Milky Way...s to Cook

[corinn]

So we screwed up at the store today and bought two cartons of milk, then got home and found we already had two cartons of milk. There's only so much cereal I can eat in a week. Anyone have recipes that use up a decent amount of milk? I think it's 2% if that makes a difference.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Rice pudding (can be frozen and re-heated), pudding from scratch to be used in, e.g. a biscuit roll?

[monanotlisa]

http://germanfood.about.com/od/flourbasedrecipes/r/milchreis.htm

[lilacsigil]

Anything with bechamel sauce will use up lots of milk.

For example: a nice basic lasagne or my epic vegetarian version.

Or maybe a nice custard for bread and butter pudding.

[kaberett]

Macaroni cheese (uses a bechemal sauce, as mentioned above!), or cauliflower cheese, or broccoli cheese...

I was also going to suggest bread-and-butter pudding :-)

Pancake batter is a good way to use up milk; you could have lots of hot chocolate maybe; it can be added to soup also.

[jesse_the_k]

Mmmmm, hot chocolate soup! :,)

[azurelunatic]

Popsicles? Blended fruit, possibly sugar, and milk for the creamy kind.

[moonvoice]

Crepes use up a ton of milk, and can be frozen and defrosted. They can also be used in desserts / savoury dinners and lunches, so they're handy that way too.

[rodo]

Fondue! My mother's recipe uses a hole litre, I think.

[amadi]

Also on the bechamel front, pot pie! Also a good one for freezing and reheating later and can be a nice way to use up leftovers.

If you're an iced latte/iced chai person you could make latte and chai and then freeze ice cubes of it to save for future drinks.

If you enjoy fish, a firm-fleshed fish poached in milk is ridiculously tender and melt-in-your-mouth succulent. Salmon works well or haddock. A thick cut of swai, cod or even swordfish would also work. Bring milk to a gentle boil, season your fish, add to the milk, reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes or so per pound of fish. You'll need a fair amount of milk, you'll want to cover the fish in a single layer in a large pot or skillet.

[jesse_the_k]

Or you can broil fish as above in a broiler pan but with milk covering up to 3/4 on the fish's depth. Mmmmm.

No specific recipes, just ideas

[vass]

Custard and yoghurt are both easy. Or if you're feeling really ambitious... using up extra milk was how cheese was invented.

Re: No specific recipes, just ideas

[cofax7]

Yeah, I was going to say that a custard uses a lot of milk.

[serene]

Clam chowder! http://www.momfoodproject.com/2010/11/28/new-england-clam-chowder/

[feuervogel]

Potato soup?

[matgb]

Toad in the Hole!

Batter 1 egg, 3 oz flour, 5 fl.oz milk, mix it all up.

Roasting tin in oven with cold sausages, warm to 200C (no idea what that is in F) with sausages in so they slowly start to cook and release fat, the fat's important.

When the oven's warm, pour the batter over the sausages so it starts to cook and put back quickly into oven, cook until golden brown and crispy at the edges.

One of my favourite meals (although, as I'm vegetarian, I use vege sausages and have to add cooking oil when I first put them in t'oven.

[weaverbird]

You can make cheese! It's really simple to do.

Here's a recipe for making paneer.

[via_ostiense]

easy mac-and-cheese (baked in the oven, doesn't require a separate sauce or cooking the noodles separately), freezes well.

Ice cream

You can also freeze it; it may separate when you thaw it, but a whisk or a blender will emulsify it again.

Tea with milk

[highlander_ii]

aside from all the things already mentioned... puddings, ice cream, hot chocolate, etc...


sometimes you can make butter from your milk - i have no instructions on that at my fingertips, but a search will probably find something...

if you already have ice cream - MILKSHAKES!

also - orange julius - which is frozen OJ and milk soothie thing (search engine ftw again)

[zarhooie]

Garlic chicken corn chowder.

Take garlic and butter. Sautée chicken chunks until it starts to get golden brown. Add salt, pepper, hot sauce, a can or two of corn (drained), and a lot of milk. Cook until tasty.

[droolfangrrl]

Milk bath?

Milk

[cougars_catnip]

You can freeze milk to keep it fresh. You can also make ice cream. :D

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