Reverse Meal Planning

Primrose

Any chance your old parsnips could be turned into 
Parsnip  crisps.?  .  Very finely sliced, sprayed with oil and baked in oven until crisp?  I,ve had this problem with old tough parsnips myself and the flavour can be a bit overwhelming for many ordinary dishes.

Brambling

What about parsnip cake - parsnip and ginger seems to be a popular recipe

I did see this being made on TV but haven't tried it, I'm trying avoid baking at the moment!

BBC One - Morning Live - Parsnip Roly Poly Pudding

Suffolk_lass

I'm not good with parsnips, except to roast them, as they are a bit sweet for us - I found that par-boiling the top (thicker end) bits makes the flavour a little less strong. I cut into little finger sized pieces, sprinkle with salt, pepper and oil and roast them until they are caramelised - they go down well as a cold snack then too

Suffolk_lass

Still working our way through the (up to then veggie) chilli that I added the chopped beef to - one pot of two large portions is left. I might freeze it to take to my Mum's next week, as I also have broccoli (courtesy of my TGTG haul) and two leeks to use up. I think it will be buttered leeks and broccoli pasta with a bit of pesto stirred through for more use-ups. I'm making sour-dough bread this morning and I recall there is cold meat in the freezer from a chicken I wasn't ready to cook. We could have the chicken with HM coleslaw, lettuce, cucumber (again, TGTG) and a garlic flat bread I think is in the big freezer. I do need to buy milk this morning, but that might be all

rtandon27

Primrose said:

...Parsnip  crisps.?  .  Very finely sliced, sprayed with oil and baked in oven until crisp?  I,ve had this problem with old tough parsnips myself and the flavour can be a bit overwhelming for many ordinary dishes.

Lovely idea!  Will have to give that a g00gle and find a method for this

Brambling said:

... parsnip and ginger seems to be a popular recipe...

We are not huge sweet fans, but parsnip & ginger sounds like a lovely combination - going to see if there is a savoury recipe for this.

Suffolk_lass said:

I'm not good with parsnips, except to roast them, as they are a bit sweet for us - I found that par-boiling the top (thicker end) bits makes the flavour a little less strong. I cut into little finger sized pieces, sprinkle with salt, pepper and oil and roast them until they are caramelised - they go down well as a cold snack then too

Ha ha - they are sweet! - the last time I had a glut, I subbed into a carrot cake recipe and sent with OH to work, where no one believed they were eating 'vegetable' cake - OH is now retired so no way to offload this year's suprise glut!

I've also discovered a row of leeks that just appeared out of nowhere!  - at least those are a veg we have no problem incorporating into our meals.

Brambling

rtandon27 said:
Ha ha - they are sweet! - the last time I had a glut, I subbed into a carrot cake recipe and sent with OH to work, where no one believed they were eating 'vegetable' cake - OH is now retired so no way to offload this year's suprise glut!

Now that I WFH I missed the office 'magic' kitchen table, any surplus home grown produce or baked goods if left on it would just disappear 

Suffolk_lass

Brambling said:

rtandon27 said:
Ha ha - they are sweet! - the last time I had a glut, I subbed into a carrot cake recipe and sent with OH to work, where no one believed they were eating 'vegetable' cake - OH is now retired so no way to offload this year's suprise glut!

Now that I WFH I missed the office 'magic' kitchen table, any surplus home grown produce or baked goods if left on it would just disappear 

Same here!

Last night's leftovers was 2 near-manky leeks, buttered, combined with steamed broccoli, a tablespoon of green pesto and some penne. Sprinkled with cheese it passed as an unusual but filling pasta dish

rtandon27

Suffolk_lass said:

Brambling said:

Now that I WFH I missed the office 'magic' kitchen table, any surplus home grown produce or baked goods if left on it would just disappear 

Same here!...

Haha - at my office we refer to that as the table of sin - any and all leftover sweets & cakes & chocolates ended up on it as my colleagues are all health nuts!  When we were relegated to working from home back in 2020, I suddenly realized how healthy my diet actually is, when the pounds started dropping despite the large home cooked meals we were eating at least twice a day!

EssexHebridean

I'm a fan of curried parsnip soup RT - the curry flavour generally deals with even the most robust and argumentative of parsnips too! 

Not so much reverse planning here this week, but having been to the farmer's market on saturday and still having a pretty well stocked pair of freezers even before that I suspect there is more to come. 

The decision to have burgers last night was prompted in part by having bought mince on saturday, and (I confess) in part because I felt a desire to remove at least something from the freezer and I recalled that there were some brioche buns in there. that same thought process also lead to kedgeree for lunch - a couple of chunks of smoked fish finding their way into that one... 

rtandon27

Lunch today - soup from the freezer & ham/cheese toasties - it may have been celeriac soup but I forgot to label it!

Now there is room to make some broccoli potato soup & freeze - we usually make the equivalent of 4 cans of soup each time in our small slow-cooker, but having seen the current cost of tinned soup it's a good time investment! (insert blue shrieky smilie here!)