"What can I make with...."?

[PeachesMcLean]

I sort of feel the Recipes board is for Proper Recipes. Like "does anyone have a good recipe for xxx?" or "I made this brilliant thing with organic italian truffles and just had to share..." or "how do you make fish pie?" and the like.

I really want to do a "I've got x, y and z, what should I cook?" thread and feel this lowers the tone over there with the clever foody people.

And it's also needs quick responses, like Chat. I don't want to know in a week's time, I need to know in the next half hour. It could be really good for random ideas just before tea time.

What do you think?

oh yes, I've just posted one of those ''what can i make with...''' pleas!

what a new topic?

but we have so many as it is.

You could put stuff like that on the food board instead of the recipe one.

like in one of the Sunday mags where they take 3 ingredients and make something yummy ?, or just obscure things from the cupboard like a jar of dill pickles,marshmallows and a lettuce ?

Yes another new topic. Sorry.

Because I feel Food shouldn't get crammed out with this junk in the same way as Recipes shouldn't. Its the quickness and the fact that it's out of date the next day which means I don't want to fill those very useful places with junk. I don't care what you had in your cupboard yesterday, but there's a lot of people here who could come up with ideas, and be inspired themselves, here and now.

by the way, it's chicken breasts, leeks, sweet potato and peppers I've got. How shall I mix that lot together. Need ideas!

Anyone?

do jacket sweet potatoes

and make a one pot oven dish out of the rest with a bit of oil drizzled over top, bit of balsamic and a few herbs and black pepper.

will mention it, but think it's unlikely! Just whack it in the food topic, that's what it is there for

Also, you know you can search recipes for ones using a particular ingredient

Unless they are hugely obscure ingrediants someone else may be greatful for the idea at a later date.

Well I thought it was a good idea.

Sweet potatoe was rotten when I got to it. Better get to the supermarket... cupboard now decidedly bare.

I'm often in need of knowing that kind of thing... today I had: one medium turnip, one large potato, one very small carrot, a handful worth of cauliflower. Brown Rice and a tin of tomatoes from the store cupboard.

Not sure a new topic is really needed for that, as it could fit with Food, Recipes, or in general chat. Maybe we could just pick a particular place to post such requests - and start the message title in a specific way to make such threads easily identifiable.
Perhaps "What Can I Make From:" plus the things you have.