Friday, January 04, 2019

Freezer full of food? Let’s all cook it up before we maybe buy a house

Hey there anybody with an Insta-pot (as I call the Instant Pot) Or into getting creative with what’s in my freezer before moving. 

Not all meat will be made in instant pot. I will not bake in the Instant pot 
Resolution this year is to use all the meat in the freezer using this thing.

And maybe this list will help me create a pop up supper club or start a business cooking and having people over.

I’ve already made, Porridge, Megs Moist meat something. Both were made chicken. I’ve got another # of chicken breasts.

Other items In freezer: (this is all 4 me) Email or comment @ me if you have an idea.

Bulk breakfast sausage from a farm
Tilapias
Pot roast meat
Rack o lamb
Prosciutto 
Pancetta
Barese sausage from Bari
Beef stew meat and a random big piece of meat
Prime burgers from Ney’s
Bacon cheddar brats
Ham off the bone 🍖 thick slices
Garlic scape pesto 
Pasta sheets 
Ice cream
Tots
Sweet potato fries 
Meat ravioli from Fiories
Cookie cutter cookies dough- I think Radiø Bethlehem’s Rx
Pie crumble 
Berries-rasp. Strawberry, blueberries 
Nuts: whole, hazelnut, pecans cashews pistachios 
Bagels from nyBNB
Totitons pizza rolls
Mango
Peaches
1/4 amazing raspberry pie from Garwood 

Ok. 
I’m seriously thinking this is the way I will be able to make some $. I have the ability to make almost anything. raspberry coffee cake, apple crumble-just the crumbles, cookies dough, banana bread.



And tonight I made Beef Bourguignon..aka Burgundy Beef aka Julia Child style with the instapot! 

I got a couple recipe suggestions and settled on making Beef Bourguignon. I used the pearl onions which vanished in the cooking time. I pressed the Stew/meat option and let it go for 30 min after I sautéd 4 rough chopped slices of  Nueskes bacon, then left the grease in the pot and browned the meat which was in almost 2” chunks The stew meat was already cut in the freezer and the mystery cut of meat went in as well, to make a filling 1 1/2 # dinner. the instant pot warned me it was Hot! But I pressed on and made it to the part to add 1 tb flour and salt and pepper, then the  liquids and vegetables and set it to Stew/meat for 30 min. Followed 10 min of natural release and I then released the steam!
I did look at a few recipes as I wanted carrots and a cooking style of  stove then oven technique that this traditional recipe calls for, and my CIA background wouldn’t just let me ignore just bc it’s an Instant Pot.
 What I ended up using:
2 whole carrots cut in 1/2 coins,, 10 pearl onions, 1/2 large white onion, 2-3 cloves of minced garlic,  1Tbsp flour, 1 1/2 cups of Cabernet Sauvignon  (given to me by the owner of 2 wonderful dogs I walk) 1 cup beef broth made with Better than bouillon, 1/2 tsp Better than boullion beef base, 1 Tb tomato paste, 1 bay leaf, approx 1/2 tsp thyme(pulled from my drying winter garden) 1 Tbsp. house dried parsley(before and after cookin-2 T total)
In a cheat move: I used a sauté pan to make the following and added it just before I served this with some mashed potatoes.

1/2 # crimini mushrooms Quarter and 1 Tbsp butter and 1 minced garlic cove