Store cupboard challenge

annie123

use lots of those being a veggie:D

http://www.lovepotatoes.co.uk/recipes/

http://www.onions.org.uk/recipes/recipes/index.htm

http://www.carrotrecipes.net/

and leek and potato soup.....yummy:D

onions...I chop a load in the food processor and freeze in portions (a MrsM tip) . Have tried home drying them but not happy with the results when I cooked with them.

Skylarker

Leek and potato soup maybe, depends how disguised you want the veg? If the texture is the problem, well blended soup can be smooth and lovely and with a hunk of bread, home-made maybe, makes a pretty good meal.

seasalt_2

I would probably go for a leek and tatie bake as well (could add grated carrots to it as well) but if you don't like veg, I think carrots are much nicer when they've been cooked in a stew/gravy. Even when I was a child and didn't like ANY veg, I liked them! Funny thing is that I LOVE vegetables now, well everything except pickled beetroot!

Or if you really want them hidden, puree them before adding them to things eg mince, soup. The dutch eat a lot of veg pureed with mash eg peas (green mash!), carrots (orange mash!) etc etc. My family love neeps and taties mashed together with lots of butter and black pepper and can also hide cabbage (or even K***) in things like colcannon/clapshot/bubble and squeak.

mardatha

ok, thank you. One thing at a time since its me I have just put on a big pot of leek and tattie soup. Now back to the thread to read more ideas

mardatha

I do have to nuke all soups, cant stand seeing lumps of vegetable matter in my soups !! LOL!
Cant do the huge pot of mince because the sods ate that yesterday.. no mince left! I will go and find a recipe for leek and potato bake and then onto annie's nice links. TY !

mardatha

I JUST FOUND CARROT CAKE RECIPE whoohoo !!

FelinePrincess

I recently made a big batch of this to use up sausages that got defrosted when freezer went off, really easy recipe and delicious! http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2625/chunky-sausage-and-tomato-pasta. Couple more ideas is sausages, mash and onion gravy, toad in the hoal, turn them into meat balls, sausage casserole.

Can't comment on the fish as I don't eat it but there are endless things you could do with the chicken, stir frys, chicken curry, pasta bakes, you could even cook it and slice it to put on sandwiches if you want to get rid of it quickly

Butterfly_Brain

Sausages

Toad in the hole
Sausages with pasta
Sausage Stew
Cowboy Stew
Sausage Bread and butter pudding
Sausages wrapped in pastry
Sausage and mash
Sausage Sarnies

Chicken

Chicken Stir Fry
Sweet and sour chicken
Neopolitan Chicken ( Chicken in Tomato Sauce with Olives)
Chicken curry
Honey and mustard chicken
Chicken Pie
Chicken crumble
Chicken in Mushroom sauce
Chicken Casserole
Chicken soup
Chicken kebabs

Salmon

Salmon covered with ricotta cheese and spinach
Salmon Fishcakes
Salmon with Rice a sort of kedgeree
Salmon in a sauce wrapped in pastry

HTH x

shebrett

If you take the casing off the sausage and then wrap the insides in flaky pastry and bake you have sausage rolls.

purpleivy

Or you could save some ££ at Christmas by using some of the lovely things you have - eg salmon, chicken fillets - to feed the troops at Christmas, save buying more. Eat more budget food now and you'll be quids in.