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

Cherryfudge

Pollie said:

Cherryfudge--if you have no takers for the parsley, you could make parsley pesto and use with pasta or freeze for later use.

I don't yet have any takers! I saw a recipe for walnut and parsley pesto and I do have walnuts to use up so that could work well. Do you know of a good recipe please?

London_1

Morning chums Day 2 NSD today.I'm going to try and steer clear of shops as much as I can this month to help clear my tinned and freezer stuff

From the freezer I retrieved a quarter of a large Steak & Mushroom pie that I bought and froze before Christmas as it was a large M&S one reduced to £1.40 ,probably because folk were  buying Xmas food
 
I took it home and cut it into four, and wrapped and froze the quarters, I had a piece a couple of weeks ago and its jolly tasty, but I wouldn't have bought it at the full price, but at £1.40 it was a bargain and will have given me basic for four meals, I have broccoli and carrots and mash to add to it all from the freezer so dinner is sorted.

My slow cooker is on with three large skinned and deboned chicken thighs and two drumsticks making me some Chicken provencal meals to freeze later once cooked and cooled probably get at least 3-4 meals out of them as I have added peppers and mushrooms and an hour before finishing it I shall add a tin of diced potatoes from the tinned stock, Think I may add a tin of chickpeas as well to the mix to bulk it out a bit more and help use up the chickpea stash.

Onwards and upwards chums 

   JackieO xxx

Pollie

Cherryfudge, this one gives both alternative ingredients and uses:
 6-Ingredient Walnut Parsley Pesto (5 Minutes & Easy!) - Key To My Lime

Cherryfudge

Pollie said:

Cherryfudge, this one gives both alternative ingredients and uses:
 6-Ingredient Walnut Parsley Pesto (5 Minutes & Easy!) - Key To My Lime

Thank you Pollie! What a glorious colour that pesto is! And I note it freezes, which is very useful.

There's still half the parsley left. I've donated the salad leaves to a friend, have discovered the delights of cream in my porridge, DH has finished the vegan pizza and generally it's all headed in the right direction.

I did buy two packs of hot cross buns reduced to 28p each: well, I love hot cross buns and it would just be wrong to leave so many in the shop.

Of Saturday's spread, I still have some cucumber, tomatoes, cabbage and carrots, two part-pots of hummus, a bit of cream, some bulger wheat and some fizzy drinks as well as the parsley.

Cairnpapple

I was holding off on making pea soup because I didn't have any carrots but then I remembered that I had a tin of carrots in the stockpile cupboard. So out: lots of frozen peas. In: spare lamb stock and hopefully a good number of pea soup portions later. 

I still have a half lamb leg in the freezer because we ended up with more people that expected so had a whole leg on Easter. Think it will go in the slow cooker at the weekend with the lamb stock but I'm leaving them in the freezer for now in case we get distracted. 

Wraithlady

Not really been clearing spaces in my food cupboards/freezer recently.

In: 10 simnel muffins (the recipe made 14, and we each had 2 over Easter), 2 portions gammon stew, 1 cooked gammon joint, 7 packs curry spice mixes from a company we really like, 3 chutneys from Mr Vikki's (yes, the Chester Food Festival was visited), and the makings for granola turned up as well as 6 packets of flavoured corncakes.

Out: Breaded fish, gammon steaks (for the gammon stew, so whether it counts, I don't know), chorizo for tomorrow, 2 slices of the turned-out-weird-but-tastes-ok chocolate cake for pud yesterday and half a loaf of HM bread.

LotsOfTea

I'm still chipping away at the freezer contents and zombie apocalypse stores. I made a version of Jack Monroe's kidney bean and pineapple curry but subbed in chickpeas as DS doesn't like kidney beans. It was really tasty with a good ginger kick. I also excavated a packet of vegan chorizo chunks from the freezer which were dated 2019 and thought it was probably time to use them up! I chucked about half the packet in a veg & noodles stir fry and they were fine apart from being a little dry. The rest will get chucked in with whatever I make for tea tonight. 

I'm having tinned mandarins with yoghurt and seeds this morning for breakfast to use up some more of the tinned fruit mountain. 

There's a long way to go but I feel like I'm making good progress!

London_1

 Salmon from before Easter from the freezer, plus broccoli and mashed potatoes ,banana custard for pudding, using up stuff every day
Day 4 NSD today so pleased my purse is firmly shut

JackieO xx

LotsOfTea

Last night OH helpfully used a tub of cheese sauce from the freezer when some pasta, mushrooms and the rest of the vegan chorizo chunks and it was very tasty. It feels like I'm undoing all his hard work by having made 2 saucepans full of cheese sauce which is currently cooling down and ready to go back in the freezer. However, it's all good really because I took out 4 blocks of cheddar from the freezer, grated it all in the food processor and used about half in the cheese sauce. This also used up a whole load of milk as we get a delivery from the milkman and sometimes we just don't seem to use it up as quickly and end up with a backlog. This has cleared the backlog and will get it back in the freezer later. 

I decided to try out using cornflour as a thickener for my cheese sauce instead of making a roux like I normally do and I have to say, although it's quicker, it doesn't make as good a sauce so I won't bother again. 

Lunch today was burgers, roasted 'chips' of sweet potato and parsnip and corn on the cob and tea will be something simple like bacon/egg butties or something on toast.

Tomorrow I'm planning veg tagine with hm naan bread for one meal and soup with cheese toasties for another ( got to start using up the grated cheese now!).

London_1

Salmon was lovely I wish now I had bought extra when on offer in Sainsburys. The chilli dressing I put on top gave it just the right kick as well.I wrapped it in foil and did it in my Remoska, no fishy niffs afterwards.:) 

Dinner tonight will be baked cod (again in my 'moska, I am trying to use up some of the fish in my freezer, plus cheesy mash and green peas all from the freezer.

 I'm hoping to move when all the paper work is finished, so could be the end of next month if thing all go well.
 No shopping days for me at the moment, and today is Day 6 without going near a shop for anything foodwise at all.
Last night I peeled a lot of the potatoes in my veg box and cooked half of them and mashed them and cooled and into then freezer they went. I have half a container in the fridge  left with peeled spuds in water, and they will be used up this week. 

My DGS Ben is on his way round to me at the moment and I've got some bacon out so he will have a bacon sandwich and a coffee, then as the sun is out we are going for a walk around our local Capstone Park where there is a big lake and we shall see how the ducks are and if there are many baby ones yet. he is down from London for a week or so as his school is on Easter holidays and I know he is looking forward to telling me how their East show went he really enjoys his teaching and get the kids in his year five class motivated to do drama as a hobby Most of them are inner city kids who have never been on a stage or done anything like it before. He is an english lit. graduate and loves getting the children to see they can have a go at anything. Most of them come from pretty mixed backgrounds and many struggle with home life and have a tough time often.But he wants to help them see there is someone there who believes they can achieve things no matter where they come from .The ones who struggle with a second language he helps by giving up his time in the lunch hour. As he says how can the learn to read books if they haven't got the language first. He is definitely a born teacher and i'm very proud of him. 

JackieO xx