breakfast frittata

Half a bag of spinach to use up … Diced two rashers of back bacon, a few mushrooms, half a green pepper* and half a red onion, and put them in the shallow pan of the Remoska with a little olive oil for 15 minutes (switched it on, obviously!). Beat four eggs with some seasoning…

a bag of spinach

A bag of spinach is currently £1 in our local Sainsburys, and it’s remarkably versatile. Tonight, we shall be having half a bag with some mushroooms fried up in Indian spices, one of our stalwarts. The other half a bag was left over from the lasagne we had on Wednesday. Spinach is delicious thinly sliced…

smoked salmon, spinach and goat's cheese omelette

We’re going to be away for a couple of days, so I’m Using Stuff Up. Aldi had some smoked salmon at half price last week, so I bought a pack. About 2/3rds went into a pasta dish, and the rest was still in the fridge. As was about half a bag of baby spinach. I…

mushroom, spinach and mozzarella wraps

About half a punnet of chestnut  mushrooms and some spinach needed eating up, so I deliberately made last night’s cabbage dish with only half a mozzarella ball, and saved the rest for today’s lunch. Finely chopped the mushrooms and set them to cook down slowly in some olive oil. Put the wraps on individual plates,…

leek, spinach and goat cheese flan

Two fat leeks, a bit wrinkled, looked accusingly at me every time I opened the fridge. There was also about 1/4 of a bag spinach left, and some rather elderly eggs. I trimmed and washed the leeks, and sliced them up, then sauted slowly in olive oil and butter; threw in some fresh thyme part…

supper 2 Sept 2010 – lentil bake

We eat a lot of this sort of thing – cheap and tasty. This one started with a tub of lentils from the freezer – no point in cooking just one meals’ worth. I finely diced carrot, red pepper and onion, and some garlic, fried them off, then added some ras el hanouh, and cooked…

aubergine, spinach and lentil bake

Using up: aubergine, some red wine that had gone vinegary, 1/3 of a bag of spinach We love this sort of food, and eat it often.  In the fridge was an aubergine, spinach, and some feta cheese, and Pete had  opened a bottle of red wine last week and inexplicably failed to drink most of…

another potato bake

using up: cold roast chicken, half a bag of spinach, a mozzarella past its sell-by date A proper Reactive meal – first for a while.  We are still ploughing through Sunday’s chicken, and had some other stuff that needed eating up.  This worked really well, although next time I would poach the chicken in the…

a fish pie

using up: a piece of fish, a bulb of fennel, the last third of the bag of spinach. We’re having a fairly traumatic week, and the reason for this was the cause of the existence of one not very big fillet of anonymous white fish.  One of our cats, our beloved Bada, has been and…

in praise of spinach

Spinach is wonderful stuff – I don’t know why more people don’t like it. This post is a bit of a cheat really, as I wasn’t using anything up per se; it’s more that I fell upon the spinach with cries of glee, and immediately got a tub of bolognese sauce (home made, of course)…