Sunday, October 14, 2007

Let the Feasting Begin

If I could only remember the opening from Iron Chef. Your secret ingredients for today are.............................

Canned Meats
Tuna in oil
Corned Beef
Sardines

Canned Fruit & Veg
Pineapple
Peaches
Mixed Fruit Cocktail
Pears
Garbanzo Beans
Lentils
Beets
Peas
Corn
Mixed Vegetables
Diced Tomatoes
Tomato Paste
Oil- vegetable
Tons of fruit juice

Fresh Produce
Mangos only summer
Apples reputation as mealy
Dates
Mandarins, almost in season
Watermelon
Oranges, going out of season
Limes- sometimes
Cucumber= just in season
Carrots
Eggplant
Bananas
Onion
Potato
Tomato
Okra
Beets
Squash tastes like acorn enormous that you buy in wedges
Cabbage- tiny green heads
Peppers red and green
Red hot pepper
Raisins


Dry Goods
Corn Flakes
Weetabix= whole grain cereal
Oatmeal Quaker quick oats
Beans- look like black eyed peas
Lentils if they are peachy colored otherwise we don't know what they are
Rice
Couscous
Pasta, spaghetti and macaroni
Flour
Maize
Millet
Whole Wheat can be ground
Peanut-raw
Powered Milk
White Bread
Yeast
Dried Fish
Dried Onion
Popped popcorn, so there must be kernels

Dairy
Canned Cream- texture of sour cream but not sour
Evaporated Milk sweetened
Whole Milk- cow
Eggs
Butter
Fruity yogurt
Goat and Camel milk
Yogurt smoothie drink in strawberry and pear/peach medley
Vache Qui Riz cheese

"Fresh" Meat
Camel
Goat
Sheep
Chicken
Fish that looks old

Garden hopefuls
Herbs, basil, parsley, chives, etc
Carrots
Beets
Cauliflower doubtful
Radishes
Tomatoes
Sweet Pumpkin
Jalapeno

Other
Mint- fresh
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Sugar
Soy Sauce
Hot Pepper Sauce
A few Spice mixes still undetermined
Nestles Quick chocolate
Dijon Mustard ish
Ketchup
Mayonnaise with no refrig, need to use the jar 8oz pretty quickly, too expensive for a couple of tsp.
Crappy Vinegar
Nescafe
Tea
Nutella ish
Honey

Candy
Coke and all Fanta flavors
Caramels – stale
Mars Bars - stale
Twix
Snickers
Bounty
Lots of average cookies
One that is good and similar to a graham cracker
Jelly strawberry and date

We cook on a one burner propane tank, we can manage 2 burners at once…also in the process of buying an enormous toaster oven.

As you can see, there is a dizzing array to choose from.

Let the feasting begin

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