Reverse Meal Planning

Rowan9

Soup, candygirl? I know it’s sunny but I make soup in all weathers 

Pyxis

Don’t talk to me about carrots! I have just used the last three (well, two, as the third was only fit for the compost heap!) of a gigantinormous carrot mountain!

Have you tried making carrot crisps? They are actually quite nice, once you have got over laughing your head off at how small they become during the process! 🥕🥕🥕

I’ve just had a very nice meal. After tidying up my fridge, I decided to postpone the Asparamancy until tomorrow, as I found the last two carrots, some forgotten sprouting broccoli stalks, half a courgette, half a red pepper, some asparagus stalks, some flat green beans, two tired potatoes and a dog-end of a fennel bulb in the bowels of the fridge, so chopped them all up, added the dried-up dregs of a jar of onion granules, loads of different fresh herbs and garlic, all chopped up, stir-fried them, then added a tub of vegan gravy that needed using up, two-thirds of a tube of tomato puree, ground black pepper and a small jar of roasted red pepper pesto.

Then I stirred in some grated Parmesan.

That  all made four very good portions of a tasty ‘something’. Today, I had one portion with pasta shells, and I will have another portion tomorrow with rice, and one with some potatoes that need eating, and the last portion........well, I will eat that with whatever takes my fancy! 😁

candygirl

Thanks for the carrot ideas peeps 😉

Just made air fried mushrooms, stuffed with Philly cheese, breadcrumbs , garlic n chilli, n had it with noodles n green beans  .Was strangely lush 😉😋

I love experimenting with recipes, n am chuffed they worked in the air fryer 😁
PYXIS that recipe sounds fab xx

Pyxis

candygirl said:

Thanks for the carrot ideas peeps 😉

Just made air fried mushrooms, stuffed with Philly cheese, breadcrumbs , garlic n chilli, n had it with noodles n green beans  .Was strangely lush 😉😋

I love experimenting with recipes, n am chuffed they worked in the air fryer 😁
PYXIS that recipe sounds fab xx

It was yum yum! 😁

Suffolk_lass

rtandon27 said:

Suffolk_lass said:

...and lots of onions - onion tart anybody?...

SL we had a glut of red onions a few weeks back and made this tart - really delicous with a baby leaf side salad or grilled A_______ (shhh - don't want to say the word when Pyxis is in earshot - lol) 

Ooh, that recipe sounds nicer than I was going to do. If DH's car is working (flat battery last night) he can pick up milk, cream and fromage frais to let me make that for tomorrow (we have a Village F&C run tonight - one household collects, drops 6 or 8 to 2 other households and they (we) run them round the recipient houses - all delivered in about 10 minutes). Got some sad lettuce and some coleslaw I can serve it with.

Edit to add, I left it too late to make pastry and DH's battery was flat so I adapted the defrosted bacon and added it (cooked crisp) to cheese sauce that I mixed through macaroni. Served with good old tomato ketchup. Filling and satisfying but not sure I burnt enough calories to have pasta if I am honest.

rtandon27

...mmm pimped up mac and cheese - making me hungry, but another 1/2 hour until lunch

Suffolk_lass

rtandon27 said:

Suffolk_lass said:

...and lots of onions - onion tart anybody?...

SL we had a glut of red onions a few weeks back and made this tart - really delicous with a baby leaf side salad or grilled A_______ (shhh - don't want to say the word when Pyxis is in earshot - lol) 

Made the tart in your recipe for supper last night - with a basic iceberg lettuce salad and using the onions I had, rather than red ones. I finished it in a hot oven for 10+ minutes to make sure the top was golden brown and toasty - it was so pretty. In my non-fan oven I would say it needs to be a bit hotter than the recipe. Never made oat pastry before but will do that again. Very tasty and DH had what he described as a tidying portion (! - I had cut a quarter between us). We might have omelette tonight as still have plenty of eggs from the extra dozen last week

Pyxis

I’m going to have the last of my dog-end stir-fry thing that I made four portions of the other day, with a couple of the last potatoes.

Then later I shall have some fresh asparagus (!) with the remaining potatoes in a watercress sauce.

I got a ready meal out of the freezer for tomorrow.....one of the few nice ones that I’ve found....a mushroom stroganoff with wild rice.........although I will probably chop up some fresh veg to have as well. (Celery, fennel, red peppers, courgette and lots of fresh herbs including fresh turmeric and root ginger).

Some of that chopped fresh veg will go into a mushroom and truffle soup that I bought from my veg box people, to try. That will probably make two more meals.

Guess what! I’ve run out of carrots! And after today, I will have run out of potatoes! 😁

Suffolk_lass

I only have 2 carrots left - but they are ginormous. No shortage on onions or potatoes but all other shop-bought veg has gone. Another small crop of asparagus to pick and then I think we will let it go to seed so the goodness goes back into the crowns for next year. I might bake some salted potato slices and steam the asparagus to go with the omelettes

suki1964

Don't talk to me about carrots

In work I can feed a tonne a day through the peeler. Now we use big brutes of carrots - lumpers we call them. Now some of them are the size of a baby's arm, some the ends have broken, or some are just too curly to go through the machine, so I can easily bring home 20kg of these a day. Now there is nowt wrong with them, other than the machine won't take them and we are too busy to hand peel, so they end up being sent for animal feed. I liberate a bag to feed the donkeys and pony in the field behind me, Before Covid, I had a lot of horse owners Id meet up with to pass them on, now Im struggling to find homes for them. We do eat them ourselves as do the neighbours, but Im talking carrots so big, one is plenty for a family of four