Post-Pandemic Cuisine

Good old chicken carcass soup
I'll take a whole chicken get most of the meat off for stir fry or something and use the carcass for soup
Most of the time none makes it to the freezer for later
Ya gotta have the bones in the pot to make soup using just white meat don't cut it
Oh Yeah and cracked pepper in each bowl
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Wife has taken to making a "gumbo". I put that in quotes because I've been reliably informed that if it doesn't start with a roux, it ain't gumbo.

Spicy Chicken Soup starts like the above, To the chicken stock she adds okra, ditalini pasta, onions, peppers and a healthy splash of thick-and-chunky salsa. Like many things, the longer it sits in the fridge, the better it gets.
 
Wife has taken to making a "gumbo". I put that in quotes because I've been reliably informed that if it doesn't start with a roux, it ain't gumbo.

Spicy Chicken Soup starts like the above, To the chicken stock she adds okra, ditalini pasta, onions, peppers and a healthy splash of thick-and-chunky salsa. Like many things, the longer it sits in the fridge, the better it gets.
ditalini pasta I might have to try that with something that has a cream sauce
Chicken parmesan with ditalini pasta covered with alfredo sauce
I'm stuck at home but we both love to cook so I guess it's time to have a homemade cookie and get the receipe cards out
 
When I worked in Africa, one of the other engineers was a Scot and he used to make "Banana Butties" which was a piece of bread with a banana all smashed up and spread on it - like butter. He told us that a "buttie" could be made out of nearly anything that can be mashed up and spread with a knife.

I think I might try one of those things again!

Pete
 
In NZ as kids we used to make banana sandwiches, either mashed or sliced. If we were good we were allowed to sprinkle sugar over the banana so the sandwich crunched when we chewed it. If we had no bananas then just sugar was fine and these were called fairy sandwiches.
 
When I worked in Africa, one of the other engineers was a Scot and he used to make "Banana Butties" which was a piece of bread with a banana all smashed up and spread on it - like butter. He told us that a "buttie" could be made out of nearly anything that can be mashed up and spread with a knife.
I think I might try one of those things again!
Pete

Hi Pete,
a butty (AKA sarnie) is just a North English name for a sandwich.
Named after Lord (or possibly the Earl of) Sandwich who told his servant to bring him a snack that wouldn't make his fingers greasy at the card table.
The open-faced banana sandwich was popularised by being Elvis Presley's favorite comfort food.
Possibly why the white jump suit on display in Graceland is half the width of the white jump suits that photos show Elvis actually wearing.
 
I always use peanut butter to keep the `nana's stuck to the bread sometimes cut the `nana's lengthwise other times into little discs and sometimes go all out and add a layer of Strawberry Preserves to the mix!

Quick, get me to the couch! I feel a sugar coma coming on!
 
Well to get back to some better for you foods. As soon as it warms up a bit more we are going to take the dog for a walk on the access road for the local water department. It goes through the woods across the road from out house.

While there I will be digging up some wild leaks(AKA in some places as ramps)much smaller that the leaks sold in the store but also much stronger until cooked. These will be used to cover the salmon for supper. Mix up some Soy Sauce, brown sugar, veg. oil and water. Toss in some ground pepper and garlic powder. Chop up a handfull of the leaks and let set for an hour or so. Then wrap loosely in aluminum foil and cook on the grill for about 20 minutes while the rice cooks on the stove.
 
Go get some local trout (if you're allowed to go out!). Soon, we'll be past the "peak", moving into to walleye season (around here), and the opportunity for another food source! Yum! More empty plates! :thumbsup:
Maybe I could sneak into the fish hatchery a couple miles down the road and see what they have there!
 
