Reverse Meal Planning

greent

Lots of salad and ice creams being consumed here... 😁😁

Suffolk_lass

Ha! What are we all like! - My go-to ice-cream is a single Dairy vanilla scoop (as big as I can get in the dish, in case you think I am being virtuous) with a small amount of chilled strong black coffee over it, a dribble of cream and a ginger biscuit in lieu of an amaretti - a poor man's affogato - highly recommended!

moginstein

That sounds delicious 😋

Suffolk_lass

Honestly though @moginstein - therein lies a slippery slope (to which I owe my less than sylph-like figure!) 😎😈

Suffolk_lass

Time to pick this up again after a six week absence! I'll start - I bought some YS peppers and liberated a portion of minced beef from the freezer and made a ragu with the mince, stuffed the peppers (plus the two yellow ones playing Lurkio in the salad drawer) and we have enough for two meals. So, a light supper with garlic bread and cooked with grated cheese on top - red peppers last night - we will have the others on Wednesday as we are out early. Tonight it will be pesto, broccoli, pasta and topped with a little grated cheese as we have a(nother) busy day with bees and garden stuff to do.

Off to make cucumber soup… a very pleasant recipe we had at someone's house - served warm with a swirl of cream and we will have it for lunches with toast

rtandon27

Found some stewing beef in the freezer over the weekend and have rustled up a stew with lots of veggies! Used up the last of the carrots and celery that had been lurking in the fridge!

Suffolk_lass

Made my first lot of soup yesterday, since eating bolting-lettuce soup in July - we felt so much better, going back to a nutritious vegetable mixture for lunch and finishing off a pack of flatbreads that had been out (opened) for four days.

Like you @rtandon, it involved carrots and celery, along with onions, courgette and a bit of honey with ginger and turmeric, along with herbs and stock.

I have winter squashes curing outside the back door (naturally I picked most the day before it rained properly!). I might liberate a couple to make a veg curry tomorrow. I am out for lunch today so Mr Sl will fend for himself

Suffolk_lass

I made more soup, adding the leftovers of the stir-fry to a veg mix. It really is my favourite simple, nutritious lunch! I have frozen the remnants of the loaf I made, to prevent mould. It is sliced and perfect for toast!

Today I need to sort out and pick remaining garden produce, and compost the squash and tomato plants. I also need to remove the mite treatments at one apiary and check on the two colonies at each of the other two.

There is a tray of tomatoes ripening in the greenhouse - but the one indoors needs processing (just cored, chopped and frozen until we get back from hols) as they are all looking good and ready. I also have some windfall apples to cook and jar up for winter. It all helps keep the cost of living down, using food I have preserved.

My planned pasta last night was with the end of a tub of cream cheese, diluted to a cream with a little pasta water and then mixed with a big dollop from a large jar of pesto. I forgot to add the use up broccoli to the pasta so ended up chopping a courgette and bringing it quickly to the boil to combine with a bit of grated extra mature cheese and the pesto-sauce. With plenty of black pepper it was yummy!

Suffolk_lass

Oh my, my little thread. I had almost abandoned you!

I am keeping the faith and have soup from homegrown veg and leftover beef and chicken from which to make supper tonight and tomorrow. It might be salad with a jacket potato then pasta or stuffed peppers.

I made Quince and Apple sauce yesterday, with lemon and sugar. It will make a decent crumble base, and a good accompaniment to roast and cold pork. The quinces were on the stall at the community garden and free to take, and the apples came home from Scotland, from my Mum's. Windfalls as she remains reluctant to let me prune her monster Bramley tree!

leftatthetrafficlights

We had yesterday's dinner from stuff left in the fridge: butter beans cooked in stock, dill and thyme; 4 grains mix with sunflower and hemp seeds plus barberries; an uchki kuri squash from the garden and steamed cabbage with tarragon. 😋 I had a rocket, blueberries, strawberries and black grape salad dressed with blood orange balsamic.

Over the weekend I repurposed leftovers - I had a naan bread left, some cooked potatoes, a red pepper, a fifth of a pack of greek style 'cheese', a jar with a few pearl peppers and half a tin of chopped tomatoes in the fridge plus some kebab stuff which I didn't have room in the freezer for so I made a loaded flatbread with it all. I added a sliced onion and some chilli sauce to the tomatoes for the base but the rest was all leftovers 😋