Love Food Hate Waste 2020

newlywed

Just had a massive cook up. all the parsnip and carrot tops from the freezer, now cooking into soup hopefully!  Will blitz it so it doesn’t look like all the ends 🤫

Roasted courgette aubergine and a dodgy looking pepper  into ratatouille ish.  Roasted parsnips too. Hopefully will have to cook a lot less the next couple of days and therefore once I do the load of washing up, that should pretty much be it!

JIL

I saw a dish on pinterest that I may try. I have some orzo pasta lurking in the cupboard. The dish seemed to marinade some chicken in spices, add to peppers and tomatoes and roasted for 30 mins, Then stock and orzo were added to the dish for another 30 mins. It looked really good. I may try this on my daughter, not something I would have thought of previously.

Nellbell21

JIL said:

I saw a dish on pinterest that I may try. I have some orzo pasta lurking in the cupboard. The dish seemed to marinade some chicken in spices, add to peppers and tomatoes and roasted for 30 mins, Then stock and orzo were added to the dish for another 30 mins. It looked really good. I may try this on my daughter, not something I would have thought of previously.

I have made this as it’s a weight watchers recipe. It’s lovely and freezes really well.

Siebrie

I had a lot of leftovers from a Cheese-and-Wine night at our church, which I helped organise: 500g halved cherry tomatoes, 4 different cold cuts/paté, lots of different cheeses (about 2kg), grapes, ca. 500g salted butter, ca. 500g unsalted butter, 8 decoratively halved kiwis, 350g blueberries, 1.5kg dried fruit-and-nuts mix, 2 salads (mixed leaves), 2 baguettes, 1 loaf of artisanal bread. I think that's it... oh, and some pieces of cake. The Cheese night was on Friday, we served the leftover cakes on Sunday after the service, and anything that was left over after that, I took home. In exchange for all these leftovers, I did not hand in my €55 receipts for reimbursement. There were lots of bottles of soft drink as well, which I bought and then brought home again.

The tomatoes became a delicious soup, which I'm having for lunch yesterday and today.

The paté I froze and will give to my father on Saturday, when we drop dds off at my parents' place for spring break.

The cold cuts are being eaten by dd1 in her lunchbox.

The kiwis went into my breakfast yoghurt for 3 days.

The blueberries were eaten as part of dd1's breakfast.

The grapes will go to school as snack duringn this week.

The salads will be part of everyday sandwiches, added to lunchboxes, and maybe made into Jack Monroe's pesto.

The largest part of the butters became 40 choc chip cookies, 12 angel cakes, and 36 mini angel cakes. Now in the freezer. Leftover butter is also in the freezer.

Nuts and dried fruit mix was separated into nuts and dried fruits (actually, it was only 3 types/colours of raisin/sultana, and 3 dried figs...). Some raisins, Brazil nuts and cashews came to work with me, to be snacked on. Other nuts are drip fed to husband and dds.

Sliced artisanal bread was first frozen in 2 halves, and then sent to school/work in lunch boxes. I toasted my slices, because it was sourdough bread, and it gives me mouth ulcers when eaten 'raw'.

Baguettes were snacked on and eaten over the weekend.

The cheeses are still being eaten, and added to whatever meal we are having. It's a good think husband, dd2, and I love cheese!

candygirl

Ooh send me the cheeses please Siebrie

nursemaggie

I went to Morries on Friday to stock up for DD and family's weekend visit. They used to win awards for their fresh veg but these days your lucky if they last 2 days. DD bought, takeaway Indian on Sunday so the salads were not used. Most went in the bin Monday as not fit to eat all slimy. Definitely  better off with M&S for veg. Easy to make up the difference in price with the YS meals because M&S reduce them to less than it would cost me to make them. There also better for the ingredients as there is more variety in one meal than I can manage because of keeping the leftovers for other meals.

My stomach is not too happy with me eating meat so often as I have lots of cold cuts that should have gone with the salads.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Hm soup - used a too spicy bolognese sauce as the starter & added various lo bits & bobs from the freezer. Absolutely delicious 🤤- enough for lunches through to the end of the weekend for DH & I 👏 

GreenFairy

Used up an almost fit for the bin lump of blue cheese, an onion that needed a bit lopped off, and a head of cauli that had been in the fridge for 2 weeks, and made cauliflower and blue cheese soup. I've never been a "cult of Delia" person, but this might sway me! Nicest soup I think I've ever made!

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

Dinner tonight was a turkey and bacon stew and dumplings that used up the last of the turkey I froze from Christmas dinner. I made some dairy free rice pudding for the boys to have for pudding and served it with some plum compote that was in the freezer from the plums in the garden last summer. Whilst the rice pudding was in the oven I put a whole butternut squash in to roast which I will use for dinner tomorrow. Ive got a recipe kit from simply cook to use up for a red lentil and squash curry. 

candygirl

GreenFairy said:

Used up an almost fit for the bin lump of blue cheese, an onion that needed a bit lopped off, and a head of cauli that had been in the fridge for 2 weeks, and made cauliflower and blue cheese soup. I've never been a "cult of Delia" person, but this might sway me! Nicest soup I think I've ever made!

That sounds delish:)