Recycled Food: Sourdough “Scallion Pancake”

Avoid waste: Use up your sourdough starter for this appetizer When I make sourdough bread, I always end up with a ton of extra sourdough starter after a while because I feed the starter to keep it fermenting, but end up with more than I need for the batches of bread...

PANTRY COOKING: PANCAKES

These might very well be the best pancakes in the world. It’s my recipe, probably stolen in my twenties, but I changed it over the years to make it my own. I used to work in a diner, so I have an unnatural love for breakfast twenty-four hours a day. It’s...

INFLATION BUSTING

Prices are rising. I’m not sure how much… Prices are definitely going up and the “official numbers” don’t show it accurately because they don’t measure the things I buy. Milk stayed about the same at the big store, but chicken food...

EMPTY SHELF COOKING (“No Fear” meals)

I went shopping right before the pandemic. Things looked good. There was bread and milk. Less than a week later, lines wrapped around the store and shelves were empty. People rushed the fork lift guy for water. They cleaned out the toilet paper aisle–then bought...

Menu 3

This week: I did some canning and  also cleaned out the pantry. I know what foods need to be used up… and there are a lot. So, I’ll focus on using those ingredients over the next few weeks.  BREAKFAST Your choice of the following: chef-style eggs (boiled,...