Reverse Meal Planning

ruby_eskimo

Not sure I can help you with your swedes and celeriac @rtandon27 - the only thing I use swede for is either mash or in a veggie soup with lentils when I can be bothered to make it (it's a bit of a faff and you have to grate a lot of stuff!)

Have been slowly refilling the freezer over the weekend with lots of odds and ends which will come in handy in the future.  Dinner tonight is just going to be a jacket potato because I lack the mental capacity to think of anything interesting and I know we have potatoes to use up in the cupboard

Primrose

We use small cubes of celeriac and swede in with other roasted veg such as  - onion, mushroom, potato, pepper for a roast veg mix as a main meal on its own (or some sausages or small chicken Leicester can be added to the top of the roasting pan and all cooked together.   .  It can sometimes be a little dry on its own so we often serve with a chicken stock cube or oxo chicken cube and lemon Juice gravy which just adds a touch of zing to brighten the flavours up.  Any leftovers can be put into a mixed veg soup, perhaps with some lentils added or served in a savoury omelette with a few herbs added. 

greenbee

I use celeriac instead of potato in frittata. Both of them go into roast veg. !!!!!!-a-leekie soup has swede in.
Today's lunchtime salad (not really salad weather, but my veg boxes seem to have been heavy on salad recently) has used up the last egg from the oldest box, and a bit of feta. Last week's eggs need hard boiling later for lunches for the rest of the week. Chicken carcasses and a box of cooked tomatoes are both defrosting for stock/soup making over the next few days. 

Brambling

I add thinly sliced celeriac to my potato boulangere - thinly sliced potato, celeriac and onions layered with thyme and cooked in stock, lighter than dauphinoise 

greent

I grate and freeze swede for future use - but only use it in cottage pies and root mash.

Lunch today was a punnet of ood mushrooms,  cooked up with some diced onions and a block of chicken stock from the freezer, a splash of wine, seasoning and herbs, a handful of peas and a large dollop of creme fraiche. Very nice and got those mushrooms gone! : D

Suffolk_lass

Ugh, swede. The one veg I really don't like (apart from mushrooms, which don't agree with me and give me blisters round my tongue).

We had lamb salad but DH did the salad and inadvertently included some past-it lettuce on my plate so some went to the compost bin. Very unpleasant. I plan to use that huge bit of tuna between us tonight

ruby_eskimo

Bought some courgettes at the weekend and plan on using one tonight with some mushrooms and onion in a black bean sauce (using paste from the fridge) and some noodles from the cupboard.

rtandon27

Thanks for all the celariac/swede ideas folks!  Much appreciated - I've put them both on my list of do not send for this week's veggie box!

Last night's dinner (meatless monday for us) was a potato & parsnip tart with stilton with a puff pastry base.  We finally used up the last of the Christmas root veg!  Feels like a victory 😉 It's the third time the OH has made it, so he's perfected his layering skills - it was a rather elegant home-made tart!  We polished off the whole thing, so no leftovers this time!

C_J

I really like swede mash - I cook it with a potato or two added, and mash it with plenty of butter and black pepper, and sometimes a drizzle of cream if I am feeling particularly decadent. I also like celeriac grated raw and mixed with a mustardy mayonnaise.

I made an inventory of both my freezers yesterday, so I'm feeling extremely organised now. Instead of standing there in a cold garage with a notebook and pen, I used my phone and photographed the contents of each drawer, then typed it up onto a spreadsheet afterwards. So many things I had forgotten were there!

joedenise

Stuffed of couple of peppers which needed using up, stuffed with cooked rice with mixed veg cooked in it.  The LOs were also on the plate!  Also had some HM coleslaw using a couple of carrots and half a cabbage from the fridge.

Using some thighs from the freezer to do pulled chicken in BBQ sauce for dinner tonight.  Will serve with chips, corn on the cob and the rest of coleslaw.