Mozzarella - 2 pks should have been used by yesterday - Help !

NualaBuala

Oooh, thanks Zippychick, :T I love pesto and my mouth is watering with some of those ideas!

I've never tried to make my own as I always find basil so expensive but now I've started growing my own so will have to give it a go when I have enough. It's still a bit weedy but coming along and I took my first "harvest" from it for the pasta sauce and I was thrilled to be eating something I'd grown.

Let us know how you get on with yours

FamilyTree_2

Going off on a tangent here a wee bit, but.....

Another thing you can do with the pesto is make a pea, pear and pesto soup, it's so simple to make and really really tasty.

Frozen peas and a cut up pear in a pot ( good way to use up softer pears that are past the best eating stage), just cover with water and let it simmer till the peas are cooked, blitz in a food processor or with a wand as I do and add salt and pesto to taste. yum yum:p

NualaBuala

That sounds scrummy! I tend not to buy pears but I have a pear tree that bears those hard sort of cooking pears. I wonder would it work with them? I can't bear waste so am always trying to think of what to do with them and the crab apples come the autumn.

michelefauk

Hi
I hope one of you lovely people can help, I have some leftover chicken in the fridge and some mozzarella (3 packs, it was 25 p each in Lidl!) also some single cream and mushrooms which need using up today. Can anyone help with a recipe to use these up? I was thinking maybe with pasta?
Any help much appreciated. Thanks

hotcookie101

Fry mushrooms with some onions until soft, cook pasta, add cream to mushrooms, stir through the pasta with leftover chicken, stick in oven proof/grill proof dish, top with mozzarella and cook until mozzarella lovely and melted and stringy, maybe a bit browned ( I would use oven so as to reheat the chicken thoroughly)

floss2

You can freeze any unopened mozzarella

michelefauk

I didn't realise you could freeze the mozzarella, I might have to go and get some more while it is on offer at Lidl.
thanks and going to make the chicken dish for tea, am sure it will go down a treat!

zara*elise

hey lovely,

You can make a carbonara style pasta, substituting the chicken with what would be bacon-type meat, or try making a pizza! Mozzarella is just lovely on pizzas (I'm half Italian so I love my pizza!)

xx

funkymonkey849

I've got a larger than average ball of mozzerella, the soft type which comes in liquid, which needs using up, would like to use it for packed lunch tomorrow but not sure what to use it with! Any ideas? Thanks! x

RachelW1987

Hi Funkymonkey

You could put it in some pasta. Or a nice ham salad and mozzerella sarnie.

Its lovely in toasties or panninis.