What are you making from all the food?

[MRG]

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Originally Posted by Spock cast iron is awesome for cooking... can cook with it on the stove, on the grill, briquettes, over a fire, etc that aluminum or stainless steel could get damaged with. What's a little soot on a black iron pan? Since everybody is a prepper (camper) now... I'm selling the duplicates in my Lodge cast iron camp oven collection.

+1

I bought a 10" Lodge after I bought a sous vide around Christmas. I wish I would have made the discovery earlier. Cast iron is so nice as long as you play by its rules.

I made high altitude cornbread in ours and it was great. I'm going to try cast iron brownies soon.

[Athena61]

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Originally Posted by gromit "Just add your ingredients and Supercook instantly finds matching recipes from the most popular cooking websites!" https://www.supercook.com/#/recipes

That’s really cool. Thanks!

[MRG]

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Originally Posted by gromit "Just add your ingredients and Supercook instantly finds matching recipes from the most popular cooking websites!" https://www.supercook.com/#/recipes

Whoah this is really interesting. Thank you.

[6miths]

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Originally Posted by REWahoo Been freezing the overripe bananas we didn't eat. DW used them to make 4 loaves of really good banana bread - breakfast of champions!

This! Enjoying the smell of 2 dozen wonderful banana muffins that just came out of the oven. And all that ground beef went into meat balls which are cooking in the sauce that is going to go with some of the pasta! Though I must admit that I already had stockpiled 7 cases of tomato sauce about 18 months ago (now down to just less than 3 cases) when it went on killer sale!

[steelyman]

Some of this stuff sounds good. Don’t forget that there’s an “ER Forum Cookbook”! It’s a sticky under Other Topics.

[gayl]

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Originally Posted by Accidental Retiree Hey, lemon bread must have Vitamin C! That’s healthy enough for me.

We had it with lox/bagels/cream cheese, salad, and mimosas. So that covers veggies, dairy, oranges, & grapes. Got my 'vitamins' in [emoji16]

[Spock]

I've been stretching everything... was thinking of starting a "beyond recycling dryer sheets thread".

One of the ways to stretch food is I'm skipping breakfast and only eating 2 meals a day (cereal and milk is hard to find). I'm starving by the time lunch comes around. If I have to go out to conduct business at the lawyers office I'll go ahead and eat breakfast so that I can think straight and quiet the noises from my stomach. I can't loose too much weight before the stores re-open as I'd have to buy skinnier clothes.

Last night we made a large pot of stew. It was really tough mentally to prepare it knowing that I won't be able to replace the potatoes, canned tomatoes, vegetables, and beef that went in it... those store shelves are stripped. Looking ahead I'll probably serve the stew over rice (which I have plenty of) to stretch it further.

This is really taking the fun out of watching anything on Food Network. We used to watch a lot of it to get recipe ideas.

[daylatedollarshort]

Split pea soup and lentil stew, made with a bit of chicken and whatever fresh veggies we have in the house. I also have a lot of pasta and sauce, to which I add whatever chopped veggies are available, plus some canned clams or oyster.

Our local store was out of eggs, but I was able to make fried rice with rice, veggies, sesame seeds and some weird liquid egg product that was mostly eggs and actually didn't taste half bad.

[savory]

Looks like mostly meat eaters. DW has been using Cookie & Kate recipes. All have been good. Tonight was Roasted Vegetable Enchilada.
Not from the C&K which was really good too was West African Peanut Stew. We are buying NY Strip steaks on sale this week for a dinner soon.

All the time and little rush has made dinner even better! Breakfast and lunch, too.

[brewer12345]

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Originally Posted by gromit "Just add your ingredients and Supercook instantly finds matching recipes from the most popular cooking websites!" https://www.supercook.com/#/recipes

Wonder of it will crash if I put in muskrat?

DD1 made hot cross buns yesterday. I make bread every few days, did candied bacon over the weekend, nixtamalized blue corn and made pupusas, and tonight was chana masala. Tomorrow will be venison shwarma kebobs on the grill.

[ItsAllGood]

DD, who is staying with us while sheltering in place, made bagels for the first time. Delicious! I'm looking forward to her next experiment.

[Squirrel]

Tonight I roasted bone-in chicken breasts (bought on Saturday). We had chicken, Brussel sprouts, and red bell pepper soup.

I encourage the family to eat leftovers for lunch, or when they prefer leftovers instead of my dinner plans.

