When I grow up, I'm going to be a squirrel I think...
I eat a lot of vegetables... But even for me, when I buy vegetables, it tends to have to be two or three different kinds that I then have to eat for the rest of the week so that I eat them whilst they're fresh. Or else they have to be thrown out. The vegetables I eat most of are spinach and kale, I make a mean spinach
smoothie with various added ingredients, and love using kale as a stir
fry base. The other day, packs of asparagus were on a 3 for 2 offer, so I automatically bought 3 packets, chopped them up and froze them.
But I'm not so good at variety. Since I've been in the UK, I kept looking at huge savoy cabbages and thinking that I didn't want to eat it every meal for a week. (Food was sold in smaller portions in Japan). I love cooking, but when I'm ravenously hungry, I'm inherently lazy and impatient. So it dawned on me this morning that I should chop and freeze a lot of vegetables, so that they're just ready to throw in.
Today, shopping and two hours later, any squirrel would be proud of me. I now have an entire freezer full of chopped vegetables - red onions, shallots, savoy cabbage, leeks, carrots, asparagus, broccoli, spring onions, mixed mushrooms. On the fruit side - blueberries, blackcurrants and blackberries. I really enjoyed preparing all that, and knowing it's going to make cooking even more fun, and probably cheaper in the long run!
Monday, August 27, 2012
Squirrel tendencies
Labels:
Freezable/Freezing,
Vegetables
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Turkey, Ham, Mushrooms and Asparagus in a Creamy Sauce
This has become my favourite recipe of the week. It's not my own, it's been adapted and simplified from this recipe http://www.lekue.es/en/Chicken-Roll. This LeKue steamer is one of my top kitchen gadgets - it's right up there with the kettle, the rice cooker and the microwave. Of course, you don't have to use the steamer, you could use a covered microwaveable bowl instead.
Ingredients (serves 1)
100g mixed frozen mushrooms
100g chopped asparagus
1 shallot (small sweet onion), chopped (about 40g)
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp soy sauce
85g turkey escalope, cut into bite-sized pieces
50g cooked ham, cut into bite-sized pieces
25g dairylea or other processed soft cheese
Nutrition Info (assuming you use a spoon to eat up the sauce...)
Calories: 330
Protein: 38g
Carbohydrate: 13g
Fat: 14g
Dietary Fibre: 4g
Method
Ingredients (serves 1)
100g mixed frozen mushrooms
100g chopped asparagus
1 shallot (small sweet onion), chopped (about 40g)
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp soy sauce
85g turkey escalope, cut into bite-sized pieces
50g cooked ham, cut into bite-sized pieces
25g dairylea or other processed soft cheese
Nutrition Info (assuming you use a spoon to eat up the sauce...)
Calories: 330
Protein: 38g
Carbohydrate: 13g
Fat: 14g
Dietary Fibre: 4g
Method
- Put the mushrooms, shallot, and asparagus in the case and sprinkle olive oil and soy sauce on top.
- Add the raw turkey and the cooked ham and finally the dairylea cheese.
- Close the case, and microwave for 6 and a half minutes until the turkey is cooked.
- Serve immediately.
Labels:
Bacon/Ham,
Cheese,
LeKue Steam Case,
Main Course,
Turkey,
Vegetables
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