Last mights meals was one of those miraculous, nothing in the fridge jobs.
I took the chicken carcass from the previous weekend, and a frozen wing of turkey and bunged them in the slow cooker in the morning.
They bubbled away in water all day.
Then at tea time, I stuck 1 and a half cups of rice in a bowl,covered it with stock from the slow cooker and put the bowl in a knotted carrier bag, then zapped it on full in the microwave for 15 minutes.
The meat bits that came off the bones (a good 2 cups full) were added to 2 cups full of mixed frozen veg and heated through thoroughly with a stock cube added.
The cooked rice and meat and veg were then combined in the pan that the meat and veg were heated in .
It made a big bowl of chicken and turkey risotto.
Not wasting Bread.
We tend to cook a loaf in the bread maker then cut off an end. The end is put aside and we cut enough for lunch time sandwiches.
If it is just DS and me, we can make a loaf last 3 days.
IF OH gets there, he can polish it off in one day.
The end bits and end holey bits get left,so I collect them and put them in a bag in the freezer.
When certain people are on the hunt for toasting bread, they are much less fussy about end bits and holes and so the bits get eaten after all.
The thick end bits are nice for eating with stew or soup.
Thickening soups ,sauces and stews .
A grinder is a handy Gadget.
I use mine to grind lentils into powder.
This powder is excellent for fast thickening.
You can add it to most savoury things where you might thicken them with cornflour or even gravy powder. It has nothing added to it as gravy powder does and isn't as finnicky as cornflour or flour, you just sprinkle it on and stir it in when the food is hot.
A couple of minutes and it is done.
Our grinder also makes rice flour from rice which is handy for shortbread.
It grinds down porridge oats to give a more instant 'ready brek' effect when you add hot milk or water.
You can grind sugar to caster or icing sugar fineness.
You can of course grind coffee beans.
If you dehydrate veg or fruit,you can make powders from them too.
I took the chicken carcass from the previous weekend, and a frozen wing of turkey and bunged them in the slow cooker in the morning.
They bubbled away in water all day.
Then at tea time, I stuck 1 and a half cups of rice in a bowl,covered it with stock from the slow cooker and put the bowl in a knotted carrier bag, then zapped it on full in the microwave for 15 minutes.
The meat bits that came off the bones (a good 2 cups full) were added to 2 cups full of mixed frozen veg and heated through thoroughly with a stock cube added.
The cooked rice and meat and veg were then combined in the pan that the meat and veg were heated in .
It made a big bowl of chicken and turkey risotto.
Not wasting Bread.
We tend to cook a loaf in the bread maker then cut off an end. The end is put aside and we cut enough for lunch time sandwiches.
If it is just DS and me, we can make a loaf last 3 days.
IF OH gets there, he can polish it off in one day.
The end bits and end holey bits get left,so I collect them and put them in a bag in the freezer.
When certain people are on the hunt for toasting bread, they are much less fussy about end bits and holes and so the bits get eaten after all.
The thick end bits are nice for eating with stew or soup.
Thickening soups ,sauces and stews .
A grinder is a handy Gadget.
I use mine to grind lentils into powder.
This powder is excellent for fast thickening.
You can add it to most savoury things where you might thicken them with cornflour or even gravy powder. It has nothing added to it as gravy powder does and isn't as finnicky as cornflour or flour, you just sprinkle it on and stir it in when the food is hot.
A couple of minutes and it is done.
Our grinder also makes rice flour from rice which is handy for shortbread.
It grinds down porridge oats to give a more instant 'ready brek' effect when you add hot milk or water.
You can grind sugar to caster or icing sugar fineness.
You can of course grind coffee beans.
If you dehydrate veg or fruit,you can make powders from them too.
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