Right now, I have leftover
chicken fried rice, (1 serving)
white chili, (1 serving)
pasta shells,
rice,
shredded chicken breast,
red pepper soup,
tilapia, (1 serving)
bacon, and
pork-with-sauerkraut.

So, my plan:
Tues - leftovers + asparagus/bacon quiche.
Wed - leftovers + BBQ chicken sandwiches
Thur - leftovers + carne asada beef (pulled from freezer) + rice
Fri - leftovers + pasta e fagioli, breadmaker bread
Sat - leftovers + frozen pizza? tamales from freezer?
Sun - leftovers + smoked ribs (bought last Saturday; vacuum sealed; long outdate)
Mon - leftovers + chili (memo: thaw hamburger and soak beans)

I have to use up 3 bagged salads and a pound of asparagus this week. Also clementines and apples. Have rice and baking potatoes, from regular Sam's Club purchases, but I'm low on bread flour.

I have a large freezer that I stuff with things I've bought on sale. DH and DD have been telling me that we need to eat down the freezer, so it's happening. I really hope I'll find a nice corned beef or two in the bottom of that freezer.

If no one goes out for fresh produce, I'll have to try supercook to see what I can make with canned pineapple and green beans!

[Pellice]

Getting six meals out of a cornish hen - 2 with just the meat, 4 with a chicken/spinach quiche. I'm the only eater, and I don't mind eating the same thing several days in a row.

[FIREd]

So far I have been eating pretty normally and I haven't had to be creative yet.

[Winemaker]

With our 1/2 beef coming at the end of April, some freezer space needed "freed up". DW made a great bone broth with half of last year's bones. It hasn't been a cold winter so we didn't make much soup, or chili for that matter. I had about 15# of wild blackberries frozen, hoping to get 25# to make a 6 gallon batch of blackberry wine. The local grocer had blackberries, BYG2F, so I bought 10#. I threw in a few frozen overripe bananas to add complexity (whoops, I let out a top secret ingredient), it has fermented nicely and should be done by Thursday. The bags of frozen garden tomatoes blended with herbs from the garden make great skillets with chicken, pork or walleye. We had a great octopus/chorizo/potato skillet last night.

[FreeBear]

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Originally Posted by harllee I also had a turkey breast in the freezer that I am thawing out. I cook the turkey breast in the crockpot. I baste it with Italian Dressing. Yum. We will also eat it for several dinners and lunches.

Last week, we went to Trader Joe’s looking for peanut butter and rye bread, which we found. Impulse bought a fresh Kosher turkey breast.

Greek-style rub (olive oil, lemon juice, and lots of oregano) + 225F smoke on the pellet grill = absolute heaven!

Should have bought more than 1...

[Midpack]

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Originally Posted by MRG Everyone is stocking up or trying to acquire food.

We're not. We're eating the same as always. We just go grocery shopping once a week where we used to shop several times a week.

I'm looking forward to the day when "everyone" quits hoarding various items (hoarders have to run out of room, fear or money eventually) so we can all shop without shortages.

I wonder how much gas people are wasting, and how much more exposure we're getting having to go from store to store (instead of just one) or multiple trips looking for what we need?

[Live And Learn]

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Originally Posted by Midpack We're not. We're eating the same as always. We just go grocery shopping once a week where we used to shop several times a week. I'm looking forward to the day when "everyone" quits hoarding various items (hoarders have to run out of room, fear or money eventually) so we can all shop without shortages.

I'm not stocking up either. Just shopping once a week and getting whatever is in stock that I can make meals from. I also have my "always full" pantry. I (used to) shop the sales and buy 3 months worth of sale items (3 months tends to be the sale cycle). I am replenishing things that I have totally run out of (last night I used my last package of egg noodles). No hoarding here.

Like you I look forward to the day when the hoarders realize they have enough so that the store shelves look normal again. The idea of getting to the store at it's opening to line up to *hopefully* get a few rolls of TP is just ridiculous.

[Midpack]

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Originally Posted by Live And Learn Like you I look forward to the day when the hoarders realize they have enough so that the store shelves look normal again. The idea of getting to the store at it's opening to line up to *hopefully* get a few rolls of TP is just ridiculous.

Amen. They have to run out of money, fear or storage room eventually. It IS ridiculous, and purely selfish.

[harllee]

Here in our county the stay at home rule says you can only go to the grocery store once a week, not sure how that can be enforced but it may prevent some people from going to the grocery every day or so.