I'm eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge

Florenceem

In to freezer - some YS Sardines + Pollock fillets.
Out of freezer - Chicken/mushroom pastie.
We had HM quiche + HM garlic wedges plus - I had the end of a white cabbage - stir fried garlic, onion and thinly sliced carrot with it. Added some garlic granules + black pepper + Worcester sauce - it was yummy. We do like garlic!

gunsandbanjos

8 slices of bread out for lunches etc.

Bolognaise out for dinner tomorrow.

zafiro1984

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

What was it like?

Vienetta:- I used Mr Askeys chocolate sauce the one that goes hard when you put it on icecream and made a soft/runny fudge for the other layer.
Worked very well indeed, looked a bit rustic as the layers were not evenly spaced and dipped at one side so it defintely had that HM look- but I like it like that.
I think more to the point is which icecream you use as to the overall flavour. I make my own using double cream and condensed milk, it's extremely yummy, extremely calorific and we don't eat much of it. Recipe if you want it - very very easy to make and works every time.

No freezer movements today, must get back to trying to use more from freezer.

Jelly_Biactol

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Vienetta:- Recipe if you want it - very very easy to make and works every time.

Sounds interesting:)
Is it the same recipe as
http://www.southernplate.com/2012/06/homemade-viennetta.html
that I posted a couple of days ago?

ms_night_ryder

Last of pancakes and granola for breakfast. Have taken out chicken wings from freezer for a late lunch, also some chicken breast pieces and lardons, to make a pasta, using the last of the garlic and herb cream cheese.

Off to micro defrost wings.

Welsh_Poppy

Lots of freezer movement both in and out:-)

Today Nothing in or out

I have elderberry syrup and elderberry fizz in process,hm spicy apple chutney and a few other things being made this past week.

Dinner will be organic chicken,cabbage,potatoes,stuffing and gravy.

Florenceen
Glad the ultrasound came back normal for you.

zafiro1984

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

Sounds interesting:)
Is it the same recipe as
http://www.southernplate.com/2012/06/homemade-viennetta.html
that I posted a couple of days ago?

Yes it is the same recipe but it says 'choose your favourite icecream' so I think the icecream quality/flavour will make all the difference.
The one I use is 600ml double cream whipped to form peaks, vanilla essence - I use a good 2teaspoons, add in one can condensed milk and whip again until it forms reasonably stiff peaks - then freeze. The good thing about making this one is that you don't have to break it up at the half way freezing stage and it does not form ice crystals at all. It's so easy and never goes wrong - makes one litre.

downshifted

Out: veg casserole for lunch. In: more plums, but the tree is now more or less bare!

Jelly_Biactol

Freezer movements in last couple of days:
OUT: bread, pasta sauce, HM pea & pear soup
IN: nothing

Tea was a budget affair of pasta with mushrooms and HM pesto - using walnuts instead of pine nuts and free basil from the window-ledge (my basil plant has gone on a manic growth spurt in the last few days, maybe it knows that winter is coming?), and the last third of a Value garlic baguette; total cost for tea, plus two portions for the fridge/freezer, about £2.20.

Finally got around to adding up my August grocery spend: £103.57:eek: more than twice as much as I usually spend a month. But that did involve a major restocking of cupboard essentials at the start of the month, and quite a bit of batch cooking - fridge-freezer still fairly full, and plan to run that down during this month, so shouldn't be spending anything like as much.

zafiro1984 wrote: »

I think the icecream quality/flavour will make all the difference. The one I use is 600ml double cream whipped to form peaks, vanilla essence - I use a good 2teaspoons, add in one can condensed milk and whip again until it forms reasonably stiff peaks - then freeze. The good thing about making this one is that you don't have to break it up at the half way freezing stage and it does not form ice crystals at all. It's so easy and never goes wrong - makes one litre.

Thanks, have never tried making ice cream so might give this a go:T

Kirri

Jelly_Biactol wrote: »

HM pesto - using walnuts instead of pine nuts and free basil from the window-ledge (my basil plant has gone on a manic growth spurt in the last few days, maybe it knows that winter is coming?)

Finally got around to adding up my August grocery spend: £103.57:eek:

I did hm pesto with the basil at the weekend, froze in ice cubes and couldn't remove them the next day! Had to let them thaw a bit, got in a right mess then the cubes stuck to each other when I put them in a bag. Not sure about doing it like that again..

That's a lot for you! Will check mine in a bit. I had to restock a fair bit at the beginning of September but not bought anything since.


Breakfast - Had the last yoghurt and muesli this morning - need to re-buy both. Got hm bread out the freezer for breakfast tomorrow.

Lunch - Used the last of the hm bread and did a toasted cheese sandwich with free allotment salad.

Dinner - polpette out the freezer with mini jacket potatoes and runner beans stir fried in soy, ginger, olive oil and agave. So fair bit of the dinner was free.


Found another courgette recipe, for courgette dumplings on a bean goulash - look quite simple though need veg suet pref organic, not sure how easy that is to find.


Also made a batch of lemon biscuits as had nothing sweet in.