We are going out of town for 12 days, so we're trying to use up all our produce and NOT buy any additional before we leave on Thursday morning. Here is what I have to work with for dinner tonight and tomorrow night:
3 red peppers
3 full ribs of celery
5 pounds of carrots
2 sweet potatoes
5 onions
2 mushrooms
NO meat (ahhh - the next grocery bill is going to be so big!)
Beans/lentils/rice/quinoa/pasta/bread/tortillas
Any ideas? Mostly I just have no idea what to do with all that celery!!
clementine / 927 posts
I love celery so I put a lot into soups! Maybe do a huge pot of lentil soup and use the celery and carrots and onions. Lentil soup freezes well so you could keep the leftovers for another time.
honeydew / 7091 posts
@Leah: Oh good idea! I always forget about soup. I could pretty much throw all the veggies into the soup! Well, maybe not 5 onions... haha. Those should last for several weeks though.
Chicken/veggie broth as a base? What kind of seasonings do you like to add?
pomegranate / 3895 posts
What about black bean burgers with sweet potato fries? You could also make some kind of slaw with the carrots and celery.
I feel like I'm on Chopped!
ETA: Brilliant idea for the carrots! You should just steam them and freeze them for K in the future! (or actually you may be doing BLW, can't remember)
wonderful grape / 20453 posts
Veggie soup, man. Like a minestrone! You could easily chuck most of that in there!
GOLD / wonderful olive / 19030 posts
@swurlygurl: My first thought was a soup as well, toss everything in and it could be very hardy. For chicken/veggie based I like to throw in some pepper, oregano, onion powder, and some garlic.
clementine / 927 posts
@swurlygurl: oh yes! All the veggies can be thrown in! I'm vegetarian do I use veggie stock, a bay leaf, thyme, tomatoes, and some cumin.
persimmon / 1404 posts
Roast the red peppers and sweet potatoes and then throw everything into a soup!
cherry / 147 posts
Sweet potato and carrot/onion soup. Mushrooms and red pepper can also go into a pasta. Do you have sauce/paste to make it with?
If you can't use all celery/carrots/peppers, chop them up and eat as snack.
pea / 16 posts
You could make a lentil loaf (like a meat loaf) the celery would be yummy in that
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
Stuffed peppers.
Pop the tops off the peppers.
Chop up the celery, carrots, an onion and the mushrooms. Add some rice. Cook that mixture, add some broth (if you have it) or water and/or tomato sauce. Bake.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
Onions, celery, and bell pepper is the base for a lot of Creole/Cajun cooking. You can make a delicious vegetarian red beans and rice or jambalaya.
You can make a smooth and creamy carrot/sweet potato bisque and have it with bread. I'd simmer the carrots, potatoes, and a little onion in broth and then blend it up and add some cream or coconut milk or something creamy. Maybe a little curry powder?
Sweet potato black bean chili would be good - or just chili and then top baked sweet potatoes with it.
pear / 1696 posts
Soup! like others have suggested. I would do one big batch of veggie lentil soup and one batch of carrot soup to use up those 5lbs of carrots. You can freeze whatever you don't finish!
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