Reverse Meal Planning

Suffolk_lass

I'm another who freezes chillies while and chops while frozen. Stops the oil getting on your fingers if you are careful too!

Jumbo sausage, new potatoes with carrots and broccoli followed by (neighbours gifted) rhubarb with greek-style yogurt, broken up ginger biscuit and a sprinkle of (home-grown) freshly picked raspberries as a dessert. I recommend  the ginger nut crumbled with rhubarb - was that you @Pyxis, adding ginger to rhubarb - anyway it worked for us!

MrsStepford

OH drove to Reading and back yesterday (222 miles) and got stuck on M20 for over an hour because of an accident. Planned paella didn't happen. We had a bed picnic lounged on top of it, watching a DVD. Good way of using up odd bits of cheese, pickled onions, gherkins, cornichons, beetroot etc plus tomatoes, coleslaw etc. If you omit the beetroot for obvious reasons, bed or floor picnic is something kids could do with a DVD/TV. 
 

Pyxis

Suffolk_lass said:

Jumbo sausage, new potatoes with carrots and broccoli followed by (neighbours gifted) rhubarb with greek-style yogurt, broken up ginger biscuit and a sprinkle of (home-grown) freshly picked raspberries as a dessert. I recommend  the ginger nut crumbled with rhubarb - was that you @Pyxis, adding ginger to rhubarb - anyway it worked for us!

Yes! Any excuse to use ginger! 
Super health benefits, so at the moment I'm putting it in everything, sweet or savoury! 

I'm soon going to look like something out of The Herbs! 😂

Suffolk_lass

A mammoth session in the garden from 9-6.30 yesterday, pruning (well the man with the chainsaw did that bit) and clearing, chopping and loading the bags and then the trailer with the cage round it - three runs with the trailer mean he has done 11 runs so far to the bonfire over on the farmer's land. I don't think any of us thought it would be most of a week and so much work. 

The upshot is that I came in at 6.30 and needed to shower, speak to my Mum and be ready for my big Zoom call with my girlfriends by 8 - the bit that had to give? my supper! DH made his own - I know he had a pork chop (there were 3 in the pack he picked up when he shopped) and I think he fried up the cooked potatoes as he arrived part way through my "meeting" with a little plate of them, sprinkled with salt, pepper and ground chilli seeds - I had to drink a whole glass of prosecco very quickly to clear the bits of unexpected seeds in my throat! - no harm done and good catch up with 15 of the 16 expected on the call (one forgot). A two hour call I managed to drink most of a bottle - I think I was just very thirsty. 

- I plan a quiet weekend with maybe a little picnic on Sunday evening as it is summer solstice, so we usually walk up a hill and watch the sunset with a little toast and snack.

Pyxis

Re. sunsets, the sunset last night was blood red! Quite spectacular!

Suffolk_lass

Made a chicken pie (hm pastry) with a filling of some chicken breast strips, popped in the oven to pre cook while it warmed and the pastry rested, then chopped the chicken, added store-cupboard staples -  frozen peas and corn and a tin of condensed chicken soup to make up a simple cheats pie filling. We had half last night with courgettes (from the garden) and cabbage and carrots with a dob of butter on the veg. Yum. Just pottering round I picked a punnet of raspberries and another of gooseberries. All the spinach is going to seed so shall plant a second sowing but I expect to cook a prawn stir fry tomorrow with lots of garden veg

rtandon27

Last night's diiner was pork pot roast with the sliced potatoes and last of the carrots. Made up a chipotle marinade which was split into three portions with two frozen. Pork took two hours to marinade and two hours to cook, which was just enough time to make up a batch of fridge pickled red onions. Was a tasty weekend meal with lots left over for at least two more meals. I love cooking once and eating twice (or thrice!)

Bluegreen143

Still working through veg mountain 😅 but doing well.

Made beetroot falafel today - we will have half for dinner later this week with hummus, pittas and salad bits and I’ll freeze half for next time. made sourdough pittas to go with too which I’ll freeze til needed to keep them fresh.

Plan to make a veg & lentil lasagne sauce to freeze to use up tons of the veg (spinach, butternut squash, aubergine, courgette, carrot, celery) and might make that a double batch too. And think I’ll make a butternut, coconut and carrot soup later and a carrot cake if I can be bothered. 

Going to have a fry up tonight for dinner as husband has requested as his Father’s Day treat 😂 then tomorrow make chicken risotto with leftover roast chicken from Friday - can throw in onion, celery, carrot, courgette, spinach etc.

I think with this lot I will have used most of the veg except 2/3 swede (and staples like celery/onion) which will keep well enough to make a stew or soup next week anyway.

Bluegreen143

The beetroot falafel (you can see the sourdough pittas too)... isn’t it the most magnificent colour! My favourite way to use up beetroot by far 🙂

Baileys_Babe

Please can you share the recipe for beetroot falafel @Bluegreen143 no doubt the rest of the house will shun them, leaving all the more for me