My husband enjoys cooking. He cooks lovely meals but they are more traditional type dinners such as veggie burgers/curry/chilli and he likes going shopping for the ingredients every day (strange man!).
He is now working away for a month so I have set myself a challenge to use up food I already have and things that he would not usually cook with (I buy things like dried pulses, TVP chunks, silken tofu when on offer) and I am aiming to not go shopping or do any online orders. Last week I had some very strange dinners as I munched my way through what was left in the fridge first. Had a sort of pizza made from a flatbread covered in last bit of pesto in the jar, topped with mushrooms and tofu chunks. Lovely. Made a pea and ham soup using La Vie Ham and split peas, a half dead carrot and a wilted spring onion. It was delicious. Had it for dinner with the last chunk of bread topped with vegan Philadelphia cream cheese and saved half for lunch the next day. I spent my morning doing a cleaning shift thinking of my soup waiting for me at home!
I am not going to buy any bread while he isn't here. I have a lot of sachets of MOMA porridge that are slightly out of date and I have been having one for breakfast every morning with a variety of toppings; maple syrup and walnuts has been my favourite so far.
This week I am going to make a macaroni cheese with the silken tofu, something with a packet of Gnocchi that's been lurking in the fridge for ages whilst I wonder what to do with it and then there are the TVP chunks and a packet of dried tofu knots. Anyone else done a similar challenge? Or have any ideas what to do with tofu knots?