#FAFoodie time!
Sushi. I have mentioned sushi to several people. Some said "I don't like raw fish".
Sushi is seasoned short grain rice (or Calrose). You season the rice with rice vinegar mixed with sugar and salt. There's a couple of other ingredients if you can get them, but sushizu can be made with just those 3 ingredients.
Fillings are entirely up to you. I'm making cheese and ham sushi for lunch
Sometimes you battle with a recipe over years to get it to where you want it.
This recipe I was battling with for *decades*. I finally have a Filipino Adobo recipe that matches my conception:
https://lolakusinera.com/pork-adobo/
The thing that lit me up was the vinegar - a mix of commercial and home made cider vinegar, then cooked down aggressively to a thick sauce. Serve over white rice. YUM.
Time for a solemn #FAFoodie post.
What have you done to protect yourselves against the coming logistical nightmare? I have probably at least 6 months of food at our current level, but could probably nearly double that.
With the trucker convoy and the truculence of the illegitimate regime, make sure you're protected.
The Mormons have great resources where you can see how much food you need, and how you can store it at home.
time for an #FAFoodie rant
Be me. Search for "gluten free pancakes recipe".
Find one that DOESN'T have as its first ingredient "X amount of GF flour blend".
Insert very loud obscenity here
posted this with the tag but without the names because I was playing with posting pics here via my phone. Kedgeree with poached egg!
#FAFoodie bonus post! And I'm going to say 2 words that are guaranteed to strike fear into some hearts - ORGAN MEATS *horse whinny* *screams of terror*
Look, organ meats have a place in a varied diet. They are packed with minerals and vitamins, and if you cook them correctly (the key is DO NOT overcook) they taste good. Especially if you load them up with aromatics and other tasty flavourings like Sriracha. Give it a go!
I can't remember if this was a post on FA or on substack, but someone warned about the first signs of a grim logistical problem will be a lack of processed potato products.
My local Aldi only had 2 types of frozen hash browns. No other forms of processed frozen potato products.
Just FYI. Finalise your pantry stores to weather the storm.
#FAFoodie question time.
For those who have to eat a special diet - gluten free, low carb, that kind of thing - have you noticed your grocery store options becoming kind of crap? Because I have. Just circled my Aldi 3 times looking for gluten free options to no avail.
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I am fully stocked for now. I hope y'all are, too:
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I finally managed to get the last emergency supplies - 50lb sack of oats, two 25lb sacks of AP (plain) flour. I am contemplating buying more freeze dried veg to supplement it all, but at this point I can basically jump into a hole and pull the hole in with us when / if the logistical poo storm hits.
Y'all might want to check if your local restaurant supply store allows you to buy there. If not, make friends with a restaurant...
@Blackbirdearth @NancyFancyPants @DrFell @MMA @Bleukitty something to be aware of while planning your stores is "rabbit starvation". It's linked to an excessively lean diet. Make sure you are also laying up good quality culinary fats like butter and extra virgin oils like olive and/or coconut.
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this food calculator is informative and kind of horrifying when you look at the year calculations:
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looking at the railway strike, that's going to make the food and materials logistical problems even worse.
Hunker down, folks, while the storm passes overhead.
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There are times when the peanut butter hits the fan that you really need a hug. Rice pudding is a good hug.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/nov/18/how-make-perfect-rice-pudding
Pudding rice is really any short grain rice. You can use sushi rice or others such as Arborio to make it. I am making it with Calrose, which is technically a medium grain sushi rice but if you bring it to a boil in the pot before you bake it, you get a wonderful result.
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y'all, I am getting a really bad feeling about the food situation. More and more crop reports are coming in bad, the Mississippi river is down which is holding up deliveries of soy and corn, and of course all the food processing plants "mysteriously" going up in flames.
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what's for dinner?
Tonight I'm making "Hoover stew". See this for one example:
https://www.acoalcrackerinthekitchen.com/2020/03/29/hoover-stew/
I'll name this one "Brandon's Stew" to say thanks to the dementia patient for the way our food budget has gone *poof* over the last few months.
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here's a nice, frugal recipe. British flapjacks (kind of a baked granola bar, sorta).
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Basic_Flapjacks
Golden syrup is really easy to make. If you don't want to, use corn syrup. It won't have quite the flavour. If your store sells Golden Eagle syrup, flavour is very similar but it's mainly corn syrup & HFCS.
Extras: toss in a handful of raisins or similar. Throw a slug of bourbon as well, I won't judge,
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what are y'all doing to frugally bulk out your meals? I have loads of rice and beans and am using them for bulking.
For the kiddo's camp this past weekend I made beef chili, 4:1 ratio of red kidney beans to ground beef. The whole batch was eaten, no leftovers!
Soups and stews are a great way to use bulk legumes. Tonight's dinner is bacon and lentil soup, incorporating leftover red kidney beans to bulk it out more.
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I have dehydrated potatoes and lots of pasta.
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dried potato is an amazing ingredient. I make a cheese pie with dried potato flakes. It is very filling!
Also shepherd's / cottage / fish pie.