Store cupboard challenge

Bargain_Rzl

The first loaf I ever made in my current breadmaker was with flour that was a YEAR out of date.

No weevils, but the bread was a disaster - didn't rise properly, and was hard and knobbly.

I chucked the bag of flour away and bought new, and have never had another disaster since!

oystercatcher

I've just used up some flour that was use by 2004 ! It looked and smelled fine and no sign of weevils. It cooked up fine and we weren't ill.

It was plain flour and I used it for crumble so not much to go wrong!

I must bake more often!

Oystercatcher

Olliebeak

I once made a Victoria Sponge with SR flour that was about 6 months out of date - my worst ever baking disaster . Didn't rise at all - really thought I had 'lost my touch' till I noticed the date on the flour.

I'm not sure it would matter too much with Plain Flour for biscuits though - probably just that the raising agent in the SR flour that had lost its 'oomph'!

mardatha

I have tons of flour and tons of eggs. Is there anything I can make that isn't cake ? ie savoury..?

Sylvan

pancakes - fill with mince or savoury veg.

toad in the hole if you have sausages

Olliebeak

Oh well - that's the Ham Shank gone from the freezer now and some veg from rootveg packs plus three stalks of celery that have been sitting in the bottom of the fridge for just over 2 weeks.

Freezer update 12/12

Meat
1 x 1.5lbs Pork Roasting Joint( whoopsied)
1 Tray Bacon Ribs
[strike]1 Ham shank[/strike]
6 butchers quarter pounder beefburgers
2 butchers quarter pounder minted lamb burgers
1 chicken leg quarter
1 x 1/2lb pork mince
1 pack of diced turkey thigh
1 turkey drumstick
1 x 28day matured beef rib joint (2.5lbs) (whoopsied)
1/2lb fillet steak (whoopsied)
[strike]2 x 250g packs of turkey mince (whoopsied)[/strike]1 bag of turkey mince
1 organic boned leg of pork (whoopsied)
2 packs of shin beef
5 x chicken leg quarters

Fish
1 marlin steak (whoopsied)
2 portions breaded cod
1 pack x 2 - cod, prawn and pancetta fishcakes (whoopsied)
1 x 2 smoked haddock fishcakes (whoopsied)
1 x 2 alaskan salmon fishcakes (whoopsied)

Soups
1 x 1kg tub HM potato and leek
[strike]1 x 1kg tub HM carrot and butterbean[/strike]
1 tub chicken&veg soup
[strike]1 tub Asda tomato and chilli beef soup (whoopsied)[/strike]
Added
1 x 1kg tub HM Spicy Parsnip soup

Vegetables
1.5 lbs leeks
2.5 lbs carrot and swede
1.5 lbs sliced carrot1lb sliced carrots
1.5 lbs chopped onions
4.5 lbs parsnips :eek:
1 1/2 bags mixed peppers
1/2lb sprouts
1 bag sweetcorn
1 bag green beans
1lb sliced courgettes
1.5 lbs of sliced leeks
1lb sliced leeks
4lbs chopped onions
1.5 lbs broccoli
[strike]1/2lb cauli[/strike]
[strike]1/2 savoy cabbage[/strike]

Potato Products
1/2 bag of hash browns
1 bag roasties
1/2 bag roasties
1 bag frying chips - bought by mistake
1 bag spicy wedges

Bready stuff
1 pack crumpets
1 large garlic and coriander naan bread
1 very large ham and p/apple pizza (cut into 2 halves)
1 child size tomato and cheese pizza
10 soft tortillas
1 bag of 8 yorkshire puddings
extra strong garlic bread (whoopsied)
[strike]2 tear and share garlic bread (whoopsied)[/strike]1 - tear/share garlicbread
1 pack of pitta breads (for family christmas buffet)
2 packs of 12 barm cakes (ditto)
2 part-frozen baguettes (to serve with soup on Christmas Day)


Odds and Sods
1 tub korma sauce
6 small bhajis and 6 small vegetable samosas
3 toddler portions of scouse
2 tubs liver and onion gravy
1.5lbs apple sauce
4 ozs whole garlic cloves
1pt HM chicken stock

HM Ready Meals (added 27.11.08)
[strike]6 x Individual Sausage Casseroles[/strike]4 x sausage casseroles
[strike]2 x Double Beef Chilli[/strike]1 x double Beef chilli
4 x Individual Beef Chilli
2 x 1kg tubs Shank Stew
[strike]2 x 1kg tubs Pea and Ham Soup[/strike]1 tub Pea/Ham soup

Primrose

martharda - don't know about the eggs but with all your flour you could make up lots of batches of savoury pastry to keep in the freezer. Mixing in grated cheese and herbs, or some home-made pesto (instead of part of the liquid) will give a nice tasty pastry that can either be used as bases for flans, or simply rolled out and cooked on its own to make cheesy straws, etc. for snacks.

Nitha

I need to make a birthday cake (can't afford to buy lol) I have s/r flour, eggs, some sugar (not sure how much prob 1/2 bag), sweetener, honey, icing sugar and nutella in the cupboard.

Any recipes?

purpleivy

Olliebeak wrote: »

Oh well - that's the Ham Shank gone from the freezer now and some veg from rootveg packs plus three stalks of celery that have been sitting in the bottom of the fridge for just over 2 weeks.

4 x Individual Beef Chilli

Olliebeak, I had a lightbulb moment a few weeks ago. I was using 3 sticks of celery in a cassoulet and just about to put the rest in the bottom of the fridge to go limp and then end up in debris soup, when I had an idea. I chopped it all up fairly small and put it in a ziplok bag. It's now in the upstairs little freezer and I lob it into allsorts (from frozen) to pad it out....and nothing (well not quite anything!) turning into compost in the fridge. I'm sure I won't waste celery from now on. Have a bag of peppers,as I was always throwing those out. I now chop them up when I get home from the shops/.

mumoffour77

Can any kind person point me in the direction of the lentil and stuffing burgers??Pretty please:)