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cheerfulness4

Brie - we made our flatbreads by weighing both ingredients. ie, 200g yoghurt to 200g flour and they came out lovely.

Brie

cheerfulness4 said:

Brie - we made our flatbreads by weighing both ingredients. ie, 200g yoghurt to 200g flour and they came out lovely.

just noticed the previous recipe states 200g each!  DOH!!!

JIL

Brie said:

-taff said:

Or can you make some flatbreads? I usually keep some greek yoghurt in the fridge tomake them, it lasts for months unopened..I've used septembers date in december last year..

Equal quantities of flour to greek yoghurt, mix, it will look crumbly and like it won't go but keep working it and it will. Flour well to roll out, dry fry to cook. Place in a folded tea towel to keep warm and steam a bit. I usually add oregano and salt. they are much softer than ones made with water only. I normally measure 200 and 200 g then divide into four and really thinly roll so it covers a ten inch frying pan

Looking again at the soda bread suggested by JIL and your flatbreads.....you say equal quantities of flour to yoghurt but what does that mean - weight or volume?  I was raised with cooking by volume but can do it by weight but know I can't assume.

I always weigh both my liquid and dry ingredients.  I just make as little washing up as possible.
I use the digital scales and just press zero. If I'm not mistaken 500g of milk is equal to 500ml. 

I make the flatbreads also and weigh the yoghurt and flour together.  Equal quantities. 

purpleivy

JIL said:

Brie said:

-taff said:

Or can you make some flatbreads? I usually keep some greek yoghurt in the fridge tomake them, it lasts for months unopened..I've used septembers date in december last year..

Equal quantities of flour to greek yoghurt, mix, it will look crumbly and like it won't go but keep working it and it will. Flour well to roll out, dry fry to cook. Place in a folded tea towel to keep warm and steam a bit. I usually add oregano and salt. they are much softer than ones made with water only. I normally measure 200 and 200 g then divide into four and really thinly roll so it covers a ten inch frying pan

Looking again at the soda bread suggested by JIL and your flatbreads.....you say equal quantities of flour to yoghurt but what does that mean - weight or volume?  I was raised with cooking by volume but can do it by weight but know I can't assume.

I always weigh both my liquid and dry ingredients.  I just make as little washing up as possible.
I use the digital scales and just press zero. If I'm not mistaken 500g of milk is equal to 500ml. 

I make the flatbreads also and weigh the yoghurt and flour together.  Equal quantities. 

I use weights for almost everything when cooking, especially baking, as it 's so much more accurate.  

purpleivy

Another day, more bits and pieces used up!  I had veg in the fridge, swede, carrot and sprouts. I mashed the swede and potatoes together and roasted carrots and the last of the onions together, microwaved the sprouts.  Pulled the left over liver from making pate, along with leftover Christmas stuffing and couple of pigs in blankets.  There is enough veg to do bubble and squeak tomorrow, so a win! 

Today we are having Hugh FW Cullen skink recipe, adapted.  Got no smoked cod or haddock , so using a couple of odd salmon fillets, no cannelini beans so using pinto beans, no spinach so using a can of corn.  It's a lovely recipe.  I tend to leave a bit of the liquid out so that hub regards it more stewy than soupy. 

Still trying to use the odds and ends from the fridge so it is clear when we go away.  I had a fail with yogurt. Forgot to switch it on!  I left it a lot of hours, kind of set but only halfway, so have strained it to thicken up. Got that to get out of the cloth today. Hate those jobs.  

I bagged up my lovely Callebaut chocolate chips, put some in the freezer and a couple of bags vacuum sealed in the drawer in order to keep my thieving hands away from them!  Going to use all the old oddments in banana loaf if I get time.  

What are the rest of you up to?

cheerfulness4

Using up the last of a pot of yoghurt to make some more of those flatbreads today. I want them to go with a chicken korma made from rubber chicken.  (I think it was taff that originally gave the flatbread recipe so I'm very grateful).

I want to get DH to make a batch of oat pancakes using cottage cheese to stash away for breakfasts.  He accidently bought Tescos Creamfields cottage cheese instead of Longley farm and I really hate the sloppy stuff. Don't want to waste it so Tesco had some cottage cheese and oat pancakes in their recipe files so am planning to try those.

I thought I'd have to add yoghurt to my shopping list but DH reminded me that we had several packets of Easiyo yoghurt mix in the cupboard so he made up a lovely Manuka honey greek yoghurt one last night. Yum!  That will go excellently well with my pancakes for breakfast one day and we have frozen raspberries/blueberries in the freezer from a 2G2G bag.  Very money saving.  :

purpleivy

cheerfulness4 said:

Using up the last of a pot of yoghurt to make some more of those flatbreads today. I want them to go with a chicken korma made from rubber chicken.  (I think it was taff that originally gave the flatbread recipe so I'm very grateful).

I want to get DH to make a batch of oat pancakes using cottage cheese to stash away for breakfasts.  He accidently bought Tescos Creamfields cottage cheese instead of Longley farm and I really hate the sloppy stuff. Don't want to waste it so Tesco had some cottage cheese and oat pancakes in their recipe files so am planning to try those.

I thought I'd have to add yoghurt to my shopping list but DH reminded me that we had several packets of Easiyo yoghurt mix in the cupboard so he made up a lovely Manuka honey greek yoghurt one last night. Yum!  That will go excellently well with my pancakes for breakfast one day and we have frozen raspberries/blueberries in the freezer from a 2G2G bag.  Very money saving.  :

Using up the Easy Yo is a good move.  I used to have one but didn't get on with it.  I had an electric 1litre yogurt maker, but have ended up just putting jars of innoculated milk in the Instant Pot. Works well when I remember to put it on.  

purpleivy

Next... I spotted the last 4 of my neighbour's Bramley apples in the cellar, so brought them upstairs. Stewed with one odd one in the fruit bowl, the golden raisins left over from MIL's donation and part of a spice sachet I never used (OOD Lebkuchen spice from Germany).   As an after thought I added some chia seeds.  This thicken a little, will up the nutrition and be good for gut health. 

Going to freeze this so there is something to go with yogurt when I get home.  Tomorrow morning will be full on assigning what's in the fridge for lunch and dinner tomorrow and lunch Sunday Monday. Hub needs to carve off the end of the serrano ham for me to freeze. 

I need to sort out Kombucha to leave and also work out what to do with the kefir. I only just got the grains and not sure what to do with them to leave when I go away. More research required.  

cheerfulness4

The cake tin was empty and didn't want to go out buying anything in for our cosy coffee and cake treat each day so I looked in the cookery drawers and found a packet of dried mixed fruit.  As DH is back to work tomorrow he quickly whipped up a lovely fruit cake this evening and even added a few chopped walnuts we had in. 

Tomorrow is going to be cheesy bubble and squeak with bacon  and egg. Shall make it with some brussels and potatoes that we bought for 8p at the end of last year.  A bargain dinner with memories of childhood!

cheerfulness4

DH made those Cottage cheese and Oat pancakes for breakfast this morning and they were lovely.  Had them with my easiyo manuka honey yogurt and 1/4 tin of prunes and they were delicious.

If anyone has a manky pot of cottage cheese and wants to make something from it https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/cottage-cheese-and-oat-pancakes.html here is the recipe off of Tesco recipe files.