using up: bits and bobs of veg, some rather tired coriander leaves, small chestnut mushrooms and some beansprouts from the veg box It’s nice – and cheaper – not to eat meat all the time. And it’s good for you. This served two of us quite happily. As always, the secret of a stir fry…
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cabbage with mozzarella and pancetta
This is one of our favourite Things To Do With Cabbage – it’s incredibly quick to make, and very nice to eat. Shred half a cabbage – doesn’t matter what sort; this works with savoy, with hispi, with white, with green. Chop an onion, and a couple of cloves of garlic if you like –…
stuffed mushrooms
Using up: portabella mushrooms, bacon, blue cheese I’ve never done stuffed mushrooms before, but had seen a couple of people prepared them on Come Dine with Me, a programme which I rather like. We had some lovely bacon in the freezer, from a friend’s first attempt at pig rearing, but it was sliced very thin…
chicken stir fry
Using up: spring onions, red pepper, the last bit of courgette, half a lemon The thing about a stir fry is you can lob pretty much anything in it, but you need to have it all ready before you start. So, as you may see, I chopped four spring onions, a red pepper, a small…
broad bean enchiladas
Using up: almost everything left in the fridge! Carrots, broad beans, potatoes, salad leaves, wheat wraps I said this week would be weird meals … emptying the fridge can make odd but pleasing concoctions. Boiled the remaining new potatoes, and 6 minutes before the end, put some broad beans, and the very, very last of…
pasta bake with red pepper
Using up: a red pepper, mozzarella We’re off for a week’s holiday on Friday (hurrah!), so meals this week are going to be quite odd, I suspect 🙂 Here’s one of our standby meals; we eat this kind of thing often. Cut one red pepper in half, remove the seeds and pith, cut into thin…
pasta with butternut squash and feta
Using up: the other half of the feta, the other half of the squash, a lone rasher of bacon Peeled the squash and cut it into cubes. Chopped an onion roughly, ditto some garlic, and a rasher of back bacon. All in a frying pan with some olive oil, and some oregano from our herb…
courgette and fennel "cottage pie"
Using up: fennel, courgette, potato Chopped a courgette into chunks, and the other half of the fennel into thin slices, and chopped an onion. All into a frying pan with some olive oil, and left to sauté down. I left it for 20 minutes, but I think it would have been better to either put…
nutty brown bread
Soda type breads are a great way to use up old milk, and don’t need yeast. This recipe comes from an old book of mine entitled the Irish Baking Book – no sign of it on Amazon or anywhere else, but it has a lot of recipes from my childhood in it. I have no…
thai vegetable curry
Using up: butternut squash, green beans, courgette This is vaguely based on a recipe I saw on Come Dine With Me, a television programme here in the UK. I was very struck by the potato element, which is: One potato, boiled then cut into dice and deep fried. Set aside for now. Made a paste…