On 2019 Oct 18 10:09:42, you wrote to me:
i have a few cans of chickpeas here and no clue what to do with
them...
MLoo> When I was a grad student and then a young musician canned chickpeas
MLoo> were a standby during lean times. I did have more time and
MLoo> enthusiasm for fixing up food than you appear to, though.
yeah, i don't know where my last few years of lazy cooking have come from... i used to enjoy it quite a bit... never liked trying to plan menus or come up with something different each day, though... that's one reason why we always cycled through the three main meats, beef, chicken, and pork, for each meal... if we had beef for lunch, then it was chicken or pork for dinner and the next day was certainly not beef for lunch but maybe for dinner... after a few cycles
of those meats, we'd have a dish of some kind of water based meat like fish (from fresh or ocean), shrimp (the larger the better), scallops, oysters, clams, etc... just something to make a change from eating the same old things all the time...
i'm hoping you might have some simple ideas that don't require a lot
of work... i've become very lazy in recent years and don't relish
working in the kitchen for longer than maybe 10 or 15 minutes... i
don't even fry chicken any more... just pop it into a pan and into
the oven to let it do its thing there without me having to supervise
it... so any ideas?
MLoo> The least effort for a palatable dish would be to empty a can into a
MLoo> casserole with a small can of tomato sauce, the best you can afford,
MLoo> so the red can be seen amid the yellow, but you don't want the sauce
MLoo> to totally cover. Olive oil, the best you can afford, a squeeze of
MLoo> lemon. Seasonings - onion powder and garlic powder (fresh,
MLoo> previously sauteed in oil, if you have the inclination), thyme,
MLoo> rosemary, hot pepper if desired. Bake at low heat for about twice as
MLoo> long as you think would be needed, stirring a couple times if
MLoo> possible.
that sounds nice... and it is something different, too...
MLoo> Also easy: mix a big can with a 6 oz can of tuna, seasoning as
MLoo> desired. You can squash some of the peas beforehand to bind the
MLoo> mess. Oil-based tuna is best, but you can use canned in water and
MLoo> add olive oil to taste. Raw onion is good with this.
i might try that... i generally pan fry or grill tuna or (mostly) make tuna salad... i might try saving some of the chickpeas to mash and add to the next bit of tuna salad i make... right now my kids (AKA cats) have been enjoying the
tuna i've had here until i can get some dosh to get them some more of their favorite meow mix dry food...
yeah, there's a story to that about the tuna... one of my aunts was buying cans
of tuna... she'd open then and drain out all the water/juice for some other use... the meat she'd put in ziplok bags marked with the date and freeze them... after some time there were a lot of small bags of frozen tuna so she gave them to my dad when he was up there in knightdale (just around the corner from wake forest and raleigh)... i've made some tuna salad from a few bags and it was good even though the bags are/were 2 to 4 years frozen... so when i'm out of dry and canned food for my kids or even starting to get low, i'll blend some tuna fish with what i'm giving them... at least it is getting used and they are having something a little different to eat ;)
MLoo> Blend into a dressing with garlic, oil, and lemon or vinegar. Herbs
MLoo> to taste. You can use this to top potatoes or a salad.
another interesting idea... funny thing about this and salad is that it reminds
me of some weeks back when i got some food from the local CORA food bank... they had whole, roots and all, lettuce... two different varities... so i got a couple of them and some tomatos to have a salad with... i hadn't had salad in a
while and got to craving some with ranch or blue cheese dressing... unfortunately what dressing i had here had gone bad but i already had the salad
made... not wanting to waste it, i kept looking and found a bottle of asian-style sweet and sour sauce (aka duck sauce) like one might use with eggrolls... i used that for my dressing and it was actually pretty decent ;)
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