Please help me use up Ingredient X.
Posted by Heliamphora on Feb 13, 2009 · Member since Oct 2006 · 4798 posts
Ahoy folks! I thought I'd start a thread where you can ask for recipes and advice on how to use up an ingredient (e.g. a vegetable, fruit, grain, bean, etc.) of which you have lots and lots and lots; or which is new to you and you don't know where to start with it.
I'll go first. :P I have many, many tasty carrots from the farmers' market which I need to use before they go soft.
Recipes, please.
I know, I know, carrots - simple - should be a no-brainer... but I was not fond of them for a long time, simply because I'd never known anything but raw or steamed carrots with very little flavour. I like to do INTERESTING things with them. They're so adaptable! Gimme your adaptations! :D
What do I do with dill besides potato salads and dips?
Make a chocolate mousse with the leftover silken tofu, or blend with berries and a little sweetener for a berry yogurt.
I always seem to have a 1/4 cup of soft or silken tofu left over and don't usually put tofu in smoothies--anything else that's easy and uses other normal to have ingredients?
if you have VCIYCJ, there are a couple recipes in there that use that amount about (I think the macaroons and a brownie recipe). Also, Just Like Granny B's Sugar Cookies on here use a small amount of tofu. Sorry all my ideas are cookies!
dill + lemon zest in rice is tasty. I also use it on salads sometimes.
dill + lemon zest in rice is tasty. I also use it on salads sometimes.
Lemon and dill ... oh, that sounds really good on rice. Thanks!
What do I do with dill besides potato salads and dips?
Dill on greenbeans is good. I like dill so I use it a lot in soups etc. Depends if it's fresh or dry. A little goes a long way.
I like dill on pasta with "butter" as a change from chives.
Grate cucumber and use plain soy yogurt with dill to make a sort of raita.
Like this one: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=13135.msg80554#msg80554
I called it a "Raito" because it's my own interpretation of the dish.
I always seem to have a 1/4 cup of soft or silken tofu left over and don't usually put tofu in smoothies--anything else that's easy and uses other normal to have ingredients?
One serving, therefore guilt-free, chocolate pudding: tofu, a splash of "milk", sugar/agave and cocoa powder. Shake of cinnamon if you will. Blitz. How much sweetening and cocoa? About as much as you would use for one cup of hot cocoa.
I love dill in chickpea salad, in potato soup or garlic mashed potatoes, and in salad dressings. I also make a kind of dill pesto with green onion, pine nuts and a little dijon. It's fantastic tossed with roasted or steamed cauliflower.
oh yeah, chocolate mousse made with silken tofu is great. I blend it with melted chocolate, and that's pretty much all it needs.
Dill is great with Vinegar marinated tofu. Either use Malt vinegar or brown rice vinegar. Fry or bake it up an instant sea evocative tofu! Then use the dill to make up a delish tartar sauce. nom nom nom
I love dill!
Leftover tofu is fun. You could very carefully cube it up for miso soup. Blend it as suggested or freeze it for when you have more and a whole pie to make. Also you could steam it and make an egg salad type meal. Steam it over water and apple cider vinegar, mash it with a fork, add in minced onions, celery, pickle, veganaise and mustard. I would also add some chili powder to make it spicy but thats me.
So many wonderful dill ideas. Thank you so much. :)
dill= cauliflower poppers in my mind ;)b
There's a recipe for dill hummus I've been wanting to try. The recipe is a tester, so I can't share it, but you could make your own fave hummus, and add dill. Like a 1/4 cup or so.
I don't think I know what dill is!
I don't think I know what dill is!
How is this even possible?
I don't think I know what dill is!
How is this even possible?
because I'm an idiot.....and I don't think it's a common UK ingredient
It's an herb, and it's amazing in potato salad. Y'all eat potato salad, right?
There's a recipe for dill hummus I've been wanting to try. The recipe is a tester, so I can't share it, but you could make your own fave hummus, and add dill. Like a 1/4 cup or so.
There's a recipe on here for dill hummus.
dill= cauliflower poppers in my mind ;)b
That was my first thought too!
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=18457.0
So many wonderful dill ideas. Thank you so much. :)
Thanks for asking. I just got a huge bunch of fresh dill from the CSA and I hate to see it wasted.
I like the rice-lemon-dill idea, as well as the garlic mashed potato idea, as I got a bunch of potatoes too. But chickpea salad and dill sounds good.
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