Mushrooms, onions and carrots. Help!

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

I've got mushrooms, onions, carrots and butterbeans. Also got some store cupboard ingredients (herbs, flour, margarine, oil, little butter, stock, tomato puree, garlic, porridge oats, bread, frozen veg etc). I am very short of money. Can anyone suggest how I can turn my ingredients into a meal please? Would really appreciate a full recipe (or ideally two). Won't be getting any money until Monday. Would really appreciate any ideas. I'm a bit desperate. Thanks.

[Ollivander84]

Mushroom soup? I have a recipe for one with cream but I'm presuming you don't have any so here's one without
http://www.healthylivinghub.net/2014/03/no-cream-mushroom-soup.html

[lilydaisyrose]

I'd dry fry the mushrooms and buttterbens and have on toast (with some butter/marg). Can you make bread/a pizza base?

[becotide]

fry somemushrooms and onions in a little oil with salt and pepper. Make up some stock and add flour to the vegetables to make a roux in the oil. Slowly add the stock to the roux and eat with toast.

or

Fry a little onion in oil and add frozen vegetables and tomato puree. Add stock and butterbeans (are the tinned? if not, follow packet instructions as you may have to presoak) and cook until all is tender. Add plenty of herbs and garlic.

[paradoxicalInterruption]

Make a big mushroom pie and serve with carrots.

A butter bean stew with chilli.

[paradoxicalInterruption]

Oh and some herby flat breads.

[HeyMicky]

Carrot soup
Garlic mushrooms on toast
Pureed butterbean dip with garlic toast
Little mushroom pie with home made shortcut pastry

Any rice or pasta?

[Ollivander84]

Carrot and butter bean soup recipe here
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2063659/creamy-curried-carrot-and-butter-bean-soup

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

Thank you so much. Feeling much more positive. Has anyone got a link/ recipe for mushroom pie? I think I'll try the carrot soup (which we can have with bread) and a mushroom pie. The butter beans are in a packed...I think I just need to pre-soak them over night?

[PencilsInSpace]

Mushrooms, onions, carrots and butterbeans with stock, tomato puree, garlic sounds like a meal to me. Add cheese if you've got it and some nice herbs, serve with pasta, rice or similar stodge ...

Fry the mushrooms, onions and garlic until soft
Add what herbs you have
If you have any 'left over wine' add it now - 1/4 glass can add a big oomph to the taste
Add butterbeans and tommy puree, splosh of water if it's looking dry
Sweat on a low heat with a lid on for 5 mins
Add stock, investigate frozen veg and add any that are appropriate along with a few bits of carrot (don't go overboard on carrot, this is where 95% of vegetarian recipes go wrong - true fact!)
simmer for 20 mins.

Serve with stodge of your choice and grated cheese if available. If not, there's plenty of protein in the beans and nobody will die.

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

Thanks Pencils. We do have a bit of pasta and rice left so I will make that. Also got wine. :-).
Sadly no cheese.

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

I've just discovered lasagne sheets at the back of the cupboard...Anyone know how I could turn some of these ingredients into a vegetarian lasagne? Maybe not given that I have no cheese. I'm going to try and write a full menu in the morning. Thanks.

[Hobbitch]

You can do a lasagna with tomato sauce instead of white sauce - or make a white sauce and add mustard instead of cheese.

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

Oh that's a good idea...I've got mustard and tomato puree...so that might work...with mushrooms/ garlic/ carrots and onions.
Im a pretty rubbish cook...usually just follow recipes. Problem is I've no idea what I can leave out of a recipe. I'm going to attempt a homemade lasagne. Don't have huge amount of milk but could afford one extra pint. I might have enough to last 3 full days.

[Pestilentialone]

Put the butter beans in soak over night. When you get up, give them a quick rinse and put in a saucepan full of water. Bring to boil and simmer for 10 mins. By this time you should have drunk your tea/coffee. Turn off the heat and abandon. When you are ready for lunch dinner they will already be half cooked and just need a quick simmer.

Well done for having some dried beans in your emergency stock, they will keep your tummy full. A 500g packet will feed you for days. Put them in soup, curry and pie.

[MsHippo]

I would do lasagne: one sauce could be white sauce with mushrooms and garlic in, the other could be a tomato-ey sauce (fry onions and grated carrot, add tomato purée and stock, whizz up smooth), alternate each sauce with layers of pasta and finish the top with breadcrumbs before baking.

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

Today I love mumsnet. :-). Thanks all so much.

MsHippo-your lasagne recipe sounds fab. I will definitely try.

And Pestilent...thanks for the advice about beans.
I think if I'm careful could get 3 meals plus lunches out of my food.

[LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett]

I always find French onion soup is ridiculously filling, if you google recipes you'll find lots of extra ingredients but really a long, long cook/brown of the onions in oil and butter, then adding stock with plenty of seasoning will make something acceptable.

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

I've just found a tin of baked beans lurking at the back of the cupboard. So pleased.
I'm planning on making-
-Lasagne
-A soup-maybe French onion (I've got a lot of onions) or carrot and butter bean soup
-The stew suggested by pencils.
-A mushroom pie (just need to work out how to make pastry. I've done apple pie before so guess it's similar without sugar..)
I'll serve baked beans with mushroom pie.
-I'll do garlic mushrooms on toast with any leftover mushrooms.
Thanks all.

[myrtleWilson]

you could probably do this with the butter beans - DH and I had it for dinner and lunch the following day served on toast but toast not necessary. www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12229/gigantes-plaki. if you don't have any fresh/tinned tomatoes I'd up the tomato puree... - it is very filling! (if when you have money you fancy sprucing it up - add some crumbled feta over it!)

[spiderbabymum]

www.thriftylesley.com/meal-plans/

Might be some butter bean recipies on here
See meal plan 4

For all beans usu just soak overnight
Then bring to book then summer for an hour Or until cooked

[Screamifuwant2gofaster]

Great-thanks. Thrifty lesley website looks fab. :-). I've made the lasagne-it's in the oven. Crossing my fingers it turns out ok and I've not ruined it. Does look ok.