What to make this afternoon that is time consuming/involved?
I'm totally bored. It's cold and dreary outside and I feel like cooking.
If anyone has any ideas on what to make to pass the time please share and I'll let you know how it turns out!
What I have on hand:
eggs, various cheeses (cheddar, munster, parmesan, cream, feta) milk, plain yogurt, potatoes, onions, cran juice, avocados, mangoes, pasta, rice cereals, crackers, bread, canned tomato products, raisins, peanut butter, etc. Frozen stuff: haddock, ground beef, chicken legs, italian sausage, and condensed orange juice.
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9 Comments:
Spaghetti and meatballs! And while that's cooking, avocado slices on crackers.
mikaque at 2:16PM on 06/24/09
spanokopita
CJ McD at 2:17PM on 06/24/09
Bolognese sauce with pasta (you may need to improvise) or Indian butter chicken if you have all the spices needed. Both time consuming and well worth the effort.
finsbigfan at 2:42PM on 06/24/09
What coincidence. I am baking bread and making meat sauce for spaghetti today. I bake bread around here about every four days. Yes, I am working from Alton Brown's recipe for the meat sauce. Not having any ground pork butt or star anise, I am going to use Italian sausage. I roasted tomatoes this morning and have a pint of rich tomato sauce to add to the mix.
Grumpy Old Man at 2:57PM on 06/24/09
So where are you that it's cold? It's 98 Fahrenheit here in St. Louis, and humid (of course).
lemons at 3:24PM on 06/24/09
Thank you for your ideas!
@lemons - New England - we haven't seen sun or gotten above 60 in days.
yayfood at 4:22PM on 06/24/09
This is our first 100 degree day with many more to come! My kingdom for a cold, dreary day with time to cook! I have been canning and pickling which are both long and complicated, and they don't make the house cooler or less humid. The results however will be so wonderful in the winter.
I always make some sort of stew or pasta sauce when it is cold and dreary.
ocarol at 4:34PM on 06/24/09
Mango chutney!
1stmakearoux at 8:20AM on 06/25/09
@yayfood - I hear you! I'm in MA. It's so dreary (but humid! I went for a walk this morning and came back drenched!). Based on your list of items, you could make a strata or a bread pudding, maybe? If I had chicken legs on hand, I might devil them and oven roast them. Seems like the kind of weather for that!
I'm making bread right now (it's a bread maker recipe, but the house will still smell good). Then I'm thawing shrimp from the deep freeze to make a shrimp salad (I'm going to open a bottle of rose with the shrimp salad and the bread and lie to myself that it is summerlike at dinner.)
Amandarama at 12:34PM on 06/25/09