Monday, 04-03-19

Good morning!

First of all, many thanks to everyone who made suggestions for a new, more applicable name for this blog; I'm grateful for such good ideas.  I shall have a ponder over it all now.

I will be back home this morning and the freezer challenge begins!  However, I HAVE to have something kitchen based to engage me so I'm gong to have another go ay sourdough, following the fantastic instructions posted by Sooze in her blog.
Here's a link to the third of three - just track back for the other two.
https://herinfoodblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/sourdough-tutorial-part-3-picture-heavy.html

I'll start by getting the starter started (!!!) today and nurse it oh, so carefully, using Sooze's guidance.  I want my bread to be wholemeal because that's the Slimming World way so that's the flourI will use.  Watch this space and thanks, Sooze.

Today's freezer challenge plans:
B:  yogurt and fruit
SW:  free

L:  tomato and orzo soup with bread to dunk (perhaps)
From the freezer.  This was a magazine recipe so, in a way, that is continuing into this challenge.
SW:   if I have some dunking bread, that will be my B

D:  beef casserole, cheesy mash, sprouts, runner beans and broccoli
The casserole and the runner beans are from the freezer.  The beans are from the garden last year so it's about time they were used up.  I haven't had cheesy mash for ages and am looking forward to it.  I cook and mash some potatoes, then gently mix in some finely grated cheese so it doesn't go gloopy (and maybe some herbs or a pinch of mustard powder as well) and then pop it under a medium grill to brown off and reheat.
SW:  the cheese in the mash will be my As and I might thicken the casserole gravy with some thickening granules at one syn for a level tsp.  I always use thickening granules - much easier than a roux or a beurre marnier and much, much more SW friendly.

Ss:  some fruit if needed.