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Skriven 2010-10-30 16:37:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Cheap Eats
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I spent the last two days cleaning out the fridge, combining
leftovers and making bread and soup, prior to going shopping.

I always face a dilemma when I go to the supermarket. Milk is much
cheaper in the four litre jugs than the 1 and 2 litre cartons.
Basically you but 3 litres and get a litre free. Likewise 1 litre
containers of cream are much less expensive than the 250 and 500 ml
sizes. But Roslind and I don't consume a lot of dairy. Today I was
faced with 3 cups of slightly off milk and a cup of cream that was
turning.

Solution: 2 loaves of faux sourdough white bread (the yeast love
that extra shot of acidity), a batch of English tea biscuits made
with baking soda instead off baking powder and a blender full of
baking soda crepe batter. We had the biscuits hot out of the oven
with Friday's supper and I have been making crepes one at a time for
desserts, snacks and breakfast.

I also made up a superb batch of spicy mayonnaise: 1 part yogurt, 2
parts sour cream (the commercial stuff, not the old coffee cream), 3
parts mayo with cayenne, lemon juice and one fast food squeeze
packet each of mustard and ketchup.

Which lead to a nice brunch: broiled open face Cheddar cheese
sandwiches with sourdough bread, onion, baby spinach leaves, spicy
mayo and aged cheddar.

I also dug into the freezer and got out two chunks of moose back
bone (from Ray's hunting trip last Jan.) and made up two gallons of
stock in Roslind's large canning kettle, along with 2 T-bone steak
and 6 pork chop bones I had saved and the roasted skin from last
week's pork shoulder roast. I got over a pound of meat from it as
well. The stock was a little thin so I enriched it with a cup of
leftover roast pork gravy, a little pork stock from the shoulder
bone and a tablespoon of Thai World "Supreme Quality" instant Pho
paste for beef. It turned out quite well. I now have a good base for
a number of quick soups in the days to come.

Essentially I have a dozen tasty meals ahead of me that are
essentially free, except for some flour, being made entirely of
scraps, that would be destined for the garbage can in many
households.

                        
Cheers

YK Jim, feeling virtuous

... It's culinary magic -- making awful offal taste great.

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