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  • kerik4 wrote: »
    I made a bean soup today with cans forgotten at the back of the cupboard. Problem is I now have in the fridge: bowl of chicken from Sunday, small bowl of bolognese from Monday and reheated on Tuesday, bowl of shepherds pie which was cooked a month ago and defrosted and cooked again yesterday, all still waiting to be used up! Can I make a giant hash, I wonder?!!!

    Freeze the chicken shredded in a bag in the freezer ready for soup or adding to a risotto.

    Add some beans and sweetcorn, with a little chilli to the bolognaise and you have a chilli con carne.

    Shepherds pie - add some cooked cabbage and fry as a hash.
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  • I cleaned my kitchen cupboards yesterday evening and found two christmas puddings...

    We only moved into the house at the end of November so I really didn't have time to home make this year. I bought a nut-free for my mum who came for christmas and a large normal for me and fiancee. But then a friend gave us a home made pudding as a christmas present. We ate the home-made at christmas and the two shop boughts got forgotten about at the back of the cupboard.

    Anyway... I always make my own ice cream in the summer and always stumble across christmas pudding ice cream recipie but never the enthusiasm to make christmas pudding in the summer specifically to use for ice cream.

    Imagine my delight at re-finding these christmas puddings... ice cream maker bowl is in the freezer chilling as I type!!!

    Dinner tonight: Risotto - using up a bit of butternut squash that would not fit no matter how much I tried into the soup pan earlier today. Also some blue cheese that's stinking out my fridge can go in the risotto too. As for meat, all scraps have been used up so I've defrosted some chicken thighs. Will roast some for tonight and probably do a casserole tomorrow with the rest.

    Using left-overs... don't it make ya feel good!


    Also... I still have the elderberry vinegar in the cupboard, that was also a thoughtful Christmas present but not a scoobie what to do with it!
  • Primrose
    Primrose Posts: 10,703 Forumite
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    Annie123 - if you've still got your marmalade and have a microwave you could try this quick pudding:
    Drop four tablespoonfuls in the bottom of a buttered 2 pint/1 litre pudding basin.
    In a separate bowl blend 3 eggs, 6 oz S.R. flour, 6 oz butter and 2 tablespoons marmalade. Mix together until blended. Scape the mix into the pudding basin, cover with cling film and microwave for 6 - 7 minutes. If a skewer comes out clean, it is cooked. Serve with creme fraiche or custard.
  • CHICKEN SOUP

    A simple, quick and easy recipe for chicken soup, using a leftover chicken carcass. A basic soup can be made with just the chicken, water, onion and pepper.

    4 servings

    INGREDIENTS

    1 onion
    At least 2 additional vegetables (see below)
    1 roast chicken carcass
    1 litre of water
    1 chicken stock cube
    1 teaspoon of any herb
    Ground pepper to taste

    METHOD

    Peel the onion and chop it into big pieces. Peel the other vegetables, if required, and chop them into 2cm (1 inch) pieces.

    Put the chicken, vegetables, water, stock cube and herb into a large saucepan on a medium heat. Stir thoroughly. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering).

    Put the lid on and cook for an hour. Check the liquid level from time to time and top up if it starts to dry out.

    Fish out the carcass and put it on a plate. Remove any meat which is still on the bones, Put the meat back into the soup. Discard the bones.

    If you have a food processor, put the soup in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the soup and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the soup through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy.

    Season with the pepper.

    ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

    You an use carrots, celery, courgettes, leeks, mushrooms, tomatoes, parsnips, potatoes, swedes, turnips, etc. Using green vegetables and mushrooms will give a light and delicate broth. Using root vegetables and tomatoes will give a thick and hearty soup.

    For Chicken Noodle Soup, use green vgatables and add a small pack of noodles.
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  • furndire
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    Did anyone try the Thai Ginger soup at the BBC Food show at Birmingham? on the Vitamix stand. Very impressed with the machine, but not the price - basically a bees knees liquidiser. To get to the nub of my post, the recipe is on their website, and I just made some tonight in my Moulinex/Baileys liquidiser which I won last year. You just keep it running for 4 or 5 mins - until its thick & creamy.
    Very healthy recipe. Had ginger, lemon, lemon grass, garlic, celery, courgette, corriander, cabbage, pepper, chilli, cashew nuts, coconut milk, apple, a chicken stock cube, and 500 ml of water.
    Small amounts of each , just the sort of things you tend to have left in the fridge. I used a piece of ginger that I grated from frozen, courgette slices frozen from last year, frozen peppers. Frozen chilli - which I froze as they were starting to get wrinkly. Almonds would probably work instead of cashews. Don't peel the veg just chop it up into reasonable chunks. I had a jar of lemon grass, so used a dessertspoon full out of that.
    It tastes really lovely.
    Then just warm it up in a pan. It even tastes nice cold!!!!
    I've made it before, but didn't have one or two of the things, but still was delish.
    A bit more chilli, and a few more cashews, and it makes a gorgeous curry sauce to have with fish, or chicken.
  • I'm not sure if these count as left overs but I had two chicken breasts to eat up and four slices of bacon left over from making a bacon/lentil/veg soup, so I thought I would wrap the chicken in the bacon, roast and voila! Tea for four. Until I looked at the price of the chicken. Even with a reduced sticker, it was £5.25 (organic). What was I thinking? Anyway, I cut all the meat into small chunks, added onions, carrot, lentils and broad beans from the freezer and it made a lovely casserole, that stretched to four portions for tea and two generous lunches, so I felt a bit better.
  • Hi having been following this thread for some time and have been inspired to try to be more creative with my leftovers so thanks alot, this has not only reduced waste but has saved some pennies and in these hard times its very welcome so keep up the good work and I look forward to more ideas, take care Shell
  • blahn
    blahn Posts: 98 Forumite
    I'm not sure if this really counts as left overs or not, but does anyone have any ideas for a load of cereal bars? I usually like them but these ones are too nutty. I think it's the hazelnuts. I have quite a lot of them but I don't really want to force them down and I don't really want to throw them out either...

    Also, I discovered a box of golden honey puffs (I think that's their name) cereal. They just look like rice krispies to me. Would they work in rice krispie cereal recipes? :confused:
  • Feeling well pleased today. Cooked a gammon joint, cost just over 3 quid, in the slow cooker, took it out chucked in a packet of dried peas, which cost 10p some while back at Tescos. Voila, pea and ham soup which will do the ole man and me for two lunches, 5p per lunch. Just the peas and what would have been wasted cooking water.

    Plus of course the gammon which will do two main meals.

    Mind you just had our combined gas and electricity bill from eon, £306 this despite being extremely careful with usage. So I think I will have to devise some more 10p lunches.
    Away with the fairies.... Back soon
  • Beki
    Beki Posts: 917 Forumite
    blahn wrote: »
    I'm not sure if this really counts as left overs or not, but does anyone have any ideas for a load of cereal bars? I usually like them but these ones are too nutty. I think it's the hazelnuts. I have quite a lot of them but I don't really want to force them down and I don't really want to throw them out either...

    Also, I discovered a box of golden honey puffs (I think that's their name) cereal. They just look like rice krispies to me. Would they work in rice krispie cereal recipes? :confused:

    smash up the cereal bars, add to the honey puffs, add a load od oats and follow your favourite flapjack recipe with it all? :beer:
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