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
Do you have a dehydrator (or live in a not-too-humid place)? If so, dry them and make prunes, and then make prune cake. Or a tagine with prunes in it. Or eat them as a snack.
With fresh plums, you can make a pie or cobbler, or plum wine.
Also, plum pudding or Asian plum sauce use fresh or dried plums, but you could look into that too.
Plums, not sure what kind. Darker than red plums but more red than black plums. The tree is starting to drop so I need to pick them
soon. Most are 3-4" diameter. We do not eat much jelly and don't have freezer space for many.
Plum Butter, using this recipe: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=41179.msg484001#msg484001
You can eat it like a dessert with some "cream" or pour over homemade biscuits like a cobbler. Or just make Plum Cobbler subbing the plums for cherries/peaches in a traditional cobbler recipe.
Plum Cake: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=18452.msg138203#msg138203
There's a recipe for Plum Ketchup in Vegan Soul Kitchen. I haven't made it, but everything in that book is amazing.
Telegraph cucumbers. They're inexplicably cheap this week, considering it's the middle of winter. I bought a couple already... I may buy more. Planning to make Greek salad and lots of sandwiches and some tzatziki... what else do you use them for? :)
Someone asked about cucumbes on the last page, Heli.
Telegraph cucumbers. They're inexplicably cheap this week, considering it's the middle of winter. I bought a couple already... I may buy more. Planning to make Greek salad and lots of sandwiches and some tzatziki... what else do you use them for? :)
Raita!! Or failing that, my Mediterranean "Raito"--my version of this dish.
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=13135.msg80554#msg80554
Someone asked about cucumbes on the last page, Heli.
D'oh! Will have a look.
That kind of salad sounds really nice, yabbit. Fresh herbs are a bit hard to find here at the moment, but I'll remember it.
Six baby eggplants
Do you mean just little eggplants, or the skinny Lebanese ones? If you have enough, make this: http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/2008/09/28/aloo-baingan-potato-and-eggplant/ I made it the other night and it was awesome.
Six baby eggplants
Fragrant Eggplant: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=11256.0
One of my favourites!!
Fried eggplant, sitrfry, eggplant "parmesan," grilled eggplant.. etc!
Not Lebanese but the small variety of regular eggplants, see pic below. They are about as tall as my palm, but half as wide. Quite small for an eggplant. The only other time I used them, I stuffed them (see pic below). I'm not a huge fan of eggplant but they were only $1 for eight of them at a roadside stand. Interestingly while looking for a pic, I came across this recipe:
http://rannaghor-theke.blogspot.com/2009/08/baingan-masala-eggplant-in-spicy-curry.html
http://weirdcombinations.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/eggplant.JPG
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/62068_1443651970123_1197836956_31038863_7765949_n.jpg
Thanks mdv, I'm going to save that link, but didn't have all the stuff. I wound up making the recipe in my post above. It was very good, although for the life of me, I couldn't figure out her method of stuffing them.
This these 49 pages have we done chia seeds?
I'm going to put it on cereal and perhaps a yogurt and fruit mixture. I don't bake.
I don't bake.
really? come to think about it i've never seen you post a pic of baked goods! i'm the same way for the most part and have a ton of chia seeds and would like some ideas too!
I don't bake.
really? come to think about it i've never seen you post a pic of baked goods! i'm the same way for the most part and have a ton of chia seeds and would like some ideas too!
Home made Chia Pet? :-D
(Sorry, it's early here.)
haha though honestly yabbit, i bought the seeds for sprouting and ate the chia sprouts... freakin disgusting... the seeds are supposed to be good in recipes, choosing raw (a blog) uses them a lot in this "chia pudding" type thing but it looks like lizard skin goo... i don't think a can get past that
mmmmm.....lizard skin goo......
mmmmm.....lizard skin goo......
honestly, she seems to make it all the time... i just can't get past that god awful appearance :/
I don't bake.
really? come to think about it i've never seen you post a pic of baked goods! i'm the same way for the most part and have a ton of chia seeds and would like some ideas too!
Home made Chia Pet? :-D
(Sorry, it's early here.)
I am glad I am not the only one who thought that.
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