Re: It's Early, But Will You Have for Dinner Tonight, Thursday, 11/14/2024?

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:

D wrote:
>

>
>
On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:
>

D wrote:
>

>
>
On Sun, 24 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:

>
(On Solar and cooking)
For now we tested the chest freezer.  Echoflow River 4 (hope I got
that right) can run that freezer for 2 days with no other load.  I
have 2 of the batteries.

>

I could run a crockpot practically forever on the second one.

>

It may not have been obvious but I've been testing recipes based
only on water, broth powders, dried spices and canned goods and
have several good ones.  It's just for fun hopefully but it's also
nice to know.  I haven't posted all of them because some folks here
are too critical about cans other than tomatoes for some reason.
>
Next one will be checking Spam recipes.  Since Don and I like Spam,
it's an obvious angle to look at.  I worked out a canned chicken
tortilla soup already.
>
My 'Something new' also encompasses recipes.  Some of them use my
own dehydrated apples from the 2 trees glut of a crop.

>

Dehydrated apples are (Omitted politics) snacks! I still have not
forgotten about buying a dehydrator!
>
What about grains? Do you store big buckets of grain? I knew a
prepper once who insisted on having huge barrels of grains in his
cellar in the country side.

>
Here you've gotten off the line of what I'm doing.  I'm not a 'prepper'
from my take on what you mean.  I bake so have flour.  Don and I like
the effect of cooking dry beans with broths and seasonings.  For that,
we have dried beans in 16oz bags of 3-4 types.  Navy, blackeyes, large
lima (aka 'butter beans'), and usually something else with aduki being
most common (but may be canned aduki) or pink beans.  Sometimes Canary
yellows from the hispanic store nearest me.  They are just pretty mixed
with aduki.  16oz is not a prepper.
>
I stock storm supplies for hurricanes (common to my area) so at this
time, I look though for expired things and cook them up.  Normal
behavior to prevent waste of canned goods to long in the tooth for
eating.

This is very exotic! Having lived most of my life in europe, hurricans are completely foreign to me! We have the odd winter storm, but never anything to write home about.