Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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I coat my scotch eggs in dried sage and onion stuffing crumbs as a change from ordinary breadcrumbs Usually bought just after Christmas when they are reduced I had some really nice 'posh' stuffing mixes last year

joedenise

joedenise wrote: »

I'm not use up lunches this week! We had a BBQ Saturday and as usual everyone ate the meat and not much of the salads!

I've got a large bowl of tuna & and sweetcorn pasta salad plus a large dressed salad - think we'll need to eat that today as the dressing will probably make the leaves limp and inedible by tomorrow!

I'm making vegetarian scotch eggs to have with the salad today using some Linda McCartney red onion & rosemary sausages. Won't be bread crumbing them just the egg & sausage "meat" and then baked in the oven.

Denise

Decided to cook them in my Remoska in the end as seemed daft to put on the big oven for a couple of scotch eggs! Took a bit longer than the big oven but turned out well. Will definitely do them that way again.

I often forget about the Remoska as it's kept in a cupboard so not within sight but it's a bit big to leave out all the time.

Denise

Brambling

JIL wrote: »

Here's a really nice vegetable biriani recipe. It freezes well and you can use any veg.

Thanks JIL I'm always on the look out for something different to use the odds and ends of veg when it's not soup weather

JIL

joedenise wrote: »

I'm not use up lunches this week! We had a BBQ Saturday and as usual everyone ate the meat and not much of the salads!

I've got a large bowl of tuna & and sweetcorn pasta salad plus a large dressed salad - think we'll need to eat that today as the dressing will probably make the leaves limp and inedible by tomorrow!

I'm making vegetarian scotch eggs to have with the salad today using some Linda McCartney red onion & rosemary sausages. Won't be bread crumbing them just the egg & sausage "meat" and then baked in the oven.

Denise

I made quorn scotch eggs yesterday, I have really missed sos mix since it stopped being sold in the shops.
For mine I used 4 eggs, and made the "sausage meat" by blitzing 6 quorn sausage, and 3 slices of brown granary bread with an egg and an egg yolk.
They came out really well. I would suggest they were better than the sos mix ones.

I also breadcumbed them and baked them.

I had never thought of blitzing vege sausages previously, its opened up all sorts of thoughts such as rissoles and meatballs and stuffing.

takingcontrolatlast

JIL wrote: »

Here's a really nice vegetable biriani recipe. It freezes well and you can use any veg.
250 g basmati rice

1 teaspoon of ground ginger
2 cloves of garlic, mashed to a paste with a little salt or use granules
2 green chillies, finely chopped (or use more chilli powder)
1 tsp garam masala
half tsp ground cumin
half tsp turmeric
half tsp chilli powder
100g yoghurt
1 tbsp lime or lemon juice
400g veg such as cauliflower, sweet potato, peas, onion, carrots.green beans.
prepared into chunks.

25g butter, melted
2 tbsp milk, warmed
half teaspoon of turmeric.

vegetable oil, to fry

Soak the rice for an hour and then boil it for 8 minutes.Then drain.
Mix the spices into the yogurt and lemon juice. Then mix in the vegetables.
Put a little oil into a frying pan and gently cook all the yogurt and spice coated veg for about 8 minutes, if they get too dry add a little water.
Put the veg into the bottom of a casserole dish.
Top with the rice.
Mix the melted butter, milk and turmeric and flick this around the top of the rice.
Put on a tight lid (you could use foil) and bake for about half an hour
When it cooked you can add sultanas, crispy onions, almond/cashews.

Sounds delicious - I think I'll attempt this at the weekend - we have a house guest to impress

GTBT123

I've just sat here for over an hour reading this thread, some great ideas! I desperately want to cut down our waste & my grocery bill. I also want to use up my freezer stuff. I have a chest freezer and our normal fridge freezer but both are always full, which means I can't see everything & forget what I've got in there.

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joedenise wrote: »

Decided to cook them in my Remoska in the end as seemed daft to put on the big oven for a couple of scotch eggs! Took a bit longer than the big oven but turned out well. Will definitely do them that way again.

I often forget about the Remoska as it's kept in a cupboard so not within sight but it's a bit big to leave out all the time.

Denise

I use my Remoska daily and only use my big oven for batch baking cakes for my DGC.I keep in on the side by the kettle so it really does get used all the time

takingcontrolatlast

What is a Remoska :rotfl:

joedenise

JackieO wrote: »

I use my Remoska daily and only use my big oven for batch baking cakes for my DGC.I keep in on the side by the kettle so it really does get used all the time

I tend to use mine when I'm doing a mini roast mainly. Haven't used it for much else. What else do you use yours for?

Takingcontrolatlast A Remoska is a deep pan with a heated lid and cooks at around 180 degrees. Have a look at the Lakeland website as I think they're the only ones who sell it. They do 2 different sizes.

Denise

takingcontrolatlast

joedenise wrote: »

I tend to use mine when I'm doing a mini roast mainly. Haven't used it for much else. What else do you use yours for?

Takingcontrolatlast A Remoska is a deep pan with a heated lid and cooks at around 180 degrees. Have a look at the Lakeland website as I think they're the only ones who sell it. They do 2 different sizes.

Denise

Thanks Denise - I did pop on the website - I'll put it on my wish list !

Last night I used up the remaining sweet potatoes and put with frozen cous cous packets I had in freezer and cooked some chicken thighs. A light supper which was quite nice really.

I've meal planned for the week and about to go shopping.

I'm beginning to get frustrated when items such as coleslaw and ham should be eaten up within the 3 days and are still sat in the fridge - I actually spoon fed myself the coleslaw as I didn' want to waste it :rotfl:

My tomato plant has sprouted something! I'm so excited ha ha

My chilli plant looks miserable - watch and wait I think

Enjoy the weekend x