A cooking saga

[Clover]

The mention of left-overs on another thread rang true with me this past week but not in a particularly good way.

I needed a few mushrooms for a recipe but I thought I would buy the more economical family pack.I changed my mind about what I was going to cook another day using the rest of them. so was left with mushrooms surplus to requirements. I don’t like them on toast so decided to make a quiche. Not wanting to bother making pastry I used a pack of ready made. The amount was too much for the quiche and as it had already been frozen I thought I could use it up by making a blind flan case. After freezing the case for a while I discovered I had quite a few eggs that were nearing their date so I decided to make an egg custard tart. All went well until I filled the pastry case which promptly leaked the egg custard mixture all over the baking tray! I resorted to tipping the custard in to a dish and cooking it separately.

If only I had bought the right amount of mushrooms in the first place!

[Plantaholic]

Been there Clover, very frustrating for you. Was the egg custard nice?

[Glammanana]

Oh the joys of economising it never works well for me,last week I put some cooked veg in a container to cool and placed in the shed with the intention of adding to soup the following day I completly forgot about it and came across it 3 days later so it had to be binned I just hate throwing away good food.

[Clover]

Yes Plant,surprisingly enough the egg custard was much better than I expected it to be.

I think our generation was brought up not to waste food. I can’t bear to bin anything. I even freeze leftover veg. to use later in a bubble and squeak or corned beef hash.

[Gemini]

Oh dear! One thing leads to another sometimes, doesn't it?

[Nanto2girls]

Thats how it goes Clover sometimes. I'm another that doesn't like wasting food.
My freezers are my best friends.

[Grauntie Mag]

😆😆Clover. Sounds like my kitchen! I cannot bear waste either and OH is worse! If he was left on his own I think he may have gut problems! It is usually mushrooms that end up in the compost, I forget to use them. Now here’s an instance of using everything. I cooked the last beetroots in the slow cooker yesterday, then dyed an old cotton sheet in the resultant liquid. The result is a very delicate shade of peachy pink. This will be a cross over pinny by tomorrow. 😁

[Oma]

Yesterday we cooked Ham Hock , there was loads left so lunch time we had it cold in sandwiches and the rest the dog had a lovely lunch with it ,
Tonight we had Roast chicken dinner , im not a fan of dark meat but will eat it in a curry so what is left has gone in the freezer ( I can say that now I have a new freezer )

Usually the dog would get that too but we wont have him again till Friday so wont keep .

With meat we do try to get a couple of meals out of it .

Im a bit funny with mushrooms I don't like them hanging around too long ,
Our neighbours mam brought us a huge tray of green house tomatoes last week , I had already bought some so we made hers into sauce to add to stuff and froze them all in usable portions

[Nana]

Clover I admire your perseverance.

[Glammanana]

We will be enjoying plum tomatoes on toast most of next week after I bought a bag full from the farmers market and then John's friend kindly left me a bag on the porch which he had picked from his green house.

[Daisy]

Clover - that story sounds so familiar. It happens in our house all the time.

I often find I do a supermarket shop and then something happens so we're out and I don't need to make as many meals as I thought. We then start the pantomime of buying something to use up something else, and then there's probably a bit of the extra items I've bought are left over, so I buy something to make a meal out of them, and so it goes on!

I hate waste as well.