Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

YorksLass, I agree with the sniff & taste test.
Reminds me of my Champagne dilemma. XMas 2001 I won a Jeroboam of Moët et Chandon Champagne in the office raffle, but never had an occasion to use it. It was kept in its rather nice crate box but we were not that careful about where it was stored so the temperature wasn’t regulated. Last year my DH’s great niece was 30 & was having a big party so we donated the champagne with the advice that it shouldn’t be relied on (we had googled it & 5 - 7 years was the max time).
However the big day arrived, the cork popped nicely & the taste test was conducted. Much to my GINORMOUS SURPRISE it was a very nice champagne & everyone enjoyed it - so much so that the whole Jeroboam was consumed very quickly. The ultimate LFHW - 16 year old Champagne! (I also provided a couple of hm focaccias, which also didn’t last long + I didn’t poison anyone:j).

I think tomorrow needs to be a baking & cooking day as I have everything I need & all the fruit & veg is now a few days old.

Any ideas what I can do with 3/4 jar of pickled red cabbage & 3/4 jar of silver skin onions & 1/2 jar of curry paste?

MrsSD:)
LFHW

I want a champagne dilemma except it wouldn't be a dilemma :rotfl:

I eat pickled red cabbage as a side with cottage pie or corned beef hash or even chilli(I tend to eat chilli with kimchi and avocado but would substitute in the cabbage)

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Good Morning chums and another week /month has almost vanished The time just flies by at the moment.
Tonight's dinner will be a veggie curry from the freezer with a naan bread also from there and some rice. I am sorting out my shopping list for tomorrow morning it will only be the second shop this month as I have been shopping from the freezer and using up odds and ends indoors.

Really pleased at this months efforts and am hoping to get the freezer defrosted before Easter I am only buying fresh fruit and veg and a few other bits that I have run out of tomorrow so I am hoping to spend around a tenner.

Its surprising what you can come up with when you look in the cupboards I like salads thank goodness, and can stretch most food with a large salad on the side. I dug out a small bit of y/s steak from the freezer for tomorrow nights dinner and I will have that with a small jacket spud and a large mixed salad.

I too would use the red pickled cabbage as a side.I normally get the left over jars of half used pickles from my DDs after Christmas and love to use them up. Pickled red cabbage goes very well with sausages and cheesey mash .
I have some plain low fat yogurt to use up today so I shall mix a good dollop (technical term )of lemon curd in to it as I have the tail end of a lemon curd jar to use up in the fridge

frugally onwards chums

JackieO xx

Ginmonster

I quite often freeze risotto - it's not quite as good as fresh and is a little softer but if you add a splash of extra water when reheating it stops it being claggy.

freyasmum

Jackie, I love the sound of lemon curd in the yogurt! It makes it sound like one of those posh 70p+ a pop specially selected yogurts.

I had some frozen fruit that I bought for DD (at her request) for her to have with her overnight oats/porridge. Only, after I bought them, she decided she didn't want to eat that much any more *rolleyes* After a few rounds of sneaking them into the breakfast meal plan, I could do no more. She just wanted up hungry and it was a waste of good food! So I blended the frozen fruit with the same weight of low fat yogurt and some sweetener to make a sort of frozen yogurt. Well, she couldn't get enough of it!

The chicken and ham pie was a resounding success last night - so much so, they're both having it for dinner again tonight!

I'm having corned beef hash again.



Coming up at some point is:
beetroot and feta fritters (vac pack beetroot from Aldi super 6 which was opened - for brownies - and the other half frozen)
Pearl barley risotto with mushrooms and turkey breast steaks that I have in the freezer.
Toad in the hole with turkey sausages (reduced), mashed potatoes (also reduced) and peas.
Carbonara of sorts with a pack of smoked bacon, peas and cheese.

I'm going to the shops today (alone!) and all I need is a pack of thins and bacon for breakfasts, fruit and eggs.

Annoyingly, I need to buy a pack of mushrooms and a bunch of spring onions for foos technology for DD, so I'll get some mince and make a batch of Bolognese.

I must admit, I do feel quite uncomfortable eating the cupboards so bare, but there's no point keeping it to move it when we go!

