Cooking with wanye...

[Gryff]

We have a Caribbean Supermarket near our villa and i buy all sorts in there and at the fish market they also have a whole load of interesting stuff used the last of my tomalia wrappers and dried chilllies tonight so Friday it will be a shop
Corn bread mix is great for breakfast muffins i add sun dried tomatoe chillies and corn kernels may be riled off bacon sweet peppers anything i need used up family love them

[Claudette]

Originally Posted by wanye

couldnt think of what else to do, so i got some inspiration from dr google, and judging by the amount of spinach i have in the fridge right now, i reckon i'd try making these spinach & ricotta egg bites...

weelicious/spinach-ricotta-bites/

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They look nice for breakfast and coincide with me having a little break from carbs. I will pick some spinach up later and give them a go.

[Claudette]

I decided I wanted them for breakfast today so I followed the recipe but swapped spinach for sweetcorn which I already had in.

Lovely carb free breakfast!

[wanye]

got a call from the in-laws earlier to say they were dropping over shortly with the contents of their freezer as it had died

managed to fill our pretty full freezer even more full, but theres three kilo bags of garden peas we cant fit in.

so - suggestions please!

pea puree, pea soup, what else can i make with a ≈≈≈≈load of peas?

[Sparksy72]

Here’s a few ideas: risotto or pasta with peas and ham, pea falafels, pea dip/spread, pea and peanut salad. Pea and ham hock soup.

[vowels]

Originally Posted by wanye

got a call from the in-laws earlier to say they were dropping over shortly with the contents of their freezer as it had died

managed to fill our pretty full freezer even more full, but theres three kilo bags of garden peas we cant fit in.

so - suggestions please!

pea puree, pea soup, what else can i make with a ≈≈≈≈load of peas?

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Bin them!
Peas are the food of the devil. 😈

[Sparksy72]

Originally Posted by vowels

Bin them!
Peas are the food of the devil. 😈

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Not everyone can afford to waste good food.

[wanye]

Originally Posted by Sparksy72

Not everyone can afford to waste good food.

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plus, i actually really like peas!

think im gonna try some pea fritters for starters...

[wanye]

blanched the first bag (they are 1.2kg, so i have 3.6kg in total to use!) for a couple of mins, then ran under cold water to stop cooking. drained and blitzed in the food processor along with some onion and a decent dollop of garlic puree

now running it through a sieve to get a nice smooth puree...

once i have the puree, ill start doing various things with them (and the rest)

heres what 1.2kg of pureed and sieved peas look like!

i've now returned the cooking water back to my pot, along with all the pea debris. gonna blanch another bag off (im saving the pea water to reduce down and freeze as stock)

all this pea business reminds me of the horne section song...






ok... two bags (2.6kg) of peas are now pureed and in tubs for the fridge/freezer (once theres space)

i used the pea water and the solids left from sieving and threw them back in the processor for a minute to combine, to make pea soup stock by heating back up in my pan...

i was going to reduce it down in the pan (and then run thru a muslin cloth to filter), but then i thought i may as well use a few more bits!

so i dug out some bones (chicken and beef) i had stored in a bag, as well as a slightly freezer burned beef shortrib and a pack of freezer burned pastrami i found right at the back when i was sorting a shelf out earlier, and threw them in the pressure cooker for 90 mins

once cooked, i'll remove the shortrib meat and use that elsewhere, and ill shred up the pastrami for the soup, and run the liquid through the muslin/sieve... i found a bag of egg whites, so i'll probably use that to clarify the liquid once strained too...

i also found a bag of bone marrow ice cubes, so i'll probably throw a few of them in the finished product too

[wanye]

so last night after b went to bed, i finished off the stock...

filtered out all the dreck (bones and as much of the pea debris i could) - ran it through a sieve, and then re-ran is through again, this time with a muslin doubled over to filter it further

i pulled the shortrib meat off the bone, and removed the silverskin/chubby gristle bits. i'll throw it in some ragu or maybe some gravy to make a pie at some point soon

once filtered, i threw some egg whites into the warmed up broth and whisked to clarify

brought to the boil to cook off all the whites, and re-filtered through the muslin

et voila! the finished consomme... i couldve run it through again to make it even clearer or skimmed the last bit of fat off, but im going for flavour, not looks, and will probably be dropping a bone marrow cube or two in anyway!

i had an egg yolk left over from using the whites as a raft, so what i couldnt fit in a freezer tub, i warmed up and dropped the egg right in. if i was serving it, i wouldve chopped some fresh chives/parsley for a garnish, but it was just me at 8pm standing in my kitchen

it was quite peppery from the pastrami. not a bad thing though!

i found these steaks in the bag of goodies dropped over, so i left them out to defrost, then salted heavily and placed on a rack in the bottom of the fridge for a couple of days

today i will mostly be eating the leftover salad from the other day, as i still need to lose what i put on from my recent holiday