Frugal Foodies, thread 2! Favourite leftover dishes, avoiding waste, menu ideas.

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Hey everyone!

1st thread is here

Hope that link worked! I’ve never done it that way before...

💐 and 🍰 and ☕️ to all!

Not sure and can’t be bothered to go and look, think I’ll just roast it all!

I’m definitely going to use some to make beef salad wraps tomorrow, we had salad yesterday and I put Nando’s perinaise on mine and it was amazing.

Happy Easter all!

@TolstoyAteMyHamster welcome to the thread.

@Weedsnseeds1 you're making me feel inadequate! Stunning cake!

If you roast it all you can still make a stir fry with it - just add the meat at the last min to heat it through. Or have roast beef sandwiches with remoulade or coleslaw (even better if you have celeriac as it’s such a good pairing with beef).

I'd just throw the cooked beef into your stir fry angel.

My beast of a lamb leg is currently in the oven, along with another banana loaf. Tiramisu (plus a coffee and alcohol-free version) for the toddler in the fridge. Haven't actually decided what veg to do with our lamb but I picked up some shopping Friday so we're pretty well stocked - probably broccoli and peas for the little one, plus green beans and roasted carrots for us.

Oh my goodness that cake! Just gorgeous. 😍😍 I need to sit down at some point and read back through the thread...finding it hard to focus atm, think I’m suffering a bit with cabin fever.

Dinner last night was so good - it’s so nice to have fresh mushroom and courgette, I actually ate half of it while it was cooking so it was really more of a garnish by the time dinner was served! 😆

And yes, a happy welcome to anyone who wants to join us here.

🧁 and ☕️ and 🌻 to all!

(even better if you have celeriac as it’s such a good pairing with beef)

My feelings on celeriac are well known.

Happy Easter everyone. It’s been lovely weather here so we went out for a long walk after lunch. I did veggie sausages, root veg mash and cabbage with mustard seeds. It was so good. There’s apple and pear crumble to come later-too full to eat it!

Happy Easter everyone!

We’ve just enjoyed a lovely cold meal (we eat this early as we have a baby and a toddler!) of cold roast chicken, carrot salad, potato salad and griddled green veg, was beautiful and lots of lovely leftovers to enjoy.

Rather looking forward to carefully taking my chicken apart tomorrow and planning the next few meals I can make with it, as well as getting some stock on! Simple pleasures!

Hope you’ve all had a lovely Easter Day!

@PurpleDaisies 😂😂😂

Sausage casserole cooking now that's 3 meals worth. Must admit cheated and used casserole mix I bought loads of casserole mixes early on in all this as it was only thing I could think of then to get me to min order level without taking up loads of space! Oh well they'll get used.

Just enjoying the mushroom stroganoff I made at same time.

This is the recipe I used (I used to make it a lot but not for ages now so needed reminder)

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mushroom-stroganoff

Except personal tweaks I added an extra clove of garlic and had no parsley, Henderson's relish instead of Worcestershire sauce as I'm veggie and used creme fraiche instead of sour cream as that needed used up. I'm having rest of that later as dated today.

Will make a dip for crisps using creme fraiche, garlic grinder and basil and oregano. Have made dips MILLIONS of times so easy and rest will be used for some of the raspberry tart.

I made bread during the week and had the equivalent of a few slices left. Today for our dinner we had some mash potato so I cooked all we had of those. Kept some back , mixed with grated cheese. Breadcrumbed my going stale bread, put them in the oven to crisp up.
Tomorrow I'll make croquette shapes with the potato, roll in flour, dip in egg, and roll in breadcrumbs before baking.

Looks delicious Furble!
I love mushroom stroganoff, so another one for thd mental list, and potato croquettes - yum!

I had mushroom stroganoff last week. A firm favourite here. Didn’t quite have enough mushrooms so added courgettes which worked well.

Crumble in the oven so the house smells fantastic. I used muscovado sugar finishing off a bad that’s been hiding in the back of the cupboard and added a handful of porridge oats. Can’t wait. No ice cream in the shop so I’m debating making custard or just going for it as is.

Custard, definitely custard

Another vote for custard with crumble!

Making a mental note that courgette works in stroganoff.

Hi all - I’m digging some naan and chickpea masala out of the freezer for tomorrow, I have some green beans and a sweet potato that need eating up, any ideas for something that remotely goes with the Indian food I already have? Am out of onions and garlic but have a LOT of various spices

On the lunch subject, I have plenty in for dinners thanks to batch cooking but we’re def running low on stuff for lunch and snacks. Just made a lot of granola bars and cookie dough bites for snacks and I think have enough frozen fruit for smoothies and ice lollies. Annoyingly I think we need to do a shop this week to fulfil food other than dinners so feel a little like we may as well do that sooner rather than later. But that might mean a shop again next week to get dinner food in! Ugh

Oooh, a sort of potato tiki?

www.vegrecipesofindia.com/aloo-tikki-aloo-pattice-recipe-made-from-leftover-potatoes/

I found a carton in the baking cupboard! It’s an Easter miracle...

This is the first crumble I’ve made in years and it’s to die for.

Didn't get a picture of our lamb dinner because we tucked in straight away before the baby had a chance to kick off 😂 currently have a stock on. I've never used lamb stock but I'm sure I'll find a use for it. Probably enough meat left to do another three meals for us as well 👍

Glad you found custard. I discovered the other week that my DH doesn't like custard (quite how I've gone 12 years without discovering this I don't know, but we are where we are) so he ate his apple crumble dry. Absolute animal.

Do you have Pearl barley, lentils, anything like that? Could make a lovely scotch broth with lamb stock.