YorksLass

LameWolf wrote: »

My DH is very good at getting recalcitrant corks out of bottles; thing is, he won't go anywhere on his own, I always have to go with him. We can bring our own wine glasses, though.....:rotfl:

Relax, you can travel light as I have loads of glasses! I'd probably give you some as a souvenir! :rotfl:

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Reminds me of my Champagne dilemma.

Any ideas what I can do with 3/4 jar of pickled red cabbage & 3/4 jar of silver skin onions & 1/2 jar of curry paste? MrsSD:) LFHW

Ooh, champagne, a nice dilemma to have.

Pickled red cabbage - definitely as a side with cottage pie or with pie & peas
Silverskin onions - thinly sliced in a cheese sandwich
Curry paste - as a marinade for chicken, fish or a base for curry sauce

Well, this week's meal plan has gone out of the window, thanks to this bloomin' virus that's doing the rounds. We were just getting over it and now we're both back to square 1 as it seems to have decided it wants a second bite of the cherry. So, meals are a bit odd and very much dependent on what we fancy - which ain't much! Last night's dinner turned into tomato soup and a Spam sandwich. Brekkie this morning was a cheese & onion chutney sarnie for DH and a tuna one for me. Luckily, what had been on the meal plan hasn't been wasted as everything was coming from the freezer anyway and there it remains. Tonight we might have a salad, although right now I'm fancying some tinned fruit.

Loving all the inventiveness on here and once our appetites come back, I can see me trying some of them - especially maddiemay's tart/galette and Jackie's lemon curd in yogurt.

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I must admit I looked at the 'posh' yogurts and thought Hmmm its just plain yogurt with something added, and I first tried it with some grape jelly that DD had brought me back from the USA.

I love their Smuckers grape jelly which is in a squeezey bottle and a bit like a slightly runnier jam than we have, but delicious in anything like yogurt or a dollop in rice pud. A large pot of plain low fat yogurt from the SM is around 45-50p and you can easily get 4-6 servings from a big pot with something added and forked together if you add a bit of granola or crunched up bran flakes or digestiv biscuit you wouldn't know the difference betwen that and a Mueller corner yogurt, apart from the price :):)

I look at what's in the shelves in the SM and see if I can replicate it myself at home ,often I can for half the price :):)

ScotinLondon

THIRZAH wrote: »

I've not tried freezing risotto but you can buy it frozen.

Thank you - I never knew you could get frozen risotto.

SpendingSensible wrote: »

SIL - I have frozen risotto before and it tasted fine. I defrosted overnight and added some extra stock when reheating.

Will try freezing risotto over the weekend.

Am hoping to batch cook this weekend - soups, dahls and curries mainly...depends on what is going on in RL.

SILx

YorksLass

JackieO wrote: »

I look at what's in the shelves in the SM and see if I can replicate it myself at home ,often I can for half the price :):)

I remember back in the mid-80s when my two were littlies there was a daytime TV cookery programme by a lady called Shirley Goode. Her philosophy was much like yours, taking something you could buy in the sm and replicating it in your own kitchen for far less cost. I also had one of her cookery books called The (Shirley) Goode Kitchen - now out of print but I think it's available on Amazon. Sadly, I let my copy go in one of my de-cluttering moments . She certainly opened my eyes as to how much you could save by DIY!

JIL

I was watching a Jamie Oliver cooking programme on one of the obscure sky channels. He made some meringue nest dessert things that looked ok.

It was basically a shop bought meringue nest, in the centre a spoon full of lemon curd, on top of that went some Greek yogurt with some raspberries mashed up and folded through. Topped off with a little honey.

I have got all of the above although my raspberries are frozen, so that's Sunday dessert sorted.

maddiemay

YorksLass wrote: »

I remember back in the mid-80s when my two were littlies there was a daytime TV cookery programme by a lady called Shirley Goode. Her philosophy was much like yours, taking something you could buy in the sm and replicating it in your own kitchen for far less cost. I also had one of her cookery books called The (Shirley) Goode Kitchen - now out of print but I think it's available on Amazon. Sadly, I let my copy go in one of my de-cluttering moments . She certainly opened my eyes as to how much you could save by DIY!

Sadly Shirley Goode died in November 2015, her family have left her blog, it can be accessed as an internet search of Taste the Goode Life. The recipes and tips are not indexed, but the daily posts go back for years. She was born in the same year as my mum and they had a lot in common regarding providing filling meals for a family on a very tight budget.