left over xmas veg

Lucie_2

Those water biscuits Squeaky................. (or any other leftover crackers that start to go soft)
Crumble them up & use as a gratin topping, just like breadcrumbs

alynchesq

Just go onto the https://www.viva.org.uk There are usually lots of ideas for veggie cooking

RachelD

I've just cleared out the fridge and found 4 leeks, several parsnips past their best and 2 cartons of cream coming up to their sell by date. And some cheddar cheese well past its sell -by

I chopped the leeks put them in a ceramic ovenproof dish poured in the cream and topped with a lot of grated cheddar. Baked in the oven for as long as it took me to do the sudoku it came out browned and gorgeous. Family loved it.

The parsnips I cubed and boiled until soft and then mashed them and stirred in some cream and freshly grated nutmeg. Even people who don't like parsnips usually like this.

I've still got 12 clementines and a surfeit of apples to find a use for.

One of my favourite ways to use up apples is apple shortbtread
This fills a pyrex 10inch flan dish
8 oz butter/margarine -butter is best
4 oz caster sugar
6 oz wholemael flour
6 oz of plain flour

Rub the butter into the flour and sugar. While the mixture is still in crumb stage take some out and reserve (half a cup or so)
Mix rest until it comes into a ball.
Line the bottom of the flan dish, roll mix out inside the dish with a straight sided glass tumbler. Slice apples and overlap slices from the the outside towards the centre. To your reserved crumbs add some demerara sugar - the kind you put in coffee- and whatever amount of cinnamon you feel happy with. Sprinkle over the fairly thickly over the apples.

I cook this in the microwave as the apples don't get mushy but it's OK in the oven. Ok too in smaller flan dishes. Best apples are Bramleys .

Rachel

RachelD

I forgot to say the BBC food section has an option where you can key in up to three item and they come up with a recipe

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/

They also have nice ideas on leftovers. Christmas pudding baked alska for one.

Rachel

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Glad wrote:

just making the bubble & squeak now ;D

this may sound really silly, but i'm an american ex pat so i have no idea of how to make bubble and squeak... could some kind person give me their recipe please?

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Marigold123 wrote:

I know it's not exactly veggies, but we had goose this year, (frozen breasts from Lidl), and I now have a lovely big tub of goose fat which I shall use to make the most delicious roast potatoes in the world for months to come.

we bought one of those too for our yule dinner on the 21st

we took our goose fat to mil's for christmas and the roast potatoes were the best i've ever had!

we ate 2 meals plus stock/soup out of a 900g breast so i was pleased with that

Grumpysally

A few years ago we went to a friends for a post Christmas meal and were presented with a brown liquid which was 'everything left over from Christmas lunch whizzed up together and some plain chocolate melted in' we gritted our teeth and politely tried a spoonfull, it was delicious. Don't have a clue how she did it, tho' I suspect the choc was something like Black and Golds, Maya.

Chipps

Bubble & Squeak is just a mixture of leftover potatoes & other vegetables, mashed together & fried. If you ever find recipes for it, they usually include the potatoes & cabbage, but it is basically whatever is left over after Sunday lunch - a traditional Monday accompaniment to cold meat!