I need to make room in my freezer, so this’ll be a more long term food list than usual.
Also, I need to use up more food in the next couple months because I have a gift certificate to the local grocery store, but I have to use it all in one go and I’ve gotten used to a lot of little trips instead of one big one.
Food I have
Produce
2 onions
3 lbs russet potatoes
no garlic!
1 bunch broccoli rabe
1 bunch (3) beets w/ greens
ginger
1/3 bag baby carrots
1 white coconut
1 pt coconut water from another coconut (so half the total)
Meat – fridge
a lot (2 1/2 lbs?) of ham
chicken stock
1/4 pound of bacon
Meat – freezer
stock (in cubes)
gravy (in cubes)
8-ish chicken breasts (frozen in packets of 1 or 2)
2 thick pork chops
1 hamburger patty made from ground turkey
bag of small turkey meatballs
bag of mini italian-flavored turkey meatballs
several links of turkey sausage
1/2 pkg kosher hot dogs (and possibly another whole one buried in the depths)
1 mystery steak (beef? pork? It was hard to tell with the last one I cooked)
cubed raw pork
cubes of pork roast
1 beef roast (saving for Roman cooking workshop)
2-3 pork tenderloin roasts
1-3 packages of meat (beef? pork?) cut thin for stir fry
1 bag of chicken parts for stock – enough for 1 batch
Dairy
qt whole milk
a little bit of heavy cream
scallion cream cheese
single-serve flavored yogurts
parmesan
2 packages of cheddar cheese
starch – in fridge
rice (plain white, basmati, sticky)
flour (bread, wheat, rye)
1 pie crust
2 packages tortillas
Miscellaneous things in freezer
pecan halves
2 cubes of mom’s vegetable soup
vodka
phyllo dough
package of rolls that would make a good stuffing or soup ingredient
cubes of elderberry concentrate with wine and stuff
bag of onion peels and things for stock
bagels
rolls of stuffed cabbage (from mother)
bag of blackberries
turning that into food
Meals
Tuesday, March 18
potatoes, ham, onion, beets
Wednesday, March 19
start a potato & ham soup – 3/24/08
eat: broccoli rabe sauteed with mini meatballs with pasta sauce over spaghetti
Thursday, March 20
buy crusty bread – eat soup
Friday, March 21
soup again.
pull out a pork roast to thaw
Saturday, March 22
@ parents’ – give mom any soup that’s left
Sunday, March 23
Do something with the coconut! (Thai soup? African stew?)
roast pork
Week of March 24-28
alternate between soup and sandwiches made from the roast pork or the ham leftovers