Use it up! Don't throw it in the bin!

sb44

kippers wrote: »

It's banana cake (not bread) hope that's ok.

Cake!

That's even better.

Thanks very much, shall give it a go tomorrow.



Sharon

marmitegirl

hi i mix cream cheese into risotto makes it really creamy.You can use any flavour its really good with the garlic and herbs one. Loving everyone's work here glad to know am not alone in eating up all those leftovers !

sb44

kippers wrote: »

It's banana cake (not bread) hope that's ok.

Cake!

That's even better.

Thanks very much, shall give it a go tomorrow.



Sharon

givememoney

HelenYorkshire wrote: »

I don't throw away anything if I can help it BUT...

What do I do with disastrous cooking attempts?

I don't mean efforts that are edible if drowned in tomato sauce, I mean the curry I left on too long and is now so bitter I choked on the first taste :eek: Obviously I need to get better at cooking though :rolleyes:

but I will join for the sake of eating things before they go off :doh:

Years ago when I had just got married (for the first time) I had a friend who's cooking skills were practically zilch.

She cooked inedible food which she used to give to the dog, if the dog wouldn't eat it it was truly inedible.

Each time she and her new husband sat down to eat dinner they always (this isn't a joke)washed it down with a glass of Andrews Liver Salts to settle their stomachs.

Another time she came into work and asked how long yorkshire puddings take to cook. We told her about 45 mins. She had made an attempt. She said to husband they would just leave them in the oven to see how long they took to cook. The answer......11 hours. What she did apparently was fill the patty tins nearly to the top with fat then put a small dollop of batter in each one so it took 11 hours for puddings to fully absorb all the fat.................yuk!!:eek:

Tesscha

Hello All,

I subscribed to this thread last week and realised that I regularly throw stuff away. So today whilst I was making meat balls, I used up the rest of a sweet pepper and cut the other two up and put them in the freezer. I hope this is the beginning of my less wasteful ways!!

Tess

PS. I may have to ask advice about what I can make from what's left over as I'm not always imaginative with ingredients :rolleyes:

Primrose

All these interesting posts are starting to make me think that perhaps what we need on here is a daily "Ready, Steady Cook" challenge to fire up our creative cooking skills and help us view left overs in a more imaginative way.

margaretclare

DH made eggy onion for breakfast - a very nourishing breakfast to see us through the morning.

Later I'm going to make fish-cakes as I remember my aunt making them.

1 small tin of salmon
2 large potatoes boiled and mashed
Fresh parsley chopped
A little plain flour
Vegetable (rape-seed) oil

Mix together mashed potatoes and tinned salmon, add chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Make into fish-cakes on a floured board. Fry quickly until brown. Serve immediately with fresh green salad.

HTH

celyn90

I had a four spiced carrot muffins left from a batch I made last week that had gone a bit too hard to eat so I sliced them up and made carrot cake bread pudding with them It was really nice. Sometimes if I have left over cake I slice it to the width of a biscuit and dry it out in the oven to make biscotti type things, which keep forever. I quite like these sorts of rusk type cakes plain with white wine, as a base for cheesecake or with stewed/preserved fruit.

I convinced OH he shouuld try and make yoghurt in the wide necked thermos flast rather than the yoghurt maker last night to use up some of the excess milk he'd bought that was getting close to date - it was much much better than the result he gets by leaving the yoghurt maker on overnight so it cooks the bottom :rotfl: :rotfl: Energy saving too

thriftlady - delia's chocolate cookbook has some recipes with prunes in - I'll have a look when I get home. I think there is a fallen souflee in there with alcoholic prunes and dark chocolate that's really nice.

If anyone has any ideas how to use up cottage cheese so it doesn't taste like cottage cheese, I'd be really grateful I can't eat anymore cream-cheese frosting :rotfl:

trying-very-trying

craftycrofty wrote: »

Hi,
I have been away but am back & have found this thread. Really good challenge, and one I need to join!
I had some gammon steaks in the freezer and they were defrosted on Thursday evening. The have been in the fridge since and are still in their vacume pack. Do you think they will be OK to eat? If so any suggestions other than Gammon & Egg/Pineapple?!

It might be a bit late now, but I would open the bag and smell it. If it seems to smell okay, then I would chop them up fry them for use in Pasta bake, Potato bake, Stir fry, quiche or pizza? I'm sure that you can think of more, anything where you would use bacon. hth

bobbadog

Hiya! I had quite a disastarous weekend... I made a lemon meringue cheesecake, but I didn't want to use our grill (it smokes and sets off the fire alarm) so just baked it for a little while to crisp up the meringue... and kind of made it melt. We ate half, but it was practically drinkable through a straw!!! So thrown away: half a lemon meringue disaster, 3 egg yolks.

BOO