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Unlike rice,the real rice, which can cause food poisoning if left out then reheated, cauliflower rice portions I would store for a few days, but in the refrigerator. Or even the freezer. Reheating any cooked food can be a problem, too, if you don’t get it very, very hot.
If taking cooked portions out for lunch, I would pack in a cool bag with an ice block. That should keep the food safe to eat. If you are taking it to reheat, remember get to a high temperature, @Antje77.

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Reheating food seems like a good way of cutting down on waste and expenditure. But when is it dangerous?
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I think @Antje77 already knows about my issues around food safety and hygiene. :bag:
 
Annb said:
As I may have mentioned before, too much cauliflower in one go (ie about a dessertspoonful) really plays havoc with my digestive system so, what I do is: blitz the required amount of cauliflower into crumbs, then add an equal quantity of dessicated coconut, mix well and lay it on a baking sheet and toast the whole lot in the oven. It gives the resulting "rice" more flavour and keeps my insides a bit happier. A little salt added to it does no harm either as far as taste is concerned. You just have to be careful not to let it burn. If you don't have a food processor, you can just chop the cauliflower finely with a big knife (a small one takes ages). The coconut makes it a bit drier than just using the cauliflower and that seems to help it keep longer in the fridge as well.
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Making cauliflower rice in the oven is interesting, I may well try that next time. I don't like coconut much, and my digestive tract seems to be made from stainless steel, so eating however much cauliflower I fancy isn't a problem. :)

I made the 'rice' using a cheese grater, works very well. :)
Pipp said:
Unlike rice,the real rice, which can cause food poisoning if left out then reheated, cauliflower rice portions I would store for a few days, but in the refrigerator. Or even the freezer. Reheating any cooked food can be a problem, too, if you don’t get it very, very hot.
If taking cooked portions out for lunch, I would pack in a cool bag with an ice block. That should keep the food safe to eat. If you are taking it to reheat, remember get to a high temperature, @Antje77.

www.bbc.co.uk

Michael Mosley: When is it safe to reheat leftovers?

Reheating food seems like a good way of cutting down on waste and expenditure. But when is it dangerous?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

I think @Antje77 already knows about my issues around food safety and hygiene. :bag:
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I was going for the informative emoji until your last sentence, which made me laugh. ;)

I usually cook for 3 or 4 days, storing in the fridge and reheating a portion at the time. I even dare Chinese take away for at least 3 days, it's those stainless steel innards I guess, and I'm sure that at some point I will be too daring and have to pay the price. Knocks wood, not this time please...

For the bridge, I tend to cook the day before a 2 or 3 day stint and bring the food to the bridge where I can store it in the fridge during those days and reheat in the microwave portion wise. So it will only be outside the fridge for about an hour in the early morning.
If I were you, I'd be more worried about me planning to get Chinese take away on wednesday and still eating it on friday than about the cauliflower rice. :hilarious:
I'm pretty sure my nose will tell me if the cauliflower has gone off, not so sure about the meat from the Chinese restaurant.
 
Pipp said:
Yes, @Antje77 I am worrying!
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I know!
We like eachother a lot and you're a natural worrier, of course you worry.
But try not to worry too much. I'm 48 and have survived so far, I expect my rare treat of Chinese take away with cauliflower rice won't do me in this time either. Even if it might make diabetes management a nightmare, depending on what I choose from the Chinese restaurant.
 
Also , I made a casserole using left over beef from Sunday for dinner tonight. Reading this, and thinking how hot the weather is, I left cauliflower rice out of the menu.

I confess that I generally ‘cheat’ and use ready chopped bags of frozen cauli rice. Either plain, if having a curry sauce, or with whatever herbs and spices I feel like, fried with onions , veg, and meat for a stir fry.
 
shelley262 said:
Envy you your green beans mine have been poor this year. I planted them as usual in one of my raised beds but they were attacked by slugs early on and haven't really come to anything. I had a good crop of peas that I grew in a pot that slugs didn't get and will try the pot growing with my beans next year I think.
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jpscloud said:
I took a bit of a chance and planted mine out during the first heatwave - maybe the slugs hadn't had a chance to get going at that point - also the raised bed they're in is new this year so I think any slugs that were around hadn't yet sussed out there was something tasty there! That's the trick I think, keep changing where things go so the slugs are on the back foot. If they had feet!

The slugs don't seem to bother peas here, do you find the same? Sadly the pigeons didn't get the memo and will peck them to bits if I don't cover them while they're young. I didn't get an early crop but I've just planted out a few Meteor to try and get an autumn crop. I really just eat them before they get into the house, so it's not really a crop! Was it here that someone said they're garden sweeties?
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Thankfully we don’t seem to have slug problems but as for those blasted white butterflies…Urgh. I spend more time picking their eggs off of brasssicas than I do growing the plants. I tried covering them with fleece but my veggie garden is on the front of the house so I like it to look pretty‍♀️
 
I’m also cooking cauliflower rice today. I’m using it in place of the “ normal” rice in Whitewatercooks Glory Bowl. A favourite here. As the carrots are from the garden I’ve grated a small one of those, normally I wouldn’t bother buying carrot, the beets I have pickled so have a little less impact than raw would. I’ve added a few toasted nuts and seeds too. Oh and instead of the spinach I’m using kale from the garden. So more of suggestion of her recipe perhaps. But the dressing is so good, I could eat it with a spoon. In fact have been known too!
 
