Monday, October 22, 2007

Help! My kictchen is overflowing!

I have a couple posts I've been preparing but I could not wait another minute to ask this question. I just took an inventory of my kitchen because it's been looking so full recently. I now realize my kitchen situation is OUT OF CONTROL! The following is a list of what is currently in my fridge, freezer and cupboard...

Sweet potatoes
Cauliflower
Lettuce
Tomato (fresh and canned diced)
Onions
Green peppers
Garlic
Potatoes
Carrots
Celery
Spinach
Broccoli
Peas
Corn
Canned pumpkin

Turkey
Ham
Chicken breasts
Ground Pork
Ground Beef

Chicken broth (about 12 cans!)
Brown rice
Couscous
Pasta & Egg noodles
Split peas
Oats
Cornmeal
Breadcrumbs
Cornstarch
Croutons

Cheese
Eggs
Buttermilk
Milk
Butter

Can you see how out of control this is?? Please give me dinner ideas!! Side note -- I'll be going out of town this weekend and again next weekend so maybe I should be looking for things I can make and freeze. I love soup, maybe that's what I should do. You can freeze soup right?

11 comments:

Annee said...
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Annee said...

carrots, celery, 2 cans of chicken broth (plus two cans of water), chicken and some herbs like tyme, oregano, a bay leaf, whatever you have. Boil all that together until the veggies are soft. Then throw in the egg noodles for a few more minutes. And there you have fabulous homemade chicken noodle soup. It's so simple. And YES it can be frozen for probably up to a month.

Annee said...

You could easily make homemade spaghetti sauce. Saute the onions, peppers and garlic. Add one or two cans of diced tomatoes. Do you have any tomatoe paste? Anyway, play with it with the liquids until it's the consistency you desire. In a separate pan you can brown you beef, and or pork, then throw that into the sauce. Freeze that and you can have delicious homemade sauce anytime. Oh yeah, add some spices also, mostly basil and oregano, salt and pepper. That will be delicious too.

Annee said...

p.s. What did YOU have in mind when you bought all that stuff? If you have good ideas, you should share them too.

Split peas, potatoes, cauliflours could all be cooked together in chicken broth and spices (nutmeg would work here), then pureed into a delicious soup. Throw ham in at the end. Freez that too.

I'm on fire here. Just imagine how much great food my family would be eating this week with all that stuff on hand. I guess I should go grocery shopping.

Rachel F. said...

I have the carrots, celery, and chicken broth leftover from making chicken noodle soup twice last week.

I bought the sweet potato and the cauliflower to make one of Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious recipes (http://www.deceptivelydelicious.com/site/). They look so good! I just have to make one now...

The rest (lettuce, tomatoes, onions, peppers, peas, corn, broc, etc) are basically just the things I have on hand at all times. All the meat on hand is pretty unusual but they've just built up.

Rachel F. said...

I think this recipe sounds soooo good!

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1041985

Of course, squash is the one things I DON'T have right now.. Maybe I could use sweet potatoes instead?

Rachel F. said...

hmmm that link didn't paste well.

Just go to myrecipes.com it's the cover recipe, with the pasta and the squash and the peas. the Fresh Vegetable Penne. mmmm

Lisa and Mike Marion said...

Fajitas, soup and corn bread, puff- oven pancakes

Lisa and Mike Marion said...

i have a marvelous meatball recipe too- bread crumbs, beef and pork. pumpkin cookies and pumpkin pancakes.

Lisa and Mike Marion said...

vegeatble lasagne

sarah said...

Get a jalapeno and some cilantro and some tortilla chips and make annee's salsa (uses tomatoes, green pepper, and onion that you have). Then brown some ground beef and use your lettuce, rice & corn to make a taco salad. Make some corn bread to serve on the side.

You should start cooking for your roommates.