Eating out of the freezer and cupboards challenge - part two

Kirri

Edwardia wrote: »

Victoria sponge.. retro food My mother would make them when someone was coming for tea when I was a kid, but these days they get Respect organic carrot cake (1.80, Sainsbury's)

Curious.. how many bakers are there on this thread ? D you freeze many cakes ?

It was the quickest cake I could make at 11:30 at night
It was going to be Mary Berry's orange syrup cakes but I got the measured out soya milk out the freezer earlier in the week and then didn't have time to bake, so had to throw it out.

I freeze cakes - the MB orange syrup cake recipe makes 2 small 1lb loaf cakes so one goes straight in the freezer usually.

I have a pomegranate to use up this weekend, not quite sure what in... (never eaten one before, it came in a mixed fruit delivery).

Welsh_Poppy

I adore pomegranate I usually sprinkle them on my porridge a super food or with soya yoghurt or just eat them on there own:-)

Edwardia

Last night I watched Federer and Sampras v Agassi and Nadal in an exhibition doubles match at Indian Wells, CA back in 2010 on Youtube. Agassi seemed to have a limp and Sampras a dodgy shoulder and yet they were in late thirties. I never gave it a thought before, about professional sportspeople collecting injuries and then having to live with them for maybe another fifty years..

Well done Welsh Poppy :T I did A level Sport Studies and track was my least favourite, I hated even 5k.

Ocado order turned up on time as usual soo IN freezer

Waitrose 4 organic chicken wings x2
Goodlife frozen 4 Fairtrade nut cutlets
Waitrose frozen organic petits pois
Waitrose 4 organic British beefburgers x2 (offer)
Waitrose organic British beef meatballs x2 (offer)
Daylesford organic chicken drumsticks x2
The Black Farmer organic chicken legs

It's stuffed full now, have to pull out all the non-gluten free bread and veggie stuff for my mother/homeless shelter like the cupboard.

How is everyone doing with Christmas food ?

Lunch will be meatballs with Sainsbury's SO organic fresh pomodoro sauce (spotted for first time this week) and runner beans. Dinner will be Pot au feu to use up carrots, radicchio, swede, leeks, peppers, red cabbage etc.

Welsh_Poppy

Edwardia

Although I was not an elite athlete I can understand all too well with injuries I ran competivitly for 9 years from 35-44 and did lots of damage and injury after injury hence I had to give it up as my body could not do it any more .So full credit to those that do with injuries 50 years on.It is only now at age 49 I can run on a treadmill and my body allows this which has suprised me if this is all I will be able to do am happy as thought I could never do it again.(I am or was an outside runner and always hated treadmills)

OOh sorry you hated track I have run at all distances and loved it all.

I have not started Christmas yet this year will be first year OH and myself on outr own so will be strange.I do have a panetonne and stollen I bought ages ago:-)

Edwardia

Welsh Poppy I always preferred to let the horse do the running

I used to go to a gym and I loved all the Nautilus stuff but my trainer would make me do a mile on the treadmill to warm up and another to warm down and I hate them.

I just walk a lot now though I'm considering re-starting Pilates or learning Tai Chi - OH thinking about doing it too - he used to be black belt in Karate but had knee op last year.

I confess I don't bake and haven't done much since I finished my catering course at college. In my exam I had to do profiteroles (choux pastry) which I never liked doing.

Grotty weather here, glad the shopping was delivered. Walking back from Morrisons loaded with shopping wasn't fun earlier this week.

Wish I could still eat pomegranate Kirri, they're lovely.

Kirri

^ too true, I have Ocado this evening and for the sake of the 99p delivery charge it's well worth it, no way could I be bothered to go into a supermarket now on a Saturday let alone in the rain or pay bus fare/petrol to do so, when I can have someone drop it in my hall!!

I've tried running so many times and I just could never do it - though was diagnosed with asthma this year with reduced lung capacity of a third so it all makes sense now.. and I now need to improve my fitness levels.

Was looking at a lebanese fatoush (?) salad recipe in old Waitrose mag but was wondering if pomegranate would go with a puy lentil salad, I will dig around my Middle Eastern recipes a bit more. I need the Ottolenghi book..

Gonzo1987

2 x ys loaves into freezer yesterday 19p each so had to! Also got gnocchi on sale for 88p (I know, super easy to make but a nice store cupboard alternative to pasta)

Out today - a spinach and ricotta pizza for lunch, veggie meatballs for a bake fr dinner and veggie mince for a shepherds pie for sunday dinner.


Got a bag of peppers how easy are they to freeze?

Soworried

Peppers are easy to freeze, just chop and freeze. I don't blanch them.
Nothing in or out today as I have a lot that I need to use up in the fridge first.
Lunch was hm quiche añd dinner was hm chicken tikka lasagne and cauliflower. Dessert will be left over rhubarb crumble with custard.

Jelly_Biactol

Kirri wrote: »

I have a pomegranate to use up this weekend, not quite sure what in... (never eaten one before, it came in a mixed fruit delivery).

Eat it on its own (traditionally, quartered, and with a pin to pick out the seeds - that's what I was taught at school, in Latin class of all places:) ... Proserpina/Persephone while a prisoner of Hades/Pluto in the Underworld eats some pomegranate seeds - naughty girl! - and so is condemned to spending a third of each year as his wife in the Underworld)
"My best friend's mum would keep her kids quiet for ages by giving them a quarter of a pomegranate and a pin and leaving them to pick out the seeds individually – hours of concentration!"
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/02/why-pomegranate-is-good-for-you

Or Dibs Roman (pomegranate molasses), quite common in Middle East
http://www.maureenabood.com/2012/09/17/ingredient-pomegranate-molasses-dibs-roman/

ms_night_ryder

I am not a baker Edwardia, but I bake occasionally! my fave so far has been pear loaf, which is really low in fat, half a cup of sugar, no butter and so moist!

Kirri I'm grilling some golden beet slices, just had a bite and they are lovely!

I woke up at 3pm today, don't know what is wrong with me, I think because my house was so hot! I went outside and was grateful for how cold it was!

Also got sent another set of walkers vouchers today, I did receive a set on Thursday for £4 so I put one set aside and used the other set to get 2 multi packs of crisps, which I took to my grandmas, she ate 2 packs on the spot, I left her another pack, so she had half of a multi pack, then I left the other there for Christmas, she then forced me to go and do a little bit of shopping, which included another multi pack of crisps lol!

I went to Waitrose and used another of my walkers vouchers on 2 packs of sunbites which were on at £1 for 6, I also got 3 packs of lamb mince, put 2 in the freezer and one is cooking now, that cost £4 in a reduced multi buy.

Also decided to stick to fish and poultry during the week and have other meats on the weekend, at least until Christmas, so any leftover lamb mince that isn't eaten this weekend will be frozen.

For dinner is steamed rice and veg, griddled beetroot and lamb mince, I'm hungry, should be ready just in time for xfactor.

WP I hate running, how do you do it? its so boring! even if you add music! I much prefer walking.