Food

[Neferti]

I buy fresh food twice a week - and I don't like throwing out food either, so I try to be practical, although not always. You don't need much space. I have a tiny freezer too. If I see some nice slices of beef - I'll buy a kg or so and cut it into a few portions and freeze it. I'll throw all the leftover vegetables into a stew or soup. Potatoes and carrots keep for a while if they're stored properly and I generally use frozen peas and beans. Fresh beans don't keep for long. Even though I don't buy frozen meals - I use tinned products like pineapple, tuna, salmon, beetroot etc.

I buy fresh fruit, vegetables and meat (mostly filet or Porterhouse steak but some chicken breasts, etc.) and wrap the meat into single portions and freeze them. I don't keep very much frozen packaged food, except for the ones I have mentioned. Nice to just turn on the oven and pop something in. I keep sliced bread in the freezer and take that out, 2 slices at a time, to make a sandwich for lunch. I don't make soups or stews and only cook enough vegetables for one serving at a time. Like you I keep frozen peas and beans, although I do often buy fresh beans, just a handful (say 2 servings). I do not use tinned food.

[Neferti]

I rarely use packaged food and apportion the chicken, meat, fish etc into the portions I will need. I always make my own chicken schnitzels etc and it doesn't take much room to store chicken breasts, steak, fish. Just don't put them into the freezer in blobs. I repackage steak if I buy it from Coles and take it out of those bulky plastic trays. Chicken breasts and fish store easily by packaging them individually and mince can be flattened out.

You can store many many more times the amount of fresh food in the freezer than you can items in bulky packaging. It just takes a few minutes of thought and time.

Like I said above, I repackage meat into single portions. Should I rarely buy minced beef, chicken or pork (for rissoles, meatballs, stir fry etc) I package that in portions for one meal. You can always defrost another portion if you want to. I do not buy Woollies "prepared" meat products (schnitzels, meatballs, stir fried beef etc). NEVER eat sausages! I don't trust the local Woollies Deli so don't buy "fresh" fish, etc there.

Apart from the sliced bread and maybe 3 frozen packaged things (Salmon, Chicken Kiev, etc) I keep a small tub of icecream up there. I don't keep "leftovers" in the freezer as I prefer to start from scratch and if there is a small amount left over (vegetables or a casserole) I use the Microwave to warm that up the next day or so.

Oh, and although I never eat sausages I do buy Kransky every so often and serve that with boiled potatoes and sour cream .... very yummy and very filling! I have trouble getting through one Kransky.

[AiA in Atlanta]

[Neferti]

Dinner tonight is:

Pan fried porterhouse steak
Potatoes pre-cooked in the microwave and "browned" with the steak
Fresh green beans
A vegie "combination" I made yesterday using

sliced onions
mushrooms
tomatoes
various fresh herbs

Gravy? A slurp of wine and some water in the steak juices.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Two days ago I misplaced a slice of Muenster cheese.
It is still missing.

Found it!!!



Is it true that American cheese tastes like Palmolive soap?

whose legs was it between?

americans like processed "cheese." that shit tastes worse than palmolive.

[Neferti]

americans like processed "cheese." that shit tastes worse than palmolive.

That is what I have heard too. They seem to add processed "cheese" to just about everything as well. I am sure some of their cheese is OK though.

[Neferti]

OK, tonight I am doing Swiss Potato Rosti



http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/cris ... atoes.aspx

You need potatoes (grated) and not much else. Delicious. If you have ravenous males or teens with hollow legs, you might need to produce a filling dessert involving chocolate.

[AiA in Atlanta]

The same can be said of modern beef and pork and it explains why I don't eat chicken so often. I get my beef from a local rancher and it is flavorful. From the grocery store not so much. Chicken? A blank slate. Now I know why.

Why everything now tastes like chicken — except chicken

http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/fo ... m=Facebook

[lisa jones]

OK, tonight I am doing Swiss Potato Rosti



http://www.finecooking.com/recipes/cris ... atoes.aspx

You need potatoes (grated) and not much else. Delicious. If you have ravenous males or teens with hollow legs, you might need to produce a filling dessert involving chocolate.

I'm gonna try this tonight. Thanks Nef for the idea

[mantra]

Why everything now tastes like chicken — except chicken

I'm not a fan of chicken and prefer beef - occasionally lamb, over anything else. Even fish doesn't taste that great lately. Maybe it's the mercury, but it generally has a tinny taste.

You need potatoes (grated) and not much else. Delicious. If you have ravenous males or teens with hollow legs, you might need to produce a filling dessert involving chocolate.

It looks like a pizza.

When I make a pizza - I use Lebanese bread - usually the small one, with a barbecue sauce on the base - then finely sliced spanish onion, capsicum, jalapeno's - pickled or raw, shredded beef or chicken, olives and a sprinkle of grated cheese. 20 minutes in a 200 degree oven and you've got a delicious thin, crisp pizza. Any topping is fine - except tomato which makes it go soggy.