I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

gunsandbanjos

Had a rubbish week with one thing and another and had no freezer movements either way!

Will be more organised this week, hope to get some batch cooking done with meat that's in my freezer, start a new job next Monday and would like some easy meals to grab from freezer.

Kirri

^ congrats with the new job though!

joedenise wrote: »

I've never bothered putting breadcrumbs or flour in when I've made beanburgers, although they do tend to fall apart a bit when I cook them!

If you think it needs something in then I would have thought some flour would be fine.

Denise

Beanburgers are difficult at the best of times in cooking! It's only when I make a new recipe for the first time I tend to follow it exactly, then sometimes make amendments after that. I'm just not sure if there will be a difference to the recipe swapping to flour.. I'll try it and see though as otherwise by time I get any more breadcrumbs the pesto will be no good.

Welsh_Poppy

Out of freezer

4 aberdeen angus beef burgers 600gms,red pepper
I need to make meat loaf for OH and I need 500gms beef mince so guess what I am doing with the beefburgers:-) he thought them far too meaty for his liking.

IN
2 courgettes diced for later.

gunsandbanjos

Thanks Kirri! I'm stupidly excited about it :-)

Billie-jo

OUT - Some sausages. (Sausage & mash with veg today for dinner)
IN - Nothing

Have also used up in the last couple of days - the last of the cabbage, some green beans & tomatoes that were given to us and a couple of courgettes.

Kirri

In freezer: 4 x hm bean burgers
Out freezer: loaf hm fruit bread for tomorrow

Mid way cleaning all my cupboards and contents...

Breakfast/lunch - hm fruit bread toasted
Dinner - hm bean burgers and griddled padron peppers

Made the Waitrose pesto bean burger recipe and it's so good! Very impressed as quite simple and good flavour/consistency. Will def make this again. I used borlotti beans, dried on the allotment at least 2 years ago, maybe 3 and they were fine! Soaked overnight, fast boil 10 mins and simmered for about another hour or so. Mash beans and add other ingredients, mix and shape - I covered the burgers in flour whilst shaping as bit sticky mix to handle. I made 7 small burgers from this amount, will make it into 6 equal ones next time.. so 3 portions for me though recipe says makes 2 portions.

100g dried or 1 x 400g tin beans (recipe says cannellini)
2 tbsp red pesto
50g breadcrumbs (I used 50g flour)
1 onion diced (recipes says red, I only had white)
1 egg beaten
Salt/pepper

Cost me very roughly 82p to make so 27p ish per portion Beans and onion were 'free' from the allotment, 40p worth of organic red vegan pesto, 7p worth of organic flour and 35p for an organic egg.

I had the bean burgers with griddled Padron peppers from Riverford, love these, will grow some next year. Just had olive oil, salt and pepper on them. Got a hot one though, made my eyes water :rotfl:

Tastiest dinner I've had this week. Think I'll stick another 100g of dried beans in water to make another batch tomorrow as I've just about got enough pesto left.

Oh and may make this too, looks good!

http://frugalfeeding.com/2013/09/01/chocolate-courgette-cake/

Florenceem

In to freezer - HM Sultana Scones + Whoops Pork Mince + HM Garlic Herby Cheese Bread + HM Yorkshire Puddings + bag of flour.
Out of freezer - Cheese + HM Shepherd's Pie.
We had HM Quiche + HM wedges + LO Baked Beans + Carrots/Onions for dinner.
I did some baking - made Yorkshire Puddings for the freezer. Also baked Sultana Scones + Garlic Herby Cheese Bread.

Jelly_Biactol

http://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes
Recipe ideas from lots of well-known chefs, at The Happy Foodie (new website from Random House Publishing).

cheerfulness4

Oh Florence, mum and I are ogling your scones and cheesy bread. You know how to get our mouth watering!

Kirri

Much the same as yesterday..

Breakfast/lunch - hm fruit bread

Dinner - hm bean burgers (out of freezer, not had chance to make another batch yet) with griddled golden/red beetroot slices and padron peppers.

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