Friday Food: Frozen Egg Product, Yum

Friday

Short version: Chicken and vegetable soup, omelets, crepe cake

Long version: While I was pulling everything out of the big freezer in preparation for defrosting and cleaning it, I found a carton of Egg Product.

Goodie's Frozen Egg Product, to be specific.

This was an extra commodities thing. I can't remember how long I'd had it, but certainly long enough that it was well past time it was used.

I tested it first by cooking a bit of it plain in a pan, to see if I needed to disguise it in baking. It was unpleasantly grainy looking when I put it in the pan, but after it was cooked, it was just like, well, scrambled eggs. Since that is pretty much what it is.

So I used some of it this night to make omelets. Those also had cheddar cheese and ham (from the freezer) in them.

I had made the soup with the leftover chicken thighs and bones, simmered to make stock and then I used the meat, too, of course. Also in the soup was some of the calabaza I had cooked and pureed this day.

 A gallon of it went into the freezer first.

The soup also had finely chopped collard greens, carrots, potatoes, tomato paste, frozen peas, and frozen corn.

Everyone got a bowl of soup and some of the big omelet I made. A slightly random combination, but it worked.

The crepe cake was the last two crepes in the refrigerator, layered with sweetened whipped cream and homemade strawberry jam. 

Saturday

Short version: Spanish tortilla, concessions food

Long version: I left the house at 12:45 p.m. with the basketball player for his game and didn't get home until almost 9 p.m. That's because Poppy was cheering for the varsity games, which were after our basketball player's games. I made a Spanish tortilla with the rest of the Egg Product, plus potatoes, ham, salsa, and cheese, before I left. Those at home had that. The children who came to the games with me bought various things at the concession stand. I think two had nachos and one had a smothered burrito.

I brought the rest of the chicken and vegetable soup in my Thermos and had that in between games. Plus some of the Spanish tortilla when I got home.

Sunday

Short version: Cottage pie, baked fruit dessert

Long version: Standard cottage pie, with the addition of some of the pureed calabaza and finely chopped collard greens that have been so handy to have in the refrigerator.

To make the dessert, I used one quart jar of canned pears and one of canned apple slices. I didn't add any extra sugar to that, just cinnamon and cloves. The topping was oats, brown sugar, flour, butter, walnuts, spices, and some oatmeal I had made the day before and oversalted. This made a topping that wasn't exactly crisp, but it was tasty. 

Dinner and dessert in pans.

I pretty much made that dessert just to use up that oversalted oatmeal in a palatable manner, which it did. Yay, me.

Monday

Short version: Sausage patties, pinto beans, chicken-y rice, collard greens or raw bell peppers

Long version: I used the Great Value sausage to make the patties. The pinto beans had just already-cooked onion, the last of some roasted garlic I had in the freezer, a little bit of chicken stock, and tomato paste in them. I didn't even have to chop anything to make them, which was handy.

The rest of the chicken stock was used to cook the rice.

Dinner on the stove.

This was the meal we ate by candlelight, because it was Candlemas. There was nothing particularly liturgically significant about the foods, but the candlelight was fun.

Tuesday

Short version: Leftover cottage pie

Long version: I got home from First Communion class with Poppy, microwaved the leftover cottage pie, and that was it.

Wednesday

Short version: Pork, leftover rice, leftover beans, leftover collards, frozen corn

Long version: Another of the big pork shoulders, plus a bunch of leftovers. And frozen corn for the children.

Very brown.

Thursday

Short version: Burritos. etc. at home; Frito pie, etc. on the road

Long version: I went to an away basketball game in the afternoon. I left a mixture of pork, leftover beans, salsa, and spices for the ones at home to make burritos.

Before I went to the game, I went to the grocery store. In an attempt to get something relatively healthy that would tide me over until I got home, I bought an individual cup of Greek yogurt.

I assumed all Greek yogurt is full-fat. This was not. It was actually non-fat. Boo.

It was okay, but it would have been better with the fat.

When I got home, everyone was eating ice cream. I made myself some eggs. The basketball player wanted one, too, so I made him one. And then his brother wanted one, so I gave him one of mine. And then they each had a piece of bread with butter, too.

Refrigerator check:

Okay, your turn! What'd you eat this week?