Just Had

[Vagus]

The last of a pan of fridge bottom veg soup with some tasty bread. Couldn’t replicate it if I tried very hard, it had a couple of spoons of creme fraiche stirred through it which made a huge difference.
Tomorrow we’re having a salmon tray bake thing from the book Pasta recommended, really looking to that!
Himself will be baking himself a chocolate birthday cake ready for his birthday on Friday, looking forward to that too!

[Rosie29]

Your meals planned and impromptu always sound so appetising Vagus. I have bought the book that Pasta recommended and am looking forward to trying it out.
I hope the cake is delicious and that you have a lovely day on Friday.
I love BOF soup too .

[TonyV]

Can you let me know the name of the book? Looking for a birthday present.

[jourdain2]

Happy to OH on Friday!
I've been trying to vary the diet and frozen bits & pieces can turn out very tasty. I have left-over roast parsnips, carrots & spuds and a few cooked sprouts. OH sneers at them if he sees them in the fridge - but eats them happily as 'bubble & squeak' patties (that's tomorrow)!

[jourdain2]

^^^ There was a 'Birthday' in there somewhere which disappeared.

[TonyV]

I'm sure you will make his day

[pastafreak]

Tony, this is the book I recommended...it's part of a series

Amazon.co.uk User Recommendation

[Vagus]

Sorry, only just got back to this.
The picture on the front of the book is the one I’m doing this evening, rather amazingly it looks just like the picture too..well, it did last time I made it..and is one of our favourite meals now.
Rosie, with only getting shopping once a week via click and collect, Ive found it very useful to plan ahead to make sure I have all the ingredients, there’s no way I’m going into a shop till I’ve had my jab! Fortunately we both enjoy soup so no fresh (or not very fresh)veg ever gets wasted.
We don’t usually bother about birthdays but thought this year it just makes a change from the same old routine to have a bit of a treat, hence him making a cake.
Tony, the book is great!

[ummmm]

I don't even know what 'fridge bottom' is. Is it just left overs?

[alavahalf]

Fridge bottom is where you store your 'root veg'.

[ummmm]

Not in my fridge. That's where raw meat goes.

[alavahalf]

Each to their own.!

[TonyV]

Thanks Pasta xx

[MartinMillar]

I’m the same ummm my veg lives in the pantry in baskets

[pastafreak]

When you think of where meat should be stored...under everything else to avoid contamination...then ummmm is correct. Makes you wonder why home fridges store the veg at the bottom.

[ummmm]

Mine lives in Hessian sacks.

[ummmm]

Pasta = I have a larder fridge. I put the meat in the draws, everything else is just shoved in :-)

[pastafreak]

I double checked...meat should be in sealed containers. But I know with my fridge there often isn't room for more containers...as opposed to the wrapping meat comes in. If that makes sense.

[pastafreak]

I'd do that also ummm...but my larder fridge drawer is a weird almost "L" shape. It's hard enough to get veg in there.

[ummmm]

I actually bung most of it in the freezer. The only things I tend to throw away is lettuce and cucumber.

That's when I miss my rabbits. Nothing got thrown away.

[Vagus]

I don’t have a larder or a larder fridge.
Apparently veg is supposed to keep longer if kept in the veg drawer in the fridge, something to do with air flow and things. Not all the weekly veg will fit in there so the top shelf tends to get used for veg too.
Meat is immediately frozen (I have three freezers)and only taken out to defrost if I’m using it that day or the next.
I love fridge bottom soup, never the same twice but always tasty. This weeks effort had five parsnips, four carrots, a limp head of broccoli, about six sticks of celery, two sweet potatoes and one ordinary potato, and a bit of leftover ratatouille and potato salad. All simmered with a stock cube then blitzed briefly in the pan to thicken it but still retain some texture, and finally a couple of spoons of creme fraiche stirred into it.