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A lot of veg in the fridge, a grey day, and some space in the freezer – how better to spend a Sunday afternoon than cooking?!

I did:

• red cabbage with apple (thanks to Sharon J for the reminder – love it, and haven’t made it in ages). That used up the half red cabbage that I bought on Saturday, and 2/3 of the cooking apple lurking in the veg drawer
• Thai veg curry (recipe here), using half the butternut squash, courgette, half the green beans, a couple of carrots, the red pepper from the last veg box
• Lentil moussaka (recipe here), just because there is An Aubergine in the fridge, and the recipe takes a long time from start to finish
• Veg soup – courgette, carrot, a tired leek, celery, 1/4 butternut squash, blitzed in the Magimix; gave it 5 minutes in the microwave with some olive oil, then put in a pan with some soup mix (cooked down in the water I boiled the butternut squash in) and some beef stock from the freezer.  That’ll do us for lunches this week
• The last quarter of butternut squash, and third of the cooking apple, made us a risotto for supper. Recipe to follow in a separate post.

So I was cutting and chopping and blanching and frying all afternoon – including deepfrying about a pound of potatoes in some groundnut oil in the wok, for adding to both the thai curry and the moussaka.

Not a bad haul, I think – go me!