Wednesday Morning Kitchen Duty

This morning found me in the kitchen making my iced tea while putting the dishes away from the dishwasher. I'd already had my coffee and a fried egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast. I am already out of oatmeal and need to make another trip to the Bulk Barn. I am in the process of writing down my shopping list for the first of the month. My freezers are getting very full with my garden veggies, so I thought I would take some of those frozen whole tomatoes to make a pasta sauce. The cores are already removed, so I just dumped them into my largest bowl and poured boiling water over top. That way the skins slip right off them. I have run out of fresh onions , so I added dehydrated onion, chopped peppers from the freezer, granulated garlic and the usual Italian seasonings.

Frozen whole tomatoes and seasonings in the crock pot. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had cooked up 4 or 5 slices of bacon the other night to make the pizza. So I fried up the rest of the package and put cooked bacon back in the freezer for future meals.

 

The kitchen has been kind of smelly the last couple of days. I thought it was the garbage can,  but it turns out there were a couple of rotten potatoes in the  bag. That surprised me because potatoes generally don't last long enough in this house to go bad. I decided to peel and cut all the spuds that were still left in the bag. Some of them were kind of soft and others I had to cut away huge chunks from. After they were thoroughly washed, I left them to soak in very cold water.  I emptied the kitchen compost once again of all the peelings into the outside composter.  I noticed that it is a beautiful day outside today, but I had things to do inside. 

Potatoes left soaking in cold water

I took out one of my containers of turkey broth from the freezer and placed it in my soup pot with more dehydrated onion, salt, pepper and thyme. To it I added a few cherry tomatoes, burgundy beans, the rest of the carrots from the other night that I brought in from the garden, and some zucchini of mine that I froze earlier in the summer. I added corn that I removed from a batch of corn on the cob back in August, and some limp celery from the crisper. I sliced off the bottom of the celery and placed the stalks in a glass of water to firm up. Ten minutes before eating some for lunch, I added the chopped turkey meat from the freezer, a container of kidney beans that I previously cooked in the crock pot and then froze, and a handful of peperini pasta that I bought on clearance. (a 500 gm pkg. for 49 cents). It is very "stick to your ribs" good. 

Soup pot simmering on the stove

While the soup was still simmering, I boiled all the potatoes. I saved some to make potato salad for tonight's dinner, and the rest of them I mashed and put in a large freezer bag so it wouldn't take up too much room in the freezer.  I was able to save most of the potatoes and I have some prepared ahead for another meal. The soup will last several days for lunches. I have cooked crisped bacon to add to recipes or to make  toasted BLT sandwiches, and I will have marinara sauce for another meal, or two.

I am tired now from being on my feet, so I will relax a bit with some of that iced tea.