[no photo – sorry] Pete brought a huge bunch of coriander home from the Indian supermarket on Saturday. We had some with a vegetable tagine, some with sour pork with rhubarb, but there was still a reasonable wodge left. We have lots of spuds to eat too, as the rain got through the shed roof…
Month: September 2008
vegetable tagine
Using up: bits of veg – courgettes, carrots, aubergine, spinach As I said a day or so back, I wanted to do something other than moussaka with the aubergine. We also had some green beans that needed eating up, a fair number of carrots and a lot of courgettes, so they seemed like suitable candidates…
lentil lasagne
[sorry – no photo] Using up: some spinach As my regular reader will know, I made some lentil moussaka mix last weekend for the freezer. I even bought an aubergine to go with it. But then I thought “we always make moussaka when we have aubergine”, and decided I might try something different with it. …
cauliflower cheese
Last night’s supper was cauliflower cheese, accompanied by potatoes roasted in duck fat. Not especially “reactive”, but a lovely meal concocted out of things we had. I’m not going to tell you how to make a cheese sauce, because I don’t weigh or measure anything – I’ve been making it too long for that. But…
a brace of banana cakes
Using up: bananas We had a lot of bananas, so I decided to make some banana cake. And then I realised we had even more bananas than that, so I thought I’d make two, and freeze one. Better than letting the bananas go to waste, I thought. So I duly made two – it really…
a day in the kitchen
Click on the photo to see what it all is 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…
veg box v.greengrocers
As regular readers (all three of you 🙂 will know, we have a weekly fruit and veg box from Riverford. The price has recently gone up one pound, to £14.75. I understand this – their costs have increased a lot due to fuel increases. But it seems that the box, for us at least, is…
let them eat cake
Using up: half a lemon, dried cherries I fancied a cake – both making one, and consuming it. We don’t have them often, but last night I decided I would. And it would use up the half a lemon that was in the fridge 🙂 This is based on a Nigella recipe, and works really…
roasted veg
Using up: sweet potatoes, other veg We haven’t had this for ages, and I really don’t know why. It’s simple to prepare, and utterly lovely.We had a couple of sweet potatoes in the veg box this week; not enough to make a sweet potato mash, so this is what I did. Cut up into chunks:…
kind words
This came to me in an e-mail – I won’t say who from. I was dead chuffed! I have to say that my renewed interest in using up what’s lurking in the fridge is mainly down to reading the very inspiring recipes on your reactive cooking blog – thank you.