Some vegetable thoughts on Food Cupboard Challenge Day 1

[purplerabbits]

Before I even think about using stuff from the freezer I have to look at the fridge. Just now I tidied it up and made some lists, while drying out the vegetable drawer and cutting a few dodgy bits off of sad veg. There's not a lot of protein in the fridge except a pack of paneer and most of a pack of low fat cheddar type cheese, but alongside an embarrassment of condiments I do have plenty of butter and jam, which will help me use the toastable bread and three toastable hot cross buns from Shrub.
Also:
A nearly full tube of tomato puree
10 cherry tomatoes that are old enough they'll need to be fried
2 medium spuds from Shrub which will probably turn into chips with Freezer Thing
2 parsnips, possibly ditto - since I have an airfryer roasted veg is easy...
2 onions
(Not even any garlic, damn)
700g wonky carrots - this is what's left after I already used what I needed, but I bought the 1Kg bag because at 39p it was literally cheaper than two loose carrots
500g slightly sad mushrooms - from Shrub who had loads yesterday. They should last a few days now I have them out of the sweaty plastic box and onto paper
5 apples

And outside the fridge I have 6 bananas, not counting the one I ate for breakfast.

I don't have a lot of ideas of how to use the carrots and mushrooms, but surely one or other of them would go with paneer and sad freezer spinach in a curry?

After the fresh veg is gone, or gone off, I still have sadly dried up freezer spinach, frozen edamame, sweetcorn, and four individual portions of microwaveable veg which I bought to make myself eat more veg (spoiler, it didn't work.)

And then in the food cupboards I have tinned tomatoes, various beans (but no lentils, weirdly), pasta sauces, bamboo shoots and water chestnuts, tomato juice and orange juice, more corn, tinned grapefruit, peach slices, various veggie soups, roasted peppers in vinegar, some other pickles and sun dried tomatoes and artichokes and olives. Yeah, maybe tapas night will be a thing.

But first I need to use up those mushrooms...

Comments

[barakta]

Mushroom curry with paneer? Grate the carrots so they mush down into the sauce? Maybe add salt/acid to the curry balance out sweetness of the carrots. Wilt the spinach separately, then run a knife through it and add to the curry once done and let it pick up flavour from the residual heat? (This is very Atomic Shrimp)

[cosmolinguist]

Mushrooms are lovely in curry and sound like real winner with paneer.

You could even cook the tomatoes down in the curry if you want.

[sfred]

I put carrots in curry often. Duolingo has taught me the Welsh for carrot curry, so it must be a thing!