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We had a use it up dinner last night - shelf stable tortellini & sauce with spinach & mushrooms from the freezer (originally from the veg box) - followed up by strawberry yogurt, which always reminds me of melted ice cream - lol
The rest of this week is definitely based on what we have in the stores, as our fresh fruit/veg was short by the main box last week & we only received the salad box & top-ups. They called & apologized for the error and refunded the amount right away, so customer service can't be faulted. TBH we can easily rely on cans & freezer for a week using a bit of creativity, but I do miss the fresh green veg in the middle of summer!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)17 YEARS 4 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS6 -
@natlie don't know if you're aware but you can freeze coconut milk. I always freeze it as I only use 100ml at a time when I'm using it and then freeze the rest in a silicon muffin tray so get 3 x 100ml "pucks" which once frozen I transfer to a ziplock freezer bag so I can just grab one when I need it. No having to try and find ways to use up the Leftovers!
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Thanks, @joedenise I wasn't aware you could freeze coconut milk. Pucks is the perfect descriptionFashion on a ration 2024 66/66 coupons remaining
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I'm waiting to hear if my offer for a commercial freezer from a business that is closing down has been accepted today. If it is it would give me the extra space I need to freeze almost all the surplus from the garden (except the salad (leaves and cucumbers) and squashes, which will store in hessian sacks!). - And of course the things like coconut milk and beansprouts I have learned from here!
We had that extra steak, sliced into strips with homegrown salad and shop bought coleslaw, followed by greek-style yogurt, fresh garden raspberries and blackcurrant compote/jelly. I deliberately did not let it reach setting point as I wanted it to top yogurt and ice-cream (though not eating ice-cream at the moment, I plan ahead...Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 only £798.34 so far
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SL - that's a great way to use up the 'extra' steak! - good thinking 😉 How do you make/store your compote SL? A couple of blackcurrent buses that are dotted round the farmyard are ready for gleaning - usually I just wash & freeze them, but yogurt topping sounds like a nice alternative!
Last night we had a spectacularly disastrous use it up dinner. In theory it was a one pot chorizo, red pepper & spaghetti dish. In reality, OH freaked out when he realized there was a 'whole' tin of tomatoes in it & only gave a 1/2 hearted attempt at cooking it! (As a youngster he had allergic reactions to fresh tomatoes, so in his head doesn't eat them - in reality he does but the sight of the tin was enough to worry him.) The other thing that created a total disaster was the spicy heat of the dish!!!!! - Our new bottle of flaked chillies is 10X hotter than the one it replaced & the 1/2 tsp provided a burn that no amount of water would get rid of! We are now left with 4 portions that I'll have to creatively cool down and consume for lunches - I'm thinking creme fraiche or shredded cheese stirred in with some sliced cucumber on the side. I'm loathe to waste it, but the heat needs to be beaten into submission!
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love reading all the tips, it’s very inspiring, thanks to everyone xx8
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@rtandon27 you can cool down too-spicy food best with a dairy product like greek-style yogurt or cream - and your mouth by putting a spoonful in your mouth and just holding it there for as long as you can before needing to swallow, a bit at a time. I sympathise re chillies. I have three apache chilli bushes this year and they are to hot for me to eat off the bush. About 40 times hotter than jalapeño. I reckon mine are closer to 100,000 than the lower 80,000 for their range. The others I have are cayenne at about 50,000 and they are fine to eat raw (for me). Our bubble friend is coming this weekend so he can take some home (having cycled round the Asian sub-continent a number of times he loves them.
I made the blackcurrant compote by putting the last gleanings of the blackcurrants into a pan with about the same amount of water and then bringing them to a simmer for about 15 minutes, so they are bursting. From memory there was a pyrex jug full of currants and water
Then I put them through a nylon sieve lined with that really strong kitchen roll, squishing it with the back of a spoon to extract as much juice as I could, but not pushing the seeds through the sieve. I managed to squeeze the paper to get the last remnants out then that was discarded with all the bits of seeds, stalk and any ants that got in there(!). I measured the juice and it was approximately a litre - so if you were making jam you might add close to a kilo of sugar. I heated the juice in a big pan and then I added about 600g sugar and brought it to the jam-making "rolling boil" for about 5-ten minutes, stirring every minute or so to make sure it didn't catch. Then I took it off the heat for 15 minutes and popped it into jam jars with screw tops while really hot (providing the top pops in they are good to store then) - blackcurrants are great for jelly because they reach setting point so quickly but I deliberately did not wait for this as I wanted a spoonable semi-liquid. The jar that is open is in the fridge and sweet enough to spoon over yogurt on its own or with a few berries - the absolute mouth-watering taste of summer.
I don't normally keep jam in the fridge but I am with this because of the lower sugar content.Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 only £798.34 so far
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mmmm - that sounds relatively easy SL - I'm wondering if the jam setting on my breadmaker might work for compote if I shorten the cycle? Off to do a little trip down the rabbit hole to see what I can find out! - i've yet to glean the berries of the bushes but if I don't get to it soon, the birds will have them all!!!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)17 YEARS 4 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS5
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Found a fabulous recipe to use up our glut of lettuce & salad greens. Savoury green pancakes (recipe here) made with red lettuce - I had mine with Hoisin sauce & the OH had maple syrup on his lol - served up with some breakfast sausage & fried eggs, made a tasty brunch!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)17 YEARS 4 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS6
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We were taken out last night - a lovely local pub meal paid for by our friend who is staying again. Amazed DH ran the dishwasher - it only had cups, glasses and breakfast plates and dishes in it!Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 only £798.34 so far
OS Grocery Challenge 2024 31.1% spent or £932.98/£3,000 annual
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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