I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Welsh_Poppy

Thanks JB very interesting especially about slugs!!

IN
4 portions of calcannon
6 portions of meatloaf

out
egg and bacon pie
2 portions pork pie
goulash and dumpling

Where are the vouchers for the oil?

Dinner will be goulash and dumplings.....I may have rice with peas,onions,mushrooms etc

Lip_Stick

Morning all. Hope all are well.

Yesterday freezer movements
out: 3 Goats cheese and red onion tarts for lunch and a ready meal for my tea
In: Nowt

For today's tea I am thinking of having Moroccan burgers with couscous, diced feta, and BNS, spiced for me. Lunch for me will be a cup a soup with ryvita.

OT: Yesterday I ended up texting the plumbers about the new shower they'd put in (water pressure made it useless), he text back that they'll put an electric one in, that morning. Great! I thought. They came about half an hour later, took the mixer unit off, replaced with the electric one. As they were going they said the landlord just wanted them to take the shower out and not have anything. So the plumber is expecting me to pay out for the electrics installed.

Would have been nice if he'd have given me the choice before he decided to go ahead. Think he put the electric one in as it was easier than taking the shower and screen off and replacing tiles etc. Oh well, will have to suck it up and pay as I think I'll save a bit of money with an electric shower. Good thing I know an electrician who owes me a couple of favours lol.

JellyB - thanks to you and Mrs Simkins for the recipes! The cornmeal slug repellent may come in handy for Kirri lol.

Kirri

favours eh They could have put a pump in, must admit I don't like electric showers and couldn't wait to change when I moved but I did need a pump on mine due to water pressure. But either way bit much they are expecting you to pay when they didn't check the shower they put in would be ok! I'd probably refuse on account they should have done checks beforehand.

Thanks to JB and Mrs S! Bread and muffins sound doable.
I didn't know about the slug thing either.

Not enjoying my food at the moment having to use things up.. ended up having pitta and bean dip for lunch then threw the rest of the dip out as been in the fridge a few days. Had jacket potatoes and cheese for dinner as couldn't face freezer food.

Got up for breakfast today and my bread was mouldy so finished off the muesli I'd been avoiding.

No idea what I'll eat the rest of the day, fresh food bit lacking till Friday's delivery. Run out of most veg, dairy etc.

Jelly_Biactol

CREAMY GARLIC AND ROSEMARY POLENTA
recipe by Peter Gorton from ‘Devon Food Heroes’
http://www.halsgrove.com/proddetail.php?prod=9780857041524

Roast Garlic

Ingredients:
3 x heads garlic
1 x tablespoon olive oil
salt & pepper
1 x sprig thyme
1 x sprig rosemary

Method:
Cut the garlic in two across the head to expose the cloves. Drizzle the oil, season and set cut-down on the herbs on an oiled oven tray. Bake for 1 hour at 120F / fan oven 100C / gas 1/2 (ie, 'half', not '1 or 2').


Polenta
(this is a generous amount!)

Ingredients:
700mI x full cream milk
150mI x double cream
2 x sprigs rosemary
110g x polenta (yellow corn meal)
50g x Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
1 x tablespoon unsalted butter
salt & pepper
6 x cloves of roasted garlic, as above

Method:
Place milk, cream, rosemary and garlic in a saucepan and bring almost to a boil. Pour the polenta into the milk and whisk well until blended. Stir constantly over moderate heat until mixture returns to the boil. Reduce the heat to low and cook, stirring often for about 20 minutes or until the polenta is cooked and thickened. Fold in the Parmesan cheese and butter, season to taste.

Jelly_Biactol

Welsh_Poppy wrote: »

Where are the vouchers for the oil?

Lynsey's thread here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=61364911&postcount=1
- voucher is for £1 off any Filippo Berio product, but the Gusto Fruttato oil is half price at Mr M, so £1.99 or £0.99 with voucher
- voucher download site has a 'Try Again' button when printing, so you can print out two unique vouchers
- Filippo Berio website has some nice free recipe booklets to download (PDF), accessible when you join

Welsh_Poppy

Jelly

Thanks:-) just printed 2 vouchers off to Morries tomorrow.

Jelly_Biactol

SPELT RISOTTO WITH BUTTERNUT SQUASH, ROCKET, WALNUTS & GOAT'S CHEESE
(taken from Clean & Lean Diet by James Duigan, as previewed in the latest Kyle Books email newsletter
http://www.kylebooks.com/pid/page/newsletter_recipe_12)


Serves 4

Ingredients
1 squash (such as butternut or acorn), weighing about 750g, peeled, deseeded and cut into chunks
8 sage leaves, chopped, plus extra to garnish
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 red onion, chopped
200g pearled spelt
750ml hot vegetable stock
2 handfuls of rocket
50g walnuts, toasted and roughly chopped
50g hard goat’s cheese
salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/gas mark 5.
2. Tip the butternut squash into a roasting tin, add the chopped sage and garlic, season and drizzle with half the olive oil. Roast for about 25 minutes until tender and starting to brown at the edges.
3. Meanwhile start making the risotto. Heat the remaining oil in a large saut! pan over a medium heat. Add the onion and cook until soft. Add the spelt and stir to coat in the onions. Continue to cook for 1 minute until the spelt starts to smell slightly nutty.
4. Pour 150ml of the stock into the pan, stirring all the time. Allow most of it to evaporate and then add the rest of the stock a ladleful at a time, stirring frequently until all the liquid has been absorbed and the spelt is tender but still has some ‘bite’.
5. Add the roasted butternut squash and walnuts to the pan. Stir to combine and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Using a vegetable peeler shave the goat’s cheese over the risotto, garnish with sage leaves and serve immediately.

Kirri

Went to pick some veg over lunch. Got asparagus, leek, rocket, chives, oregano, thyme and mint. Didn't realise the rocket would be big enough already and I've ordered some on the delivery tomorrow :mad:

Late lunch - of a hm pitta reheated and covered in garlic butter.. (lack of other easy options).

Dinner - recipe from 'Easy Vegetarian' of asparagus stir fried in ginger, soy sauce and orange zest with cashews and I added in the last bit of frozen tofu to bulk it out a bit. Started using up the dried ginger now I've run out of frozen and the soy sauce needs using as BB of 2011. Was quite good, will do that again.

Florenceem

In to freezer - nothing - still no kitchen.
Out of freezer - 3 HM muffins + braised beef + HM smoked salmon quiche.
More food in MW - jacket potato + honey roast gammon + spicey baked beans.
My sink/taps and worktops are now in the kitchen.

Kirri

Postie just delivered my free All Bran, that was quick

It's really nice! Is clusters, quite sweet.
Handy as I had nothing in for breakfast and was waiting for my food delivery to turn up!