Love Food Hate Waste 2020

greenbee

@nursemaggie - spinach soup!  Onion/spring onion, about a ton of spinach, sweat and add a tiny bit of stock. My recipe also uses coconut milk which is nice. Or you can just have nutmeg and cream. Or as it is. 

I also like spinach with fish - butter an oven-proof dish, fill with spinach, lay a piece of white fish over the top, then either dot with butter, cover with yogurt or cover with creme fraiche. Maybe add some spices and some tomato slices, sprinkle with grated cheese. Bung in oven until cooked. Works really well with defrosted frozen spinach as you can actually fit it all in the dish!

nursemaggie

Unfortunately I have a weeks food anyway so will try after I have eaten everything I can. Don't have a piece of white fish. I find a pkt of baby spinach last me the week. I have decided not to buy any this week. I use spinach mainly in salads and stir into cooked dishes towards the end of the week.

Pyxis

joedenise said:

Pyxis said:

joedenise said:

Don't see why this thread shouldn't be used, after all it is about not wasting food and if you're really thinking about it you'll definitely be wasting far less food and using up those LOs.  Most of what I "waste" are things like potato skins & egg shells which you can't really eat, although I know some people fry potato skins but I eat anything fried in oil, I tend to either use spray oil to fry or I bake or grill things which I don't think would work for potato skins.

There’s always Potato Peel Pie! 😁

What is that?  I don't eat pastry either, so probably no good for me so I'll still have to end up binning them!

I don't always peel potatoes but they're not always worth using.  I seem to be getting a lot of scabby potatoes just lately!  I certainly never peel  new potatoes or when I have jackets, I always eat those skins.

The potato peel pie was invented during the war in Guernsey when food supplies got very, very low during the occupation.
It contained potatoes, the peelings, a beet and a tiny bit of milk.

I was immortalised in the film “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” which also was a real thing.

I had a look online, and as the original recipe would be a bit dire these days, I found this one...
https://recipeadaptors.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/crunchy-potato-peel-pie/

I’ve not tried it, but I might if I get another potato glut.

Basically the peelings are used to make a crunchy topping.

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Ingredients – serves 6 as a side dish:

• 500g/1 lb potatoes
• 1 medium onion, halved and thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup grated cheese
• 2 tbsp plain (all purpose) flour
• pinch of salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 tbsp dried breadcrumbs (from a packet is fine)
• 50g/2 oz butter, diced
• few fresh parsley leaves, optional, to decorate

Method:

• Heat your oven to 200C/180C fan forced/390F. Grease a pie dish with some cooking spray or a little butter.
• Peel the potatoes, putting the peeled skin into a medium bowl.
• Thinly slice the peeled potatoes and layer the slices into the pie dish along with the sliced onions. Also scatter a little cheese over each layer.
• Add the flour, salt and pepper to the bowl containing the peeled potato skin and stir to coat the peelings in the flour.
• Scatter the coated peelings over the top of the potato in the pie dish.
• Pour over the milk, then scatter over the breadcrumbs and pieces of butter.
• Bake for 30 minutes, then turn the oven down to 180C/160C fan forced/350F and bake for approximately another 60-70 minutes, until the potatoes in the middle of the pie dish are cooked through.
• Remove from the oven and leave to sit for 5 minutes before serving topped with fresh parsley leaves, if you have them.
• Enjoy!
• UNQUOTE

joedenise

That sounds "interesting"!  Maybe I'll give it a try but it will have to be as a side dish because there's no way DH would eat it without a slab of meat by the side of it, LOL!

Thank you.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Great idea candygirl. I will join you in reporting anything I put in the bin - tends to be dairy which I have used for a recipe & forgotten I have a small amount unused 😱 

My vegetable peelings either go in the compost bin or are zizzed with water & put in the wormery. The worms love it & we are getting loads of wormcast 😉 

Any meat offcuts get given to Mrs Fox. Any small amounts of leftover cooked food are bagged & frozen for my next hm soup. Stale bread is cut into crouton sized pieces, bagged & frozen. Then taken out, put on a baking tray, drizzled with Olive Oil & seasoned with herbs. Baked for 10 minutes or so & voila tasty croutons for soup or salads. 

Good luck on cutting your waste 🙂

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Not binned but had to compost 4 mouldy tomatoes 🙁

candygirl

Had to chuck another loaf away, which makes this week's total around £9 so far!! Absolutely appalling!! I'll report back tomoz with my weekly total. 
Glad you're joining me Mrs SD 😉

ailz95

I made a curry for hubby this last weekend and put some tofu in that had been in the freezer.  That was a mistake.  It split into layers and then just little flakes and made the curry taste like dirty dishwater.  I blitzed it into a sauce thinking I would eat it, but it just spoiled anything it was put with - so now it's fertilizer.

I'm still womanfully (manfully) trying to use up my yeast - please someone ask for some (dm me) I've got a spare 400g and a very ripe sourdough starter which I'd rather use - not very much kneading for sourdough so good if I'm not in a kneady mood.

joedenise

candygirl said:

Had to chuck another loaf away, which makes this week's total around £9 so far!! Absolutely appalling!! I'll report back tomoz with my weekly total. 
Glad you're joining me Mrs SD 😉

I freeze my bread and just take out what I need when I need it.  Only takes a few minutes to defrost so never need to throw bread away.

ailz95

I collect all my vegetable peel - and bottoms of cauliflower, cabbage and tough stalks from kale - and put them in a drawer in the freezer.  Once I have a slow cooker full I put them in it with water, hers and seasoning and leave it on all night.  In the morning I sieve it and I have stock.  Then the veg goes out for the local wildlife.