Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Kitchen Natter => Topic started by: New shoot on September 21, 2016, 21:13
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The hot humid days at the end of summer really made cooking a chore, but its getting autumnal now and thoughts are turning to some heartier dishes.
What have you missed over the summer? I'm thinking about a stew with dumplings before too long and a proper pie with lots of gravy :)
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New shoot you read my mind one of my favourites chicken stew and dumplings infact theres not much you carnt put a dumpling on .
chrissie b
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Start of the big thick vegetable soup season.
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.... and a proper pie with lots of gravy :)
I've made pastry for some pie-making tonight, though, with the last of the spag bol mince and a small bit of leftover chilli to mix in. That should be enough for a small plate pie for today and tomorrow :)
I've also been making thick soup with some of the squash that don't look to be ripening very well, plus some minestrone type ones with the dried beans. Must stop now, as I'll need some freezer space for the 'winter festival' stuff, soon enough ::)
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mmmm pie. :tongue2:
I've stopped keeping flour in as I can't keep the mites away :( which means there's no pie-on-demand any more.
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Buy some plastic boxes for it, Lardman.
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Or be really lazy and buy ready made pastry. I always have some in the freezer for pie emergencies. It defrosts in no time and is way better than no pie at all ;)
Its also very useful in turning a bit of leftover cottage pie mix, stew or braised meat into another full meal. Now you're going to say 'leftovers ??? what are they.' I can see that one coming :lol:
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Now you're going to say 'leftovers ??? what are they.' I can see that one coming :lol:
:wub: :blush: So true. :nowink:
Buy some plastic boxes for it, Lardman.
I've got the bread flour in lock and lock containers and that does appear to be working, although the bread flour does have a high turnover anyway so it's difficult to tell.
Might stop and get a bag tomorrow as I've got pie munchies now :tongue2:
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Mrs Growster is in full soup building mode now...
Leeks, potatoes, swede, carrots and onions are all lined up, and it's just the stock she needs as well as a chunk of fresh toast!
I think we have eight freezer bags-full somewhere at the moment, and she's eyeing the slow cooker yet again!
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Mrs Growster is in full soup building mode now...
Leeks, potatoes, swede, carrots and onions are all lined up, and it's just the stock she needs as well as a chunk of fresh toast!
I think we have eight freezer bags-full somewhere at the moment, and she's eyeing the slow cooker yet again!
Me too. I've just nipped upstairs to catch up on everyone while I wait for a huge vat of homemade soup to finish simmering.
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Yes it will be soup making tomorrow with the stock that's simmering away in the slow cooker overnight, might need to go & dig up parsnips & carrots first though.
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Just a note on Mrs Growster's soup-mania; yesterday, we had organised a perfectly normal lamb based veg soup, and what did she do?
Added a handful of lentils and a ladle-full of pumpkin, so we had to leave half of it!
So where on earth do we put that - there's no room in the freezer any more!
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Yes it will be soup making tomorrow with the stock that's simmering away in the slow cooker overnight, might need to go & dig up parsnips & carrots first though.
Didn't need to go digging, hubby reminded me of the leftover veg bags that were residing in the freezer, all from good advice received on here. Any leftover veg after dinner gets bagged up in the freezer to save wasting it. It's amazing how quickly it accumulates
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Sorted through the stored onions yesterday and removed those that were sprouting or not looking 100% and used them to make a large pot of onion gravy, which is now in packs and ready in the freezer to use for quick bangers and mash etc. (Also using packs of mash stored in freezer if I'm in a hurry.)
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All this talk of soup is making me hanker after a chicken soup with pearl barley. I haven't had pearl barley for ages and actually can't remember seeing it on sale any time recently. A forage down the health food section in Trasco may be on the cards :)
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All this talk of soup is making me hanker after a chicken soup with pearl barley. I haven't had pearl barley for ages and actually can't remember seeing it on sale any time recently. A forage down the health food section in Trasco may be on the cards :)
Ohhhh!!!!!! PEARL BARLEY! My abiding memory of this is from when I was small, and my nan insisted on making me drink barley water. I can't remember what it was supposed to cure, but I can remember having to try to force down this thick, pinkish gloop that she obtained by boiling pearl barley in water. I don't think I could ever face pearl barley again.
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All this talk of soup is making me hanker after a chicken soup with pearl barley. I haven't had pearl barley for ages and actually can't remember seeing it on sale any time recently. A forage down the health food section in Trasco may be on the cards :)
Last time I saw some in Twongos, News, it was up on a high shelf with quinoa, cous cous etc!
I agree that it is a 'must' for chicken soup, although we sometimes use those very tiny pasta shells for a change!
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I bought some the other day in Morrisons - 56p for 500 g. Like Tescos it is in the wholefood section with quinoa, bulgar wheat etc.