Brain gone to mush with all this Christmas food and I need inspiration

[Deleted User]

Hi I had a feeling there was a site somewhere that you typed in what you had in the fridge and it came up with a recipe to help use bits up.I have in my fridge at the moment
1 Yellow pepper
2 orange peppers
5 rashers bacon
4 celery sticks
cheese
a lemon
eggs
these must be used up especially the peppers and celery any ideas I seem to have gone brain dead this morning I really don't want to go to the shops as its very chilly and icy and I'd rather use up whats in the fridge .I have quite a bit of pasta,tuna ect in tins in the cupboard.
I have just made a banana custard with two sad looking bananas rather than bin them so pudding for tonight and tomorrows lunch is sorted.

kunekune

You could make a tortilla, and serve it with some roasted red peppers in a lemonny dressing. Or bacon, peppers, and celery would make a good pasta sauce, perhaps a bake with cheese on top. If you've got rice, perhaps do stuffed peppers with a filling containing rice, celery and bacon, held together with an egg and a bit of cheese ....

hotcookie101

Chop the bacon into rashers, and fry slowly, then add finely chopped celery and sliced peppers and fry slowly until the peppers are soft (probably need some olive oil rather than ust relying on the bacon fat) then add a splash of balsamic or red wine vinegar (if you have it) or a squeeze of lemon and stir through cooked pasta with some grated cheese.

Or you could fry bacon and celery, mix with some tuna and rice, stuff into peppers, top with cheese and bake for 45 minutes

I love slow fried peppers and would eat them on their own with bread and olive oil if I could (OH wouldn't possibly accept such a dinner lol)

hotcookie101

kunekune wrote: »

Or bacon, peppers, and celery would make a good pasta sauce, perhaps a bake with cheese on top. If you've got rice, perhaps do stuffed peppers with a filling containing rice, celery and bacon, held together with an egg and a bit of cheese ....

LOL beat me to it

[Deleted User]

Wow that sounds brilliant
cheers chums

jc2703

I have about the same to use up and was intending to stick the peppers in the oven with some celery and onion and letting them roast for a while (it seems a bit too much like hard work today to stand over a frying pan) before putting them into the slow cooker with some passata garlic and herbs to make a pasta sauce (blended when cooked).

viv0147

http://www.cookingbynumbers.com

[Deleted User]

viv0147 wrote: »

http://www.cookingbynumbers.com

Thanks for that, I knew there was a site like that online but I had lost the link