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
heli - i use the tofu sour cream recipe on vw and i like alot - i never buy that expensive tofutti stuff.
i like squash fries - usually acorn, but butternut is good too. just slice up like fries, spray a pan, sprinkle with some garlic powder and bake at like 400 for 10 minutes then flip and bake for 5-7 more.. then mix up some ketchup, vegan mayo & spices to dip em into. done!
heli - i use the tofu sour cream recipe on vw and i like alot - i never buy that expensive tofutti stuff.
i like squash fries - usually acorn, but butternut is good too. just slice up like fries, spray a pan, sprinkle with some garlic powder and bake at like 400 for 10 minutes then flip and bake for 5-7 more.. then mix up some ketchup, vegan mayo & spices to dip em into. done!
Hmmm, yeah, I've been wondering about that tofu sour cream thang. I do have some silken tofu in the pantry, so... :)
Mm, like sweet potato fries? Yum. I guess the oven would need to be pretty hot to make them crispy instead of mushy, though. Must try.
I've been making a 'curry' type dish w/ butternut squash puree'....
squash puree
onions
potatoes
asst veggies
coconut milk
spices
chili peppers
I made over half a gallon of this stuff the other week, G and I wound up eating nearly all of it in the course of a week!
also look at any of the bread/cakes/muffins on here that call for pumpkin puree and use squash puree instead! (YUM!!!)
it's so funny that when we get used to veg cooking we forget what to do with 'meat' broths and 'cheese'.. it seems like every omni recipe i see calls for chicken broth.
Sooo true! :>
Chicken broth is in freakin' everything, I even saw a hummus recipe a little while ago that called for it. :o
Thanks you guys who gave me so many ideas. I used some of the broth today to make spanish rice and also a batch of polenta. They both turned out really good. Just wish this stock wasn't so high in sodium!
Mmm, pumpkin curry... thanks for a fabulous idea, hanashi. :)>>>
neutral - chicken broth in hummus? WTF?! ew. ;D
Butternut squash risotto! I used this recipe but subbed a small butternut for the acorn. You can read my review in there. (My butternut was also getting soft patches, so I know this recipe works for that).
I have 5 or 6 crispin apples in my fruit bowl that are going pretty soft. All I can think to make with them is apple crisp, but does anyone else have any ideas? :)
a french apple tart?
puff pastry
sliced apples 'shingled' on pastry w/ 1 - 1 1/2" border
maple/brown sugar glaze
350* 15 min?
How difficult is it to make applesauce? I seriously have no idea but it seems like it would be a natural in this case.
I've had just baked apples with cinammon and brown sugar before--that would be great.
I think my radishes are about over for awhile in the CSA--added them to my cucumber salad (as suggested in the "summer food" thread) and they were good. That said, I still contend that I really don't like them very much in general...
So NEXT INGREDIENT--
Give me something to do with split peas besides split pea soup. It's getting to be warm weather here, so soups aren't that appealing to me, but I have split peas sitting in my pantry that seem like they would be a nice quick change from lentils.
split pea/veggie salad!! (I'll have to dig up the recipe from a text book....but I'll post it when I do!!)
Split pea dhal is really good. It has to cook longer than lentil dhal...like 4 hours longer...but if you have a crockpot it's not so bad (and the crockpot doesn't heat up the kitchen much).
How difficult is it to make applesauce? I seriously have no idea but it seems like it would be a natural in this case.
Super easy, and way cheaper than storebought. I have a couple of apples which need to be sauced, too. If they're soft, they only need a couple of minutes of cooking before you drain and mash/blend them.
applesauce is a good idea! the apple tart thing is too, but I can't afford to get things like puff pastry right now, unfortunately... :/ maybe I'll try lookign for an applesauce recipe and do that, and/or apple crisp.
If you had a box of gluten flour i.e. wheat gluten which was 6-7 months past its best-before date, would you use it? I'm wondering how stable it is, being proteiny 'n all. The bag inside the box has been opened, so it has not been kept airtight.
whats it smell like?
I have pretty much a lifetime supply of applesauce. About 90 of those little individual cups. I guess I have lots of baking to do!
I have pretty much a lifetime supply of applesauce. About 90 of those little individual cups. I guess I have lots of baking to do!
YESSSS!
My dad made this amazing cold apple soup--it was an old Penn State recipe of his. It had applesauce in it, too. (It also had a ton of liquor (all alcohol cooked off)--so maybe that's cost-prohibitive in this case) But it might be something to research more generally.
Oooh! I have another good idea for you on the throat thread! ::runs off::
ok...applesauce/crisp is in the works for this week.
Aside from the apples, I also have a few other things, some that friends gave me when I helped them move. What would you do with the following?
-can of chipotle peppers
-jar of apple butter
-tahini (I plan on making hummus, but besides that?)
-antipasto (I've always wondered about this stuff)
thanks :)
ok...applesauce/crisp is in the works for this week.
Aside from the apples, I also have a few other things, some that friends gave me when I helped them move. What would you do with the following?
-can of chipotle peppers
-jar of apple butter
-tahini (I plan on making hummus, but besides that?)
-antipasto (I've always wondered about this stuff)
thanks :)
Not together, but:
Chipotle peppers--add to a chili recipe, or nearly anything Mexican that calls for hot peppers but that you think could benefit from some smoke. A lot of Mexican recipes I have call for chipotle peppers or chipotle chili powder and I never have them. (nb--according to Carole Raymond, once you open up a can of chipotle peppers, you can wrap leftover peppers one at a time in waxed paper and store them in the freezer. None of the recipes I see call for much at a time, so this will keep you from needing to use them up all at once)
Apple butter-I LOVE this stuff. I would always get a jar as soon as I could find it from the farmers' markets in fall. I used to put it on toast, or I used to use it as a jelly sub in sandwiches where you would use jelly (e.g., PB and apple butter, cream cheeze and apple butter). (I may have also subbed it in jelly other places where sometimes you find jelly, like as a topping for pancakes) Not the most creative solution I know, but I more wanted to share my jealousy of you having a jar of apple butter lying around. (I have trouble finding the good stuff).
Tahini--use it in a sauce for pasta--lots of sesame noodles recipes call for it. It would be great blended with soy sauce and a touch of sugar and lime juice and then tossed with noodles (regular or udon), cucumbers, and cilantro. I got tahini for a zucchini dip and really want to use it to make some cold sesame noodles.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'having antipasto'--do you mean those marinated veggies?
If you had a box of gluten flour i.e. wheat gluten which was 6-7 months past its best-before date, would you use it? I'm wondering how stable it is, being proteiny 'n all. The bag inside the box has been opened, so it has not been kept airtight.
I would probably still try to use it if there aren't bugs or anything in it.
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