Yikes! We sure have a lot of leftovers around here. Ground beef ‘taco meat’, Spanish rice, a serving of white rice, black beans, and at least two pounds of ‘Cuban’ roast pork! Plus roomie bought a large pizza for our dinner last night, and there are four slices left.
Well, I got rid of a little this morning. Breakfast was a ‘Taco Joe’, taco meat made into a sandwich. I’m going to have to repackage stuff and freeze it.
(Oh, and there’s kale and collard greens waiting to be cooked. And catfish in the freezer.)
We can always use tomatoes! I rarely eat them myself, but roomie does. There’s a little stand not far from here. Just a shed with an opening front. The homeowner puts out tomatoes, squash, and other things. People take what they want and put money into a locked box.
Too bad my medical isn’t scheduled until next week, and I haven’t scheduled a flight review yet. Three hundred miles would be a nice cross-country. (And roomie could fly shotgun! )
C’mon down! We’ve been roasting the things a full baking pan at a time, with peppers and garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper, then making bruschetta with it. It’s terrific, but how many tomatoes can a person eat? I think she now has an eye to doing some sort of canning with them, or maybe just roasting and freezing them. We gave away baggies of them to our Meals on Wheels people yesterday. Warm weather returns next week, and with the current rain the remaining toms are going to erupt. Hell, the bushes are still producing flowers!
Roomie bought corn tortillas. If I buy some avocados she can make guacamole. We have jalapeños and onions. I’ve some cilantro frozen in the freezer. I wonder if it’s good thawed? Anyway, I foresee frying up some pork and making ‘carnitas’ tacos.
Alas, cilantro doesn’t freeze well. So the ‘carnitas’ tacos will have to be without.
I’ve used up the black beans and Spanish rice. Four massive pork, Spanish rice, and black bean burritos, and two huge ground beef taco meat, black bean, and shredded Cheddar cheese burritos are now wrapped, put into zip-top bags, and stowed in the freezer. There’s about a quart of shredded pork for tacos later.
Now I need to figure out what to do with the extra flour tortillas…
Recipe:
4 cups of diced, fresh tomatoes
3 cups of diced sweet onion
1/2 cup diced cilantro
1 or 2 finely diced serano peppers (depending how spicy you like it)
1 tsp fine garlic
1/2-1 tsp salt
dash pepper
the juice of one med lime.
Roomie fried up the pork with some olive oil, and made the guacamole. I steamed corn tortillas and chopped the onion. (And chopped up some jalapeños for me to put in my guac.)
Heh. There’s certainly enough for a few hungry Dopers! Six Man Vs. Food-sized burritos are in the freezer. Pizza was finished for lunch yesterday. Making a dent in the remaining pork.
We still need to cook the greens, and roomie might make catfish today. She bought two pounds, and I assume she’s going to thaw all of it. With greens and maybe some mac’n’cheese, there will be leftovers again…
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