Using the contents of my Freezer

wyebird

I went where no man has ventured before today (at least for some considerable time) as the freezer really had to be defrosted. I found some very strange things in there, cos I can't resist a bargain and I hate throwing food away (born in the 60s!).....don't feel the need to eat it all up at once now, which is progress.
Have decided not to visit supermarket until this stuff has gone. Will use village shope for fresh veg, milk and anything else that is necessary to make this stuff into a meal. Any suggestions would be apprecaited for the following: (there is other more conventional stuff in there, but these are stumping me a bit!)
Frozen Bananas (seemed like a good idea at the time)
Frozen oranges (see above)
Frozen mushrooms
Various herbs...picked and frozen
A few squashed ice lollies
Muffins and Danish pastries (DD had a holiday job at Coffee Tempo and brought home what they were going to chuck away when she was on late shift)
Lots of prawns (1/2 price bogoff etc)
Kippers
Sardines
Plaice
Sea Bass (?)
Smoke salmon trimmings
Frozen Yogurt (does it freeze....???, another by product of a DD Job)
bag of frozen mixed fruit
Lots(!)of naan and pitta bread
Malt loaf
Cranberry bread
Quorn mince
Velvet Crabs and a lobster (Liddl Christmas!!)
Turkey (bought for Christmas, then got a free one from OH's employer) not BM
Leftover Christmas dinner meat
Leftover Christmas ham
Bucketfulls of homemade soup...find it theraputic

Thanks in anticipation!

jembie

Do you have a blender? The Bananas Oranges and squashed ice lollies would make a gorgeous Smoothie
That is the first thing that comes to mind as I look at the list

bobsa1

defrost ham/turkey which is cooked, fry some onion,peppers etc add meat (cook until really hot) and use it to fill pittas- a bit like tortillas?

Cooked turkey could be turned into a curry, serve with rice and nan bread.

Frozen mixed fruit could be topped with a cobbler type of dough, cooked in oven and served as a lovely pud with frozen yoghurt(if it's full fat it does freeze)

Cooked ham, defrosted, add to a white sauce and serve with pasta

Sorry not great at this but a few ideas

Penelope_Penguin

Smaoked salmon and prawns will make lovely pasta sauce. Fry a shallot, garlic, chilli, add fish and cream. Add some slaked cornflour to thicken.

Muffins - make a bread and butter type pudding (depending on the flavour).

I have all of these in my freezer - and this is what I'm planning.

HTH, Penny. x

LJM

fish pie/prawn curry/fruit crumble,youve got alot of stuff there

Gingernutmeg

Use the frozen bananas in banana bread - they will work fine and what's even better is that frozen bananas don't go brown

whatatwit

If the sea bass is filleted, it is lovely pan fried.

If it is whole, then would oven bake it in tin foil.

Start having the danish pastries/muffins for breakfast.

wyebird

Gingernutmeg wrote:

Use the frozen bananas in banana bread - they will work fine and what's even better is that frozen bananas don't go brown

Thanks! So there was a good reason why I froze them then.;)

Gingernutmeg

wyebird wrote:

Thanks! So there was a good reason why I froze them then.;)

I do it too lol My boyfriend goes mad when there are bags of squishy looking bananas in the freezer ... but he still eats the cake

wyebird

Thanks Gingernutmeg. Do you have a good recipe?

Gingernutmeg

This one is delicious