- - - I will be digging up some wild leaks(AKA in some places as ramps)much smaller that the leaks sold in the store but also much stronger until cooked. These will be used to cover the salmon for supper. Mix up some Soy Sauce, brown sugar, veg. oil and water. Toss in some ground pepper and garlic powder. Chop up a handfull of the leaks and let set for an hour or so. Then wrap loosely in aluminum foil and cook on the grill for about 20 minutes while the rice cooks on the stove.

Hi Ken,
had me a serious WTF? moment until it occurred to me that Americans can't spell.
Those wild onion-cousins you are gathering ain't leaks, they're LEEKS!
That settled, nice recipe, thanks.
 
All these excellent recipes have today exposed a significant hole in my very infrequent, supposedly "well planned" shopping trips.
Dwindling spices !!
I went to make a chicken curry tonight, and all I had was curry powder, no garlic or onion :(

....but I did pick up some locally "grown" ground buffalo,

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.....so I'm searching for some recipes, thinking of kicking it up with black pepper perhaps........
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Hi Ken,
had me a serious WTF? moment until it occurred to me that Americans can't spell.
Those wild onion-cousins you are gathering ain't leaks, they're LEEKS!
That settled, nice recipe, thanks.

Sorry about that! Guess there is a bit of a difference between taking a leak in the woods and taking some leeks from the woods!

Well just for a bit of a change substituted honey for the brown sugar in the salmon recipe.

For myself I also did up some roasted brussels sprouts, wife for some reason can not stand them. Then again she has only ever tried them when steamed!

They are easy to make just peel off the dry outer leaves and a bit of the stem. Brush with olive oil and a sprinkle of some seasoning mix then cook in the grill while the salmon is baking. The outer leaves get a little burnt and have a nutty taste. Very different from when steamed or boiled.
 
Brush with olive oil and a sprinkle of some seasoning mix then cook in the grill while the salmon is baking. The outer leaves get a little burnt and have a nutty taste.
Brussel sprouts: This is just what I do. Seasoning: Rosemary, lemon, pinch of salt.
 
I always use peanut butter to keep the `nana's stuck to the bread sometimes cut the `nana's lengthwise other times into little discs and sometimes go all out and add a layer of Strawberry Preserves to the mix!
Peanut butter and sliced grape sandwiches. just had one, yesterday in the basket of my cruiser bike on the bike path at Sandy Hook, one of the last parks open in the state. It's a National Park. Just talked to the young mom, next door. I told her what I read in the paper from a neurosurgeon from Columbia Prebspeterian in NYC. He said the general consensus is that due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus in the US and the world, they have reason to believe the vast majority of people have been infected, already. (And I'm sure a lot of you heard this.) She then confided to me she believes that is the case as two of her young boys were sick in early February. One required breathing treatments and the other just an inhaler. Her oldest, a daughter, 7 was not affected. My wife and I went to Robert Woods Johnson Rutgers University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ on Dec 30, '19 to see a doctor. I received a flu shot while there. (Rutgers University was the first college in the state to close to prevent the spread of coronavirus.) Two days later, my wife had chills and was in bed for 3 days with a headache, aches and pains and fatigue. On Jan 5, I was sick and wiped out with a severe headache, nausea and vomiting for 3 days, then achy and fatigued for 2 more weeks and congested and short of breath for 3 more weeks after that. At the time, I suspected we both had a 48 hour virus as the acute symptoms lasted for a short time, but my fatigue and continued body aches led me to believe I may have gotten the flu, instead. My brother had a persistent sore throat and congestion for the whole month of January and into February. (I keep a daily log of activities, so I can tell you what I had for lunch on March 31, 2018) Just four days after getting out of bed, we had a record high temp of 70 degrees in early January, so we took a walk on the beach in Sandy Hook, then went to a steamy, crowded Irish pub in Belmar, just 15 miles south of the Hook, loaded with families, young kids, teens, all with their parents. In January, no one mentioned the possibility of the coronavirus being on these shores. Then the CDC said the reason it spread so quickly was probably due to it being here weeks before it was detected. This might be good news for most of us.
 
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