Food and Recipes while under Coronavirus quarantine #2

[EGirl]

I am 59 years old and having baby goldfish crackers. They’re helping my metal mouth. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.

LOL! I had goldfish crackers with one of those single serve tomato soups last night.

 

[anneg]

I had never heard of chokecherries so I had to look them up!

Ha, me too!

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Ha, me too!

And me! For once not just me then

 

[mickey2942]

Yeah, chokecherries grow wild here, I wouldn't buy them. The pit is half the size of the berry. I boiled them with a bit of sugar, and strained the juice, to get rid of the seeds. Nice on pancakes. Not sure what else to do with it. Maybe put in club soda?

They taste like sour cherries.

I have a ton of beets growing in my garden. Maybe I should can some, and make pickled beets.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Yeah, chokecherries grow wild here, I wouldn't buy them. The pit is half the size of the berry. I boiled them with a bit of sugar, and strained the juice, to get rid of the seeds. Nice on pancakes. Not sure what else to do with it. Maybe put in club soda?

They taste like sour cherries.

I have a ton of beets growing in my garden. Maybe I should can some, and make pickled beets.

I sometimes do pickled ones for Mr HKP although not keen myself. Funnily enough, today I picked my first cucumber of the year and as it's quite spiny I pickled it. Used apple cider vinegar, mustard seeds, sea salt, fresh dill and sugar.

 

[Skigh]

I sometimes do pickled ones for Mr HKP although not keen myself. Funnily enough, today I picked my first cucumber of the year and as it's quite spiny I pickled it. Used apple cider vinegar, mustard seeds, sea salt, fresh dill and sugar.

I am very impressed by your pickling skills . Congratulations on your first cucumber.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

I am very impressed by your pickling skills . Congratulations on your first cucumber.

Its not "real" pickling @Skigh, wouldnt keep for long! But should be ok in a week or so.

 

[Skigh]

Its not "real" pickling @Skigh, wouldnt keep for long! But should be ok in a week or so.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Looking forward to hearing how it tastes. Have you many more cucumbers growing?

 

[IceIce9]

Yeah, chokecherries grow wild here, I wouldn't buy them. The pit is half the size of the berry. I boiled them with a bit of sugar, and strained the juice, to get rid of the seeds. Nice on pancakes. Not sure what else to do with it. Maybe put in club soda?

They taste like sour cherries.

I have a ton of beets growing in my garden. Maybe I should can some, and make pickled beets.

I love pickled beets! My mom used make a big bowl of picked beats, and add some whole hard boiled eggs. After a couple of days in the refrigerator the hard boiled eggs soak up pickled beet juice and turn purple. They taste great and we loved taking purple eggs to school in our lunch.

 

[HongKongPhooey]

Everyone has to start somewhere. Looking forward to hearing how it tastes. Have you many more cucumbers growing?

Yes a few. All spiky little devils

 

[anneg]

Re pickles, a friend of ours buys pickling cucumbers from a farmers market and uses his sous vide thingy to make delicious pickles. He often gives us some--delicious!

 

[anneg]

Many years ago on an NC beach, I collected lots of tiny, colorful coquina clams and attempted to make clam chowder with them. But the clams are so tiny, it was a lot of work to get a big enough pile of meat out of the shells to make chowder. It might have made more sense just to make a broth with the clams and then remove the shells.

 

[Catmommy]

Many years ago on an NC beach, I collected lots of tiny, colorful coquina clams and attempted to make clam chowder with them. But the clams are so tiny, it was a lot of work to get a big enough pile of meat out of the shells to make chowder. It might have made more sense just to make a broth with the clams and then remove the shells.

I am ultra impressed with your effort

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

...Treatment for the MM is still stable altho the fatigue is annoying. Low iron, low phosphorus, low B-12. Ugh. I feel like I can't get much done because I need to take naps. I haven't even felt like cooking much...

