pretzel practice

The remaining jar of cashews went into a vegan cheese sauce because that's what it was used for last time, and now I have a free jar to repurpose for something else.

We call this pretzel practice because they came out just a little too bready, very much not browned enough, and so swollen they are barely identifiable as pretzels. Apparently you need to roll them out to pencil thickness to end with normal soft pretzel puffiness.

At least the calabrian cashew cheese dip was good.

selected pantry items:

cashews

dried corn

nutritional yeast

calabrina chili

corn meal

sunflower seeds

accessories:

bacon fat

kale

rainy day lentil soup

A bowel moving meal that spanned a couple days. Proud of myself for using up the jar of lentils so now the jar is free for me to make sauces in.

selected pantry items:

lentils

garam masala

turmeric

mustard powder

accessories:

kale

celery

onion

tomato paste

parsley

spicy lemon pickles

blt salad and almond cake

I tossed the last head of romaine, the last tomato, and the last two slices of mozzarella in a bowl with a scoop of wheat berries that boiled in bulk with the intention of making salad grain bowls. And then I ventured out to get a package of bacon because I was looking at an almost-BLT salad.

selected pantry items:

wheat berries

champagne vinegar

tinned anchovy oil

accessories:

romaine

tomatoes

mozzerella

bacon

 

Desperate desire to finish using my bag of almond flour + forgetting about it in the oven for it to overbake slightly resulted in this ideal breakfast cake.

selected pantry items:

almond flour

poppy seeds

accessories:

greek yogurt

cherry syrup

crab cake lasagna

 This was born of cajun crab leftover sauce that I asked the waitress to bag up for me... and the remainder of my box of lasagna noodles. I have nothing to say except that any time I have lasagna in the fridge, it gets quickly demolished.

selected pantry items:

lasagna noodles

tomato paste

caked up old bay seasoning

panko

accessories:

onion

celery

tomato

kale

parsley

mozz

lump crab

favorite salad

 I spent 5 days craving and preparing for this salad.

selected pantry items:

tin of anchovies

dried corn

black pepper

dijon

accessories:

romaine

kale

fresh corn

parmesan

egg yolk