Using things up

[janeite]

I have half a savoy cabbage and three red peppers in the fridge. Any ideas what I could do with them please?

Also, can anybody remember that site that gives recipes for using stuff up?

Stir fry of some sort? If you added some onion, courgettes, etc it could be good? Bit of soy sauce/ginger/garlic?

Am feeling virtuous as DH and I are about to have day 3 where we're eating food that has not required any new purchasing - we're using up left overs and bits and pieces lying around the house.

here you go

www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/

Fried rice with the cabbage as a side dish?

allrecipes.co.uk/ lets you put in your ingredients

Have you got any pots and bacon.

Sorry ds needs feeding again.

I would if you have bacon and pots.

1 boil pots and cut into small cubes.

2 cook cabbage

3 fry bacon which you've cut in to pieces until brown

4 add a little more oil add cooked pots anf fry until brown and add cabbage. fry together for a few mins.

Then serve with a fried/poached egg

I would marinate the red peppers by first blistering them in a very hot oven, then leaving them to cool in a sealed plastic bag and then removing skins and seeds. Cut into strips, and then marinate in olive oil and garlic. Add a little chopped basil to serve.

You could make a salad with shredded savoy cabbage, grated carrot and a little shredded chicken, with a sesame based dressing (perhaps with a little lemon grass).

Once the red peppers are blistered and peeled, they can be wrapped up in cling film and frozen. they take up very little space in the freezer and are great in soups/pasta sauces/pizza toppings etc.

Oh you wonderful people, you! have added the site to my faves, so I don't forget it again.

I think I'll blister the peppers, then either freeze, or have with pasta. Maybe a salad with the savoy? Am veggie, so bacon and chicken no good but am liking the sort of soy, ginger vibe suggested.

Thanks again.

www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

oops sorry didn't see notwaving's link!

Thanks anyway!

Also, if you go to any of the main recipe sites like Good Food or Delicious and enter the ingredients you have into the search box then they will come up with recipes that you can use them in.

I often just google a list of whatever i have leftover in the fridge for ideas.

I have just googled red pepper savoy cabbage and there are some very nice sounding veg dishes.

Cheers both!

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