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Our tips for Mushrooms

  • Great soup from fridge oddments

    Submitted by Merryl Cook, Heaton Moor, Stockport

    Gather up all the bits from your fridge - coarse outside lettuce leaves, that bendy carrot, bit of onion, green tops of leeks and spring onions, a few herbs, etc, etc. Put in a pan with water to cover and a stock cube or meat jelly or gravy if you have some leftover and boil until the veg are soft. Whizz in processor or liquidiser. The French call this 'Garbure' and it's almost always delicious and different each time. Can be thickened with leftover potato, or some small pasta shapes can be added, or a cooked chopped bacon rasher. Soy sauce and a slowly poured beaten egg will make it Chinese-ish. Curry paste,and garlic, or grated cheese, or mushroom ketchup ... almost any mixture you invent will taste better than a tin of soup, and it's practically cash- and additive-free!

  • Rice and pasta left over

    Submitted by Cecile, kent

    You cooked too much pasta or rice? Put it in a saucepan, add tomato puree (or tinned) then add mushroom and other vegetables and warm it up. Transfer to an oven dish, add a generous layer of gruyere and grill until brown. The kids will love it.

  • Mushrooms

    Submitted by Love Food Hate Waste,

    Keep mushrooms in the paper bags provided by all the grocers and put in the fridge for freshness. Chilled they last much longer than if kept out of the fridge.

  • Turn your leftover veg into a healthy soup

    Submitted by Anonymous,

    Use up left over veg to make a healthy & tasty soup - lovely weekend lunch with crusty bread. Any veg - the more the better, plus herbs, seasoning (tin of chopped tomatoes add colour & flavour). When cooked mash for chunky soup or liquidise for smooth. The options are endless - have never had a bad one & the kids love it!

  • Mushrooms

    Submitted by Dave Porter, Gillingham, Kent

    When you put mushrooms in the fridge they very soon get slimy and unusable. Keep them in their plastic container and put a peice of kitchen paper on top and tuck it down each side of the box. Now they will stay fresh for longer.

  • No more wrinkly peppers, sprouting onions or mouldy mushrooms!

    Submitted by Lindsey Glennon, West Midlands

    Buy a bag or a good selection of different coloured peppers and when you get home chop them up and freeze them in a container. They last for months and are great just to throw straight into a recipe! If they all stick together give the container a bash and they'll loosen up. The same goes for onions and mushrooms too!

  • Reduce waste before your holidays

    Submitted by Heather, Harlow Mill

    A couple of days before your holidays, stop buying groceries, so as to I try and empty out the fridge. Vegetables (tomatos, mushrooms, onions, peppers) that could otherwise go to waste can be chopped and cooked, then frozen ready for use in a pasta sauce on your return. Making some extra servings of whatever you are having for dinner and then freezing them, makes cooking easier the first couple of days your back -- just defrost! Leftover slices of bread can also be frozen, ready for making toast on your return.

  • Keeping mushrooms fresher for longer

    Submitted by Malcolm Brown, Norwich

    If you buy large punnets of mushrooms to take advantage of the lower unit costs you can keep them fresher longer by covering them with a tea towel folded into layers and tucking it quite tightly inside the punnet, like a snug blanket. Then keep the mushrooms in the bottom of the fridge and don`t forget to tuck the rest back in every time you take some out. Also don`t forget to re-use the punnets to store other veg.

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