April 2012 Grocery Challenge

rising_from_the_ashes

meg72 wrote: »

What is puzzling me now is, since it came out of the freezer, why the heck cant i fit it back in? Come to the conclusion that if you take stuff out its virtually impossible tofit all the different shapes back together in the same way. Like a huge not doable jigsaw.

Sounds like my freezers too Meg - really, really need to try to make some inroads into these! Can't cook anything else to freeze until I've eaten some of the meals already in there!

cleggie

jumblejack wrote: »

Of course!!!!

It isn't really a recipe as much as a method....

JJ's Easy Peasy, biriani method:

1) Fry off onions in a deep pan until caramelised.
2) Add whichever spices/curry blend you have to hand to the pan.
3) Add whichever veggies need using up and coat in the spices and fry off for a minute.
4) Last of all, add a mug of rice and also fry until coated in spices.
5) Add 2 mugs of water/leftover stock and bring to the boil.
6) Pop on the lid and leave to simmer very gently until all the liquid has been absorbed.

Job's a good un:T

You can't go wrong with this method.
If you want to add raisins, nuts, coriander, seeds, etc, go for it.

You can use the same method with lentils for a daal dish too.

Easy peasy, squeeze of lemon

Thanks

Re the curry blend/spices, woud a bit of that balti/mild curry pataks paste be OK do you think?

Fiasco55

Seems like quite a few of us were wandering round L!dl's today. I spent £8.31 on bread, fresh fruit and vegies, cooked meat and some bin bags.

My mum is coming to stay with me for a few days and I am having a few guests for dinner on Wednesday night. So for the most part I should be sorted.

JIL

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Sounds like my freezers too Meg - really, really need to try to make some inroads into these! Can't cook anything else to freeze until I've eaten some of the meals already in there!

My freezer too. My family asked why I was bagging up oven chips into individual portions? I answered to make it easier for them, If I was not there they would just then be able to get one portion out and no hassle.
The truth really was that I could not get the full bag in whole without rearranging everything else.

jumblejack

cleggie wrote: »

thanks

re the curry blend/spices, woud a bit of that balti/mild curry pataks paste be ok do you think?

definitely:t

mrs-moneypenny

did left over soup for dinner the veggies that didnt get used yesterday (out of the serving dishes not off peoples plates) didnt look too appealing but tasted really nice.
tea was mushroom pasta, cheats afters got a box of biccys from mil for easter so opened them.

made strawberry icecream yesterday turned out really nice 1st time ive tried the icecream maker, made vanilla today, that tastes yum and much cheaper than hagen das

cleggie

jumblejack wrote: »

definitely:t

Brill, thanks!

CherryPie

jumblejack wrote: »

Florenceem, I just want to say that I think your meal portions are terrific! The meal is not too large and the veggies take up quite a high proportion of the complete meal:T. Good example.

I was just thinking the same thing!

:beer:

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Well not done very well today. I got beef chunks out of freezer last night to make beef casserole with dumplings - yum. Only problem was I got involved with Uni work today and forgot to do casserole and didn't remember til it was 6pm - much too late to make casserole that takes 3 hours .
So (and here's the really bad bit) DH went for takeaway so that cost us £20 (for 4 of us). It doesn't come out of my GB but we shouldn't be spending it when we are debt busting.
We won't be wasting beef though. DH is cooking casserole tonight so we can heat it up tomorrow .
I just seem to be really disorganised during the school hols when the DSs are at home and spend much more than when they are school. At least during the next school hols I will have broken up from Uni and won't have deadlines to meet for that.

PennyGrabber

jumblejack wrote: »

Tesco value pasta quills are now 15p!

I may have to break my no buying pasta rule!! I love to stock up while it's cheap, and watch others pay more... I think 14p was the lowest it ever got before, so 15 p is an awesome price! Thanks for sharing that.

meg72 wrote: »

What is puzzling me now is, since it came out of the freezer, why the heck cant i fit it back in? Come to the conclusion that if you take stuff out its virtually impossible tofit all the different shapes back together in the same way. Like a huge not doable jigsaw. Anyway happy now that i am not the waster that Iwas feeling.

Freezer tetris!! There is only one way it will work, and you'll never remember what that is if you take one thing out. I took out a massive (for us) joint of pork to roast a couple of weeks ago. Took it from one of the drawers, but it was at the bottom. As I put everything back in, the drawer was still full!!