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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 19:00:54 GMT
I've been trying to make as much as I can from stored food lately. Here's last night's dinner (mine looked almost as good but my photography skills are lacking). I used a single duck egg and pancetta instead of bacon. Just a personal preference. And dried parsley...not ideal, but it works. damndelicious.net/2014/03/29/spaghetti-carbonara/Anybody else cooking from preps? What have you made lately?
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Post by DEKE on Apr 3, 2020 19:53:16 GMT
Today's dinner is Thanksgiving. Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn souffle, homemade cranberry jam over cottage cheese, and green bean casserole. That's for 2 people.
Tomorrow's dinner is Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn souffle, homemade cranberry jam over cottage cheese, and green bean casserole.
Sunday's dinner is Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn souffle, homemade cranberry jam over cottage cheese, and green bean casserole.
Monday's dinner is...you get the picture.
Actually, except for the bird, everything is being prepped in small batches so that it can be frozen before or after it is cooked. The uncooked corn souffle has been sitting in the freezer in a 4 serving oven proof container since Xmas. Thaw and bake for one hour and it seems like I've done something that took effort. There will be enough stuffing (dressing really because it is not getting stuffed) for about 8 meals because it is impossible to make a small batch of stuffing. Most of that will go into the freezer prior to cooking.
Other than the cottage cheese and milk that will be used in the potatoes, everything is from stocks from before the quarantine. I'm very freezer dependent and without that, life would be tenuous. I need more non-freezer preps. Lesson learned.
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Post by mnn2501 on Apr 3, 2020 20:20:08 GMT
Kielbasa and fried taters.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2020 20:24:35 GMT
Thanksgiving sounds kind of nice right now, but no turkeys in my freezer. Just a couple Easter hams that will go a long way without guests this year. I keep a lot more frozen than I used to. It's worth the risk for me to not do as much canning, and I prefer frozen over canned for many things anyway. Often healthier and tastier. As a last resort, I have supplies to can everything in the freezers...that would be several days of hard work. Generator and backup generators will hopefully keep that from ever happening. I made dinner early today because I skipped lunch. Told you my photography is no good, but the pizza is!
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Apr 3, 2020 20:33:27 GMT
"Lockdown Cafe", I like that. May not like it by June, but it's good for now. DEKE, your dinner sounds very good...until Sunday. My grandma always said "After 3 days, fish and company stink." I feel the same way about leftovers. Two days is fine, 3 days not so much. I can't spend enough time on my feet to do a lot of cooking, so for the last year or so I've only cooked an actual meal once every week or two. The rest of the time I tend to graze on whatever's handy. Since it was 48 degrees in the house this morning I was about frozen by lunchtime and decided to dig a pkg of Bear Creek Soup out of my pantry. I've eaten a couple different kinds and they weren't bad. This one was, well, gross. And it makes EIGHT cups. 😳 I was thinking a good survivalist would eat it all and not waste it. Guess I'm not a survivor as I couldn't deal with the thought of another 4-5 meals of that. I sold my chickens, and I doubt my dogs would eat this so I guess it's headed for the pasture. Maybe I'll get lucky and it'll kill some starlings.
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Post by paisley on Apr 3, 2020 21:05:00 GMT
Mexican lasagna. Salad.
And wash it down with a corona
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Post by daw on Apr 3, 2020 22:24:51 GMT
Homemade canned chili
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 4, 2020 1:54:25 GMT
My wife cooked a 14 pound pork butt yesterday, enough said.
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Post by Jolly on Apr 4, 2020 2:13:30 GMT
Supper tonight was chicken spaghetti (the kind cooked with Velveeta and rotel tonatoes). Last night was pot roast, rice&gravy, with last year's snap beans.
Both will make reappearances within the next week.
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Post by Txsteader on Apr 4, 2020 12:26:35 GMT
Also using pantry supplies, I made salmon cakes a couple days ago and we've been grazing on them. So yesterday was salmon cakes w/ tartar sauce, mashed taters and snap beans. Today's menu will be sloppy joes using canned ground beef. And as the weather is expected to cool for the next couple of days, I'll probably also make a pot of Bear Creek tortilla soup for tomorrow's dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2020 14:42:57 GMT
Oh, I love Bear Creek. I haven't tried the tortilla soup, but their chili mix is good and the potato cheddar soup is great.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Apr 4, 2020 17:05:54 GMT
The Cheddar Potato is very good, and I think the other one I've tried was the tortilla soup which was also good. I don't know if it's just me or what but when I tried the White Cheddar(?) yesterday I found it about as tasty as eating beets. Blech. I found a 2nd pkg of it in my pantry yesterday afternoon and it went straight into the trash bin. Today is almost as cold as yesterday so I think I'll make Chicken Noodle soup (with lots of veggies) for lunch. From real food. 😄
Yesterday morning it was 48 degrees in the house. Had to wear 2 vests and gloves in the house. Today's not as bad, 49 indoors. I have about a week's worth of firewood left with probably another 6 wks or so of chilly weather. I fired both my firewood guys (one is undependable and the other is too friendly) and am going to try to make it without buying any more. I think I know where I could get another cord to get me through if need be, but I'd just as soon not spend the money.
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Post by Txsteader on Apr 4, 2020 17:20:33 GMT
Change of menu plans. Cancelled the sloppy joes and am having the Bear Creek tortilla soup because it smelled SO good! Tastes darn good, too. I added a jar of chicken, a couple handfuls of frozen vegs (zucchini, corn, red bell pepper), a bit of tomato paste, chili powder and cumin plus a handful of crushed Tostitos. Yum!
We tried the BC chicken noodle soup a couple of weeks ago and didn't like it at all. I don't know what the taste was that we didn't like but I couldn't mask it. Almost had an 'old' taste, even though it was nowhere near the expiration date.
Anyway, this worked out great because the weather is drizzly and chilly today - perfect soup weather.
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Post by paisley on Apr 4, 2020 18:17:26 GMT
Bad goat burgers
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Apr 4, 2020 19:52:24 GMT
Txsteader, thanks for the heads up about the BC chicken soup. I have a pkg of that in the pantry too. 🙁 I almost always make homemade soups but figured a few packaged soups would be good to have on hand. Looks like I should have stuck with homemade. Had a tiring and unhappy morning so didn't bother cooking. Ate a cold leftover pork chop instead. 👍🏻
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