Reverse Meal Planning

rtandon27

For special occasions, I've made indian-spiced roast chicken with a dried fruit and rice stuffing - I think the original recipe was from a T3sco magazine - a surprisingly nice contrast of spice and sweetness.

natlie

I make the peach and chickpea curry a lot, yes it is tinned peaches there is also a black bean and tinned peach dish which is really good. I have a really good recipe by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall that uses tinned pineapple with spicy sweet potato and red peppers. I am making veggie sausage stew tonight with roast potatoes and veg. 

ajmoney

Today is a proper use up day. Beans on toast for lunch with last of the bread and leftover beans. Dinner is left over stir fry and some rice pudding for dessert to use up pudding rice. Chocolate loaf for snacks. I need to meal plan for the week ahead now.

Rowan9

Yes joedenise it’s Jack M. I have three of the cookbooks. I make that one a lot. Only had a small tin of peaches and added a handful of just cooked kale and one of spinach. Also I had no fresh coriander so added lots of basil. Not usually what you’d put in a curry 😂. 

Love sausage stew Natlie. You can add anything to it. I had Linda MCartney Lincolnshire sausages for my Sunday morning treat and they are 70% pea protein. They were lovely. 

Today is another portion of curry  for me and DH has Spanish chicken from the freezer. 

joedenise

I like the Linda McCartney Rosemary and Red Onion sausages.  I use them in a few ways - to make scotch eggs instead of pork sausage meat; halved and rolled into balls as stuffing with a roast as well as just as they are.

maddiemay

wmf said:

Yes joedenise it’s Jack M. I have three of the cookbooks. I make that one a lot. Only had a small tin of peaches and added a handful of just cooked kale and one of spinach. Also I had no fresh coriander so added lots of basil. Not usually what you’d put in a curry 😂. 

Love sausage stew Natlie. You can add anything to it. I had Linda MCartney Lincolnshire sausages for my Sunday morning treat and they are 70% pea protein. They were lovely. 

Today is another portion of curry  for me and DH has Spanish chicken from the freezer. 

A few weeks ago I joined an on-line curry club, it is run by a local(ish) lady whose business is making and selling her own blends of Indian spices, doing demonstrations, team building events and cooking classes.  Each month she sends us packs of spices, posts on a dedicated FB site with recipes, e-books and then does a live class once or twice a month, I am able to cook along in real time or watch, watch later and cook in my own time.   Her recipes are for the well known curries, but cooked as Indian family not restaurant or takeaway recipes, she adds a variety of vegetables, often several, including kale, spinach, beans, peas, frozen mixed veg etc exactly like the meals she cooks for her own family and was cooked by her own mother. Not seen any mention of Basil yet though, but has advocated parsley and celery leaves if anyone has no coriander.

ajmoney

Can anyone recommed a simple recipe for making my own sweet chilli sauce, especially if it can be done on a small scale?  I always begrudge paying for a bottle of it as I don't normally use it very much.  I am having a few meals based on wraps this week but as I am not a fan of most of the things others use for moisture on them I thought about this instead.

I have some sort of meal plan for the next 5 days so hopefully everything will work out ok.

Today's lunch depends on what I find when I go shopping, dinner is a mince and pea pie from the freezer with potatoes and veg.

candygirl

I get the massive bottles of sweet chilli sauce from Morrison's for £1 .It's the Laila brand, n not worth making it at this price  

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Perhaps buy a bottle then put unused sauce in ice cube tray & freeze. You could then use amount required when you are next in a mood for chilli flavoured food. 

PipneyJane

Suffolk_lass said:

Pyxis said:

rtandon27 said:

...after all that talk about Pizza...
...that's exactly what we had for dinner!  - extra toppings from this week's veg box - sliced onions & peppers - along with some fresh greek basil from the windowsill garden - mmmmmm it was flavour packed!

joedenise said:

Guess what?  yes you've guessed it pizza has made it's way onto this week's menu plan!

Whoooooo! I'm an Influencer! 🤣🤣🤣

Haha - we had our planned pizzas too. DS came over and joined us for a quick pizza (2 between three) it made a nice change. Son also took home one of three courgette and lime cake that I made for the first time this year (M&S recipe that I adapted). So far we remain on top of the courgette mountain so far (five in the kitchen but they will be grilled tonight) and I did a layer of roasted courgettes in with the aubergines for poor man's melanzane parmigiana. Soup remains my standby for veg gluts. I think it might be lettuce soup this week!

@Suufolk_lass, I am about 40 posts behind but I just had to tell you what I do with a glut of courgettes.  I grate them, bag the flesh in 250-ish gram bags and freeze it.  Later on, it'll be used to bulk up mince-based meals - grated courgette melts into the sauce - or defrosted and drained and cooked in Nigella Lawson's Courgette Cake.  (Incidetntally, grating and freezing is perfect for the giant cougette that you always find lurking under the leaves.)

HTH

- Pip