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Please help me use up Ingredient X.

Ahoy folks! I thought I'd start a thread where you can ask for recipes and advice on how to use up an ingredient (e.g. a vegetable, fruit, grain, bean, etc.) of which you have lots and lots and lots; or which is new to you and you don't know where to start with it.

I'll go first. :P I have many, many tasty carrots from the farmers' market which I need to use before they go soft.

Recipes, please.

I know, I know, carrots - simple - should be a no-brainer... but I was not fond of them for a long time, simply because I'd never known anything but raw or steamed carrots with very little flavour. I like to do INTERESTING things with them. They're so adaptable! Gimme your adaptations! :D

freak!  How have you never heard of elderberries?

Yes, come visit - doesn't matter if it's summer or not, just come here!  although it really is our turn to come to yours......

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By the time N's parents have gone back home your Wellington summer will be OVER!  But next time I see cheap flights I'll get them anyway.  We'd drive down again but with my bro's wedding, then our long weekend in Sydney I don't want to take any leave days for at least a while if I can help it.

And I don't actually like berries, which is quite possibly how the existence of one called the elderberry had escaped my knowledge! : )

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Wait, so when are you in Sydney and will you have time to come up and visit me? :) I'm in the Newcastle area, which is 2 hours and $34 by train, so you probably won't have time.  But I can dream. :)

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Orange pulp.

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jam or relish

(is it too bitter for cookies?)

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I have a produce bin consisting of: baby carrots, broccoli, kale, and questionably aged red cabbage. I also have every canned bean you can think of, plus dry lentils and quinoa. I wanted to make soup but idk. What would you guys make with these?

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I have a produce bin consisting of: baby carrots, broccoli, kale, and questionably aged red cabbage. I also have every canned bean you can think of, plus dry lentils and quinoa. I wanted to make soup but idk. What would you guys make with these?

Stir fry.

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i would cook the quinoa first and let it cool then make some asian inspired stirfry with the veggies and add in the quinoa... kinda like this but asian style: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=33941.0 like a quinoa stirfry :)

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AC beat me to the punch! stirfry is always the answer :)

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Baby carrots and questionable cabbage: Kimchi. Duh.  :)>>>

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I did stirfry!

Yg- I've never had kimchi but I hate pickled things  :-X

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Yg- I've never had kimchi but I hate pickled things  :-X

Hmmmm....are you one of those miscreants who doesn't like hummus?  8-)

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:p yes

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SoG, I might have to remove you from my "love" list on vw. No pickled things? No hummus? How am I to trust such a person?

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Hahaha.. it's okay, I hate hummus too.  ;)

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Scandalous........

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vegan's who don't like hummus = social outcasts LOL

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Wait, so when are you in Sydney and will you have time to come up and visit me? :) I'm in the Newcastle area, which is 2 hours and $34 by train, so you probably won't have time.  But I can dream. :)

whoa, how did I miss this??
haha, we've only got a couple of days, main reason for the trip is we're going to the Soundwave festival on Sunday, but we've got all day Friday, Saturday and most of Monday for touristing/sight-seeing etc.  We're staying kinda north/west of Sydney and will be getting a multi-3 travel pass to get around with which I see includes up to Newcastle...  sooooo we might be a bit strapped for time, but I'll totally think about it and see whether we could!! : )

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Wow! Hummus and pickled food?  :o

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i also dislike......brace yourselves........... DAIYA

sb, there's a love list? aw

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