Team Inverary, Mary, Rick & Kayla (17-sports jock)
Team Inverary reporting in... mid-day, on day 2.
Tonight we are having another couple over for dinner (which was planned a while ago). They know about our Fill the Gap initiative and are excited to be included in one of our dinners. Judy wants to be responsible for making dessert, so I've asked her to make up one of the puddings when she arrives for her contribution to dinner. She thinks it's kind of odd to be making her contribution from out of our pantry, but she's up for some fun.
Here's what we are working with today. Out of our Food Bank Hamper
1 sleeve of chocolate chip cookies
1 pkg of 4 Honey Buns
5 small candy bars
4.5 bagels - Cinnamon Raisin (whole wheat)
2 bags milk
11 eggs
2 1/4-lbs Peameal bacon (frozen)
7 cans Campbell's tomato soup (reduced sodium)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can Roasted Chicken with Grilled Vegetable Soup
2 sleeves whole wheat crackers
1 box whole wheat Triscuits
750 g Natural Peanut butter
1 x 500g Linguine pasta
2 x 206g boxes Mac and Cheese
1 28oz can diced tomatoes
1 pkg Beef & Broccoli Stir Fry Mix
1 can corn
2 cans chunk tuna
2 cans mandarin orange segments
8 pkgs Sweet n'Low
1 kit Caesar Salad dressing, with croutons, & parmesan cheese
1 cup sugar
2 1/2 cups oatmeal
3 cups instant white rice
2 x 200ml Apple Juice
3 x 200ml Strawberry & Banana Juice
1 x 200ml Peach & Clementine Juice
1 can beef chilli
1 can beans in tomato sauce
1 white cake mix
2 boxes vanilla pudding
1 box butterscotch pudding
Large Good Food Box
10 lb bag potatoes
1.5 lb rainbow carrots
2-lb bag onions - minus 1 onion
1 head leaf lettuce
1 bunch broccoli
1/2-lb mushrooms - minus 3 mushrooms
1 head garlic - minus 2 cloves
3 bananas
1 orange
2 royal gala apples
2 pears
2 red grapefruit
We are skimping on use of the fresh fruit because we have Kayla arriving home tomorrow, and she will appreciate having some fresh fruit to enjoy at breakfast with us. Feel we need to ration the fruit to make it last, but don't want it to get too ripe in the meantime. Everything but the bananas can be kept in the basement where it's cold or in a bin in the refrigerator to slow down the ripening process.
5 Pantry Items
1) local maple syrup
2) wild meat
3) spelt berries
4) plain Balkan style yogurt
5) oil
Day 2 - Saturday March 19th
The weekend - yeah!!!
8:00 am Slept in again - what a life.
Put kettle on for some hot water. Added a 1/2 tsp of the orange marmalade to hot water for flavour. Not bad but needs to be strained - chunky bits in my wake-up drink - not that nice.
Getting ready for those yummy oat pancakes...
Oats soaked overnight on the counter and are looking really good.
Add the remaining ingredients (recipe on post for day 1, Inverary team) while cast iron frying pan comes up to temperature. Have used some finely ground oats for the required flour - works really nice. I omit the baking soda and salt because they are not on my pantry list and am confident they will turn out wonderfully.
Add some oil to the hot pan and portion pancake mix using a large cookie scoop. Press down batter so that it's an even thickness throughout. Once nicely browned on both sides and cooked through serve immediately or hold in a warm oven, top the pancakes with leftover marmalade from yesterdays breakfast, some yogurt and maple syrup. What a great breakfast.
Rick packs up to go fishing on Sydenham Lake and takes with him 2 juice boxes, a bagel and a banana. He's hoping to catch some trout, pike or crappie today. Imagine how much fun it is to invite friends to come and share a crappie dinner with you. Would you come?! Perhaps one evening next week we'll enjoy some pan-fried crappie coated with an egg wash and some crushed crackers. Another option for the crappie would be to incorporate it into one of the canned soups I have ; tomato or cream of mushroom - hmmm - along with some veggies from the GFB. It could work...
I also found a website today http://www.cookwithcampbells.ca/en-ca/ that allows you to select the canned Campbell's product you have on hand and they provide an assortment of recipes for you to make with them.
I'm looking at the macaroni casserole recipe to use with one of the boxes of Mac and Cheese for example. And there are many other options as well like:
- Hearty Tomato and Vegetable Soup
- Roasted Tomato & Barley Soup (perhaps sub spelt berries for the barley?)
- Tomato Beef and Mushroom Stew (sub venison for the beef)
- Shepherds pie
Kayla, Rick and I all have thermoses so if we double up on the recipes we should have enough for dinner in the evening and lunch the next day. Have decided to have the spaghetti pie (from yesterdays leftovers) for dinner on Sunday evening.
I've also got 10-lbs of potatoes to use up, and 2 bags of milk. Rick and I aren't milk drinkers so we have to incorporate it into food to enjoy it:
- potato pancakes
- scalloped potatoes
- garlic mashed potatoes
- roasted potatoes
- home fries
- cream of potato, onion and roasted garlic soup
Getting hungry just thinking about all the options.
Since our food hamper includes 1 pkg Beef & Broccoli Stir Fry Mix, it provides inspiration for tonight's dinner menu:
- We have broccoli, garlic, onions and carrots in the GFB
- I have venison steaks in the freezer (pantry item).
- we've got rice in the hamper
Sounds like a winning combination. And with pudding for dessert that should be a nice finish.
I've got some plain yogurt in a coffee filter in the fridge that is straining so I can make some yogurt cheese. If I add some garlic and finely diced onion (that have been sautéed and caramelized first), I've got an appetizer for my dinner guests to serve with crackers. I think they will like that.
Well I'm off to tidy up for my guests. Attending a workshop on Seed Saving this afternoon from 2-3:30 pm so my house and dinner items need to be prepped before I head out.
Looking forward to tonight's meal.
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