January Pantry Challenge | Week #3 | Balancing My Diet

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number three it's fish night tonight I had a craving a little bit of a craving that was generated by Rachel I was talking to her on the phone last night she said you should get some of that salmon you caught Last fall we canned and made some salmon burgers and I thought, you know what sounds really good, this is how they turned out. I think they look amazing. I still have two more cooking in the pan. I had to keep an eye on them, but I was ready to eat and then I realized I probably should have made some mayonnaise, gotten some of our zucchini sauce from below, and made some tartar sauce because I don't have sauce to go. on these, but I hope they're good enough on their own that they'll be enough um oh yeah, the meat is so meaty almost like crab meat, it reminds me of the man and I did it, you guys would be so proud of me.

Tonight I made vegetables instead of just meat, so few peas I found in the freezer upstairs, freshly cooked with a little butter, a little salt and pepper, hmm, okay, they may have burned a little on the freezer, so what's happening this

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? I have today's Wednesday. um, in last week's video I mentioned that over the weekend it was my birthday, when actually my birthday was on Monday this week, my mom took me out to dinner on Monday, I had pizza, and then I had leftover pizza for dinner on Tuesday. , what brings us today, that is. Wednesday and making sure I don't burn my last two salmon burgers and I really don't know what I have planned for the rest of the week.

I didn't defrost anything, but I'll think of something we'll fall back on. the

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together and we'll find something and we'll do it so see you next time we cook thank you thank you foreigner foreigner what's for dinner Pantry Challenge in a while it's 540 something I got home at five o'clock I left the gym today and in 40 minutes I prepared all of this food, including repositioning and filming the camera, so you can probably do it yourself in about a third of that time. The camera adds about three times as much time to projects like this, which is good. because I came home from the gym I was starving I wanted pasta I wanted meat in the

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I found some jars of that sausage that I canned earlier this year that we had I don't remember if they were two or three packages from the store - I bought sausages in the freezer that were starting to go bad so I canned them all and it's a really handy way to have some precooked meat ready to go to throw into something or just eat straight out of the jar so go with it. meat I needed pasta I had some egg noodles, we always have them in stock in our pantry, two or three bags, usually at a time when I run out, I buy two or three more so I always have them.

They're great for simple, easy meals like this and they're cheap, you get that whole bag for like a dollar fifty something um, let's see, first I cooked the pasta, drained it, saved the water and then added the onions with a little bit of chive oil and some chives. to cook the onions I added the sausage I added some garlic I added some hot pepper Cento that red pepper that I really like a little bit of pasta water to make a sauce and some heavy whipping cream we still have heavy whipping cream left over Christmas and I'm still using it, it's great.

I have not tried it yet. I've been talking the whole time, so let me take a bite, very, very good, that meat melts like you don't even make it. I have to chew it, it just melts completely, so what is today Friday today Friday yesterday? I had leftover crab cakes from Wednesday today Friday that will probably feed me for dinner tomorrow so it's just me still cooking and I make a lot of food because I used to cook for two people so now every time I cook I have food for two days, so Rachel is still scheduled.

I hope next weekend I'll be back in town so you guys can see Rachel again and I'll get to see Rachel again I miss her. It feels like we were talking last night about how we like to video chat every night. I was trying to figure out if she was gone three weeks or two because it feels like three, but it's really only been two. so we'll see her soon and I'll see you the next time I cook, which will probably be Sunday. See you then thanks laughter foreign foreigner so I think I changed my mind about three different times while I was making this dinner yesterday I thought about package our meat for stew from our goats that we raised for four years, five years, it was an expensive goat when we harvested them .

I chose two different options, one I wanted to use like that Harissa spice which is like one from North Africa. I think that's maybe where it originated from and then I also thought about using a Jamaican type seasoning. I wanted a clay pot because that's what I like to cook, sometimes there can be a lot of connective tissue, some silvery skin in there and I really wanted to cook it. I cleaned it up a little when I started cooking it just to make sure some of the big chunks were removed. In the end I ended up throwing in a whole onion, two large tablespoons of garlic, half Harissa seasoning and half Shawarma seasoning. a little bit of water and let this cook, it's been cooking for nine hours in the crock pot.

I put it on early this morning, oh man that's so cute, amazing, good, very good, I cooked some rice with it and I ruined the rice. I have done this before. We have like four different burners on our stove and one of them is like this, a small burner and I mean, cooking rice is pretty simple. You know, you like to bring it to a boil. put the lid on it, just add a timer for 20 minutes, turn it down to low, if I use that little burner on our stove on low, it's not hot enough so I had to try to cook my rice like 10 minutes longer and that's it I know I don't think the rice is very good, it's too doughy, whatever it is, that's why I didn't put as much on my plate to go with it.

I went down to the pantry this morning, bought a jar of beats, a quart jar. beets I put them in the refrigerator early this morning to cool because I like my beets really cold now that I've cooked my rice for 30 35 minutes my beads are now warm so what else is going on today Sunday? Yesterday I had leftover pasta. Today they received about two and a half inches of snow. The basement beam project we were supposed to start this week. My beams arrived on Wednesday. They're at the sawmill, but my truck is in the shop. I can't go get them like it's a rental car, but it's like a small car, so I can't transport 12 foot long beams in this small car unless I put them on the roof or something and I'm sure that the dealer wouldn't like me doing that to the rental car, so I'm going to enjoy my dinner and 6 20.

I'm almost done with soccer game number one, soccer game number two starting now, so I'm going to enjoy. my dinner and then sit and watch football for the rest of the night see you soon this turned out well I wish I had ruined my rice