Store cupboard challenge

Mrs_Chip

Blimey, I thought OH was bad !:rotfl:

mardatha

Bad Frugal said the K word!! :eek::eek::eek:

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

I would plonk a nice bit of poached egg on top of a bubble and squeak to add protein.
I find protein, carbo, veggies are the best energy giving combination and seeing as you are a Scot in yonder Highlands? then what veg you cook helps lung function, useful to traipsing those wonderful rolling lochs, hills and coasts!!

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

If you are depressed in any way you need to make doubly sure you are treating yourself indulgently and carefully otherwise you sink into destructive indolence. Just a thought. I maybe wrong.
lots of blessings!

mardatha

Awh thankyou pet! Yes I am a Scot up in yonder Southern Uplands but the nearest I get in winter to traipsing anywhere is feeding the hens and telling the sheep to bu**er off away from my back fence :D
I am going to get Complan, think that will be a good standby, it would provide a meal for me without having to eat one.
Not depressed at all WBQMS, just my normal wee evil self
Poor old husband says you lot are responsible for him having to face a week on cabbage and cauli and turnip.

3v3

mardatha wrote: »

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Poor old husband says you lot are responsible for him having to face a week on cabbage and cauli and turnip.

That's "man-speak" for what a creative woman would call a week of post Christmas "detox and vitamins boost"

nuatha

There's a traditional borders dish that might suit, rumbledethumps.
I had this occasionally as a kid, made from leftover mashed potatoes and cabbage from a sunday dinner and usually served with cold roast meat. I've had it more recently in a restaurant, served with Arbroath Smokie. At home I do it with a poached egg.

Make mashed potatoes as you would for a dinner, including butter and seasoning (or use leftovers) Shred half a white cabbage or spring greens (For folk other than Mardatha, Kale works well) Finely slice an onion. Fry the onion and cabbage in butter (or butter and veg oil) until the onion is translucent. Mix into the mashed potato, put into an ovenproof dish, top with grated cheese and put into a preheated 200C oven until the cheese is browning.
For a cheesier version you can also add cheese to the potatoes

Should I apologies to RV, for another cabbage and spuds dish?

mardatha

I used to have that when I was wee. Nuatha. I think I had every cheap Scots-Irish meal involving cabbage on the planet when I was wee. Probly left me traumatised and thats why I'm like this !! ... I will try it, is another meal, ty x.
3v3, I think I need you as my PA, live-in, the hall cupboard is all yours. (Share with the hoover ).

nuatha

mardatha wrote: »

I used to have that when I was wee. Nuatha. I think I had every cheap Scots-Irish meal involving cabbage on the planet when I was wee. Probly left me traumatised and thats why I'm like this !! ... I will try it, is another meal, ty x.
3v3, I think I need you as my PA, live-in, the hall cupboard is all yours. (Share with the hoover ).

Being from the other side of the border, they were more an occasional treat than a regular thing. Though my two favourite meals are hough meat and chips, and bubble n squeak with cold meat (though it was just referred to as fry-up) which featured very regularly in my childhood.
The only food trauma from those days was liver, I was put off for years by finding fluke on my dinner plate

wouldbeqaulitymoneysaver

@mardatha best to keep hubby happy dinner wise IMHO.
With you I would adopt the Kiddie Approach ie HIDE THE VEGETABLES YOU YOURSELF COOKED IN IN A DELICIOUS RECIPE OR TEN!!!
That way you get your five a day and you kid yourself nicely that there aren't any vegetables!!!
Personally I love Cold Meat (Ham, Turkey, Chicken, Duck, Goose!!!) with Bubble delicious with pickles.
You could also use baked beans to help you veg wise. 1 wee can will give you 1 of 5 a day, if pushing it you could do your entire 5 a day on baked beans!! (mind you that would not be fun unless you loved baked beans which IMHO is best wrapped in a lovely all butter pastry of choice made into a pasty and plonked into the oven hmmm serve with green veg of choice).