haricot beans and cabbage

  The remains of the haricots from the shepherds’ pie mix. What to do with them? There was a cabbage in the fridge. There’s nearly always a cabbage in the fridge, and we are very samey with the way we use it, so I thought I’d do a little experiment. So I chopped about 30g of…

pork and beans

I have a constant and ongoing battle with my freezer. I used at one point to have three freezers – the one in our USAnian fridge, a 3/4 height one out in the shed, and an under-counter sized one that lived under the stairs, and was entirely filled with minced oxcheek, which we bought in…

green beans and tomato

We’re a bit over veg’d this week, as we bought mushrooms and asparagus as well as the box, and so we’re starting to panic a bit over what’s left this week, given another box arrives tomorrow.  Think I’ll have to cancel next week’s … Tonight, we looked at the large number of runner beans, and…

beef and borlotti bean stew

Using up: ribeye steak, tin of borlotti beans, 2/3 jar roast yellow peppers As previously mentioned, we brought back some meat from our Wales camping trip.  Neither Pete nor I are that fond of steak in its natural form these days – we are too old and badgery to digest it properly 🙂 But we…

sausage, runner beans and stuff

Using up: runner beans, sausages Apologies for lack of posting – we have been camping for a few days in West Wales, and we should have taken an ark rather than a tent. I brought back three fat butcher’s sausages, and this is what I did. Drizzled the sossidge with a little olive oil, and…

from veg to meatballs to pasta bake

Using up: veg As stated last week, we are over-vegged, and need to use it up before we go away for the long weekend that’s coming up. So, on Friday night, I chopped up four red peppers, two onions, several mushrooms, and four (I think) courgettes.  These were sautéd down in my huge shallow Circulon…