Tons of vegetables to use quickly!! Help please!

billieboy_2

paddy's_mum wrote: »

As my family's revered Queen of the Soups, here's a little tip for the soup makers among you. I keep a close eye on the New Covent Garden Food Co packaged soups. Their excellent soups are very much linked to what is in season. The one I bought today (steady OS'ers - it was heavily reduced to only 50 pence a carton!) is called Summer Vegetable soup.

A quick glance at the list of ingredients (which by law has to be in order of weight or bulk) gives what is included - potatoes, onions, broccoli, broad beans, courgettes, peas, spinach, mint, garlic, thyme, black pepper.

An easy way to get a new recipe and you don't even have to buy the pack to get it. Hope that may give someone some new ideas.

I can't believenow that I used to buy those soups! That was in the days when a carrot and coriander was about 99p. I shall now be picking them up and studying the ingredients;) ! Thanks. Great idea.

ELIZA_D

hi there,i have carrots,parsnip,broccoli,spinach,cabbage,mushrooms.......wanted top make a veggie stew in slow cooker but clueless !! run out of lentils only have rice and pearl barly???
scuse any errors got a child trying to type at the same time!!!

Penelope_Penguin

I cook the parsnips, carrots, mushrooms in a casserole, add the cabbage at the end, and serve with spinach and broccoli on the side

We have an existing thread on ideas for using up veg, so I'll add this to give you more ideas

Penny. x

Trinny

dawnylou wrote: »

Hi all,
As the title explains I have loads of vegetables that need using ASAP.

Problem was that I did a huge shop and then due to illness didn't get round to doing any cooking this week. I don't want everything to be wasted!!

Any ideas on how I can use it all up??

I have:
2 packs of cherry tomatoes
1 pack tomatoes on vine
1 pack celery
1 cabbage
2 packs baby sweet peppers
2 packs trimmed fine green beans
1 pack baby corn
3 leeks
About 8 peppers
1 broccoli
1 pack sweet pointed peppers
1 pack carrots
1 pack sweet potatoes
1 pack sweetcorn cobettes
About 12 potatoes - only small ones


Obviously this is a huge waste if I don't think of a way to use as much of it up as possible!

I also have:
pasta
rice
pearl barley
1 onion
garlic
5 cans chopped tomatoes
4 tins beans

plus various herbs, spices, sauces etc....

Any suggestions welcome!!

Hi Dawny

I guess blanching and freezing will work for

1 cabbage
2 packs baby sweet peppers
2 packs trimmed fine green beans
1 pack baby corn
3 leeks
1 broccoli
1 pack carrots
1 pack sweetcorn cobettes

Which leaves -

The tomatoes, celery, peppers, potatoes and sweet potatoes

Another MSE'r suggests cooking, mashing and freezing potato in scoops which can be taken out of the freezer and defrosted to suit the number you are cooking for.

I would roast the remaining tomato and pepper and then blitz in a blender to make a pizza topping or then add a tin of toms to make fresh pepperonata - an authentic italian tomato and pepper pasta sauce which can be frozen.

As for the sweet potato - bit stumped here but im sure someone will be allong with the answer. I think the key is to safely store as much of what you have as possible.

Good luck

Trin