Love food hate Waste Part two for 2018 :)

YorksLass

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Soup duly made this morning. The verdict? Very nice and could be served hot or chilled, ideal for this hot weather. I was expecting it to be a bit fibrous and that I'd have to pass it through a sieve but my trusty Moulinex liquidiser seemed to deal with it OK.

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

One thing which has been a revelation is how long you can make spring onions last if you keep them and use all of them - I tend to only use them in salads, and just chop in a small amount, and I'd have cut the white bit and thrown the rest away before, but one spring onion lasts me for days now

Have you tried standing the bunch in a glass of water in the fridge? I keep mine this way and also do this with sticks of celery and broccoli. For the spring onions, I use up the green bits first - in salads / cheese sandwiches / egg mayonnaise - and use the white bulb part in stir fries.

Nice easy dinner tonight - scampi, potato croquettes and side salad with ice cream & wafers for afters.

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

I don't actually know but I would have thought so

That's what I thought too.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Happy to report that nothing else has had to be binned:T

The lemon I sliced & froze before our holiday has come in useful as DH has taken to having a g&t in the evening & what is a g&t without lemon :rotfl:

Tonight there is a choice of hm cottage pie (2 portions) or hm bolognese (1 portion)

Last night was herby breadcrumbed cod, boiled new potatoes & petit pois.

Now I just have to start menu planning & if the weather is cooling down a little (hopefully only to the mid 20’s:rotfl:) I can start batch cooking again

MrsSD

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MrsL - your mention Bohnenkraut transported me right back to my childhood in East Germany.
We've finally harvested our first courgette today. I'm thrilled, I've never grown anything successfully before!
We've got lots more coming through, and tomato plants are starting to produce as well, so looking forward to that. Have beetroot and carrots on their way as well, but the purple sprouting broccoli has been completely obliterated by caterpillars - we've decided to just leave them to it and enjoy the butterflies haha. It's only a few pots in our little concrete yard, but hoping to squeeze a proper raised bed in the next year.

yellowbear

Hopeless_Case wrote: »

I'm fighting the heat with the fruit, wish I had room in the fridge! I'm down to just a few oranges now but I'm going to eat them before buying anything else as I'm sick of eating over ripe fruit
Buying YS and 30 degree heat is not a good recipe for making purchases last all week....

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Cool bag?

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Hopeless_Case

YorksLass wrote: »

Soup duly made this morning. The verdict? Very nice and could be served hot or chilled, ideal for this hot weather. I was expecting it to be a bit fibrous and that I'd have to pass it through a sieve but my trusty Moulinex liquidiser seemed to deal with it OK.



Have you tried standing the bunch in a glass of water in the fridge? I keep mine this way and also do this with sticks of celery and broccoli. For the spring onions, I use up the green bits first - in salads / cheese sandwiches / egg mayonnaise - and use the white bulb part in stir fries.

Nice easy dinner tonight - scampi, potato croquettes and side salad with ice cream & wafers for afters.

I hadn't thought of the the glass of water, but that's a good idea, and using the green first is such a good idea, it's the part which tends to go brown first plus the the part which looks less usable, so saving the best for last!

yellowbear wrote: »

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Cool bag?

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That's a good idea, I'd have to keep it in the garage though as our cool bag is huge :rotfl:

joedenise

Probably cooler in the garage anyway so just in paper bags might be enough!

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Good morning chums I would think the standing it in a gass of water should work quite well Spring onions are perhaps the only veg I ever eat, yet I enjoy ordinary or red onions immensely.
My late OH loved them though and for years they stayed at the same price of around 15p a bunch Bit dearer now though they just give me the most awful indigestion.

Today being Tuesday it quiz night at the pub so no cooking tonight for me, I rather fancy one of those stuffed peppers for lunch with salad though.

I found last week I first sliced the top off the pepper and scooped out the seeds,then cooked a few mushroom diced up stalks which I put into the bottom of the pepper then some grated cheese with a dash of sweet chilli sauce and topped the lot with some dried stuffing mix then popped the top of the pepper back on and cooked in in my remoska it was delicious I made the salad up with shredded lettuce chopped beetroot ,diced cucumber and a sliced tomato with a bit of grated parmesan sprinkled over the wool lot if was gorgeous and extremely filling

If I have it around 12.30 after my coffee morning this morning it will keep me going until about 8 tonight when I get fed at quiz night:) so much nicer than just slicing and dicing a pepper and turns it into a meal.thats pretty colourful as well:):)

I have a couple of large, not really soft enough conferance pears in the fridge, which I will use up today.
I think I will peel and slice and poach in a little water and honey with some cinnamon and once cooked will leave in the fridge once cold and they will do two days for pudding I have some mango sorbet in the freezer which will be nice as an accompaniment instead of cream and a bit lower in calories as well:)
I only paid 30p for these pears as they were Y/s on Saturday, they were like bullets and rock hard I think they had been picked a bit too early .

Right, time to get some more tea down me before i go to U3A coffee morning where I will probably drink even more tea :)

Have a good day chums

JackieO xx

Hopeless_Case

joedenise wrote: »

Probably cooler in the garage anyway so just in paper bags might be enough!

Sadly not really, it's a modern house so the walls aren't thick and it's got a south-facing metal door, plus being integral to the house, so it's disappointingly stuffy in there

joedenise

That's a shame Hopeless Case. The south facing metal door is probably the worst part of it and it must get really hot!