Store cupboard challenge

prettypaula

itd make a nice liquid for a xmas cake or pud, or a nice poaching liquid for fruit?

ellemm

Gopppers - I am planning something similar but using chick peas rather than the beans and adding in some veggies from the freezer to bulk it out. Been browsing around the recipes on these threads which gave me the idea.
Means the tin of chick peas in the cupboard (for a year or more ) gets used, also coconut milk (maybe as long!) and some of the freezer veggies, of course will inevitably mean that some of the cooked curry returns to the freezer as only I eat it

Also after watching Delia making sausage rolls last night, thought would do the same using 2 sausages and small bit of puff pastry in freezer and some of a discounted packet of stuffing mix to pad it out.

That will do OH for his tea on Friday as I am going to Christmas night out with pals :j

Only seem to be using up dribs and drabs but at least making slow headway.

Gopppers

No worries guys... Ellemm, you can pretty much use any type of tinned pulse, I've used chickpeas before, flagolet (I think thats how you spell it!!) beans, blackeye bean... the list goes on, i find it quite filling and goes quite a long way...

Cheers
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Green tomato curry. I picked the last unripe toms and they made a good curry for two with an onion, red pepper, garlic and a few spices.

lisa26_2

My first post on this thread......its all been thrown in my slow cooker, put on at 6.30am and it'll be tea tonight when I get back from my 12 hr shift, served with pasta and salad mmmm!

A chicken breast portion from the freezer
A tin of haricot beans that have been lurking for months!
A tin of toms
Some leftover passata from the freezer
Some courgette and sundried tomato chutney (sat in the fridge as its too strong to use as chutney)
veg stock powder
green beans from the freezer
onions
garlic (waaaay past its best but better than none!!!)
basil
dried herbs (god knows how old they are!!!)
capers
celery. (a bit bendy but it won't matter!!!)

missychrissy

In answer to NualaBuala's query about the juice left over from her pears: I freeze any left over juice or syrup and then add it to home brewed wine that is fermenting. Pear juice I would oviously add to a white wine whilst rasperry, blacurrant etc I would add to a red. It makes the flavours more interesting.

NualaBuala

prettypaula wrote: »

itd make a nice liquid for a xmas cake or pud, or a nice poaching liquid for fruit?

missychrissy wrote: »

In answer to NualaBuala's query about the juice left over from her pears: I freeze any left over juice or syrup and then add it to home brewed wine that is fermenting. Pear juice I would oviously add to a white wine whilst rasperry, blacurrant etc I would add to a red. It makes the flavours more interesting.

Thank you both for the suggestions. :T:T Since I've no plans to make cake or pud or even to poach fruit I think I'll freeze it till I'm making something like that in the future.

MissyChrissy, I toyed with the idea of making home brew after watching a rerun of The Good Life :rotfl: But I seem to have gone off booze so I don't think I'll bother. Although the flavours you mention do sound tempting!

nicki_2

Been a chaotic couple of days here. I just don't seem to have stopped at all Anyways I've just booked my Asda delivery for Xmas on the 22nd December so I'm going to try and live on whats in until then. My freezer has space in it, but I'm hoping to fill that up with some bits and pieces and maybe some HM mince pies

January I plan on trying to loose some weight properly so I want all the chocolate & other not-so-good-for-me food gone I've even bought myself a healthy cook book (through the bookclub in work - much cheaper than the shops :money:) and there's quite a few recipes I'm itching to try

prettypaula

Made Pork Loin chops, mushroom risotto and savoy cabbage for dinner, used rice from SC, old chestnut mushrooms, and some random bacon in fridge

About to go and bake fairy cakes for work/choir group, blueberry muffins for hubby and i and this will use up some more

also made tuna sweetcorn sandwich filler from SC for DH sandwiches tomorrow :money:

lynzpower

Well its stew for us tonight as I left the SC on low- so last night when I got in- it wasnt ready ( gutted) So we shared a tin of soup and one Bakeathome baguette ( v mse) and half a pack of maltedmilks

Off out tomorrow night now, so wont need to take anything out of the freezer.We have barely eaten a thing this week- so absolutely no dent made in the stores whatsoever!