what to do with leftover kebab #2

This follows on, really, from here. We had even more left over this time! I cut up an onion and some garlic, and fried them off in olive oil. Then I added a heaped teaspoon of Ras el Hanout and fried that off for a minute or two. In went the meat, cut into smallish…

what to do with leftover kebab

We don’t as, as a rule, eat takeaway food. It’s cheap here in Hull, but it’s not terribly good for diabetics 🙂 But we did have a kebab on Saturday night. Now, this is not the sort of kebab you get from the corner van, that smells so inviting when you’re on your way home…

compost bin soup

Well, not quite … But this week’s soup includes broccoli stalks, leek tops and cabbage stalks! Into small dice were cut one courgette, two carrots, and the aforementioned veg leftovers, and they went in the slow cooker on low for about six hours with a little bit of olive oil to soften them up. Then…

pork terrine with bubble and squeak

using up: pork terrine, cooked cabbage, an elderly swede I made a lovely pork and spinach terrine as part of the Christmas Fayre, but what with us being unwell, we didn’t eat much of it.  I put half in the freezer, but I was a bit concerned about the piece remaining in the fridge, but…

goose and bacon pie

using up: cold goose, bacon, apple juice, ready made pastry I thought we’d seen the last of Johnny Goose, but when Pete manfully tackled the carcass after we’d boiled it up for soup, there was a fair bit left. There were other bits and pieces too, so it was deemed Pie Time. I fried off…

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…