Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

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He Who Knows brought me home the last of the autumn sown broad beans, the pods had gone black and the beans inside were half dried and I thought what can I do with these? so I podded the beans and cooked them, popped the softer inner out of the chewy thick bean skin (time consuming but fairly easy) and I'm going to make broad bean hummus from them when they are completely cooked down and we'll have that with some veg sticks for our lunches for a couple of days.....result!

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Well done Mrs LW out of disaster comes something better :):)

joedenise

pamsdish wrote: »

Bought a bunch of beetroot, then weather went cooler so cooked dinners to use other veg up, beetroot now going soft so grated it all into a tub to add to salads, now have a broccoli to use up, and some cauli so thinking will make a low carb hummus.

Grated broccoli and cauliflower make a good alternative to rice.
Denise

pamsdish

joedenise wrote: »

Grated broccoli and cauliflower make a good alternative to rice.
Denise

I always eat cauli rice, never tried it with broccoli though, I try to eat as low carb as I can without stressing over it.

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Half a home grown spring cabbage has become a cheesy cabbage gratin with the addition of some fresh breadcrumbs and cheese from the fridge and I've chopped up the last of the French beans we rescued from the polytunnel to have as part of mixed veg tomorrow. I have a colander full of little courgettes which I'll be creative with tomorrow too! as yet I'm not sure what I'll do with them.....

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Morning LFHW'ers, another gorgeous morning here in Kent, I am going to have the stuffed pepper thing I had a couple of weeks ago,but this time with a yellow pepper from the fridge I used up the green ones and its so nice I thought I would try it with a different colour.

So being a frugal old lady I have trimmed all the stalks off my mushroom pack which I shall cook in a tiny bit of butter.after removing the top of the pepper and deseeding it I shall stuff the pepper with the mushroom mix interspersed with grated cheese and a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce ,pop the top back on and cook it in my remoska, with a bit of salad that will do me very nicely for lunch today Tonight I am at the pub quiz where I shall get fed so no cooking tonight. I so enjoyed using up the green pepper this way, a nice tasty lunch thats meat-free ( I do eat meat but I am trying to cut down on it a bit)

Coffee morning this morning first though ,hopefully they will have the big windows open in Dobbies ,or we may move outside into the garden area, we have done that in the past when the weather has been hot. I have a voucher to use up for June for me coffee so a freebie

Mrs LW your cheesey cabbage gratin sound delicious, how about courgette spaghetti with the little courgettes with some tomatoes and herbs.

I find that reserching for meat free recipes over the past few weeks has given me so many ideas about recipes without meat in them.

right onwards and upwards chums

JackieO xx

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Nice idea Jackie but they're way too little to spiralize so I'll make us an aubergine free ratatouille style dish to have at room temperature as part of the next few days lunches. I love the Al Fresco aspect of this heat, it's a real pleasure to eat Tapas/Mezze style lunches under the shade of the big umbrella and then eat supper out there when the sun has gone off the back of the house and the patio is cooler than anywhere else after we've watered everything. Thursday looks like it's going to be an absolute scorcher of a day (night too if the weather folks are right) so I'll make pic-nic foods on Wednesday and stay out of the kitchen until it cools off a little.

Made a big bottle of peach tea (from syrup got in Belgium)for me and a big cafetiere of black coffee for He Who Knows to go in the fridge for chilled drinks, just the ticket when you're really hot, sit and sip something delicioso!!!

Cappella

Just had an inspiration and turned some 'on the turn' carrots and a huge orange into a carrot and orange salad, it's too hot to make carrot and orange soup and it will make a nice addition to tonight's salads for tea.
Also made another bowl of quick potato salad which has used the last of our red onions, they were beginning to sprout and I'm pleased they've not ended up in the compost bin.

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Oh Cappella that sounds really nice, this weather its often a bit of a faff to be cooking in the heat and I like the sound of different ideas for salads. Often although I enjoy salad ,even in the winter, I get stuck for ideas for something different. I am definitely eating less meat at the moment So any ideas for something different is welcome

I really enjoy the peppers stuffed with mushrooms and cheese and topped with dried sage and onion stuffing mix which I then cook in my Remoska ,its become at least one of my go-to recipes now. Anyone else got some inspiring ideas ???

JackieO xx

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I had a green pepper that was beginning to go soft and a few baby plum tomatoes that were just on the 'edge' so I used some of the garden grown courgettes sliced thinly, halved the tomatoes and wedged the pepper and cooked everything sprayed with oil spray on the griddle and I've dressed it all with a walnut oil and balsamic vinegar dressing to have as a room temperature salad with our little barbecue tonight.