i typically buy stuff on sale in bulk and freeze the perishable stuff. last night i defrosted the last salmon head i had in the freezer (at $.99/lb), detached the collar, split the head down the middle and grilled the pieces and drizzled them with yuzu ponzu…
last week, i bought a 5 lb bag of carrots and a lot of cucumbers, onions & cabbage on sale and began quick pickling them in various combinations with dill, garlic & jalapenos/serranos. it helps that i love pickles. they go especially well with sandwiches & rice, among other things.
i’ve chosen to keep ooking-cay for the omeless-hay (i had someone sitting in a pasadena parks/rec truck watching us from across the street this week, presumably to confirm we were observing social distancing, which we did for the most part) but fortunately i’ve been buying things like beans, lentils and rice in bulk whenever it’s on sale. most of the other groups feeding the homeless in pasadena have shut down, so everybody was pretty grateful with pinto beans and rice this week.
the 10 qt electric pressure cooker has figured prominently; a lot of soup this week, with different ingredients being added to the original recipe so it evolved from a vegetable to bean soup to a chili-style soup to a chicken-tortilla soup.