Love Food Hate Waste 2020

ToastLady

Pyxis, you could maybe try something similar mixing some cornflour with milk if you have no eggs? 

Pyxis

ToastLady said:

Pyxis, you could maybe try something similar mixing some cornflour with milk if you have no eggs? 

I don’t have dairy milk as I don’t usually drink it, although I have ordered some for tomorrow with my veg box to have for sauce. I might have cornflour, otherwise I could try making it with ordinary.

But......guess what I just did? I don’t know whether making sauce with porridge oats is a ‘Thing’, but I just tried it!

I had a head of broccoli that deffo needed to be used, but can be too bland without a cheese sauce. But no milk, and the cheddar is in the freezer, and with some coming tomorrow, I didn’t want to defrost any today. I did have some Wensleydale, which isn’t brilliant for sauces, but needs must, and some grated Parmesan, so..............

I made a quantity of porridge using oat milk, in the microwave, and stirred in black pepper, ground turmeric and ground coriander, chopped garlic, grated Wensleydale and Parmesan. I also found some sunflower seeds that were a bit out of date, so chucked some of those in as well!

Now, I like coarse porridge, so the texture of the sauce was coarse, but I didn’t mind, although smooth porridge oats might be better.

Anyway, I have just had a bowl of broccoli with porridge cheese sauce. Yey!

(I know it’s only 10:00, but I have odd meals at odd times of day! 😜)

ToastLady

Your porridge cheese sauce sounds interesting Pyxis. If I ever run out of flour, I know what to try. I do blitz oats quite a bit anyway to varying degrees, depending on what I want to use it for. 
I checked out recipes for vegan savoury bread pudding and one said to use aqua faba, so another idea for anyone who has run out of eggs.
I do feel sorry for those of you who can't get their hands on basic everyday items. Hopefully the situation will improve soon.
Only thing that I couldn't get a few weeks ago, was bread flour when doing a big shop, but managed to get a huge 5kg bag in my local small supermarket, which will last me for quite some time.

Pyxis

Hours later I realised I could have used the hand blender to smooth the consistency! Maybe next time! I quite liked it coarse, though, and it would have been a lot better with a mature cheddar!

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Only needed half a chicken breast to add to the creamy bacon & mushroom sauce with tagliatelle. The ladle full lo has been bagged & added to the ‘soup drawer’ in the freezer - waste not, want not 😉

Apparently all that panic buying has led to an even bigger mountain of food waste 😡 

nursemaggie

I'm finding it hard to get the jumbo rolled oats I usually use to make my muesli. I should be grateful for what I did get. I have a lot of food. I'll be fine for at least two weeks.

bouicca21

I luckily got a priority supermarket delivery this morning.  But somehow I have ordered fresh pasta instead of dried.  Please tell me I can freeze it!

Pyxis

bouicca21 said:

I luckily got a priority supermarket delivery this morning.  But somehow I have ordered fresh pasta instead of dried.  Please tell me I can freeze it!

Yes, I believe you can!

Mummy2cheekymonkeys

nursemaggie said:

I'm finding it hard to get the jumbo rolled oats I usually use to make my muesli. I should be grateful for what I did get. I have a lot of food. I'll be fine for at least two weeks.

Have you tried Holland and Barrett? They do a couple of different varieties. 

Brambling

bouicca21 said:

I luckily got a priority supermarket delivery this morning.  But somehow I have ordered fresh pasta instead of dried.  Please tell me I can freeze it!

Yes you can freeze but it may be easier to freeze in portions rather than the pack