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Couple of recipes

I've been using up odds and ends recently and came up with these:

Veg & cheese soup

Carrots
Onion
Celery
Potato
Swede
Leftover lumps of Camembert
Stock

Bung in crockpot and leave all day; whizz until smooth. The Camembert gives almost a cauliflower taste; I used about a 1/4 round to about 1.5 pints of liquid.

Emergency risotto

Whatever you've got. I melted butter and oil and fried a chopped onion. Stirred in arborio rice, added stock, white wine, frozen peas and frozen green beans. Cooked down (about 30 minutes) until rice was soft and liquid evaporated. Stirred in Parmesan.

Recipes got the thumbs up from DH who hates root veg, wine and Parmesan.
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  • LJM
    LJM Posts: 4,535 Forumite
    hmmm risotto sounds tasty,oh wont eat it but me and the girlies will,i have mega quick rice dish,just cook up rice,drain sprinke with grated cheese and pepper to taste,yummy:)
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  • JillD_2
    JillD_2 Posts: 1,773 Forumite
    I will add mine from last night:

    Easy Veggie Carbonara

    Fried a chopped onion and some chopped mushrooms leftover from weekend.
    Grilled 4 slices veggie bacon from the freezer then chopped and added to onion and mushroom mix
    Stirred in half a pot of low fat creme fraiche leftover from dinner party pudding at the weekend.
    Dumped in about 2 teaspoons of paprika.
    Stirred in to cooked pasta

    It was gorgeous and a great way to use up some leftovers from the fridge. Otherwise the creme fraiche would have been binned probably
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