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Minced meat carrot and onion pie. Cook the mince in microwave put into pie topped with grated carrot and onion, then put the lid on. great either hot or cold.Elaine.

My hanging soup.

I tend to put most soup through a sieve.It tends to make it taste more like it was meant to be rather than cobbled up.

Scozz I make a type of garbage soup (love the name ) its really a broth, when its cooked I mash it down with a potato masher so it becomes a very thick soup, we usually have it with Soda bread , and my oh likes it over a plateful of chips...

love Jean x

Wow Sharron you have been busy, everything sounds lovely, certainly gives me some good ideas, thanks.I especially like the sound of the stollen one

love Jean x :-) :-)

while the old man and his mate were out shopping yesterday I was left to play quietly on my own.

Having made a couple of suet rolys to bake for puddings,one with a bit of jam out of the bottom of the jar and the other with a bit of syrup that was left,I thought I might knock up a bit of pastry.

I made a dozen mince pies,green tomato mincemeat from a couple of years ago which is still keeping well, egg and cheese rind tarts (egg and cheese ends) and a quite expensive looking tart.

That was made from some mini-stollens that have not been eaten,some lemon rind I had in the freezer and a couple of eggs. I crumbed up the stollens in the liquidizer with the peel and mixed in the egg and the very last drainings of the syrup bottle and chucked in a slug of some lemon cream liquer which stands on the cupboard from year end to year end.

We haven't eaten it yet but they will pretend they are enjoying it as they have been trained to do and as they do if they know what is good for them!

peanut butter? try making a peanut sauce & have satays (not me! I'm allergic to peanuts). Lots of recipes on the internet.

I make "garbage soup" with the "not quite right" veggies in the fridge.... you can add anything (I don't advise using the peanut butter).
:-D

if i have a couple of apples that are not fit to eat. i cook them and make apple sauce, freeze it to use as apple sauce for when we have pork. i add to this,if it mounts up i make an apple pie using the bits of left over pastry i have frozen. better than the apples going in the compost bin. in this day and age we have to use all food we buy. when i was a kid my mother never wasted any food. the chicken bones were used to make soup, as was the bones from a shoulder of lamb. if things were really tight we had pancakes for tea, with a bit of sugar and lemon on them. plus a bit of mashed banana, if we had one.

Not really left overs but this sounds nice. I haven't made it yet but intend to.

Recipe for pan forte
400 gms mixed nuts walnuts, almonds, cashew etc
100 gms mixed peel
100 gms plain flour
1 level tsp ground cinnamon
4 sheets edible wafer paper
175 gms honey
175 gms caster sugar

Topping
1 level tbsp icing sugar
1/2 level tsp ground cinnamon
Baking tray
8 inch round shallow tin

Set oven to 200 degree C
Spread out nuts on baking tray & bake in centre oven for about 10 mins turning occasionally so they turn even light brown. Remove from oven and leave to cool.
Roughly chop nuts, place in a bowl. Add peel, flour & cinnamon & mix we'll.
Turn oven down to 150c
Arrange wafer paper sheets in round tin, overlapping so base and sides of tin are covered pressing into edges of base. Can be left sticking out over top of tin.
Place honey & sugar into a pan and warm over a low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and bring mixture to the boil. Boil until it reaches the soft ball stage ( drop a small amount into cold water; if it forms a soft ball it is ready.) take pan off heat and pour the syrup over the nut mixture. Working quickly, stir ingredients together and tip into tin. Press it down well in an even layer.
Bake in centre oven 30-35 mins until mixture is light golden. Take out of oven and cool in tin for 10-15 mins, then remove from tin and place on wire rack. Cut off excess paper. Sift icing sugar and cinnamon and leave to cool completely.
When cold wrap tightly in a freezer bag. Will keep in airtight container for up to 2 weeks.

Jean I have just added the banana bread recipe to Bridget's thread Culinary delights, hope that is OK.

Dog biscuits can be made with peanut butter as an ingredient.

I dread goint to the back of my cupboards. I know there are tins there out of date. However, I have recently seen where people ate tins of out of date fruit with no ill effects. I probably wouldn't but T would.

Home made meat loaf bits left over ,so made pasties and used it as filling excellent, added left over mash potatoes to cheese and onion mix and got extra pies and cheesy sausage rolls without the sausages of course....lol...
D cleaned cupboards out yesterday and threw away lots of old bottles of soya sauce, blue cheese dressing and a lot of out dated stuff most of it was 2009 :-0
we had some curry sauce mix and old pasta shells so they went to.... loads of spaces now to fill up again...

love Jean x

sooo Jean, what leftovers/cupboard finds have you got to use up this year. Or have you been good and not got any? :-D

Way back in 2009 I put this thread up it has lots of great ideas so thought it might be good to nudge it up again, looking forward to some new ideas and recipes....


Jean x

nudging to match the thread Liz has done....

N

Me too, cant wait to try it.....

Oooh that apple cake sounds nice. I've saved that recipe.

Thanks

Sue
:)

The fake chocs sound delicious, I melted some and poured it over Ice cream then scattered chopped nuts on, it was heaven...... mmmm......


Jean I have sent you a p.m. thank you

Apple sauce cake.
three quarters of a pound cooking apples
8ounces S.R.flour
pinch salt. a 1/4level teaspoon baking powder.
1 level teaspoon mixed spice.
6 ozs margarine
6ozs caster sugar. 2 standard egg.
set oven at 350degrees f,
grease a 7inch round tin. line base of tin with greased paper. peel, core and cook sliced apples in pan with 1 tblspoon water.(i microwave for quickness) cool.
cream marg and sugar until fluffy, add eggs one at a time beating well. Fold flour in with metal spoon, stir in apple sauce, and walnuts if liked.
Turn into prepared tin and bake ar centre of oven for 1hr 15 mins, until firm and golden brown. cool for 10 mins, then turn out onto rack.
Improves with keeping and is nice spread with butter.