Please don't sell yourself short, PN. You are truly an amazing woman! You bake, cook, and sew. I'm sure your house is immaculate, and you are very generous in sharing groceries and food with others. You are a wonderful mother to your adult daughters and a good friend to those who need you. You do all of these things while undergoing cancer treatment. Pretty remarkable, methinks!

 

[PayrollNerd]

Yeah, chokecherries grow wild here, I wouldn't buy them. The pit is half the size of the berry. I boiled them with a bit of sugar, and strained the juice, to get rid of the seeds. Nice on pancakes. Not sure what else to do with it. Maybe put in club soda?

They taste like sour cherries.

I have a ton of beets growing in my garden. Maybe I should can some, and make pickled beets.

Oh how I love fresh beets. Everyone else thinks they taste like dirt. That means I get them all to myself when I cook them. They freeze so well in my food prep dishes. I never learned to pickle them tho. When I want pickled beets I just buy a jar of them. I usually eat them in one sitting too!!

 

[PayrollNerd]

Many years ago on an NC beach, I collected lots of tiny, colorful coquina clams and attempted to make clam chowder with them. But the clams are so tiny, it was a lot of work to get a big enough pile of meat out of the shells to make chowder. It might have made more sense just to make a broth with the clams and then remove the shells.

I remember digging clams in Maine as a child. My aunt would take me, my 2 cousins and off we'd go. We'd get back and my uncle who was disabled, would open them for us. My aunt would fry them. Sometimes, we'd stop by my other uncle's lobster boat to take whatever he had left from the day. Of course I just had to grow up and become allergic to shellfish..... argh!

 

[HongKongPhooey]

I remember digging clams in Maine as a child. My aunt would take me, my 2 cousins and off we'd go. We'd get back and my uncle who was disabled, would open them for us. My aunt would fry them. Sometimes, we'd stop by my other uncle's lobster boat to take whatever he had left from the day. Of course I just had to grow up and become allergic to shellfish..... argh!

A few years ago we visited Maine and I ordered clams in a restaurant in Freeport (I think). I'd only eaten them in pasta vongole and chowder before so wasnt sure how to handle them. Can you imagine the waitress's face when I asked her if I should be eating this part because it was quite gritty?

 

[PayrollNerd]

Please don't sell yourself short, PN. You are truly an amazing woman! You bake, cook, and sew. I'm sure your house is immaculate, and you are very generous in sharing groceries and food with others. You are a wonderful mother to your adult daughters and a good friend to those who need you. You do all of these things while undergoing cancer treatment. Pretty remarkable, methinks!

Awe... you're so kind. I have to stay busy or I think I'd lose my marbles. It seems like I can't not be busy doing something.

Now that the kiddo is moved out, she is going to pay for someone to come in and do the deep cleaning for me. I generally keep things picked up but cleaning ceiling fans, the tops of cabinets, that sort of stuff I can't do anymore.

 

[PayrollNerd]

Well, I will never win an award for how to discombobulate a chicken but I got it done. My Shake n Bake chicken was good. I did the white meat and dark meat separately. I may freeze the leg quarters for when my oldest visits or my friend comes over. The breast meat I cut into strips.

I had a 10 lb bag of potatoes from weeks ago. It had what I thought were white potatoes mixed in with the red potatoes. I'd never seen bagged potatoes like that. Anyway, I made about 5 lb of them into mashed potatoes. The white potatoes were actually yellow - maybe the Yukon Gold? I'm not a fan of them but whatever. If you add enough butter and cheese you can disguise anything. I now have 2 containers with about 2 cups each in the freezer. Plus some in the fridge to go with my chicken this week.

 

[anneg]

Please don't sell yourself short, PN. You are truly an amazing woman! You bake, cook, and sew. I'm sure your house is immaculate, and you are very generous in sharing groceries and food with others. You are a wonderful mother to your adult daughters and a good friend to those who need you. You do all of these things while undergoing cancer treatment. Pretty remarkable, methinks!

Well said, Bette! I agree and truly admire you, @PayrollNerd. I just wish you could have skipped having cancer. Hugs!