The all new using what you have from your Freezer, Cupboard or Shed (Barn)

London_1

Golly thats given me a few ideas, the stuffed chicken breast especially as I have several chicken breast in the freezer, and I love broccoli so broccoli and stilton sounds nice as well.

It was wrapped and very airtight when I got it, I think reduced to make room, it originally was £3.60 per wedge and DGD Katie snaffled it at 75p per wedge. I usually like it with some crackers and a few grapes as I like the taste of grapes or sliced apple and blue cheese.  but I fancied the idea of cooking it , maybe a chunk in a jacket spud would be tasty as well. i've often frozen hard cheeses but never blue stilton as its never been in the fridge for long enough but you've got my taste bud going now and I will try some over the weekend I think

  Cheers chums 

   JackieO xx

RHemmings

I'm way behind here again. With moving house, finishing off the glut of stuff has stopped and I'm taking more stuff to the new house than I planned to. It'll be a couple of weeks, I think, before I'm able to start finishing off the job. Good work everybody. 

Cairnpapple

Knackered apples turning into apple muffins as we speak. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have noticed that supermarket fruit is particularly poor quality this year, and since I order online I don't get to pick. Half the muffins will stay out and half will go in the freezer. 

I just noticed we have a glut of eggs which is really unusual, I'd better put omelette on the list for this week.

I still couldn't remember what I was going to use the bacon for,  so I took it out anyway and had half of it in a bacon sandwich last night (spouse was out babysitting).

Edited to add: I have decided to make an assault on the tea cupboard. I have all these lovely loose leaf infusions but I keep just drinking cheap berry tea bags. I am starting as I mean to go on by making a good pot of apple strudel tea.

JIL

I made a tea loaf, a soda bread and a loaf of bread (recipe that's no knead and left overnight) 

The milk in the soda bread was unopened but a week past its sell by date, but hadnt seperated or tasted bad.
The fruit in the tealoaf was best before Aug 23. 
The seeds and oats were from an M &S mix I got for 25p as it was best before end of Jan.

Stilton does freeze well, and it's easy to break bits off and use from frozen in cooking. It does make good soup, stilton stuffing on mushrooms, a fab pasta sauce. I make a stilton and broccoli quiche. I love stilton and walnut bread but haven't quite mastered a recipe yet.

But definitely a little goes a long way or it takes over. 

London_1

Made a nice veggie chilli last night to use up some of the surplus stuff in the tin cupboard

3 diced onions
2 tins tomatoes chopped up
2 tins kidney beans
1 tin sweetcorn
2 tablespoons of tomato puree 
Plus some chopped mushrooms and stalks, diced carrots starting to get a bit bendy. a cubed sweet potato and some diced peppers from the freezer I also added 2 teaspoon of coriander, some turmeric and cumin and even a dash of paprika also a splodge of lazy garlic and a bit of ground ginger (I do like spicy chilli) and some chilli powder..Mashed up a couple of veggie stock cubes in some of the tomato juice and some water and chucked it altogether into the pot. popped the lid on and left to simmer eat a slow rolling bubble for around 20-25 minutes until the veg is nice and soft. got around 6 decent portions out of it and once cooled divided up and put into the freezer. my kitchen smelt delicious and the little bit I had left I stuck in a small dish to use once defrosted in a jacket spud . The portions added to some rice will give me 6 good dinners and the jacket spud a nice tasty lunch

Cheap as chips and easy to make with stuff from my tinned store and freezer probably costs out around 60p a portion plus rice around 75p for a nice spicy meal.

Nice to have a tasty meal without the cost of meat.I like meat but I also enjoy a nice veggie chilli ,especially when its using up odds and ends 

  JackieO xx

Wraithlady

IN: 8 bao buns (reduced in Marcus & Spencius) - OH tried and liked them when we were out & about somewhere, did ask me to make them but it seemed a bit of a faff. Now I just have to make a filling for them. Also 2 packs of cooked chicken thighs for lunches - 3 for £8,(one pack used for today's lunch) and a wholemeal seeded sourdough pave OH was given at work.

Out: One of the gammon packs, cod fillets and frozen cherries

Cherryfudge

Wraithlady said:

IN: 8 bao buns (reduced in Marcus & Spencius) - OH tried and liked them when we were out & about somewhere, did ask me to make them but it seemed a bit of a faff. 

I have a feeling @RHemmings has these down to a fine art (I'll apologise in advance if I have that wrong).

London_1 said:

Made a nice veggie chilli last night to use up some of the surplus stuff in the tin cupboard

This looks really good Jackie, thanks for posting it. I was wondering what to make for the freezer this week and I think I have all the ingredients for this. May I ask roughly how much cumin and turmeric please? I have recipes that call for a tsp and recipes that call for a tbsp, so I'm not sure where to start!

I'm probably also making this which a big favourite but only makes a couple of portions. I have everything for it if I substitute dried herbs for fresh, which reminds me I need to sow some coriander seed. It's getting harder to find plants of it on the supermarket and they cost more.

I've just used up the defrosted humous but food stuffs seem to be accumulating faster than I can keep track. I got another big coffee jar which is now holding cous cous in an effort to make our own sometimes, rather than a packet mix.

RHemmings

I made bao buns in Indonesia, but unfortunately things to do has stopped me doing so since. I've moved my big steamer to the new house but I'm not cooking there yet. Soon. 

The supermarket bao buns I bought (e.g. the Aldi ones) weren't actually to my taste. I preferred my own ones. 

JIL

@Cherryfudge I did a cookery course many years ago and we did a vege chilli, but used buckwheat in it and it was excellent. I do often make something very similar to @London.1
We made a spice mix with one part each of oregano, chilli powder, paprika and cumin. I have always used that mix.

You can get hot chilli powder if you want to turn up the heat.

Hope that helps.

Cherryfudge

JIL said:

We made a spice mix with one part each of oregano, chilli powder, paprika and cumin. I have always used that mix.

Thank you! The only one of those I don't have in is paprika, meant to get some the other day and ran out of time. I like the idea of making a batch of it that I can just dip into.