Rescuing The Remnants

On Saturday I decided that I ought to defrost the freezer, and also sort out any BBQ leftovers. I found a packet of puff pastry in the freezer – I’d got it seriously reduced [it was flavoured with lemon and dill, so I thought I should use it for something savoury]

I diced some carrots, potatoes and courgettes, and some of the pork, and made filling for pasties. The pastry was ‘ready rolled- and I was disappointed with its thinness- I had to keep patching up the holes as I worked. But I was very pleased with the taste of the pasties - we had them for Saturday lunch with salad. Bob had suggested adding some thyme, and that worked brilliantly

I also made a batch of shortcrust pastry and produced two veg and pork pies to go back into the re-organised freezer.

I used a little of the pastry to make some tartlets. I lined 4 small tins with pastry then put another tin on top, to ‘bake blind’

I filled the tartlets with a few blackberries, snipped some marshmallows onto the top – then grilled them briefly

There was a small tub of frozen whipped cream in the freezer, so we had tartlets and cream for dessert on Saturday evening.

There wasn’t much pork left Thursday night – and all the kebabs, cookies and ice cream were eaten. Not that you can recycle ice cream!