Store cupboard challenge

NualaBuala

CCP wrote: »

I'd happily send you a bit of cake if I could work out how to stop it getting squashed and stale en route. If I get anything chocolately for Christmas you can definitely have, though - I can't stand chocolate. _pale_

Awww, what a lovely thing to say! :T:T:T Tell you what, I'll settle for some tips on how to make carrot cake. I've never tried but I still have over a kilo of carrots so now would be a good time to try. Now if only I shared your dislike of choc, my waistline would be happier!

CCP

NualaBuala wrote: »

Awww, what a lovely thing to say! :T:T:T Tell you what, I'll settle for some tips on how to make carrot cake. I've never tried but I still have over a kilo of carrots so now would be a good time to try. Now if only I shared your dislike of choc, my waistline would be happier!

I just wish that was the case for me. Sadly my fondness for crisps balances out the lack of chocolate.

The recipe I used for my carrot cake was this one. It's very easy to make and extremely tasty - don't say I didn't warn you!

lucyclare

Ok, this one is fail proof, just follow the instructions.
2 cup light brown sugar
1 cup vegetable oil, do not use any other especially not olive.
mix together well then add
4 eggs or 5 if they are small
2 tea spoons vanilla
small tin of crushed pineapple or liquidise pineapple (juice too)
3 1/2 cups of grated carrot (about 6 carrots decent sized)
mix in really well then add all at once
pinch salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon bi carb
3 1/2 cups of plain flour
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tea spoon nutmeg

mix all well. should be quite a wet mixture.
pour into lined tins loaf tins work quite well
should make 2 two pound loaf tins or 2 sandwich tins

cook on about gas 3 or 4 electirc 170
45-50 mins do skewer test.


for frosting
8oz phili cheese low fat, full fat as long as it is plain.
6oz butter or marg
2 tea spoons vanilla
3 1/2 cups of icing sugar. more if its too wet for you
the frosting will ice two sponges together and then go all over. if you dont want that much icing, then just do half the quantity.

the sponges will freeze no probs if you wrap them properly

1 cup = 8oz

this is a really great recipe, i sell the cakes. try it in fairy cake tins and reduce cooking time. great for kids with a dollop of frosting on top.
Enjoy:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

CCP

That sounds gorgeous, lucyclare. Sadly I really don't need any more carrot cake at the moment (:o) but I'll save this recipe for next time. :drool:

(That's the worst thing about the OS board, I find - there's just so many lovely recipes drifting around, and not enough time to try them all!)

lucyclare

you are both welcome.
copy and paste it to a receipe folder in your computer and then you can find all of those receipies that you fancied the idea of. no need to trawl through stuff.

:beer:

NualaBuala

CCP wrote: »

I just wish that was the case for me. Sadly my fondness for crisps balances out the lack of chocolate.

The recipe I used for my carrot cake was this one. It's very easy to make and extremely tasty - don't say I didn't warn you!

Thank you CCP! :T I'm also partial to crisps and I guess carrot cake will be my new addiction! I'm considering myself warned!:rotfl:

lucyclare wrote: »

Ok, this one is fail proof, just follow the instructions.

this is a really great recipe, i sell the cakes. try it in fairy cake tins and reduce cooking time. great for kids with a dollop of frosting on top.
Enjoy:T:T:T:T:T:T:T

Thanks a million lucyclare! Fail proof is what I need - I'm no domestic goddess.:o

No kids here but I'm more than able to gobble it all up myself.:D If it turns out ok I'll give half to my sister. Well, maybe a third ... or just a slice!:p


I don't have all the ingredients and am doing a €5 a week challenge so I might put off making it for a week or so depending on what needs buying.

GreenandThrifty

thanks CCP those ideas sound good

lucyclare - mums just given me a bag of carrots, i'll use your recipe to turn it into cake tomorrow, thankyou!!!

XSpender

Thank you both for those 2 yummy carrot cake recipes, a much better idea to use up the 2 kilos of carrots I have than the boring soup I had planned:D I will make this on Sunday when I have my cooking marathon planned.

