Store cupboard challenge

taurusgb

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Can't help you there; I can's eat them - they make my tongue, mouth and lips tingle :eek: Try this - kiwi fruit

I was planning to use a load of the apples (cookers in a pie, and eaters in a braid) but had a call from an old friend with really bad news. I'm now no longer in the mood to bake I'll try and have my big bake day tomorrow.

thriftlady - love your new sig

Penny. x

Thanks for the link Penny...sorry you've had bad news, hope everything is OK.

catznine

(((hugs))) Pen pen sorry to hear you have had bad news

On the food front, we love Shirley Goodes idea of baking apples with a good spoonful of mincemeat in the middle and a piece of marzipan on top! Really delish especially when done in the slow cooker. Would use up 3 items from your store cupboards.

I still have this years mincemeat to make up, all the ingredients are on the worktop (have been for 2 days now:o) so must get on with it. I also have to make some hobnobs for the MS centre tomorrow and maybe another cake as the banana bread went down well today.

If I have the energy tonights dinner will be a stirfry using up the oddments of veg, noodles and a packet stirfry sauce from the larder. If not it will be leftover fish pie and yet more runner beans:eek:

Pen Pen are your home grown chilli beans from the runner beans? I have been saving mine for planting next year, neighbour keeps telling me to do this, but I have loads!

Penelope_Penguin

catznine wrote: »

Pen Pen are your home grown chilli beans from the runner beans? I have been saving mine for planting next year, neighbour keeps telling me to do this, but I have loads!

Yes! We grow several types of climbing beans - French and runner amongst them. At the end of the season they can get stringy to eat fresh, so I just leave the beans on the plant. When they've gone dry and papery, I pick them and shell out the beans. I keep them in the kitchen for a few days to dry, and then store in a glass jar - but keep an eye that they don't get mould in them.

As they're really fresh, they take very little boiling - only about 20 mins last year.

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

Sorry to hear you've had bad news PenPen

I've got a potato, onion and bacon hotpot in the oven for supper thus using up one tub of cheese sauce and the bag of bacon bits. Gosh, it is handy having cheese sauce in the freezer.

Did my grocery shopping today and still managed to spend quite a lot of money:rolleyes: but I only bought the fresh stuff I needed plus some baking supplies that needed replenishing -no extras:j

Tomorrow I really must get on with my jam and get the food processor out to chop up a load of veg for my veg hash.

BigMummaF

Puppy Dawg has had a slow-cooked turkey leg with assorted limp veg & we had the catering sized hotdogs left over from a bbq with chips for tonight's meal, so a wee bit of an inroad in the freezer.
I'm hoping to get some baking done tomorrow...honest!...I have EVERY intention....:o

Olliebeak

Last night used up some frozen carrots/leeks/onions/parsnips to go in the pan of scouse for the family firework party, along with some frozen jumbo sausages, frozen hotdogs and frozen bread finger rolls.

Managed to use up a container of spicy minced pork and vegetables tonight - as a topping for jacket potatoes.

Just going to take a bottle of milk out as well, as we've run out of fresh milk. Will also need to take out a loaf tomorrow morning.

Will also dig out 2 chicken leg portions for tomorrow evening and we can have those with mash, carrots and leeks.


At least it's a start .

HariboJunkie

Making seafood chowder and HM bread tommorrow which should make another dent. Will get eggs from the farm shop tommorrow.

I don't like this challenge. It's making my jar shelf look very odd.

Penelope_Penguin

I had a look in the freezer yesterday (I'll post my inventory later ). I found a sponge cake which I've iced and decorated with the end of a bag of star sugar sprinkles, for the children to snack on, and some mince pies. I've put them at the top of the freezer (5 mins from frozen in the Rayburn, and they're ready - we've had 4 already ). Yesterday evening was more hectic than I expected so I used a half jar of frozen pesto, with pasta, as supper for the children. I have several slices of frozen pizza, so will have a couple of them for lunch today.

Haribo, why is your jar shelf odd

Thanks for everyone's concern :A I'm off to see if I can get another hour's sleep

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

Today I have made 11 jars of jam from the assorted soft fruit in the freezer.

I've processed a head of celery, 2 leeks, 1 red pepper, a bulb of garlic, 7 onions and 6 carrots into 13 tubs of veg hash for the freezer.

I know it sounds like I'm merely moving food from one place to another rather than actually consuming it:rotfl: but the veg hash is extraordinarily useful and convenient. I can't be without it now. The jam will keep us going until next summer what with all the preserves already on my shelf.

Tonight is teriyaki salmon using up the bottle of teriyaki sauce and the salmon (obviously).

Tomorrow I'm planning a curry feast. Veg and chick pea curry, red lentil dahl/dhal (sp?), naan breads with nigella seeds sprinkled on and vegetable bhajis based on a Jamie Oliver recipe but shallow rather than deep fried.

gilly1964

Well yesterday's leg of pork disaster has now been roasted and is in the freezer in gravy - 2 meals

The sweet and sour pork did not happen last night so that is now Creole Pork and in the freezer - 1 meal

Sausages have been portion controlled and half are now in the freezer in Campfire Casserole - 1 meal
Rest for lunch as sausage toad, mash,veg and onion gravy. Was going to be roast pots but fancied comfort food.

Had an excess of onions which seemed to be going a little soft so chopped and diced 15 of them. Blanched them and now in freezer in 250 gram bags

I am supposed to be emptying the freezer not taking something out and then putting it back recycled into 3 times as much volume of freezer space :rotfl:

All the best to everyone
Gilly