Reverse Meal Planning

marionmgcars

I have a bowl of plain organic Couscous.  Not a big fan of eating as salad etc.  Any suggestions what I can add it too ?  Don’t want to waste such a thoughtful gift.  X

Mrs_Cheshire

Morning all, having chicken shawarma tonight with greek flatbreads and houmous, will do some spicy potato slices and a salad with it. A fairly cheap meal as the chicken was yellow stickered, flatbreads and houmous - free on olio, potato slices and salad are leftovers from other meals/use up odd bits in the fridge. 

ruby_eskimo

marionmgcars said:

I have a bowl of plain organic Couscous.  Not a big fan of eating as salad etc.  Any suggestions what I can add it too ?  Don’t want to waste such a thoughtful gift.  X

I've been known to mix couscous with some passata and italian herbs and used it to stuff peppers with topped with cheese.  That's pretty much the only thing I can think of as I love couscous on it's own and it was one of my staple "meals" as a student!

ruby_eskimo

Made a batch of mushroom soup last night that will make do for lunches for the next couple of days.  Kept a few mushrooms back to make mushroom rice with tonight to go with my final batch of chicken curry from the freezer.

Suffolk_lass

marionmgcars said:

I have a bowl of plain organic Couscous.  Not a big fan of eating as salad etc.  Any suggestions what I can add it too ?  Don’t want to waste such a thoughtful gift.  X

You could add one of those veg stock pot jelly things to some boiling water and bring it to life with this then I would serve as an accompaniment to a stew or chilli, to soak up some of the sauce

Suffolk_lass

I made leek soup and then combined the bit that would not fit in the fridge container (perfect size to fit under the shelf) with fried off chunks of chicken from the freezer to make a very poor-man's casserole as no more veg until the market on Friday. We had the last of the fresh broccoli, with savoy cabbage and frozen peas and it was lovely. I also stuffed a couple of Bramley Apples with leftover blueberries with a few sultanas and a bit of orange juice (left from Christmas) as the baking fluid/sauce - lovely with a good dollop of Greek-style yogurt!

joedenise

Made too much minestrone yesterday so will be having the LOs for lunch today.  Will use up some odds and ends of veg from the fridge in tonight's spag bol.

rtandon27

marionmgcars said:

I have a bowl of plain organic Couscous.  Not a big fan of eating as salad etc.  Any suggestions what I can add it too ?  Don’t want to waste such a thoughtful gift.  X

My OH always says he 'isn't a fan' of cold couscous salad either but will happily eat it warm mixed in with roasted veg.  We've used this recipe & other variants that involve oven roasted veg & feta several times, either as a meatless main or accompanied by a piece of chicken or a pork loin steak.

joedenise

Went to get the mince from the outside freezer earlier and found a bag of previously cooked and frozen savoury mince so will use that as the base for spag bol tonight.  There is far too much for just 2 portions so I will split it and put half into the fridge to use at the weekend.

The 2nd half will get used to make a chilli  or maybe shepherds pie for dinner Saturday night depending on what we fancy.

Suffolk_lass

I made a "small" chilli yesterday and about 2 hours in to the slow cooking in the simmer oven, in my wisdom I sprinkled red lentils and flour to act as a thickener. Three hours later I had to pour some hot water in to rehydrate it. Not so little after all and we ate two portions, and put four in the fridge. 

DH is going to the market today so we will have fish of some sort today. It won't be battered with chips, but might be anything really. I quite fancy devilled mackerel