My DH seems to have acquired a sweet tooth at the grand old age of 39 He has never bothered about puddings and cake before but keeps asking for them now. I enjoy baking so it is ok by me and also helps fill out his packed lunch and I can blame my expanding waistline on the baby;)

Quorn provencale bake for our tea tonight using up a bag of quorn pieces, tin of chopped toms and 2 dodgy looking garlic cloves from the bottom of the fridge. Might also use up a tin of apple pie filling and have apple crumble and ice cream for pud:D

Rebekah24

I have finally cleared out my pantry, taken a full itinary

- 7 tins rice pudding
- 2 tubs of whey isolate
-1 tomato & lentil soup
-1 lazy onions(dunno what these are lol fried onions in a tin?!)
-2 tinned carrots
-1 Pack readybrek
-3 tins black eye beans

In the freezer
-4 cartons covent garden soup
-1 bag quorn peices

...recon this should keep me going for a long while! better get soup making tonight!

GreenandThrifty

right one more freezer and one cupboard sorted

FREEZER 1
Drawer 1
English Muffins
Green chillis
Mystery green soup????????
Pitta bread - gonna use these as fingers for dipping in HM soup
Blackberries
Spinach
Lard
Brie
Rhubarb
Mash?????? not sure if it is this or not

Drawer 2

Vege hotdogs
Sloes
Corn on the Cob
Peelings for stock
Margerine x 2
HM Stock x 2
Coriander
Quorn beef pieces
Chard and Mushroom curry
Wraps

Drawer 3
Cabbage Pasta
HM Stock
AB York Puddings!!!!!! - HM from now on!!!
Turkey Mince x 2
Crumble Mix x 2
HM Pizza Bases - look awful will use these in soup???

Drawer 4
Potato and Spinach Curry
Cooked black eyed beans
Broccoli Stalks for soup
White Fish fillets
Vege Pie
Crumpets
Fishcakes
Fishfingers
HM Vege 'beef and onion' pasties

Drawer 5

Mix Veg
Kale
Filo Pastry
Puff Pastry
Margerine
Savoury Turkey Mince
Chicken thighs & drums
Chicken Breasts
Garlic Bread
1 Ice pop

Drawer 6
2 pks chelsea buns - YS buy!!
roux x 2
spinach
cheesy baked potatoes
frozen peas - yippee these were on my to buy list until i found them!
vege burgers - 2 pks
quorn sausages

FREEZER 2

Drawer 1

pineapple
HM yorkshire puds x 8
Sausage Casserole (enough for 4 if we have it with Baked \Potatoes)
Mixed Peppers
Red Chillis
Bean stew
2 x cheese tom puffs - kids packed lunches
5 x veg slices - DH has these when we have chicken
Mushrooms?????
2 x cheddar
choc brownies - kids packed lunches
beans in tom sauce

Drawer 2
3 x cheddar cheese
red peppers
crumble
cheese sauce
leeks
stewed apples
blackberry and apple cake (kids packed lunches)
sausage casserole 2 x kids portions
broccoli
grated courgette - enough to make a courgette cake - yum!!
oaty cookies (kpl's)
cooked black eyed beans 2 portions
cupcakes
HM pizza slices (kpl's)

Drawer 3

Icecream
Blackberries
Green peppers? sliced

Main food cupboard (tins etc)

Top Shelf
Brown rice
Herbs and spiced
Mulled wine Mix
Mustard powder
Soft brown sugar
Sesame seeds

Middle shelf
Suet
Lasagne sheets x 3pks
Cornflour
Dried Milk
Pearl Barley
LemonPie Filling
Cheesecake Mix
Egg Custard Mix x 2
Egg free muffin mix
Citric Acid - what on earth is this for?????
Thickening granuals
Gravy Powder

Bottom shelf
Honey
Golden Syrup
Black treacle
Various packet sauce mixes inc casseroles, white & cheese sauce, potato bake.
Stock cubes, garlic puree, tom puree
Tuna flakes
rice pud
mandarins
sweetcorn
pineapple
peaches
custard
tin mackerel
pinto beans
bolognese sauce - a standby for quick pasta salad lunches for kids
fruit cocktail
baked beans


So there it is I have sooooooo much food but I'm just not using it up!!! I'd really like to go through November without buying much else in at all??? I have the normal basics too flour, milk eggs etc so can you guys help me enough meal ideas to fill November??? I know youre great at challenges!!

Thanks!