Annb said:
I thought I had posted this yesterday evening but it appears not, so here it is now:

Breakfast: bubble and squeak made with the cocolenta and the last of the corned beef plus one fried egg on top.

2nd meal was late. It came out of the tiny freezer in the kitchen and was two spiced sausage patties and some courgette slices. I finally have one empty drawer in the little freezer. I also took some frozen chicken breast out for defrosting for use tomorrow, along with some frozen avocado, some frozen salmon pate and some frozen shredded Brussels sprouts. Should be enough there for 2 meals tomorrow.

It was late because I wasted hours this afternoon, trying to find some information on the internet. I couldn't find it. but Alistair says he'll try some of his history sites which I don't know. Back in 1533, Tom had a 13x great uncle who is recorded to have died, apparently in some kind of coaching incident. It was reported in a report from another13x great uncle to the court of James VI (of Scotland). The incident gave birth to a myth of "the headless coachman of Blebo" who apparently still terrorises the house at Blebo where people have heard a rushing wind and clattering of horses hooves. Actually, since only the noises have been heard, I don't know how they know the coachman is headless, but that is by the way. There are lots of myths about headless horsemen/coachmen, so that is not so unusual. What I would like to find out is, what actually happened - how did Andro Trail die in 1533.

Part of the time wasted was used up trying to find out when "coaches" first came to Scotland. Apparently they didn't come to England until the late 16th century, so it wouldn't have been what we know as a coach now - probably a covered wagon of some sort. Turns out that riding in a coach, once they were invented, was not allowed unless the traveller was infirm in some way - women were actually not allowed to ride in a coach in France at that time, and men wouldn't dream of doing so (not manly enough). However, Elizabeth I had a kind of coach which was just a frame on wheels with curtains that could be pulled across when required. Fascinating.

I am one of those kind of people who can't look things up in a dictionary without finding other things to read about on the way. Lack of focus.
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It sounds like you had a good afternoon. Time spent doing something enjoyable isn’t wasted, even if not timely, it wasn’t a waste to have a calm enjoyable afternoon.
 
MommaE said:
Thankfully we don’t seem to have slug problems but as for those blasted white butterflies…Urgh. I spend more time picking their eggs off of brasssicas than I do growing the plants. I tried covering them with fleece but my veggie garden is on the front of the house so I like it to look pretty‍♀️
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The white butterflies have been crazy this year! I grow nasturtiums so I can relocate the caterpillars but this year it's like whackamole :hilarious:
 
MommaE said:
Do the butterflies go for the nasturtiums instead, or do the caterpillars move to nasturtiums after the brassica stage?
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They go for the brassicas first, then I find either the eggs or more commonly a little group of tiny caterpillars on a brassica leaf, pick the leaf and lay it on top of the nasturtiums... I'm sure the caterpillars feel cheated but they do eat the nasturtiums instead once relocated.
 
jpscloud said:
They go for the brassicas first, then I find either the eggs or more commonly a little group of tiny caterpillars on a brassica leaf, pick the leaf and lay it on top of the nasturtiums... I'm sure the caterpillars feel cheated but they do eat the nasturtiums instead once relocated.
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Encourage hedgehogs into your garden. Ours do great job at eating slugs and snails and caterpillars.
I just need to find something to rid the garden of the grey squirrels, that destroy everything I plant.
 
Pipp said:
Encourage hedgehogs into your garden. Ours do great job at eating slugs and snails and caterpillars.
I just need to find something to rid the garden of the grey squirrels, that destroy everything I plant.
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I do encourage hedgehogs, there's always water for them and two hog houses, one at each end of the garden. There's always a fair bit of healthy hedgie poo around the garden so I must be doing something right! Sadly they don't get the caterpillars because I grow my vegetables in pots and raised beds - due to the local cats who had a meeting and voted my garden the best toilet (I have to do a daily poo patrol) so I daren't grow things in the ground.

Something I've noticed this year for the first time is snail shells with half-eaten snails still in them. I discovered it is beetles eating them, which is a real bonus. I do seem to have less snails now, but either the beetles don't go for slugs or the slugs are just too prolific for them to make a difference.
 
Pipp said:
I just need to find something to rid the garden of the grey squirrels, that destroy everything I plant.
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Oh my.
With the upcoming mod elections (There's still time to nominate if you're quick, everyone! https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/moderator-nominations-2025.209890/) I'm suddenly thrown back into the squirrel wars from years ago!

Grey versus red, and me living in a place without squirrels at all so being delighted by seeing any squirrel, no matter the type. :hilarious:

However, squirrels are low carb, so if you find a way to catch them it could help with your grocery bills @Pipp .
Recipes will need to be adapted to low carb but I'm sure you'll enjoy thinking about tasty ways to get rid of those cute little pests!
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Antje77 said:
Indian runner ducks could be the answer!
And they make any garden so much more fun to spend time in. :)
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Now that is tempting... I love ducks! And chickens. I grew up with all kinds of poultry on a smallholding, including geese that would chase you down and peck like the devil!
 
jpscloud said:
Now that is tempting... I love ducks! And chickens. I grew up with all kinds of poultry on a smallholding, including geese that would chase you down and peck like the devil!
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We have chickens, Indian runner ducks, and turkeys roaming the garden freely, it's wonderful (but nothing grows)!
Some of the turkeys and chickens have mastered flying the fence too, so I regularly see facebook posts from neighbours who post pictures of baby turkeys roaming their garden with their mum. :hilarious:
 
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