weezl and friends Phase 4 - recipe testing christmas treats!

poohbear59

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

tried the SP frozen broccoli steamed, worked well, so thanks for that tip. The cooked broccoli seemed much less than the amount I'd weighed out, and realised that the frozen veg is covered in ice. So weighed it before and after cooking. While frozen I weighed out 110g, but it was only 70g once cooked.

soo, that means the frozen stuff is 64% of actual usable veg, and 84p/kg becomes £1.31/kg, which is still less than £1.67/kg of the fresh stuff currently listed on mySupermarket/Asda, but not quite as much less as I had thought

Have you tried steaming the SP frozen cauliflower? We use it a lot for convenience and of course there is less wastage than on fresh.

I wasn't very impressed by SP frozen mixed veg, should have been called SP chopped carrot. Still handy for me when my hands are bad.

Lesley_Gaye

me again

have been looking at other frozen veg

am intriqued by the oriental veg, which includes bean shoots. A fresh pk of bean shoots says they don't freeze, and they certainly look like they wouldn't freeze

has anyone tried freezing them? They are 50p for a big pk in CoOp, and if I could use some, freeze some, it would be very handy

Lesley_Gaye

poohbear59 wrote: »

Have you tried steaming the SP frozen cauliflower? We use it a lot for convenience and of course there is less wastage than on fresh.

I wasn't very impressed by SP frozen mixed veg, should have been called SP chopped carrot. Still handy for me when my hands are bad.

Tried frozen cauli many years ago and didn't like the taste of it at all. Might have changed now of course

cauli I'm alright for, I'm very lucky, our local greengrocer often has big chunks of cauli, usually about half a cauli, in the cheapy box for 20p a go

nopot2pin

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

me again

have been looking at other frozen veg

am intriqued by the oriental veg, which includes bean shoots. A fresh pk of bean shoots says they don't freeze, and they certainly look like they wouldn't freeze

has anyone tried freezing them? They are 50p for a big pk in CoOp, and if I could use some, freeze some, it would be very handy

I have previosly froze them..... because, if you buy stir fry veg, there is beansprouts in there.
I used to make up little bags of stirfry veg for the biddies, and myself, when ever I got reduced mangetout, baby sweetcorn ect, as it worked out much cheaper than the prepared frozen stirfry veg....
To be honest, they are better fresh, but they are not inedible from frozen
And the homemade stirfry veg bags did have a better ratio of expensive veg in them, than prepared ones

weezl74

Hi all

hope everyone is ok.

Juliette, yes please to the fantastic offer of help! Shall I skype you some ideas for using that time? :beer::beer:

poohbear59

Lesley I have been unable to use skype for months, just found I was not visible. Maybe that will help.

weezl send me any jobs that you would like me to do, please.

Lesley_Gaye

nopot2pin wrote: »

I have previosly froze them..... because, if you buy stir fry veg, there is beansprouts in there.
I used to make up little bags of stirfry veg for the biddies, and myself, when ever I got reduced mangetout, baby sweetcorn ect, as it worked out much cheaper than the prepared frozen stirfry veg....
To be honest, they are better fresh, but they are not inedible from frozen
And the homemade stirfry veg bags did have a better ratio of expensive veg in them, than prepared ones

ah good, worth a try then

if I can freeze them, I would use some fresh for a stir fry, then freeze the rest to use in more stir fries, spring rolls etc

Lesley_Gaye

poohbear59 wrote: »

Lesley I have been unable to use skype for months, just found I was not visible. Maybe that will help.

weezl send me any jobs that you would like me to do, please.

sorry you haven't been able to use skype for so long Pooh, I found that setting my status from 'invisible' to 'online' was what sorted me out in the end

poohbear59

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

sorry you haven't been able to use skype for so long Pooh, I found that setting my status from 'invisible' to 'online' was what sorted me out in the end

I have sent you a pm Lesley

Allegra

poohbear59 wrote: »

Lesley I have been unable to use skype for months, just found I was not visible. Maybe that will help.

weezl send me any jobs that you would like me to do, please.

Can someone check that Poohbear has actually been added to the latest conversations ? (I'm at work so can't check myself) I remember we had a similar problem before as some people are not actually in Weezl's address book so they can get left out.