recipe...

1 large onion
2 carrots
2 celery sticks
1 garlic clove
1 chilli

Chop all of the above and bosh in a pan with a glug of oil. Cook over medium heat (lid on) for 10 mins, stirring to stop it catching (until all ingrediants are soft).

2 Sweet Potato - cubed
1 ltr veg stock

Bosh in the remaining ingrediants and cook until soft.

Whizz with a "Whizzer" until smooth, season for taste.

:rolleyes: D E L I C I O U S :rolleyes:

CAFCGirl

oh my god P&C, that soup sounds gorgeous..... I love sweet potato, got loads in my fridge....

However I've got no stock, no chilli, no garlic and no celery...

Anyone have any other recipes for a sweet potato soup?!

Just been out and bought stuff for lunches this week, got some filled tortellini reduced, roasted veg pasta sauce, some scotch pancakes, bananas, apples and got some sour cream chive dip for some carrots ive got in the fridge, so pretty healthy-ish for the week.
Also got a roast chicken going so will have any spare meat, cold tomorrow as well... in something....

Private_and_Confidential

CAFCGirl wrote: »

oh my god P&C, that soup sounds gorgeous..... I love sweet potato, got loads in my fridge....

However I've got no stock, no chilli, no garlic and no celery...

For what a pack of celery, garlic, stock and chilli costs I'd recommend buying some in and making the soup. It really is delicious and will feed you for a week.

This morning I brought in porridge and cooked it in the microwave at work. Ummm. It was a big cloggy though, think tomorrow I'll put in less oats.

Horace

Tonight - it will be spag bol which I shall make last for two days' at least, no room in freezer so it will have to be eaten, maybe one day as spag bol and another day as savoury mince:j

becky_rtw

Morning All,

Well I have sort of fallen off the lunch wagon today - but we do half 10cm of snow in central London and I went for an 18.5 mile run yesterday so totally missed the shops...

I do have a can of soup though left from last week - so I'm just going to buy some bread and bits at lunchie time for the rest of the week

I have no freezer - it makes me jealous when you lot go on about saving leftovers - although I could just leave it outside at the moment

Ooo its snowing again (but boo I'm in the office )

Magpie.

I didn't have the energy to get anything ready last night so I'll be having a cup a soup that is in my desk drawer and some fruit I grabbed from the bowl this morning.

I too hope this thread keeps going as I feel more motivated not to buy lunch. Maybe if it was renamed packed lunches or something it would feature more in a search?

Am going to try the flap jacks this week

ElizabethJH

Hey!

I was so organised that even though I was staying over the OH, I took a potato curry out of the freezer yesterday and have been carrying it around with me since!

Haven't planned dinner yet, which is unlike me - but I do have the easy option of double egg and chips! I ate healthily all weekend though (Courtesty of Mom and OH!)

MrsPorridge

I make a very simple sweet potato soup - using Nigella's recipe:

butternut squash
sweet potato
onion

All I do is cut the above up in cubes and roast in the oven using fry light or any oil. Takes about 20 mins. Then blitz in the food processer with some stock made with a stock cube.

You could actually omit the squash and the onion if you wanted. As long as you use a stock cube you will have some flavour. The roasting makes all the difference to the taste - prior to that I did the same recipe but boiled it.

I don't use much stock so mine is quite thick.

Private_and_Confidential

Well I'm tucking in to my Sweet Potato and Chilli Soup and it's DELICIOUS.

Got a cheese sandwich on the side.

I've got this soup all week (frozen in portions at home).

Cheap

Tra.

anniestar

Have made a huge pan of leek and potato soup(made it yesterday to be totally honest) having it with some HM bread(kitchen smells SO nice at the moment) and after that will be having a jam steam pudding and custard.It's the weather for stodge-thats my excuse-(plus got a bit of jam that needs using up)