Cooking for the Apocalypse

As a complement to yesterday's post about stretching your food resources, here's a long Twitter thread about what to do if you have gone out and stocked up on more food than you know what to do with. It's somewhat tongue in cheek but there is good advice here.

Look at your stash-write down ideas: make x with y. Need more z to make it work. Brainstorm: rice dishes around the world: jollof, paella, jambalaya, risotto. Happy casseroles from childhood. When you are low on cycles, the thinking work is done, you got a list, start chopping.

Here’s how my brain works: OMG that broccoli needs to be eaten. We have defrosted pork chop, what with? Look, extra canned yams from Xmas. That could be baked yams w/onion, apple & sage. But not with broccoli, yuck.

Prep the yams, which bake in the oven. Cook the pork. While the oven’s already on, bake some potatoes. Lightly steam the broccoli to stop spoilage, back in the frig. Potato-broccoli soup on tomorrow’s menu. Bake extra potatoes for breakfast…get just a little ahead of your stocks