Author: Livia N

Food I have
Produce
65 tomatoes
several potatoes
2 huge cucumbers
parsley
2 leaves of lettuce (shut up, I’ve been working on it)
carrots
onions
roasted garlic
1 apricot
salad greens

Meat
strips of london broil (1-2 meals) [note: this was a different london broil, I promise)
roast beef leftovers (1-3 meals)
bacon

dairy
a little bit of sour cream
a little bit of heavy cream – make tea
chive and roasted garlic cream cheese
a good bit of opened chevre
a wedge of something that looks yummy and moldy
open mild cheddar

other
heel ends of white bread
loaf of wheat bread
2 tortillas

Meals?

• cucumber and chevre on wheat
• salad with onions, tomato, almonds, moldy cheese, and london broil strips with vinaigrette
• something with the beef roast… stroganof if it’s not too hot to cook…
• quesadillas with onions, tomatoes, beef, jalepeno peppers, cheese, beef
• Hash – to use up the beef and the potatoes, but I’ve been
  making this a lot lately

Now to figure out the order.

Maybe I’ll buy yogurt and make the other cucumber into tzatziki sauce.

Okay, so there was a lot of food cooking this weekend. The lamb was around the tenth level of awesome, and I ended up having someone to help me eat it – and *still* had leftovers. And then I made stock… even though I have no room in my freezer. Right. So. Making lists.

Bread products
heel ends of honey wheat loaf
tortilla chips
pita bread
banana bread (brought that into work and am eating it now)

Meat products
1/2 leg of lamb (packaged up and ready to be frozen as soon as I sort through and compact the freezer) – frozen
roasted lamb leftovers
1 sandwich-worth of cold cuts
stock on the stove in the fridge

Dairy
whole milk (reaching expiration fairly soon)
gorgonzola cheese
habanero cheese slices
horseradish cheddar
sour cream
yogurt cheese
tzatziki sauce
seasoned yogurt sauce

Produce
carrots
lemons?
grapes
jalepeno peppers
6 tomatoes
partial head of red lettuce
spinach
2 cucumbers
1 zucchini
scallions
2 bananas
leftover mashed potatoes

Monday (no commitments)
strain stock and put in fridge
clean out freezer
sandwich: bread ends, cold cuts, lettuce, habanero cheese, tomato, seasoned yogurt sauce
maybe also a bowl of cereal with a banana

Tuesday(no commitments)
risotto: lamb stock, red wine, truffle essence, zucchini, sour cream, spinach?
freeze risotto
lamb & spinach curry
And cucumber and tomatoes – should I marinate in balsamic or a lighter vinegar and dill?

Wednesday
1/2 day, going out to dinner with my mom

Thursday
dinner after work with <[redacted]> and [redacted] – ACK! Are you guys picky eaters? Could I cook? Please?

I’m feeling a bit self conscious about all the food lists. Here’s part of the deal – growing up, we always had plenty of food. We could have fed an army (a large one) for a month through careful management of the food stores in our house at any time. But that also meant that where was a good deal of wastage in our vegetable drawer.

So if I make lists and keep track of everything, I can (theoretically) eat everything before it spoils and I won’t waste. There you go.

Okay, so in this entry I scheduled the food consumption for the entire week. And I still had to freeze a piece of meat to wait until the following week.

Only now my grocery store is having some nice meat specials:
boneless skinless chicken breasts: $1.58/lb
beef chuck steak (with bone): $.99/lb
mutton (MUTTON!): $1.99/lb
(note: specials end on Friday)

And my freezer is just about full!

Oh noes!

So now I need to figure out how to use up the things in my freezer before such time as the meat would be in dire need of freezing.

Things in my freezer
in the door:
-packets of frozen chicken breasts (6 or so)
-packets of frozen ground beef (3)
-packet of frozen ground beef cooked with taco seasoning (1 large)
-box of phyllo dough
-frozen steaks (2)
-partial bag of pecans

far left:
-stacks of frozen lunches (these can be moved to work, but I like to reserve the space for future lunches)
-boxes of butter (2)
-pint of peach sorbet
-there’s a thin box of something I can’t remember what
-bag of corn (1)
-bag of peas (1/4)
-container with frozen egg whites
-container with frozen waste grease
-small container of chicken fat

far right:
-ice cube container
-ice cube trays (3) (2 are freezing coconut milk)
-bag with 5 bagels
-marinating london broil
-failed rolls (my mother made them – they are terrible rolls, but great as bread in soup or other things, very tasty, but poor texture)

middle: (most likely to be easily used up)
-gallon bag of chicken stock ice cubes
-quart bag of chicken stock ice cubes
-gallon bag of chicken gravy ice cubes
-gallon bag (so far half full) of coconut milk ice cubes
-tray of fat back cut into strips (I can give this to my mother)
-bacon rind
-bacon (1lb)
-bag of 2 bagels (2)
-bag of 3 bagels (1) – (I can give this one to [redacted])
-chicken backs
-small bottle of vodka (2)

So it looks like I should either make soup or eat a lot of bagels, and I’m not really ready to do either.

Conclusion: If I make a lot of soup, will someone else eat it for me?