Store cupboard challenge

seasalt_2

Only way I can get OH to eat courgettes is in chocolate courgette cake. His idea of vegetables is BBs and mushy peas - oh and he quite likes fried onions and mushrooms but nothing GREEN!

annie123

mardatha wrote: »

I JUST FOUND CARROT CAKE RECIPE whoohoo !!

thought you might :rotfl:

hubby has been known to eat a whole one in 1 day!!!
my fave recipe is:

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3229/yummy-scrummy-carrot-cake

I dont bother with the topping.

sexykellylovespink

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

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

hiya brian, do you have a recipe for cowboy stew x

Pink.

Hi Mardatha,

What about a potato and onion pie? These threads may give you some more ideas:

carrots, onions and potatoes

What to do with oodles of leeks?

Pink

Pink.

Hi Kelly,

These threads may give you some ideas:

Help with cowboy sausages!!

Sausages recipes please!

how do I cook a whole salmon side??

What can I do with chicken breast fillets...

Cooking Fish?

Pink

RAS

mardatha

Do you have any meat left? Small amounts of bacon and mince can be stretched a long way with veggies.

I tend to make a "mince" that is actually more winter vegetable stew with a mince sauce than a mince stew, BUT slow cooked the mince flavours the veggies so that it tastes meaty. I do not really do recipes, but basically lots of winter vegetables with about 2oz of mince per portion. Brown the veggies in a bit of fat (best of all dripping) to give them a bit of flavour, take out and brown meat and chopped onion, put together with a bit of tomato paste, and herbs. Thicken at the end.

You could use the same idea but chop the veggies small to make a filling for cornish pasties of a "light" cottage pie.

Leeks go really well with a bit of bacon to contrast with their sweet flavour, so either wrap a leek in bacon and then grill until a bit crispy, then add stock and bake or cover with cheese sauce and bake.

The other thing I would suggest is that you make soups ; leek and potato, carrot (and orange) or whatever and start each meal with a good bowl of soup and a hunk of bread to reduce their appetite for the mains?

angeltreats

Have you any eggs? You could make a Spanish omelette, which is one of my favourite foods of all time

Leeks are lovely deep fried, they go nice and crispy and you might like them even if you're not a veg fan.

And of course you can make a carrot cake to use up the carrots

mardatha

Carrot cake is my kind of veg !! I do make a lot of soup, but they et it at lunch time and then went on and et the mince at dinner time !:rotfl:
Pair of gannets! I must have used half of my gas as well, because in between clearing my cupboards the son drank tea incessantly.
Thank god he found a woman
I do usually shove a lot of veg in with meat, always have. But never really done leeks apart from soup. I have just put the Remoska on, with some nice carmelised onion sausages, then a load of pre-fried cabbage, some tatties, and some odd bits of bacon. Bit scared to go through there and look, really. :rotfl:Things in this house tend to start off well then turn to something the cat coughed up.

valk_scot

Who are all these husbands and kids that just go in and help themselves to meal ingredients? Mine know if they did anything like that they'd be on bread and water and corn flakes till I caught up with the meals. We have snack food of course...bread, milk, fruit, peanut butter, jam, limited amount of crisps and bikkies but apart from that they know to ask if they fancy something out the fridge, just in case it's an ingredient. And quite often a pot of stew or soup is intended to last two days so while there's always seconds, they know not to polish entire panfuls of whatever off.

Stick a mousetrap in the fridge and a threatening notice on the kitchen door. Works for me!

mardatha

Ah thats why then - in this house we dont have any snack food, because if we do, we em, eat it. And he's diabetic and I need to lose a stone so we just dont have it ! We stick to 3 plain old-fashioned meals and then I keep well and so does he. If we start to eat nibbles then we tend to regret it ...
probably my son at home in his own place just nibbles away like a contented wee bunnywabbit :rotfl: