Make do and empty those cupboards...

It's amazing what you can make with the scraps left in the fridge, freezer and cupboards. I'm in the process of the big pre-Christmas clear out and things are reaching a critical point! But you know, I do love a culinary challenge and I find the using up of every scrap of food quite rewarding in a curiously self-righteous way.

According to my long suffering partner "There is absolutely nothing to eat in this house". I beg to differ. Since he made this declaration on Sunday morning, so far, with a little culinary license, I have made:
  

• Lasagne (using marmite to flavour the sauce as I had no cheese - it works a treat)

• Fresh bread

• Sun dried tomato and parmesan scones (using up the parmesan rinds that I never throw away)

• Iced finger buns

• Tomato soup 

• Butternut squash and walnut risotto (using pudding rice - which gives a similar but softer texture to Arborio rice)

• Thai green curry with aubergine, broad beans and peas (the only vegetables left. I'm now extremely twitchy)

• Fresh naan bread (much easier than you think)

However, now that the tea bags and milk have run out I have to admit defeat. There are some things that you just can't live without and tea is one of them. So, off to the shops I go...