Thursday, November 10, 2011

What to eat?


Tofu and Veggies in Peanut Sauce
photo and recipe courtesy of: all recipes.com

Do you have a pantry full of food and don't know what to make?

I was looking for meal planning blogs and ran across this site: supercook.com
Hmmmmm, "Save money by using what you all ready have in your pantry". 

All meal planning aside, I'm intrigued. Yes, we would all like to save a bit of money. And yes, I do feel like I am constantly at the grocery store, going down every aisle, trotting home with a car full of groceries. And then, the question, "What should we have for dinner?" You open the refrigerator, which is busting out at the seams, lean over, squinting your eyes, waiting for inspiration to strike. Go to the pantry, gleaming with tasty treats waiting to get baked and still your mind is drawing a blank. Then you get angry cause you just spent a gazillion (is that a word?) bucks on food and you have no idea how to put it together. Or the other scenario. You feel that you've eaten everything in the kitchen and can't conjure up one more meal. Yep, this happens to me, sometimes. Wouldn't it be nice to have a little elf in the kitchen, guiding you along every meal? 
Well, I think this site is the answer.

Curried Fish
photo courtesy of: eatingwell.com

In their overview they state "solving the practical problems of modern home cooks: how to waste less food,
how to use up perishable or seasonal ingredients, how to keep track of everything in the kitchen, how to save time and money." Music to my ears.

By signing up, (its free!) you can start entering your ingredients, EVERYTHING IN YOUR KITCHEN! It starts tallying up recipes it finds from its database as you go. Using ingredients you all ready have. If you run out of an item, just delete it from the list. You can even save recipes you like. There's a really cool section called " Do you have . . .", it will tell you which flavors go well together.

Apple Pie with cheddar crust
photo courtesy of: marthastewart.com

OK I'm sold! I am up to over 2,000 recipes now! Who knew my kitchen had all that. I looked through a few of the recipes and yes, my kitchen is NOT lacking like I thought. Let's see, Apple Pie with Cheddar Crust, Jamaican Carrots, Banana Flax Pancakes and Butternut Squash with Goat Cheese, to name a few.
I am still adding ingredients as there is a lot in our pantry.
That's just it. We have a lot and sometimes I throw my hands in the air cause I don't know what to make.

Thanks to this site (can you tell I love it?) I have some help and inspiration!

Crustless Broccoli Cheddar Quiche
photo courtesy of: marthastewart.com

Maybe I'll try the Maple Squash Puree or the Orange Glazed Carrots. All I know is this, I am not going to the grocery store for a few days. Ohhhhh maybe there's a recipe for homemade wine! Do I have grapes? Nope. Oh well, one small little trip won't hurt and not for the grapes!!

 P.S. Under entrees I have a recipe for Tuna Fudge Training Dog Treats. Boy, won't my family be surprised!!

Happy Eating!!!

Posted by Liz at 8:53 PM

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The Magpie's Nest

by Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests. So she put all the birds round her and began to show them how to do it. First of all she took some mud and made a sort of round cake with it.

"Oh, that's how it's done!" said the thrush, and away it flew - and so that's how thrushes build their nests.

Then the magpie took some twigs and arranged them round in the mud.

"Now I know all about it!" said the blackbird, and off it flew - and that's how the blackbirds make their nests to this very day.

Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.

"Oh, that 's quite obvious!" said the wise owl, and away it flew - and owls have never made better nests since.

After this the magpie took some twigs and twined them round the outside.

"The very thing!" said the sparrow, and off he went - so sparrows make rather slovenly nests to this day.

Well, then Madge magpie took some feathers and stuff, and lined the nest very comfortably with it.

"That suits me!" cried the starling, and off it flew - and very comfortable nests have starlings.

So it went on, every bird taking away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them waiting to the end.

Meanwhile Madge magpie went on working and working without looking up, till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across, so she said, "One's enough."

But the turtle-dove kept on saying, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

Then the magpie got angry and said, "One's enough, I tell you!"

Still the turtle-dove cried, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rarely angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again.

And that is why different birds build their nests differently.