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Soaked a bag of dried haricot beans overnight and pressure cooked them this morning. Used the equivalent of a couple of tins and made a sausage cassoulet using some sausages from the freezer and loads of veg from the fridge. Think there is probably enough for about 6 portions so enough for tonight and 2 more meals in the future.
Also bagged up and frozen the equivalent of 3.5 cans to use in the future.
Tomorrow I will be making a cauliflower cheese for dinner - should be an interesting colour as it's a purple cauliflower! Used some of the cauliflower with dinner last night and it was blue!
Will have to have a look at the Jack Monroe site as haven't recently and don't think I've seen the veggie sausage recipe.
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Joedenise I love a cauli cheese made with the romanesco cauli - such a vibrant green colour shining through the cheese sauce! Not sur blue/purple will be quite so visually appealing - you need to share a photo once it's made!
Also glad it's not only me that freezes cooked pulses into "can sized portions" - so much easier to know how much you're dealing with.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
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I'm not good with posting photos but I'll give it a try!
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Last night ended up roughly as I expected - the remaining swede, a bendy carrot and the last two parsnips got cooked off with a couple of the smaller tatties then mashed with a splash of milk and that lump of gouda, finely grated. Topped off with the eggs (2 for him, 1 for me) and with the hogs pudding on the side - tasty and most importantly using up stuff to avoid waste.
This evening will be on-plan - jackets with beans/cheese. Must remember to ask MrEH to stick the oven on to heat while I'm on the way home.
No meal planning needed for the weekend as we're off to Edinburgh for a pal's birthday bash - will stop on the way back for shopping but as far as I can think we only need milk & fruit. Oh, and some veg stockpots - discovered last weekend when making the lamb stew that I have beef, fish & chicken, but no veg.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her4 -
EH - I also like to keep red wine and white wine stockpots in the cupboard. The white wine ones are great in risotto and the red wine ones I like whenever I'm cooking with stewing/braising steak.
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Can't use red wine at all in our house as OH is allergic - the white wine ones sound interesting though. I usually use chicken stock for risottos - fresh if I have it, and stockpot if not. For a beef stew it's not unusual for it to get a bottle of some sort of dark beer thrown in!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her2 -
That's what we need beer stockpots, LOL! Anything to save the calories!!! Don't normally have beer in the house now as DH has gone over to cloudy cider (but that should be good with pork dishes but haven't tried it yet!).
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Proper cider is fab with pork, absolutely! We always have beer in the house, I'm delighted to say...!🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her2 -
Picked up 60 bottles of beer for Christmas when on offer recently - am very proud to say I still have 60 left (so far)!
Managed to stay on plan today - there's something in this planning thing!
Picked up loads of reduced veg at Mr M's today and some free sprouts off Olio so the fridge is looking full.3 -
Change of meal plan, dinner tonight will be fajitas to use a chicken breast in the fridge (OH), I will have mine with beans instead. Just need to pick up creme fraiche, got everything else we need.
Picked up some reduced sliced peppers yesterday so they are in the dehydrator ready to add to stews and risottos.4
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