Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

Hopeless_Case

Mummy2cheekymonkeys wrote: »

I recently made a apple and pear chutney. Haven't tried any yet as it's maturing but it smelt nice. A few years ago I made jars of pickled pears which were delicious with custard.
I always include pears in a crumble so normally peel and dice them and freeze them for the winter.
Hope that helps.

Thanks - could you use small unripe pears? The weeping pear pears are normally considered inedible as they stay hard and don't sweeten up or ripen really, but they might work in a chutney

candygirl

Had my LO curry, n bhaji from the other night with a little salad.Easy tea

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Wednesday made spaghetti Bol - one portion of meat sauce for freezer. Also used up last of potatoes, tomatoes, green peppers from freezer, mushroom juice from soaking dried porcini mushrooms & other odd bits to make a soup. Will blitz & freeze although may have a bowl for lunch with hm croutons.

MrsSD

pamsdish

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

How about washing, chopping & freezing OR cooking & making soup to freeze.

MrsSD

Trouble is freezers are quite full, thinking I may dehydrate some, freeze what I have to, forgot carrots and there`s still some beans growing.

wort

If you make soup it will keep in the fridge for lunches for a few days.

Wraithlady

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

Thanks - could you use small unripe pears? The weeping pear pears are normally considered inedible as they stay hard and don't sweeten up or ripen really, but they might work in a chutney

Poaching pears is the traditional way of dealing with unripe pears, so would imagine that chutney would be ok. May be best to delay adding vinegar until a little later in the process, otherwise you may get hard lumps of pear (for the record, I have never tried this). Diana Henry has a recipe for pear jam if you're interested.

pamsdish

Looking at freezer stock I see a piece of beef skirt listed, from memory it`s quite a large piece, will defrost that for slow cooking tomorrow, with veggies from freezer, if I make a good amount could be a couple of days meals, any left overs could then be frozen for future meals.
That will give me SOME freezer space hopefully. Some out, less in.??

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Not really that hungry tonight so I think I shall have some scrambled eggs and crackers with some yogurt and fruit to follow Sometimes you just need something simple and easy

JackieO xx

candygirl

I'm in a cba mood, so am just having a couple of Indian samosas.My God they're hot:eek:

joedenise

Picked up some salmon YS and made teriyaki salmon with pak choi. It was lovely, even though I had to buy the pay choi. Made my own teriyaki sauce rather than using a bottle, cos I hadn't got one, LOL!

Denise